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Out of how many F's does the following sentence consist?
FINISHED FILES ARE THE RESULTS OF YEARS OF SCIENTIFIC STUDY COMBINED WITH THE
EXPERIENCE OF YEARS.
Your Count May Be WRONG!
Take a look at sentence once again!
Did you count only 3? Really? Here is that sentence written once again.
FINISHED FILES ARE THE RESULTS OF YEARS OF SCIENTIFIC STUDY COMBINED WITH THE
EXPERIENCE OF YEARS.
So didn't you count F of word 'OF'? Now how many F's you are finding?
And that's right! There are 6 F's in the sentence.
Jigsaw forced Mahrez and Vardy to play the game of death.
Jigsaw placed 11 marbles at the table and asked Mahrez and Vardy to pick marble(s) one by one with the following rules:
1. You need to pick at least one marble.
2. You can't pick more than five marbles.
The one that picks the last marble will die.
Mahrez to start the game.
How many marbles must Mahrez pick in order to make sure that he came out from the game alive?
This should be Mahrez's Master Plan!
What was the game?
Mahrez should start with the picking 4 marbles.
Now if Varde picks one Mahrez can pick 5 leaving 1 behind for Varde who in turn has to pick it in the end.
Similarly, if Varde picks 2, Mahrez need to pick 4, again leaving 1 behind.
For Varde's pick of 3,4,5; Mahrez should pick 3,2,1 respectively which will always leave behind 1 marble.
This way, Mahrez can easily survive!
