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Enigma Number 1554

By Susan Denham

15 July 2009

Many times better

My little nephew and I play a simple guessing game using an ordinary pack of cards. In the first round we lay seven cards face down and he has to guess how many are red cards (a number between 0 and 7). Then, likewise, I have to guess how many are black, but I must choose my number so that the two guesses do not add up to 7 (so that at least one of us will be wrong). Then, on turning the cards over, my nephew earns 1 point for each red card plus a bonus…

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