Can you solve it? How cut-throat are you?
by Alex Bellos from Science | The Guardian on (#6GP3Z)
The ruthless pursuit of power
UPDATE: Read the solution here
Today's puzzle concerns a group of five power-hungry schemers who are all desperate to become the top boss. Your task will be to work out how the person of lowest status can triumph above all the others.
The puzzle is a new variant of what are often called pirate-division" problems, and was written by Joel David Hamkins, who is currently the O'Hara Professor of Logic at the University of Notre Dame and was previously Professor of Logic at the University of Oxford.
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