Gizmodo Monday Puzzle: This Devilishly Hard Logic Puzzle Will Save Your Life

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Puzzle #32: Forehead or Dead

A madman is holding you and nine stranger captive . He subjects you to a misrepresented mind secret plan to earn your freedom . He has a raft of cards with the number 0 through 9 print on them . He tapes a card to every person ’s os frontale so everyone can see everybody else ’s card but not their own . Assigned numbers may replicate ( e.g. eight hoi polloi could get 7s while the other two get 0s or any other combination ) . After everyone has had clock time to observe everyone else ’s number , your captor counts down and you all must exclaim a number at the same time . If at least one person guess the correct issue on their brow , then you all go free . Otherwise you ’ll be condemn to lick riddle in his basement forever .

As a madman with a passion for trouble - solving , he allows the group to confer before he distributes the carte du jour . Once cards are reveal no communicating ( including nonverbal ) is allowed other than shout a number on cue . The villain may listen in on the chemical group scheme and conform his choices accordingly ! organise a scheme that guarantees your freedom .

I urge solving this for two or three citizenry first and then trying to generalize the approach . take down that in the two someone display case , the cards only say 0 or 1 , and in the three individual version they say 0 , 1 , or 2 .