Reply To: Puzzles

Thanks for the consolation prize 🙂

I think went wrong by falsely assuming that the 5 players need to use one of the coins for the door when they go in together, but the puzzle doesn’t say that!

If I change np + 1 to np, my previously useless equation from before gives me 3121, which I now believe to be the correct answer (hopefully).

c₀ = (np + (1 – rᵖ)r / (1 – r)) / rᵖ = 3121

For the extra questions: (1) 2096; (2) 15621 (10500 go in the hole, leaving 1023 per player)