The atmosphere in the wooden house was tense to the point of freezing.
First of all, the four people are standing with Schiller facing the door, that is to say, Schiller is at twelve o'clock, and to his left, at three o'clock, is the clown, and opposite him is at six o'clock.
It's Kitty, the phantom cat, and to his right, at nine o'clock, is Carol.
If you follow the rules of the game and start throwing matches clockwise from the twelve o'clock direction, Schiller will be first, the clown will be second, Katie will be third, and Carol will be fourth.
Just after introducing the rules, a small pile of matches suddenly appeared in front of the four people. After Carol picked up the matches, he found that there were exactly ten matches.
This is a very simple mathematical question. Assume that in order to win, everyone throws three matches in each round. Then after Schiller completes one round, everyone will have seven matches left in their hands. After the second round,
After that, everyone had four matches left in their hands. After the third round, everyone had only one match left in their hands.
From this point on, Schiller throws the match in, and he has won. Then the clown who throws the match second will avoid the fate of being eliminated. Finally, it is Katie, and Carlo is in fourth place.
You will definitely be eliminated.
So from this point of view, this is a completely unfair game. The first person to throw will not be eliminated, but the last person will definitely be eliminated.
If the last person does not want to be eliminated, then he must hope that someone will not throw three matches in the first three laps, so that it is not a certain death situation in the last lap.
The upper limit for throwing matches is three. If the other three players have less than three matches left in the last round, Carroll will still be eliminated.
Because their shooting position is before Carol, as long as they have less than or equal to three matches in their hands, they can all throw the matches in before Carol, and Carol will still be eliminated.
In other words, if Carol wants not to be eliminated, she must let the three people in front of her have four or more matches in their hands in the last lap. In other words, she must find a way to let the other three people in the final round.
In the first three rounds, they should skip at least once, or throw one less match in each round, so that they can have at least four matches left.
Carol felt very angry, and she shouted out her thoughts truthfully: "What kind of bullshit game rules are these? Does it all depend on luck?! Whoever is in the last place will be eliminated, so what is the purpose of this game?"
Why is it necessary to play? Can’t we just choose the last person to enter the room and eliminate him?!"
The clown picked his ears and seemed very impatient, but Schiller nodded politely to Carol and said, "Madam, I think you should think about why it is a match."
Carol was stunned. She instinctively looked down at the brazier filled with charcoal, and her eyes fell on the thin match in her hand. Suddenly she shouted.
"Yes! Matches can ignite open flames of charcoal. You heard what he said. Everything in this house is made of wood. If you make the fire too big, we will all be burned to death!!!"
At this time, Katie whispered from the side: "But as long as no one jumps over it, the brazier will not rise and it will not burn to the ceiling."
Carol was stunned again, but this time she came to her senses and shouted with a ferocious face: "Anyway, if I play normally, I will definitely lose, so I will skip all the previous rounds, so that no one can survive when the brazier rises."
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Katie looked at Captain Marvel in shock and said, "Captain, what's wrong with you? How could you..."
"Because this is unfair to me!" Carol raised her voice and said, "How about we change places?"
Katie murmured and stopped talking. Everyone could see that being in fourth place was a natural disadvantage. The others could win as long as they played normally according to the rules of the game. Only fourth place, if they continued according to normal rules,
She will definitely lose.
Katie took another look at the brazier on the table. It was a semicircular brass brazier. There was a very narrow edge on the top edge of the brazier. There were four holes on it, and four iron chains came from the ceiling.
Hang down and tie the brazier through the hole.
The bottom of the brazier is a flat surface, so it is very stable when placed on the table. When the brazier is placed on the table, the chain is loose and not completely straightened.
Katie looked up at the ceiling again. Without measuring tools, there might be errors in estimating the distance out of thin air, but fortunately she had her own height as a reference.
Katie is a white woman, but she has a relatively petite figure, with a height of only 168cm. She is not very conspicuous among the same group of white women.
She didn't completely raise her head to look at the ceiling, because that would be too much and too eye-catching. She glanced at Captain Marvel next to her with her peripheral vision. Carol was much taller than her, roughly estimated to be 180cm, and opposite her
The doctor was taller, Katie guessed he might be 187-190cm.
And because Schiller was standing directly opposite her, Katie could clearly see the distance between his head and the roof. Using the head-to-body ratio estimation method, the height of the ceiling should be around 260cm.
Next, we calculated the height of the table. It was said that the table was more like a bar counter. When Katie stood upright, the tabletop just reached her chest, which is about 1.2 meters in height.
The brazier rises 30 centimeters after jumping over it once, and Carol only has three chances to jump at most. That means the brazier can rise up to 90 centimeters, so 120 centimeters plus 90 centimeters is only 210 centimeters, which is still half the height from the ceiling.
