Questions tagged [liars]
Puzzles that focus on getting information from truth-tellers (who never lie), liars (who always lie), and Jokers (who answer at random).
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Liars, truth-tellers and jokers
In a strange village there are three kinds of persons: knights (always telling the truth), knaves (always lying) and jokers (who may either tell the truth or lie).
A, B, C and D live in this village, ...
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Three knights or knaves, three different hair colors
In a group of three people (A, B and C), everyone has a different hair color (blond, black or brown, not necessarily in this order) and everyone may be either a knight (always telling the truth) or a ...
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Four Doors, One Escape
You are trapped in a room with four adjacent doors upon a wall. On each door is one of the first letters of the alphabet, in order, from left to right. You know that one of the doors leads to freedom, ...
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Lying under arrest
I'm in a custody, under arrest, no contact with the outside world.
I do not know if in that jurisdiction authorities are allowed to lie.
Some real-world knowledge suggest lying by authorities is ...
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The truth within
Someone living in the remote cabin that you do put a virus onto your PC.
Here are your suspects:
Your brother, Liam, who only tells the truth about his opinions.
Your sister, Irene, who tells the ...
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Island of Knights, Knaves and Spies
There is an island with $N$ inhabitants (for example $A_1, A_2, \dots, A_N$), each of them is either a knight, a knave, or a spy. As usual:
knights will always tell the truth upon answering a ...
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A story about liars
Evelyn, Skylar, Alayna, Madelyn, Jonathon, Lara, Alyin, Felix, Iris, Bob and Roslina live on an island where some people always tell the truth, and the rest always lie.
Roslina says "Alyin and Evelyn ...
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3 doors, three guards, one stone
You are in a room with three doors. You find out that behind two of these doors, the darkest pit of hell is waiting for you to make a mistake. The other door leads to heaven, where you obviously want ...
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Island of Liars
A king goes to an island, where there are 5823 people who always tell the truth and 8723 who always lie.
The king is special guest for the party celebrating 2053 year.
On the party, liars and ...
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Brain twister. A simple riddle to play [duplicate]
You are lost big crowded (monster). There are only two human living Jacobe and Recode . Your task is to reach your home, there are two routes and you are confused.
Conditions: Jacobe always tell the ...
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Does it exist a way to solve visually by using a grid or to find the truth among a set of five people telling different statements?
I am having problems with trying to solve this riddle therefore I am looking for help. The situation is as follows:
At a semiconductor laboratory in Hsinchu a security guard caught five
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who eats more fruits? [closed]
in a party 3 brothers discussing:
first brother says " I ate more fruit than 2nd brother and 2nd brother ate more fruit than 3rd brother"
2nd brother says " 3nd brother ate more than me also 3rd ...
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Monty's Labyrinth
(A fun combination of two classic puzzles, hope seasoned puzzlers enjoy.)
Having escaped through almost all of a labyrinth, you are met by three magical doors. Two of them lead to certain and ...
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Classic two guards and two doors
I recently heard a version of the classic two guards (one is a knight who always tells the truth and the other is a knave who always lies) standing by two doors (one leads to certain death and the ...
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The Three Mystery People- An Actual Mystery
I believe almost everyone has heard this riddle before.
There are three people in front of you. One always tells the truth, one always lies, and one answers randomly between truth and lies. You ...
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yes/no logic problem
There is a truth teller (always tells the truth), a liar (always lies), and one that sometimes answers truthfully and sometimes lies. Each person knows who is who. You may ask three yes or no ...
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Murder in the Royal Court
An entry in Fortnightly Topic Challenge #40: Retrograde Analysis!
I can't believe it! Last night we heard a bit of fighting... but we had no idea that... our King was in check, and my fellow Rook and ...
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Truth tellers or liars among two people
Two guys, number One and number Two. You ask number One "Is there a truth-teller among you?". He replies and you have the answer to your question. What is number One and what is number Two?
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Fami-liar Situation
Exactly one of Sam or Tom has family visiting. They make these statements:
Sam: "Tom has family visiting, but I don't."
Tom: "Sam is lying, or I am lying, or possibly we're both lying."
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Classic 2 Guards But With 3 Doors Instead
So the rules are almost the same :
You get to ask just one question to whichever guard you want to (just 1 guard; asking both guards is not allowed)
There are 2 guards, one tells the truth and ...
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A Tournament to Remember
The King:
Recently we had a big tournament, worth being immortalized in the chronicles of my kingdom. Unfortunately, the court scribe misplaced the record of the final event, and we need to restore it....
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Riddle Again, Riddle Again, What am I? [closed]
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If a chicken says, "All chickens are liars" is the chicken telling the truth?
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A man is traveling to a town and comes to a fork in the road. If he goes left, he goes to the liars' village....
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A Space Station 13 malfunctioning A.I
Disclaimer: It is not necessary to read the previous puzzle, or the one before even if it continues on the same story. The current puzzle is a different one which can work as a pure standalone. ...
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Tell the truth Puzzle [duplicate]
There are three people (Ajay, Bhuvi and Chandu), one of them is a Gun, one a missile, and one a robot. The Gun always tells the truth, the missile always lies, and the robot can either lie or tell the ...
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A Space Station 13 complicated escape
After successfully resolving this tricky situation, you, the Captain of the Space Station 13, have ordered what remains of your crew to gather in the escape shuttle. Accompanied by the Security ...
