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Can you solve the dragon jousting riddle? - Alex Gendler

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After years of war, the world’s kingdoms have come to an agreement. Every five years, teams representing the elves, goblins, and treefolk will compete in a grand tournament of dragon jousting. You have the important job of recording the scores for the inaugural tournament. But, you overslept and the games are already underway. Can you figure out the real score of each match? Alex Gendler shows how.

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If your boss hadn’t told you that Gorbak’s numbers were wrong, could you still have figured it out? How?

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Avatar for 杉坂 秀太
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No. It's simply impossible.


Avatar for 杉坂 秀太
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No, since you don't know enough about the riddle.


Avatar for Danielle Timm
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No, you wouldn't have been able to because you wouldn't know that all of the answers were incorrect. You would have a lack of information and be unsure as to how he go the answers.


Avatar for matthew vanallen
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honestly no i probably sit there brain dead


Avatar for Zhuoran Xu
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No, because the information would have misled me to fill in even more wrong scores.


Avatar for Duco Hubar
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no, because there were a variety of steps where knowing the false answer was necessary to make sure you had the correct one. Like in the game elves vs goblins. If you hadn't known it couldn't add up to 6 you couldn't have gotten the correct answer.


Avatar for Samantha Wee
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No, because you wouldn't have known that the answers were wrong as you won't know that there was a lying chip in the wizard.


Avatar for Abena Amfo-Brobbey
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no, because you would've believed Gorbak and there would be a lack of information


Avatar for Anna Thygesen
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No, you would try to fill out the rest of the information, because you wouldn't know it was wrong.


Avatar for Philip D.
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No, because you would assume all information is correct and attempt to figure out the score based on that. If the solution is not possible with the given results you would presume that only 1 score was wrong.

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