Hat puzzle 5 prisoners answer correctly and 5 do not. Note that the prisoners cannot find a strategy guaranteeing the release of more than 5 prisoners. Indeed, for a single prisoner, there are as many distributions of hat colors where he says the correct answer than there are where he does not. Hence, there are as many distributions of hat colors where 6 or more prisoners say the correct answer than there are where 4 or fewer do so. In this variant, a countably infinite number of prisoners, each with an unknown and randomly assigned red or blue hat line up single
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