Just when the contestants were fretting over the ceramics scattered around, a middle-aged man in his fifties approached and briefly explained the rules of the assessment.
"Among these pieces of porcelain, only twenty are genuine, the others are all fakes. You need to identify at least twelve authentic pieces within half an hour to successfully obtain the credentials of a junior appraiser. If you exceed the time limit or identify less than twelve, you will be deemed to have failed…"
The contestants were already familiar with these rules but still listened patiently, afraid to miss even a single word.
When they heard they had only half an hour for the assessment, many faces fell.
Two hundred pieces of porcelain, and to examine them all in half an hour was undoubtedly a daunting task.
Half an hour, that's one thousand eight hundred seconds.
With two hundred pieces of porcelain.
That means, at the very least, nine seconds per piece.
