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Originally posted by hot_pastrami
So you'd have to do something like tell all the other guest to move up one room, and the VIP could take the first room, since it's occupant just moved up one. Since there are infinite rooms, every guest would have a room to to move up to.
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For someone that claims math is not his thing, you explained the answer very well.
We started off with...
ROOM 1 matching up with PERSON 1
ROOM 2 matching up with PERSON 2
ROOM N matching up with PERSON N
ROOM N+1 matching up with PERSON N+1
and we went to...
Room 2 matching up with person 1
Room 3 matching up with person 2
Room N matching up with person N+1
Room N+1 matching up with person N+2
which leaves us room 1 free for somebody else.
Okay, I'll quit with the math, regular riddles are usually more fun anyway.