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A Space Station 13 tricky situation
You are the Captain of the Space Station 13, and everything went bad very quickly. Most of the crew died, and it took you not so long to figure out that some people are not who they're supposed to be (...
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The Magical Prison Riddle
(I made up this riddle myself, hope you enjoy it)
A criminal was using magic to flatten a building, while everyone, except 2 people, ran away being super scared. The police of magic came, and with ...
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7 Prisoners Say
Prisoner 3 says: "Prisoner 5, Prisoner 6 and I are truthful".
Prisoner 6 says: "Prisoner 5 and Prisoner 1 are truthful".
Prisoner 4 says: "Prisoner 7 lies".
Prisoner 1 says: "...
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Eye exam for the truth-teller, liar and joker
A, B and C went for a eye exam together for their driver licenses. All 3 of them have bad eye sight and needed their own glasses to see clearly. However only 1 of them remembers to bring the glasses....
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Knights and liars
An island is inhabited by both Liars and Knights. Knight always tells the truth and Liar always lies. One day 12 islanders gathered together and issued a few statements. 2 of the islanders said "...
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On which day The Joker usually going on a date?
You are an investigator. You are to investigate The Joker to know on which day he usually goes on a date with Harley Quinn. The Inspector said that The Joker is lying if and only if it's Monday, ...
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Who is the Culprit
One day you were at the hospital that you work at. You have 7 people you are over for their residency, since you are the head pediatric doctor.
There was Ava, Ben, Chris, Delilah, Evan, Francine, and ...
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Einsteins knights and knaves
For an upcoming major puzzling event, I was honored with the task of creating one of the puzzles which will be presented. I decided to go with a variation of Einstein's puzzle. I selected four ...
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Who broke it. 3 person logic
D walks into a room and sees his computer is broken. He asks "Who broke my computer?".
A says B did it
B says A is lying
C says he did not
Of the three, it is known that only one is ...
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Knights and Knaves Puzzle
On the island of knights and knaves, one of the inhabitants says "If I am a knight, then I will eat my hat."
Will the inhabitant eat his hat?
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Out of these 20 Doors, Which One Leads You to the Jackpot?
Congratulations for achieving this final stage of "Millionaire Super Logic" show!
Once again, my name is Athin, and I'll be your host to help you win the jackpot of one, milLION, DOLLARS! *audience ...
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The Knight never lies, the knave always lies, and the spy either lies or tells the truth
A says he is not the knight, B says he is not a spy, and C says he is not the knave. Who is who?
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Who stole the flying car in Hogwarts?
During a trial in a Hogwarts court, Ron claimed that the Flying Ford Anglia car was stolen by Hermione.
Then Hermione and Harry gave testimonies which, for some reason, were not recorded. Later on ...
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Contradictional Ceremony Puzzle
Can you find out who is the killer behind this wedding ceremony case?
Your friend asked you to attend a wedding ceremony of his younger brother, Mike. The ceremony ran smoothly and lively. Mike and ...
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Who broke Mrs. Smith's kitchen window?
you are a detective in the local neighborhood. Four windows have been broken: the school's window, Mrs. Smith's kitchen window, Mr. Brown's car window, and the police officer's window. The four ...
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Round tabel conference with liars?
In a conference, 8 People sit in a round table all pointing inwards .They are A,B,C,D,E,F,G and H.
3 people out the 8 people always lie .While others always speaks truth .
Here are there 8 ...
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Liar liar pants on fire
Here is an easy and straightforward liar puzzle.
Four people are in a room, stack reader, boboquack, Rand al'Thor and Brent Hackers.
stack reader states that at least 2 of the other 3 are liars.
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How would one make a good liars puzzle?
I’ve seen and made a few liars puzzles, and a recurring theme with liars puzzles is that they can be too easy, and can be dull, perhaps a bit repetitive. How can you come up with a Liars puzzle that ...
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Where’s my present?
sequel of: Which of my friends has a birthday today?
Hello. It's me again. Today is my birthday! So of course I met my friends today, along with a new friend that I made the other day. This new ...
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Which of my friends has a birthday today?
I have five close friends, Andrew, Benjamin, Cassie, Danielle and Eric. I know that one of them has a birthday today but I can't remember which.
I asked Andrew who had a birthday today, and he ...
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Are all “Who did it?” puzzles the same?
I recently came across this puzzle here and several others not on Stack Exchange, which seem to follow a common pattern I call "Who did it?" for now.
"Who did it?" does not refer to any puzzle ...
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Who killed Jeremy?
Jeremy was killed.
Peter claims that Tom is guilty.
Tom says that Ralph is guilty.
John swears he didn't kill Jeremy.
Ralph says that Tom is lying.
If only one person is telling the ...
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Which teacher is telling the truth?
It is generally known that lecturers for some course either always
tell the truth or always lie. Arthur and Ignaz are those lecturers.
Arthur says: "Exactly one of us is lying". Ignaz says: "...
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You meet Yessayer, Nosayer, Truther, Liar
You meet 4 persons you haven't seen before, and must ask questions to determine who is who.They know each other, and their friends' behaviour.
You may ask each as many times as you want but only yes/...
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Solve the following knights and knaves problem
A says:
“B is a knave.”
B says:
“A and C are of the same type.”
Knights tell the truth and Knaves lie.
What is C? (i.e. a knight, or a knave?)
