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A note on the problem of prisoners and hats

Combinatorics 2018-01-08 v1

Abstract

We study the famous mathematical puzzle of prisoners and hats. We introduce a framework in which various variants of the problem can be formalized. We examine three particular versions of the problem (each one in fact a class of problems) and completely characterize them as to (non)existence of winning strategies.

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@article{arxiv.1801.01184,
  title  = {A note on the problem of prisoners and hats},
  author = {Petr Glivický},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1801.01184},
  year   = {2018}
}