Sparhawk

Exactly.

We have two prisoners who together committed a crime. We don't have much of a case. If one or the other will rat on his partner, we can go to trial. We offer them a deal:
We will give full immunity to the rat, if only one of them rats. We will give no immunity if they both rat, but we will reduce the sentence that we are asking for. If neither of them rats, then we will convict them of a lesser offense, with a much lesser sentence.
The lesser sentence, for the lesser offense, will be much less than the reduced sentence for the main crime, by the way. If you were one of the prisoners, would you rat on your partner? Think about it.

Interesting to see game theory turned into tv reality...

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