Board Thread:Fun and Games/@comment-48285-20150413165415/@comment-17259909-20151119215632

There are 100 prisoners scheduled for death. They, however, have a chance to escape the death sentence. To do this, all the prisoners will arrange themselves in a single-file line from the tallest in the back to the shortest in the front. They will each get a hat that is either black or white. They cannot see their own hats, or the hats of anyone behind them, but they can see the hats in front of them. They must correctly guess their hat in order to win. Prisoners are only allowed to say "black" or "white", and they must stay in their place and not turn around. However, before the game, they are allowed to discuss a strategy to use. Which strategy will leave the most survivors and how many survivors will there be?

Assume all the prisoners are highly intelligent and want to live.