riddler-pick-lowest/low_numbers: 42

This directory contains the data behind the puzzle Pick A Number, Any Number. A discussion of the solution is in the following week's puzzle.

Data license: CC Attribution 4.0 License · Data source: fivethirtyeight/data on GitHub · About: simonw/fivethirtyeight-datasette

This data as json, copyable

rowid Your Number Show Your Work
42 1 Because if the person who wins wins by choosing the number 1, we are all going to hate the person. This ensures that this will be prevented or that I will be the person who is hated. Also, this is not a new idea. The puzzle website Nikoli has been doing this for over a decade, it's called the Nikoli Derby.