Sultan Saladin searches for a new wise man as his adviser. To test a candidate, the sultan offers him the woman with the largest dowry in his sultanate as his wife, provided he can pick her out of a group of one hundred beautiful women. If he can’t, he will be fed to the beasts. The women enter the room, one by one, in a random order. When the first woman enters, the wise man can ask about her dowry and must immediately decide whether or not to choose her. If not, the next woman enters, and so on, until he chooses one. The wise man doesn’t know the range of dowries and can’t return to a woman
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Dowry became secretary
