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You Look for Treasure Without Her

The two of you stare after her for a moment. “Forget her,” you say. “We can find the treasure. We have the compass, after all.”
Joe nods and takes out the compass. “Whoa,” he says. “Look at this.”
You take the compass and look at it. At once, you notice that it isn’t a normal compass. Instead of North, East, South, West, it has colors on it: red, blue, green, orange.
“What do you think it means?” Joe asks you.
“I don’t know,” you say.
The green direction is back where you were before, so you rule it out. Instead of pointing out which direction the treasure in, the compass seems to be switching between the red, blue, and orange directions.
Presumably, one of the color directions holds the treasure. Which direction will you follow?

You follow red.
You follow blue.
You follow orange.

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