For example, if a less intelligent schoolboy is his opponent, and holding up his closed hand, asks, are they even or odd? Our schoolboy replies, odd, and loses; but upon the second trial he wins, for he then says to himself, the simpleton had them even upon the first trial, and his amount of cunning is just sufficient to make him have them odd upon the second; I will therefore guess odd .’ he guesses odd, and wins.
Now, with a simpleton who is a little smarter than the first, he would have reasoned thus: this fellow finds that on the first try I guessed odd, and, in the second, he will have an impulse to change from even to odd.
But then upon second thought, he will decide this is too simple of a variation, and he will finally decide on keeping it even.
I will therefore guess even.
Our schoolboy guesses even and wins.
For example, if a less intelligent schoolboy is his opponent, and holding up his closed hand, asks, are they even or odd? Our schoolboy replies, odd, and loses; but upon the second trial he wins, for he then says to himself, the simpleton had them even upon the first trial, and his amount of cunning is just sufficient to make him have them odd upon the second; I will therefore guess odd .’ he guesses odd, and wins.Now, with a simpleton who is a little smarter than the first, he would have reasoned thus: this fellow finds that on the first try I guessed odd, and, in the second, he will have an impulse to change from even to odd.But then upon second thought, he will decide this is too simple of a variation, and he will finally decide on keeping it even.I will therefore guess even.Our schoolboy guesses even and wins.
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