a contest is fixed. everyone knows it, including the contestants. One of the con

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a contest is fixed. everyone knows it, including the contestants. One of the contestants, however, makes it to the final playoff level. The master of ceremonies presents the following challenge: "This box contains two slips of paper. One slip has the word 'winner' printed on it; the other has the word 'loser'. Your task is the selection winning slip- without looking of course". The contestants knows that this challenge is fixed. He realizes that both slips have the word'looser'. How can he select one slip and win the challenge? By the way, the contestant cannot declare this contest is fraud or he would lose his current winning.

Explanation / Answer

In order to win this challenge, the contestant can suggest a slight switch. How about the receiving the word ‘winner’ would make the person lose the competition and receiving the word ‘loser’ on the slip would make he person win the competition?

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