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it bugs me to an unreasonable extent that he finished one person short of 7777.

The system and the fact that he executed it though is genius.






7776 is 6^5, that's the amount he needed to find a single correct 'winner' since each race would only have 1/6 chance.

7776 is 6^5. The exactly right number for the trick to work.

> it bugs me to an unreasonable extent that he finished one person short of 7777

Perhaps (likely?) he himself should be counted too, so 7777 in total.




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