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What will be your strategy to escape from the island safely?

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You are stuck on an island where you have nothing. You find four pieces of paper somewhere on the island.

What will be your strategy to escape from the island safely?

PS: No other resource is available to you on the island, neither can you build anything.

posted Aug 21, 2014 by Mohammad

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