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2021-12-13

Can it be assumed that before each reindeer has a different favourite food, and/or that the saboteur fed each reindeer a unique food each test flight?

Elijah
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2021-12-14

@Elijah: Each reindeer was fed exactly one food before each test flight. Multiple reindeer may have the same favourite foods.

Matthew
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