A
hundred4prisoners are each9locked in a room with3three pirates,
one6of whom will walk the plank in the morning. Each prisoner
has910 bottles of wine, one of which has been poisoned, and
each pirate has112 coins, one of which is counterfeit and weighs either
more or less than a genuine coin. In the room is a single switch,
which the prisoner may either leave as it is, or flip. Before being
led into the rooms, the prisoners are all made to wear either a red
hat or a blue hat, they can see all the other prisoners' hats, but
not their own. Meanwhile, a8six-digit prime number of monkeys multiply until their
digits reverse, then all have to get across a river using a canoe
that can hold at most two monkeys at a time. But half the monkeys
always lie and the other half always tell the truth. Given that
the39th prisoner knows that one of the monkeys doesn't know
that a pirate doesn't know the product of two numbers
between51 and 100 without knowing that the19th+1 prisoner has flipped
the switch in his room or not after having determined which bottle
of wine was poisoned and what color his hat is, what is the
solution to this puzzle?
Take all the
digits mentioned, assign each of those a letter and use that as the
key to a Vigenère cipher to decipher the text of the puzzle
which will yield a Morse code pattern when spelled out on the
buttons of a phone where an odd digit represents a dash and and
even represents a dot. Then once you have the Morse code
decoded it will tell you to look up all the number one hit singles
from 1972 and take the 4th letter from each one. Using those
letters the answer will then make sense.
47*??.???
122*??.???
Coins have been seen in this
cache.
