The Hardest Logic Puzzle Ever is a title coined by American philosopher and logician George Boolos in an article published in The Harvard Review of Philosophy in 1996 (an Italian translation was published earlier in the newspaper La Repubblica , under the title L'indovinello più difficile del mondo ) for the following Raymond Smullyan inspired logic puzzle: Three gods A, B, and C are called, in no particular order, True, False, and Random. True always speaks truly, False always speaks falsely, but whether Random speaks truly or falsely is a completely random matter.