<div dir="auto">I confirm that what you laid out is basically Spike's answer. (And now that I think about it, I have seen this puzzle in a different form before - but I wanted to focus on alternate answers.)</div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Wed, Mar 6, 2019, 10:43 AM William Flynn Wallace <<a href="mailto:foozler83@gmail.com">foozler83@gmail.com</a> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000">I just am having a bad day and am not following the answers.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000">Sailor 1 uses two condoms.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000">Sailor 2 uses the condom on the outside as used by sailor 1.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000">Sailor 3 inverts the inner condom as used by Sailor 1 and puts the Sailor 2 condom over it.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000">The idea is that the prostitute cannot catch her own disease again. Adrian, I will take your word for it. Spike I am having trouble following your diagram, but if you think it compatible with the answer above, well and good.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000">You were going to reply to my nuclear power plant post- just reminding you.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000">bill w</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, Mar 6, 2019 at 12:51 AM <<a href="mailto:spike@rainier66.com" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">spike@rainier66.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><br>
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From: extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat-bounces@lists.extropy.org" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">extropy-chat-bounces@lists.extropy.org</a>> On Behalf Of Adrian Tymes<br>
Subject: Re: [ExI] puzzle III<br>
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Wouldn't the first sailor have already dirtied the inner condom's inner layer by the time the second sailor uses it? Which means either the prostitute or the second sailor might get what the first had... Adrian<br>
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No. Label the surfaces according to who it touches.<br>
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Surface A touches sailor 1<br>
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D touches harlot.<br>
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OK he's done, removes harlot-side condom, sets aside, removes sailor-side condom, sets that aside.<br>
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Second sailor uses condom CD puts his stuff in contact with surface C.<br>
C touches sailor 2<br>
D touches harlot.<br>
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OK he's done.<br>
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Third sailor inverts condom AB<br>
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B touches sailor 3<br>
A touches surface C<br>
D touches harlot.<br>
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OK he's done, everybody goes home with no new diseases.<br>
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On Tue, Mar 5, 2019 at 8:01 PM <<a href="mailto:spike@rainier66.com" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">spike@rainier66.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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> First sailor uses both condoms. Sets outer condom aside.<br>
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> Second sailor inverts inner condom and uses just the one. Harlot gets two clean surfaces.<br>
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> Third sailor (presumably the lowest ranking) takes first condom without inverting and uses just the one, touching a surface which the harlot has previously contacted with the first sailor.<br>
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> Nobody catches anything new. Or rather not that particular day.<br>
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> From: extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat-bounces@lists.extropy.org" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">extropy-chat-bounces@lists.extropy.org</a>> On Behalf <br>
> Of Adrian Tymes<br>
> Sent: Tuesday, March 5, 2019 6:45 PM<br>
> To: ExI chat list <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>><br>
> Subject: Re: [ExI] puzzle III<br>
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> My second and third solutions still work with that clarification.<br>
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> On Tue, Mar 5, 2019, 4:23 PM William Flynn Wallace <<a href="mailto:foozler83@gmail.com" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">foozler83@gmail.com</a> wrote:<br>
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> OK you cheaters, as inventive as you are (and I am impressed), revise the puzzle to require: female prostitute; sailors all male; all three sailors have sex with the woman. Four different STDs. Hint available...<br>
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> On Tue, Mar 5, 2019 at 4:41 PM <<a href="mailto:spike@rainier66.com" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">spike@rainier66.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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> On Tue, Mar 5, 2019, 1:22 PM William Flynn Wallace <<a href="mailto:foozler83@gmail.com" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">foozler83@gmail.com</a> wrote:<br>
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> OK, I struck out with that puzzle. Here's one I ran across a long time ago, so you might have heard it. If not, let me know.<br>
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> Three sailors and one prostitute and two condoms. All have different STDs.<br>
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> One of the sailors is also the prostitute (side business.) They first guy uses the first condom to do the second guy, pays him or her, third guy uses second condom to do the second guy, pays him or her, all three report for duty aboard ship the next day.<br>
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> Alternate solution: all three sailors are female and whore is male. So the first sailor puts a condom on him, does him, pays him, second sailor puts second condom over first, does him, pays him, third sailor reverses outer condom which would have exposed her to the first sailor’s disease but she gets away uninfected because the whore can’t get it going a third time, so she doesn’t pay him and saves money at the same time. The puzzle doesn’t actually require that all three sailors get laid. Three is a tall order ja? Even for a professional.<br>
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> From: extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat-bounces@lists.extropy.org" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">extropy-chat-bounces@lists.extropy.org</a>> On Behalf <br>
> Of Adrian Tymes<br>
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> 1) They never met. All 6 got their STDs from different sources.<br>
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> 3) "All" does not include the condoms. Sailors 1 & 2 had STDs, used condoms, and did not transmit. The prostitute and sailor 3 were disease-free when they had sex sans condom. Sailor 3 then used a dirty needle or otherwise got a STD from a non-sexual source. The prostitute's "D" is pregnancy, specifically sailor 3's child.<br>
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