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Russian Roulette: Spin or Not?

A real Jane Street / SIG interview question. Two bullets in adjacent chambers — spin again, or take the next chamber?

by MindYourPuzzle

You're playing Russian roulette with a standard six-chamber revolver. Someone loads two bullets into two consecutive (adjacent) chambers, spins the cylinder, puts the gun to your head, and pulls the trigger — click, you survive.

Now you get a choice before the second pull: do you ask them to spin the cylinder again, or pull the trigger on the next chamber as-is?

Which gives you better odds of surviving — and why?

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