Originally Posted by
hawkesnightmare
The only way that 99% of the people would be saved is by having one of one colour and 99 of the other. The person in the back would assume that since he only sees blue, or all blue and one white, that he has a blue hat. Since he has a chance of being shot anyway, he would say more than the one word he is given and shout "everyone has blue hats."
Originally Posted by
TheMpk
Nobody will be allowed to talk or move unless I speak to them first, at which point they may only say one word and that word can either be blue or red, anything more and everyone dies.
Again, I think that the number of each hat does not matter, since it can be any number, and probably isn't known to the 100 people.