I was just typing that up as you posted. Yeah you were right, I don't know why I didn't think of that earlier, I was set on player 1 picking 2 at random. So for 100 people and 100 coffins with 50 choices, I believe the strategy will be:
Basically everyone gets in order and each person must know everyone else's place in line. Then, when each person enters, the first coffin they pick corresponds to their place in line (i.e. 10th person picks the 10th coffin first). Whatever name you see, you go to that person's place in line. So, if you pick the 10th coffin and you see that the name is Joe Blow, you might then know that he is number 37 in line, so the next coffin that you pick is the 37th. You repeat this for all 50 choices. I believe this is the same strategy discussed by Ozy and I above, just expanded to more people. What do you think?
Basically everyone gets in order and each person must know everyone else's place in line. Then, when each person enters, the first coffin they pick corresponds to their place in line (i.e. 10th person picks the 10th coffin first). Whatever name you see, you go to that person's place in line. So, if you pick the 10th coffin and you see that the name is Joe Blow, you might then know that he is number 37 in line, so the next coffin that you pick is the 37th. You repeat this for all 50 choices. I believe this is the same strategy discussed by Ozy and I above, just expanded to more people. What do you think?