Inconsistent Sets of Statements from Knights and Knaves

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On an island of knights and knaves, knights always tell the truth, knaves always lie, and everyone is either a knight or a knave. There are inhabitants denoted by A, B, C, …. Each one makes a statement about the number of knights in a set. (The set is the empty set with zero knights.) Their vocabulary is rather limited; generally they talk about even and odd numbers.

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Contributed by: Izidor Hafner (January 2013)
Open content licensed under CC BY-NC-SA


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