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What is the Name of This Book?
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What Is the Name of This Book? The Riddle of Dracula and Other Logical Puzzles is a 1978 book by mathematician Raymond Smullyan.It had two follow-ups in 1982: The Lady or the Tiger? (not to be confused with the original short story by Frank Stockton that the title references) and Alice in Puzzle-Land, referencing, of course, Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland). | |
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Generation Xerox | |
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Generation Xerox: Portia's daughter Portia II, her granddaughter Portia III, and her descendant Portia N test the intelligence of their suitors by logic puzzles whose objective is to determine which one of several caskets contains an object, just like the original Portia. Though the puzzles get progressively harder. Casket-makers Bellini and Cellini — who only inscribed their caskets with true and false statements, respectively, — had sons who were also casket-makers and abided by the same rules. | |
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I Know You Know I Know | |
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I Know You Know I Know: Appears in chapter 13. | |
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Logic Bomb | |
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Logic Bomb: The first two stories in the book are anecdotes told by Smullyan himself. In the first story, six-year-old Raymond's brother Emile told Raymond that he was going to fool him, and then didn't — thus fooling him by subverting his expectation that he'd fool him. The other anecdote tells about a job interview where Smullyan was asked, "Do you object to telling a little lie every now and again?" At the time, he did object to that, but, wanting to get the job, he falsely claimed "No". But since he did it, it meant that he didn't actually object to occasionally telling lies, which meant that his "No" was a true statement, even though he felt like he was lying... For a fictional case, see "Shaggy Dog" Story below. | |
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Liar's Paradox | |
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This leads to an interesting variation of the Liar's Paradox, since while they still can't say "I'm lying", they can say "I'm a vampire" or "I'm insane". More interestingly, saying "I'm a vampire" tells you nothing about whether they're actually a vampire, but only someone insane can say it; similarly, only a vampire can say "I am insane". Saying "I am sane" means the speaker is human, saying "I am a human" means the speaker is sane. This is the key to solving many of the Transylvania puzzles. | |
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Public Domain Character | |
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Public Domain Character: One chapter uses characters from Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass. Portia from Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice. Dracula. | |
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Engagement Challenge | |
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Engagement Challenge: Portia offers engagement challenges based on logic puzzles, as do her daughter, granddaughter, and distant descendant, all named Portia. | |
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Our Vampires Are Different | |
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Our Vampires Are Different: This book's version of Transylvania is populated by humans, who always say what they believe is true, and vampires, who always say what they believe is false. In addition, both humans and vampires can be insane, believing in falsehoods. This leads to an interesting variation of the Liar's Paradox, since while they still can't say "I'm lying", they can say "I'm a vampire" or "I'm insane". More interestingly, saying "I'm a vampire" tells you nothing about whether they're actually a vampire, but only someone insane can say it; similarly, only a vampire can say "I am insane". Saying "I am sane" means the speaker is human, saying "I am a human" means the speaker is sane. This is the key to solving many of the Transylvania puzzles. | |
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Knights and Knaves | |
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Knights and Knaves: Many, many variations on the setup, usually making statements about themselves or each other. | |
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