• 0 Posts
  • 3 Comments
Joined 2 years ago
cake
Cake day: July 26th, 2023

help-circle

  • When Albert says he knows Bernard doesn’t know, he is saying that in Albert’s row, every single ball has a ball below/above it. This eliminates rows A and B because if Bernard had heard 5 or six, Bernard would immediately know the exact location of the ball (but Albert is 100% sure that Bernard is confused).

    This elimination of A and B is new knowledge for Bernard. He confirms that he was confused, but now he isn’t. This means it’s not 1 because he recently discovered that it has to be C or D, but there are balls in both C1 and D1 which means he would still be confused if that were the case.

    With all this knowledge, all that’s left is a row with one ball, and a row with two balls. Albert says he is not confused anymore, so it has to be the row with one ball.