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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Neurotic" data-source="post: 7808634" data-attributes="member: 24380">Akos shakes his head."They are watching. I'm assuming they looked it over. They gained knowledge. But did they apply that knowledge? Did they gain wisdom from it?"Looking around and focusing on the wizard in the room. The one that still didn't introduce himself."What say you, master Relgar, should we apply some logic to the knowledge we have and distill some wisdom? As they say 'Knowledge is power. And knowledge unused is useless. I know, I've been there."He positions himself so that he can see everyone clearly."Between all of us, we should be able to narrow down the phrases that could potentially unlock the portal. With castings of augury, we get simple, but unequivocal answers. The trick is to ask different questions each time. For example, if we pair the phrases and ask which is better we eliminate half of them. If we put together pairs of dangerous ones we eliminate those and we can simply try simpler ones. And we're not sure which one is better of two of the equally supported between us, we put those two together. I'm sure with some optimization we could cut the number of castings even more."[OOC]Here Relgar could invent a binary tree in which we search through a group of solutions with only log2 N tries instead of N/2 - pure math, right in his ballpark[/OOC]</blockquote>