Can you solve the dragon jousting riddle

你能解決龍角謎語嗎

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After centuries of war, the world’s kingdoms have come to an agreement.?

Every five years, teams representing the elves, goblins, and treefolk will compete in a grand tournament of dragon jousting.?

Every team will face each of the others once.?

The kingdom whose team wins the most matches will rule all of Center-Realm until the next tournament.?

To prevent any outside meddling, the games are to be conducted in absolute secret except for a group of wizards who will make sure nobody uses enchantments, hexes, or spells to cheat.

幾個世紀的戰(zhàn)爭后，世界各王國達成協(xié)議。

每五年，代表精靈，?小妖精和樹人的隊伍將會在隆重的龍上騎槍比武中競賽。

每支隊伍都會互相競賽一次。

贏得最多場比賽的隊伍的王國?將能統(tǒng)治所有中心區(qū)域直到下次比武。

為了預(yù)防外部干涉，比賽會在絕對機密的情況下進行除了巫師隊伍要確保沒人使用魔法，妖術(shù)，?或咒語來作弊。

You’ve been given the extremely important job of recording the scores for the first inaugural tournament.?

But the opening celebrations get a bit out of control, and when you wake up, you realize the games are already underway.

Fortunately, no one has noticed your absence so far.?

However, you need to get up to speed quickly; if your boss, the head tournament official, finds out you’ve been sleeping on the job, you’ll lose your head.?

After weighing your options, you decide to offer your life’s savings to one of the regulation wizards in return for the information, giving him your blank scorecard to fill out.

在首屆比武中，你被給予了記錄比分?這項非常重要的工作。

但是開幕慶典變得有些失控，當(dāng)你醒來時，意識到比賽已經(jīng)開始了。

幸運的是，?目前還沒人發(fā)現(xiàn)你的缺席。

但是，你需要快速起床；如果你的上司，?比武的首席官員，發(fā)現(xiàn)你在工作期間睡覺，?你就會小命不保。

權(quán)衡選擇后，你決定將自己一生的積蓄?交給一個管理巫師作為消息的回報，你讓他將空白的記分卡填滿。

But before he can finish, your boss walks into the tent.

You barely manage to hide the scorecard in time, and the wizard excuses himself.?

Your boss chuckles.?

“Hope you didn’t believe anything Gorbak’s been saying— he’s been cursed to tell only lies, even in writing.?

Anyway, can you believe how low-scoring the tournament’s been??

Every team has played at least once, yet not a single match with a combined score of more than five hits!?

Anyhow, I’ll be back in a minute to review your scorecard.”?

You laugh along, and when he leaves you look at the partially completed card, now knowing every single number on it is wrong.?

You’ve only got one chance to save yourself, so what’s the real score of each match??

Pause now to figure it out for yourself.

但在他完成之前，?你的上司走進了帳篷。

你差點沒能及時把記分卡藏起來，巫師為自己辯解。

你的上司笑了笑。

“希望你沒有相信?Gorbak說的任何話——他被詛咒只能說謊， 即使書寫也一樣。

無論如何， 你能相信比武的比分有多低嗎？

每支隊伍至少要比一次賽，但是沒有一場比賽 得分加起來超過5分的！

總之， 我很快會回來復(fù)查你的記分卡?！?/p>

你也跟著笑了起來，當(dāng)他離開的時候 你看了看部分填完的卡片，明白了卡片上的每個數(shù)字都是錯的。

你只有一個機會能拯救自己，那么每場比賽的真實比分是多少？

現(xiàn)在暫停自己來解決這個問題。

The incredible thing about this riddle is that you can reach the solution despite an almost complete lack of correct information.

And that’s possible because knowing that something is false is meaningful information in its own right.?

The first key is to realize that no team will play more than two matches, since there are only two other teams.?

So if the elves didn’t actually play one match, and the goblins didn’t actually play two, the truth must be that elves played two and goblins played one.?

For the elves to have played two matches, they must’ve faced each of the other teams once.?

And since goblins have only played one match so far— against the elves— that means the match between goblins and treefolk has not occurred yet.

We know it’s false that the treefolk tied zero matches, which means their bout against the elves must’ve tied.

We also know that the elves won at least one match, and since they tied against the treefolk, they must have beaten the goblins.

這個謎題的驚人之處在于盡管幾乎完全缺乏正確信息 你仍能找到解決方案。

并且這是可能的， 因為知道某些東西是假的本身就是有意義的信息。

首個關(guān)鍵是了解 每支隊伍最多進行兩場比賽，因為只有兩支其他隊伍。

所以如果精靈隊一場比賽都沒參加，且小妖精隊沒有參加兩場比賽，真實情況就必然是精靈隊比賽兩場 而小妖精隊比賽一場。

如果精靈隊比賽兩場，他們必然分別遇見過其他隊伍一次。

因為小妖精隊目前只參加過一場比賽 對戰(zhàn)的是精靈隊這就意味著 小妖精隊和樹人隊間的比賽還沒開始。

我們知道樹人隊0場平局是假的，意味著他們和精靈隊的比賽 一定是平局。

我們還知道 精靈隊至少贏了一場比賽，因為他們和樹人隊是平局， 那么他們一定擊敗了小妖精隊。

But can we figure out the actual scores?

Let’s start with the elf-treefolk tie.

Because no more than five total hits were scored, the final tally must’ve been 0-0, 1-1, or 2-2.?

But the treefolk must’ve scored some hits, and it’s false that they only had one hit scored against them.?

The only option that leaves is 2-2.?

In the match between elves and goblins, the goblins must’ve scored at least one hit.?

And the elf score must be 2 or more for them to have won the match.?

This leaves only a few possibilities that add up to 5 or less.?

The elves couldn’t have scored three, so that eliminates these two.

And their total hits scored across both matches can’t add up to six, so this one’s out too.?

So the score must’ve been 2-1.?

With one match remaining, you’ve managed to save your job— and your neck.?

Gorbak the wizard may have lied, but your deductive skills quickly evened the score.

但是我們怎么解出真實的比分呢？

讓我們從精靈隊和 樹人隊的比賽開始。

因為沒有一場比賽的總比分 超過5分，最終的計分一定是 0-0,1-1，或2-2。

但樹人隊一定有得分，并且他們在比賽中只得了1分 這件事是假的。

那么唯一可能的比分就是2-2.

在精靈隊和小妖精隊的比賽中，小妖精隊一定至少得了一分。

精靈隊贏得了比賽 那么他們的分數(shù)必定為2分或更高。

既然得分總計為5分或更低， 那么僅剩幾種可能。精靈隊不可能得3分， 所以排除了這兩種。

并且他們兩場比賽的得分 總計達不到6分，所以這種可能也排除。

即比分一定是2-1。

只剩下一場比賽了，你成功保住了自己的工作--- 和性命。

巫師Gorbak可能說謊，但你的推演能力很快擺平了這一切。