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Knights and Knaves Puzzles
Fairfield County Math Teachers’ Circle Summer Workshop (2017)
  • Hema Gopalakrishnan, Sacred Heart University
Description
You have just arrived on an island inhabited by two kinds of people: Knights and Knaves. Knights always tell the truth and knaves always lie. Every inhabitant of the island is either a knight or a knave and everyone knows which inhabitants are knights and which are knaves. You are a stranger on the island, and you do not know who is a knight and who is a knave. For each of the questions below explain how you arrived at your conclusion.
Keywords
  • Mathematical recreations,
  • Mathematics Problems
Publication Date
August 8, 2017
Citation Information
Hema Gopalakrishnan. "Knights and Knaves Puzzles" Fairfield County Math Teachers’ Circle Summer Workshop (2017)
Available at: http://works.bepress.com/hema_gopalakrishnan/6/