Knights and Knaves Puzzle Generator

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This Demonstration provides a generator of "knights and knaves" logic puzzlesin English, Esperanto, and French. These puzzles are about an island in which some natives called "knights" always tell the truth and others called "knaves" always lie. It is assumed that every inhabitant of the island is either a knight or a knave. If an inhabitant makes a statement
, then we may conclude that
is a knight if and only if
is true. Such a fact is symbolically represented by
.
Contributed by: Meta Lah, Simona Klemencic and Izidor Hafner (April 2009)
Based on work by: Raymond M. Smullyan
Open content licensed under CC BY-NC-SA
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R. M. Smullyan, What Is the Name of This Book?, Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice–Hall, 1978.
Permanent Citation
"Knights and Knaves Puzzle Generator"
http://demonstrations.wolfram.com/KnightsAndKnavesPuzzleGenerator/
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Published: April 30 2009