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Look, you can't complain about this after giving us so many scenarios involving N locked chests and M unlabeled keys.

https://explainxkcd.com/3015/

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 days ago

That is true. Cueball had asked the question in the way I described, but the check was done in the inverse which is easier to do the math on.