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The Hardest Logic Puzzle Ever. The Hardest Logic Puzzle Ever is a logic puzzle invented by American philosopher and logician George Boolos and published in The Harvard Review of Philosophy in 1996. A translation in Italian was published earlier in the newspaper La Repubblica, under the title L'indovinello più difficile del mondo. The puzzle is inspired by Raymond Smullyan. It is stated as follows: Three gods A, B, and C are called, in no particular order, True, False, and Random. Boolos provides the following clarifications:[1] a single god may be asked more than one question, questions are permitted to depend on the answers to earlier questions, and the nature of Random's response should be thought of as depending on the flip of a coin hidden in his brain: if the coin comes down heads, he speaks truly; if tails, falsely.[2] History[edit] The solution[edit] Boolos provided his solution in the same article in which he introduced the puzzle.

Boolos' question was to ask A: Equivalently: If I asked you Q, would you say ja? Comics, Quizzes, and Stories. Garfield minus garfield. Hyperbole and a Half. Every time I write something new, I feel like I need to make it better than whatever I wrote before it so that it never appears as though I am regressing. Except I kind of feel like the last couple posts I wrote are pretty much the best I'm capable of - like maybe I peaked and everything else I'm ever going to do will be a disappointment. (<-- I wroet that part sober. Now it's not so good. Also the next part.) So I decided that probably the best thing to do would be to get really, really, really drunk and then write about nothing until any expectations that anyone may have ever had of me are sufficiently loweered. Here's the illustrated version of what I just said: And that's pretty much what's happening right now.

(now real drunk starts) Anyway, I asked Twtter and they said I should do this live, so that's what I'm going to do. UPDATE: So I decided to draw a graph to better represent the psycholgical predicament I'm. Basically, a burrito is pretty awesome. I am ashamed of that horse. Sand. Starlight.