Timeline for Logic puzzle: Which octopus is telling the truth?
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| Sep 13, 2023 at 9:21 | history | reopened |
Eric Wofsey Leucippus Gonçalo Peter Phipps Feng |
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| Sep 13, 2023 at 0:51 | review | Reopen votes | |||
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| Sep 13, 2023 at 0:25 | history | closed |
a1bcdef Kurt G. Harish Chandra Rajpoot amWhy MyMolecules |
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| Sep 12, 2023 at 19:09 | review | Close votes | |||
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| Sep 21, 2020 at 18:28 | comment | added | Hemant Agarwal | This is a duplicate of this puzzle : puzzling.stackexchange.com/questions/85579/… | |
| Jan 11, 2019 at 16:07 | comment | added | klorzan | @AbleArcher even with that, you still know exactly one is telling the truth, because there are 4 different values, and only one of them can be the correct value! | |
| Nov 12, 2014 at 15:04 | comment | added | John Joy | @mau If none of the servants are telling the truth then each of the four have seven legs, in which case, there are a total of 28 legs, making the blue servant's statement true, which contradicts the assertion that none of the servants are telling the truth. | |
| Feb 20, 2014 at 23:03 | answer | added | dresden | timeline score: 0 | |
| Feb 20, 2014 at 11:20 | history | protected | CommunityBot | ||
| Feb 19, 2014 at 17:59 | comment | added | Nemo | @SebastianRedl: More accurate to say: "With four different answers, obviously at most one can be telling the truth." Which is a rather different statement... | |
| Feb 19, 2014 at 8:23 | comment | added | mau | and anyway it's not obvious that there is one octopus telling the truth, they might all be liers :-) | |
| Feb 18, 2014 at 19:44 | comment | added | David Conrad | @SebastianRedl No, thethuthinnang is right. It's better to let the listener come to the realization that only one can be telling the truth, even if it's a minor matter to deduce it. | |
| S Feb 18, 2014 at 19:01 | history | suggested | TRiG | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
Corrected grammar. Removed unnecessary Mathjax which (a) slowed the site down for no good reason, and (b) made the numbers look ugly for no good reason. There's no need for numbers in running text to be marked up at all.
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| Feb 18, 2014 at 18:59 | review | Suggested edits | |||
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| Feb 18, 2014 at 13:41 | answer | added | BioGeek | timeline score: 1 | |
| Feb 17, 2014 at 18:22 | answer | added | UndefinedBehavior | timeline score: 1 | |
| Feb 17, 2014 at 18:00 | comment | added | Sebastian Redl | @thethuthinnang Not much difference: with four different answers, obviously only one can be telling the truth. | |
| Feb 17, 2014 at 16:20 | answer | added | Briguy37 | timeline score: 7 | |
| Feb 17, 2014 at 14:16 | history | edited | user91500 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Feb 17, 2014 at 12:15 | comment | added | oerkelens | @haneefmubarak: Some octopeds do tell the truth :) | |
| Feb 17, 2014 at 11:45 | comment | added | JamesRyan | Is an Octopus with six legs a Hexopus? | |
| Feb 17, 2014 at 10:14 | answer | added | Lendl Leyba | timeline score: 1 | |
| Feb 17, 2014 at 9:42 | comment | added | haneefmubarak | IRL, octopodes never tell the truth. Just so everyone is clear and so no one tries questioning one. :) | |
| Feb 17, 2014 at 8:27 | answer | added | caliper | timeline score: 6 | |
| Feb 17, 2014 at 7:16 | answer | added | Peter Brooks | timeline score: 14 | |
| Feb 17, 2014 at 0:32 | comment | added | wchargin | @RussellBorogove Count the legs? Good luck. | |
| Feb 16, 2014 at 22:13 | comment | added | Russell Borogove | I can see what color they are, but I can't count their legs? | |
| Feb 16, 2014 at 6:00 | answer | added | stackErr | timeline score: 2 | |
| Feb 16, 2014 at 4:46 | comment | added | IQAndreas | If you enjoyed this puzzle, may I shamelessly plug the Puzzling proposal in Area51? | |
| Feb 16, 2014 at 3:27 | answer | added | jjgarza | timeline score: 1 | |
| S Feb 16, 2014 at 3:07 | history | suggested | templatetypedef | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
Updated title to be more descriptive of what the problem actually is.
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| Feb 16, 2014 at 2:58 | review | Suggested edits | |||
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| Feb 16, 2014 at 0:12 | comment | added | Little Endian | I like the question "How many legs do the servants have altogether?" better, since it doesn't give away that exactly one is telling the truth. | |
| Feb 15, 2014 at 23:00 | answer | added | Benjamin Eckstein | timeline score: 2 | |
| Feb 15, 2014 at 21:08 | comment | added | apnorton | @Lucian Ummm... That sentence is asking "1) find the servant that says the truth, and 2) what is the color of that servant?" It isn't asking for the color of the truth that is being said. | |
| Feb 15, 2014 at 19:06 | answer | added | Songo | timeline score: 45 | |
| Feb 15, 2014 at 17:01 | history | edited | Alex |
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| Feb 15, 2014 at 16:49 | review | Close votes | |||
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| Feb 15, 2014 at 16:34 | history | edited | Vincenzo Tibullo | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Feb 15, 2014 at 16:17 | history | edited | Asaf Karagila♦ |
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| Feb 15, 2014 at 16:15 | answer | added | Ross Millikan | timeline score: 120 | |
| Feb 15, 2014 at 16:12 | history | asked | a1bcdef | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