What about rice?
But the current situation cannot be viewed this way. Carol was the last one to throw a match. There were three people in front of her. If each person threw three matches, it is conservatively estimated that the flame would be lit when the second one threw it.
Katie looked at the structure of the brazier. She was not sure whether the unique shape of the brazier was designed to gather the flames, but she knew that there were so many charcoal in the basin. Once the flame was ignited, it would not take long for the flames to spread.
Very high.
If the height of the flame exceeds 50 centimeters, the house will be set on fire at the end of the fourth round.
Katie thought again that even if the house was set on fire, it wouldn't burn down so quickly. She just had to hurry up and finish the fourth round of the game. There should still be enough time.
No, that's not right. Katie looked around and found that the wooden house had windows. The air flow here was okay and it was not completely closed. The rules only said that the charcoal was not allowed to be taken out of the brazier, but it did not say no.
Be sure to use other means to make the flames burn brighter.
In a situation where Carol is bound to lose, she can only grab the life-saving straw of burning the house and threaten others to make them throw less matches. Then she will inevitably use various methods to make the fire burn stronger and higher.
For example, blowing with your mouth, fanning with clothes, etc.
From this point of view, the fire may burn the house earlier than expected, and it may even start in the second round.
But this leaves enough time. It's just a match. How long will it last? Katie thought.
Even if the house is set on fire in the second round, if the remaining people throw the matches as fast as possible and it doesn't take 10 seconds to throw them all, then Carol will still lose, right?
Wait, Katie frowned and thought and discovered another doubtful point. When the brazier was pulled to the highest point, which was about 2.1 meters, it was above everyone's heads. Especially since she was relatively short, the brazier would be at that time.
40-50 cm above her head.
Katie looked around and remembered that the rule said that she could not leave the table within 1 meter, but she did not know whether the 1 meter was counted from the edge of the table or from the column supporting the table.
If you start from the edge of the table, they still have some room to move, but if you start from the cylinder, there is less than half a meter of space left for each person, and there is basically no room for moving around.
The rules were not clearly stated, and no one dared to take the risk, not even Katie. If she took one step forward and was eliminated, she would have died unjustly, so it was difficult for Katie to retreat.
But if she didn't step back, the brazier would be directly above her head. The brazier was a hemisphere with a rim on the side. In this case, it would be very difficult to throw the match into the brazier. It was almost equivalent to standing on top of the brazier.
Directly below the basket, the basketball must also enter the basket from above the basket in a normal way.
Katie suddenly realized that this game was not good for her. She was the shortest among the four. If Carol chose to die together, she would skip all the previous rounds and the brazier would be pulled higher and higher. She would not be able to throw in the matches.
The possibility will increase.
Although the rules don't say what the consequences will be if you throw the match but don't throw it in, Katie doesn't dare to take the risk. What if the match falls to the ground and is eliminated? What if the match is lit but falls to the wooden floor again?
manage?
Although Katie was thinking very quickly, she immediately spoke out to comfort Carol: "Captain, don't say that, we won't abandon you, there must be a fair method."
Suddenly the clown snorted coldly, and said in a voice that floated above the vocal organ: "You idiots, do you think that as long as you throw a match in, the flame will be ignited?"
He put his hands on the table, stared at the brazier gloomily and laughed twice, raised his eyebrows, took back one hand, wiped his lips with the heel of his palm, then pointed to the corner of the brazier with his finger and said: "See
Is that a piece of charcoal? Yes, it is the piece of charcoal that is pressed down on the right. That piece of charcoal is obviously about to burn out. As long as I can throw the match to it along the gaps between the top pieces of charcoal, it will not be so
Easy to light on fire."
Hearing this, Carol and Katie both looked towards where the clown was pointing and found a piece of charcoal that was slightly different in color from other charcoal.
The surface of this piece of charcoal does not have so much off-white floating ash, it is darker in color, and the two ends do not turn slightly red with the flow of air, so it does not seem to be very hot.
It is pressed under three overlapping cylindrical pieces of charcoal, but it is not completely covered. There is a small opening in the middle and left side. If you aim carefully, you can throw matches in.
"Oh, I forgot to mention that before I became a weirdo who robbed banks, I worked part-time as a clown in the circus for a while. It was because I threw the darts too accurately that my boss kicked me out of the circus." The clown relaxed.
He leaned sideways, rested his elbows on the table, pouted and said: "As long as the fire can't burn, it doesn't matter how many times you jump over it."
"You damn lunatic!" Carol cursed angrily. Just when she was about to say something, the clown covered her ears and shouted: "I can't hear you, I can't hear you. I can only hear when you are eliminated."
