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> each question must be put to exactly one god.

> It could be that some god gets asked more than one question (and hence that some god is not asked any question at all).

Make up your mind.

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Basically he's trying to say

"Each of the 3 questions must be unique and only asked to a single god, and each god can receive 0, 1, 2 or all 3 questions out of the 3 unique questions".

In other words, don't create 1 question and ask it to multiple gods. But if you create 2 or 3 different questions, it's fine to ask them to the same god (forgoing to opportunity to ask them to another god).

Those statements are not contradictory. Each question goes to only one god, each god may receive more than one question, or none.

I don't think there's any conflict between these. The first just means that you only get a response from a single god of your choosing for each of your three questions, as opposed to receiving a response from each god for each question. It doesn't mean that each god is asked exactly one question.

These rules do not conflict. The first one means that a single question cannot be addressed to multiple gods simultaneously, the second one states you can ask each of these single-addressed questions to any one god you chose.

The first bit mean you can't direct a question to more than one god, not each god gets exactly one question.

I don't know how I managed to misread that.

Thanks everyone for pointing out I was wrong.

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