Riddler - Solutions to "Pick A Number, Any Number": low_numbers.csv
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Link | rowid ▼ | Your Number | Show Your Work |
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101 | 101 | 1 | risk vs reward |
102 | 102 | 1 | On the off chance... |
103 | 103 | 1 | Moxie |
104 | 104 | 1 | a |
105 | 105 | 1 | It's a lowest positive integer there is. I hope no one else realises this. |
106 | 106 | 1 | Who would choose 1? |
107 | 107 | 1 | Hoping others overthink it and I get lucky. |
108 | 108 | 1 | Get em all |
109 | 109 | 1 | just in case no one else picks it |
110 | 110 | 1 | worth a try ;) |
111 | 111 | 1 | I'm guessing that no one else is going to pick the smallest positive integer because it's too obvious. |
112 | 112 | 1 | An integer can only be a whole number, and since it has to be positive, the smallest number is one. |
113 | 113 | 1 | I am kind of just hoping everyone who responds overthinks this. Seems unlikely, and I probably should have gone with 31. |
114 | 114 | 1 | I am going on the basis that nobody will pick 1, assuming everyone will pick one and it won't be unique. So I am hoping I am the only person picking 1. |
115 | 115 | 1 | I would feel really stupid if somebody else won with one. |
116 | 116 | 1 | Want to make sure that someone provides the lowest possible response. |
117 | 117 | 1 | i looked it up. |
118 | 118 | 1 | 1 is a terrible pick, but everyone knows that and might avoid it. |
119 | 119 | 1 | Clearly 1 is the lowest positive integer. Thus no other number can beat it and 1 should be the most popular submission. Because the goal is to submit a unique integer, only a fool would submit 1. There are no fools in Riddler Nation, so no one will submit 1. Therefore, I will submit 1. |
120 | 120 | 1 | The extremely small chance no one else choose it. |
121 | 121 | 1 | Because if I can't have it, nobody can. :) |
122 | 122 | 1 | Just in case nobody else bothered to try it. |
123 | 123 | 1 | most people would assume that low numbers would be taken and therefor pick higher numbers to try to avoid competition. |
124 | 124 | 1 | 1 is the smallest positive integer |
125 | 125 | 1 | 23-22=1 (joke) |
126 | 126 | 1 | One. Just in case. |
127 | 127 | 1 | Someone has to. |
128 | 128 | 1 | 1, 2, 3, 4... |
129 | 129 | 1 | On the off chance that everyone else in the world will decide that 1 can't possibly win. |
130 | 130 | 1 | My thinking is that the readers will overthink this one big time. |
131 | 131 | 1 | I mean it's not gonna win but it should help round out the dataset |
132 | 132 | 1 | An integer is a positive or negative whole number. The lowest positive integer is 1 (0 is neither positive or negative). |
133 | 133 | 1 | I'd hate to lose to somebody who picked 1. |
134 | 134 | 1 | Why not |
135 | 135 | 1 | To be contrarian, I wouldn't normally pick the lowest option but who would really, so maybe my crazy idea will work. |
136 | 136 | 1 | assumes everybody else wants to be clever |
137 | 137 | 1 | Theres a chance this could work. If everyone else assumes that no one would be silly enough to choose 1, and instead go with slightly higher numbers, its possible that 1 could be unique. |
138 | 138 | 1 | 1 is a unique number -- there is no other number like it! |
139 | 139 | 1 | Just to make sure nobody else wins with 1. If I win, great! |
140 | 140 | 1 | N |
141 | 141 | 1 | Figured everyone else might not choose one and try and overthink it |
142 | 142 | 1 | I figured people were more likely to chose a number greater than 1 as they would believe someone else would be stupid enough to pick it. I am that person. |
143 | 143 | 1 | I read "The Emperor Has No Clothes" to my nephew the other day so it seems like this is worth a shot. |
144 | 144 | 1 | Because no one will pick 1 |
145 | 145 | 1 | I figure why not go with the lowest integer in the hopes that everyone else will assume someone will submit it. |
146 | 146 | 1 | The positive integer numbers are all the integer numbers to the right of zero in a number line. The lowest of them is 1. |
147 | 147 | 1 | 1 is really low |
148 | 148 | 1 | lowest possible positive integer - taking my chances that no one else is submitting this lmao |
149 | 149 | 1 | NO reason. |
150 | 150 | 1 | Everybody thinks someone else will submit this number. I am someone else. |
151 | 151 | 1 | Just in case no one picks it |
152 | 152 | 1 | It's the lowest positive integer. I hope nobody else picks it. |
153 | 153 | 1 | There are two possibilities here: A: Everyone else is too afraid to pick the number 1 because they believe someone else will. In that case, I win. B: Someone else has the same idea, but I ruin their day. In that case, I win... in a different way. |
154 | 154 | 1 | Somebody had to. |
155 | 155 | 1 | The unparalleled sense of smugness I will feel if I'm the only one. |
156 | 156 | 1 | Seems that most people may overthink this one and perhaps I’ll squeeze in as the lone number one. Unlikely, but I’ll try it! |
157 | 157 | 1 | Would feel silly if 1 was the winner and we did not select it |
158 | 158 | 1 | It's unique because it's neither prime nor composite. There are no lower positive integers at all, so this is the smallest possible positive integer that is in some way unique. |
159 | 159 | 1 | It is the lowest positive integer. |
160 | 160 | 1 | ? |
161 | 161 | 1 | Someone's got to pick one! |
