The Lady, or the Tiger? by Frank R. Stockton (www.owleyes.org)
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SurfinBird@lemmy.ca on 26 Nov 2024 13:45 next collapse

50 bucks on the tiger

SnokenKeekaGuard@lemmy.dbzer0.com on 26 Nov 2024 14:09 collapse

Great odds!

tigeruppercut@lemmy.zip on 26 Nov 2024 14:00 collapse

On a related note, Raymond Smullyan used this story’s premise as setting for a series of logic puzzles in a book with the same title (that I really enjoyed as an adolescent). Smullyan’s a famous logician, and the puzzles become increasingly difficult as the book goes on-- I could barely even work out how to begin thinking about the stuff in the latter half of the book, let alone solve the puzzles.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raymond_Smullyan?useskin=ve…

SnokenKeekaGuard@lemmy.dbzer0.com on 26 Nov 2024 14:09 collapse

Oh that is cool! Thanks for sharing that