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The Hardest Logic Puzzle Ever
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25 points
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nreece
on Feb 13, 2008
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dmoney
on Feb 14, 2008
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http://www.xkcd.com/356/
cstejerean
on Feb 14, 2008
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Along the same lines, I read somewhere you can basically shut down an entire IT department for a couple of days by handing out rubik's cubes to everyone.
xirium
on Feb 14, 2008
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Make sure that they're shuffled first. Solving it will be a compulsion for some geeks.
cstejerean
on Feb 14, 2008
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Maybe just peel the stickers off and put them back so that it's not possible to solve. Should keep most people busy longer.
mechanical_fish
on Feb 14, 2008
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+1 for Raymond Smullyan's books. Lots of fun.
Tichy
on Feb 14, 2008
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I would ask each of them "are you lieing?". Then, when their heads have exploded, they could all be identified as "dead gods".
dkokelley
on Feb 14, 2008
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My head hurts now. I should have prepared for this with more sleep.
mynameishere
on Feb 14, 2008
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Aha! The problem is unsolvable.
redorb
on Feb 14, 2008
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I thought they showed the solution (besides the exploding head question) in the wiki .. ?
mynameishere
on Feb 15, 2008
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Unsolvable by me.
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