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If Omega asked me the probability of the next bead being lilac, I would be surprised to if the next bead actually was lilac, in a way I would not be surprised to find the bead is turquoise, an event to which I assign equal probability, but was not specifically considering prior to the draw, as any higher probability set of events which excludes drawing a turquoise bead would seem artificial. If the first two beads are the colors Omega asks me about, my leading theory would be that Omega will draw out a bead of which ever color he just brought up. (The first draw would cause me to consider this with roughly equal probability as maximum entropy.)