I just finished
reading Alice in Puzzle-Land by Raymond Smullyan, and was
inspired to come up with a couple logic puzzles of my own.
When she was a
girl, the White Queen practiced believing impossible things for half
an hour every day. Once, when she was practicing, she overheard two
bishops having the following conversation:
B1: At least one
of us is red.
B2: I never step
on squares of my own colour.
B1: I never step
on red squares.
B2: We are both
the same colour.
The White Queen
believed everything they said. Assuming the court contains only those
pieces normally found in a single chess set, and follows the normal
rules of chess, how many impossible things did she believe?
The next day, the
White Queen overheard another conversation between two knights:
K1: Knights always
tell the truth.
K2: Bishops always
lie.
The White Queen
believed these statements, but no longer necessarily believed what
the bishops said on the previous day. Did she believe any impossible
things?
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