International Law

How good are you at finding what's best?

Dan Goldstein, at the Psychology Today Blogs, asks this question:

You have been captured by an evil dictator. He forces you to play a game. He brings you into a room with 25 brightly colored gift boxes.

Each box has a different amount of money in it. You can open any number of boxes in any order.

After opening each box, you can decide to open another box or you can stop. If you say "stop" after opening the box with the most money in it (of all the boxes) you get to live and keep the money.

However, if you stop at any other time, you lose and the evil dictator will kill you.

You can play the game online.

Play it a number of times and tell me what you think. What do you think is going on?

Full post as published by Misleading Advertising Law on June 04, 2008 (boomark / email).