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Thirty two barbarians (Posted on 2004-01-28) Difficulty: 3 of 5
There is a small town situated by a barbarian colony. The population in this town is very small, but they live well. Upon seeing the villagers in this town so happy, a group of thirty two barbarians sneak up and position themselves around the city. All the barbarians fired at exactly the same time, and every bullet went over 3 villager's heads before it killed another person, including anyone who may have been shot already. If no villager was at the same place at the time (and all villagers were in the town) when the simultaneous shooting occurred, what is the fewest amount of villagers in the town? (Note: "Around" means actually around. A line going around the city would work, but one going out of the city would not.)

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illustration wrong... Explained below. | Comment 23 of 35 |
32 barbarians split into 4 groups of 8. 8 on each side of a square shaped town. They all line up single file. The towns people huddle fearfully in the middle of the town in the shape of a T. 4 across and 3 down:

ATTC
T
T
B

The barbarians situated on the north side would fire and hit "B". The barbarian on the east would hit "A". South "A". West "C". Thus only 7 towns people.

  Posted by Jesse on 2004-01-31 20:34:34
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