Asteroid Prediction Tricks

Jeremiah Farrell

Asteroid Prediction Tricks

Butler University

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Abstract

Someone chooses a letter from the word ASTEROID, and your task is to ask questions until you can identify the chooser's letter. If the questions are of the form "which of the following tow words contains your letter?", two are sufficient for identification:

Original language	American English
Journal	Word Ways
State	Published - Nov 1 1996

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Linguistics

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