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A Simple Logic Puzzle
You are standing at the front of a classroom.
Also in the classroom are 17 middle-schoolers and 24 desks.
In your possession, you have a seating chart with 22 names on it.
Less than 33% of the students are in their assigned seats.
Your goals, in order of priority:
1. Figure out which five students are absent;
2. Match students with names, so you can write them referrals to the principal's office;
3. Determine which students are in their assigned seats, so you know who does not need a referral.
The rules:
1. Each student has in their possession at least one book or paper with their correct name on it, although it might not always be visible.
2. Students who call out each other's names in excitement will use the correct names.
3. If they figure out what you are doing, many of them will switch papers and start to call each other by the wrong names.
4. If you ask them outright, they will figure out what you are doing and lie.
5. If you look away from the class for more than 3 seconds, at least 3 students will have changed seats.
6. You must look away from the class for at least 3 seconds in order to record any data.
7. Students who begin in their assigned seats will remain in their assigned seats, and tell the truth about their own names, but they will refuse to snitch on their classmates.
8. You have exactly 90 minutes. Also, you're supposed to teach them a vocabulary lesson, and prevent them from acheiving their primary goal (killing, maiming, and/or emotionally traumatizing each other.) You have no tools other than paper, pencils, and force of personality. GO!
...if anyone has the answer key for this, please share. Please. (I managed about 80% complete on this *once* today, but that was only by cheating by having another sub in the classroom with me.) If I had a compiler for one of the languages I know, I'd be *so* tempted to program a sim to practice on...
Also in the classroom are 17 middle-schoolers and 24 desks.
In your possession, you have a seating chart with 22 names on it.
Less than 33% of the students are in their assigned seats.
Your goals, in order of priority:
1. Figure out which five students are absent;
2. Match students with names, so you can write them referrals to the principal's office;
3. Determine which students are in their assigned seats, so you know who does not need a referral.
The rules:
1. Each student has in their possession at least one book or paper with their correct name on it, although it might not always be visible.
2. Students who call out each other's names in excitement will use the correct names.
3. If they figure out what you are doing, many of them will switch papers and start to call each other by the wrong names.
4. If you ask them outright, they will figure out what you are doing and lie.
5. If you look away from the class for more than 3 seconds, at least 3 students will have changed seats.
6. You must look away from the class for at least 3 seconds in order to record any data.
7. Students who begin in their assigned seats will remain in their assigned seats, and tell the truth about their own names, but they will refuse to snitch on their classmates.
8. You have exactly 90 minutes. Also, you're supposed to teach them a vocabulary lesson, and prevent them from acheiving their primary goal (killing, maiming, and/or emotionally traumatizing each other.) You have no tools other than paper, pencils, and force of personality. GO!
...if anyone has the answer key for this, please share. Please. (I managed about 80% complete on this *once* today, but that was only by cheating by having another sub in the classroom with me.) If I had a compiler for one of the languages I know, I'd be *so* tempted to program a sim to practice on...