162 | 162 | 1 | Felt like maybe no one else would be this brazen. |
163 | 163 | 1 | I have no expectation of "1" being unique. I'm simply ensuring that nobody manages to win with it by the "too obvious" argument. It's unclear what the sample size is here, but if it's small enough, that terrible strategy could succeed. |
164 | 164 | 1 | People may not choose 1, as it would be too obvious. I'm basically betting that everyone else will try to get too "clever" with their choices. |
165 | 165 | 1 | No one will choose it because they think everyone will choose it |
166 | 166 | 1 | i |
167 | 167 | 1 | Just on the outside chance that everyone else will stay away from this "obvious" choice. Any other number will also have a low probability of success. |
168 | 168 | 1 | I think everyone else will try to be fancy and pick slightly higher numbers thinking everyone will be picking really low numbers. |
169 | 169 | 1 | Who else would pick 1? That's a ridiculous number to pick! |
170 | 170 | 1 | To stop anyone else submitting the lowest integer and winning |
171 | 171 | 1 | My answer has to satisfy two criteria, lowest number and unique number. While the chance of it satisfying the unique number is low, it does not seem substantially lower than any other number, and has the advantage of being assured of being the lower possible possible integer, meaning that I start with a baseline of satisfying 50% of the criteria. |
172 | 172 | 1 | Because I'll feel stupid of no one else enters it. 2 will probably win, though. |
173 | 173 | 1 | Hoping for luck |
174 | 174 | 1 | Prisoner's dilemma sort of problem. By going for the lowest positive integer I'm gambling that all other players will bet that at least two players will pick it, making it non unique. If all players make this calculation then no-one will chose 1 and I'll win. |
175 | 175 | 1 | Honestly trying to decide between 1, 4, and 8. Most people will try to outsmart, so maybe no one picks 1. Otherwise, 4 and 8 are the least common low integers. |
176 | 176 | 1 | I chose 1 because I think others will not choose it thinking everyone else might choose it. |
177 | 177 | 1 | This type of challenge seems extremely vulnerable to answer spamming. I don't know if there is a good approach for honest submissions. |
178 | 178 | 1 | What if no one else does? |
179 | 179 | 1 | I'm calling everyone's bluff |
180 | 180 | 1 | No one will think of this |
181 | 181 | 1 | I assume this will fail, but i wanted to see if people would overthink it and go for something higher. |
182 | 182 | 2 | because everyone else will enter '1' |
183 | 183 | 2 | I was tempted to go big and enter '1', just in case everyone else psyched themselves out. But if that was tempting to me, it'll be tempting for some other players. How many? I guess at least two ... |
184 | 184 | 2 | 2 is too low, there's no way it could end up being unique, therefore no one will bother guessing it, so maybe it actually will end up being unique. |
185 | 185 | 2 | It's small |
186 | 186 | 2 | Just in case |
187 | 187 | 2 | Can't let anyone win with 2 because no one thinks to pick it. |
188 | 188 | 2 | Most people would not think to choose the number 1. This would create an opening for few to choose that number, with the possibility of it being the lowest unique number. Someone may anticipate that logic by choosing the number 2. I am going to be that person. |
189 | 189 | 2 | sportz |
190 | 190 | 2 | So most folks will avoid super low numbers and aim for numbers with at least double digits. The next group of people will realize that people will avoid super low integers and go with 1. They think they're clever. Unfortunately, there are probably multiple people thinking this way, so they just played themselves. I fall into the final group who chose the smallest integer that isn't 1. Hopefully it's not a group though. It's just me (again, hopefully). |
191 | 191 | 2 | Well I know that somebody else is inevitably going to pick 1, don't I? |
192 | 192 | 2 | I think they would be only two types of people: 1) One who would over think it and give bigger number and 2) One who goes "Screw it. Go for number 1!" I'm confident there is at least 2 people who are type-2 |
193 | 193 | 2 | It should be obvious based on the number that it is. |
194 | 194 | 2 | It's not 1 |
195 | 195 | 2 | Most people will use their submission to try to guess about when their answer will be unique (somewhere from 10-1000+). Some others will submit 1 as the default lowest positive integer. By choosing 2, I'm trying to sneak in between these two groups. |
196 | 196 | 2 | It seems likely that a very small number won't win because multiple people will guess it, but that means other users will avoid the small numbers and one of them might actually win. But I won't guess 1 because at least a few smartasses are likely to guess that anyway. |
197 | 197 | 2 | my son picked it. And based on the way people approach these problems it probably isn't a bad choice v |
198 | 198 | 2 | Can't have someone winning this competition with just a 2. |
199 | 199 | 2 | 2 |
200 | 200 | 2 | Let's choose a number that no one else would submit because everyone else is looking for a totally oddball number. |
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CREATE TABLE "riddler-pick-lowest/low_numbers" ( "Your Number" TEXT, "Show Your Work" TEXT );