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Fantastic Book of Logic Puzzles 32

This document contains three passages about Merlin testing groups of apprentice sorcerers. The first passage describes Merlin giving seeds of power to 28 apprentices and asks what the probability is that two specific apprentices both get a black seed. The second passage has Merlin blindfold and turn four apprentices in a room and asks the probability they all return to the correct corner. The third passage does the same test with another group of four apprentices but with the added rule that occupied corners are off limits. It provides clues and answers on another page.

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Fantastic Book of Logic Puzzles 32

This document contains three passages about Merlin testing groups of apprentice sorcerers. The first passage describes Merlin giving seeds of power to 28 apprentices and asks what the probability is that two specific apprentices both get a black seed. The second passage has Merlin blindfold and turn four apprentices in a room and asks the probability they all return to the correct corner. The third passage does the same test with another group of four apprentices but with the added rule that occupied corners are off limits. It provides clues and answers on another page.

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50. How Many Wiser 52.

Blind Sorcerer's Buff


Wizards?
How many of the twenty-eight apprentices are likely
to match the previous toss and acquire the new power
Merlin promised?

Merlin singles out four of the apprentice sorcerers


and asks each one to stand at a corner of the huge
ballroom in the castle. He blindfolds them and steers
them to the middle of the room. Then he turns each
around several times and tells them to return to their
original corners.
If each one winds up in a corner, what is the proba-
bility that all four will succeed in getting back to the
right one?

53. Encore
Merlin passes around an urn of new black and white
magic seeds to the budding wizards and witches for To vary the challenge, Merlin blindfolds another four
them to sample. The magician who developed them apprentices and sets them in the four corners of the
claims that the black seed makes one impervious to ballroom. Then he steers them, blindfolded, to the mid-
dragon fire and that the white seed provides the cloak dle of the room, directing them to return to their origi-
of invisibility. nal corners one at a time. Once a corner is occupied, it
The urn dispenses one seed to each apprentice sor- is off bounds.
cerer. By the time it reaches Titania and Garth of Glend If each one reaches a corner, what are the odds that
there are only two black seeds and one white seed left. these four apprentices will return to their original
What is the probability of both getting a black seed? corners?

Clues on page 92. Clues on page 92.


Answers on page 125. Answers on page 125.

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