[CrackMonkey] A cool problem:

Seth David Schoen schoen at loyalty.org
Sun Feb 13 20:08:39 PST 2000


Emad El-Haraty writes:

> What are these types of problems called... not brain teasers?

I call them pill-weighing problems and hat-color problems. :-)

If you like them, you should read books by Martin Gardner, Raymond Smullyan,
and some of the people they cite in their bibliographies.  Maybe A. K.
Dewdeney, maybe Douglas Hofstadter.

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