On Fri, Mar 23, 2001 at 04:54:47PM -0800, Nancy Corbett wrote:
>
> ---
> Knights and Knaves problem.
>
> Suppose you visit a strange island with three types of people. Knights,
> who always tell the truth, Knaves, who always lie and Normals who
> sometimes lie and sometimes tell the truth. It is also the custom that
> normals marry only normals, and knights marry only knaves.
> You meet two couples, Mr. and Mrs. Smith and Mr. and Mrs. Brown. They tell
> you the following:
>
> Mr. Brown: Mr. Smith is a knight.
> Mrs. Brown: My husband is right, Mr. Smith is a knight.
> Mrs. Smith: That?s true, my husband is indeed a knight.
>
> Can you determine which type each person must be? Explain.
> ---
Hmmmmm.
Mr. and Mrs. Brown are normals. A knight and a knave would not agree.
If Mrs. Smith were a knave, her husband would be a knight and she
would not call him so. And if she were a knight, she would not call
her knave husband a knight! So are they *all* normals?
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