The last one. Here is a game to be played with natural numbers. You start with any number. If the number is even, you divide it by 2. If the number is odd, you triple it (multiply it by 3), and then add 1. Now you repeat the process with this new number. Keep going. You win (and stop) if you get to 1. For example, if we start with 17, we would have:
Play four rounds of this game starting with the numbers 19, 11, 22, and 30. Do you think you will always win no matter what number you start with? No one knows the answer!
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