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You arc a Kulumae, a mcmber of a Polyncsian culturc found only on Maku Island in thc Pacific. The Kulumae have many sirici laws which musi be enforced, and the elders have entrusted you with enforcing thcm. To fail would disgrace you and your family.

Among the Kulumae. when a man marries, he gets a lattoo on his face; only married men have tauoos on thcir faccs. A facial talloo mcans that a man is marricd, an unmarkcd face mcans that a man is a bachclor.

Cassava root is a powcrful aphrodisiac—it makcs ihc man who cats il irrcsistiblc to womcn. Morcovcr, it is dclicious and nutritious—and vcry scarcc.

Unlike cassava root. molo nuts are very common. but they are poor eating—molo nuts taste bad, they are not very nutritious, and they havc no othcr intercsling “mcdicinal" propcrtics.

Although cveryone craves cassava root. eating it is a privilege that your people closely ration. You are a very sensual people. even without the aphrodisiac propcrtics of cassava root, bul you havc vcry strict scxual mores. The elders disapprovc of scxual relations bctwccn unmarried people, and particularly distrust the motives and intentions of bachclors.

Therefore. the elders have madę laws govcming ralioning privilcgcs. The one you havc bccn entrusted to cnforcc is as follows:

“If a man eats cassava root, then hc musi havc a lattoo on his facc.“

Cassava root is so powcrful an aphrodisiac that many men are tempted to cheat on (his law whcncvcr thc elders arc not iooking. The cards below have information about four young Kulumae men sitting in a temporary camp; there are no elders around. A tray filled with cassava root and molo nuts has just bccn Icft for thcm. Bach card represents one man. One sidc of a card tclls which food a man is eating, and thc other side of the card tells whether or not the man has a tattoo on his face.

Your job is to catch men whosc scxual desires might tempt thcm to break the law—if any get past you. you and your family will bc disgraccd. Indicatc only thosc card(s) you definitely need to lurn ovcr to see if any of these Kulumae men are breaking the law.

	Does		Does
Eats	not eat	Has a	not
cassava	cassava	tattoo	havea
root	root		tattoo