Sheriff Giff

Logic Level 1

$\large \color{#3D99F6}{Jeff \ \ Giff}$ , famously known as Sheriff Giff, was a cool Sheriff, and the only thing that kept peace in the village of Criminapolis.

Currently he was chasing $3$ bandits, who were about to kill an old man. He had exactly $3$ bullets and $21$ seconds, before the bandits killed the old man.

Once he shot a bullet, it would take no time to kill the bandit, so he didn't need to worry about the time his bullet took. He was worried about the fact that he had a revolver, which took $8$ seconds to reload.

He was a very good logician and immediately knew whether he could kill them or not, so the question is - is it possible for him to kill them?

No Yes

2 solutions

Justin Park
Jul 26, 2020

Notice you need to reload only after you shoot a bullet. You do not need to reload before shooting the first bullet. The sequence of actions will be:

shoot, reload, shoot, reload, shoot

2 reloads, 16 seconds.

so Sheriff giff reloads before he chases them?

Elijah C - 5 months, 4 weeks ago

A Former Brilliant Member
Jul 26, 2020

The thing to notice here, is that the first bullet will hit bandit $1$ on the $0th$ second, and the next bullet will hit bandit $2$ on the $8th$ second, last bullet will hit bandit $3$ on the $16th$ second. So Sheriff Giff has enough time to think of an answer too.

@Jeff Giff - Congratulations!

A Former Brilliant Member - 10 months, 2 weeks ago

@Percy Jackson you can also try to hit two bandits with one bullet

NSCS 747 - 10 months, 2 weeks ago

No, @Nathan Soliman

A Former Brilliant Member - 10 months, 2 weeks ago

how come we cant

NSCS 747 - 10 months, 2 weeks ago

Sheriff Giff

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