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
My Ten Years in a Quandary, and How They Grew My Ten Years in a Quandary, and How They Grew My Ten Years in a Quandary, and How They Grew is a 1936 collection of 105 short humorous essays by Robert Benchley. The book was originally published by Harper Brothers and illustrated by Gluyas Williams. It was a best-seller upon release. The collection is considered one of Benchley's "most brilliant." A reviewer at "America" wrote, that "My Ten Years in a Quandary, and How They Grew" is "bristling… with tiny, droll essays on almost every subject imaginable, and inducing in the reader a state of sustained hilarity." Robert van Gelder