What's the Play? The Looter Problem
LSV's classic decision-theory puzzle on sequencing with a Looter effect. Original ChannelFireball page is dead and no archive.org snapshot has been found.
If you have a copy of this article — PDF, screenshot, text dump, anything — please reach out on GitHub. It's one of the few LSV 'What's the Play?' puzzles that's been truly lost, and we would love to bring it back.
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