Fic or Treat!

[embraidery]

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DW username: embraidery

Light is on for: friends, DW followers, anyone who came here from ficortreat!

What's in the Bowl? Ficlets, logic puzzles (by Raymond Smullyan, not me), book recs, podficlets, doodles, blackout poetry

Let Me Know: 

Ficlets - check out my profile on AO3 or my autoao3app for fandoms I've created for or requested before! I'll be honest, I have a lot of rare fandoms, but it's a fun grab bag. I won't create for Harry Potter anymore, but almost anything else is fair game. Let me know characters/ships you're into, maybe a prompt, DNWs? Let me know your AO3 handle if you'd like it gifted.

Logic puzzles - these would be from one of my books of logic puzzles, mostly dealing with figuring out which statements are true and which are false (i.e. one person always lies and the other always tells the truth). 

Book recs - let me know genres! I have a variety of YA, sci-fi, fantasy, a little bit of horror, a little bit of poetry, quite a bit of PG Wodehouse. I also have some short stories to recommend!

Podficlets - drop a few options of fics under 2.5k and I'll see what I can do. Doesn't have to be in a fandom I know. No non-con or omegaverse and no Harry Potter, please! (And, of course, the author must be okay with the work being podficced.) Let me know your AO3 handle if you'd like it gifted.

Doodles - I can draw characters I know or characters I don't if you can link me a visual reference. Or geometric art and/or optical illusion art!

Blackout poetry - send me a page of a fic you wrote or a book/poem in the public domain and I'll black it out and make poetry!

Other info: Drop me a fun fact about something in the world or the weirdest thing you've ever eaten or some other bit of information! Happy Halloween!

Comments

[flowersforgraves]

fic or treat! I'd love a logic puzzle and/or geometric doodle :D

I ate a pinecone once...

[embraidery]

(How was the pinecone? I imagine the taste wasn't that bad but the texture was difficult to get through)

Happy early Halloween!

Here are a few puzzles paraphrased from What is the Name of This Book? by Raymond Smullyan. These are from the chapter on the Island of Knights and Knaves. Knights always tell the truth and knaves always lie (and every person on the island is one or the other).

1. Inhabitants of the island A, B, and C were hanging out. A stranger asked A, "Are you a knight or a knave?" A mumbled the answer and the stranger couldn't hear. The stranger asked B, "What did A say?" B responded, "A said that he is a knave." C interjected: "Don't believe B; he is lying!" Is B a knight or a knave? What about C?

Answer

B must be a knave, since neither a knight nor a knave can say that they are a knave. Therefore, C must be a knight.

2. C's answer isn't needed to solve the above problem. Here's a version where C's answer is necessary. The stranger instead asks A, "How many knights are among you?" A mumbles the answer. The stranger asks B, "What did A say?" B replies, "A said that there is one knight among us." Then C says, "Don't believe B; he is lying!" What are B and C?

Answer

B is a knave and C is a knight.

3. There are two inhabitants, A and B, who are each either a knight or a knave. A says, "At least one of us is a knave." What are A and B?

Answer

A is a knight and B is a knave.

4. Suppose A says, "Either I am a knave or B is a knight." What are A and B? (The meaning of either/or this book uses is this: if the statement "either P or Q" is true, at least one of P or Q is true. [Both can be true.] On the other hand, if the statement "either P or Q" is false, both P and Q are false.)

Answer

If A is a knave, the sentence is false, meaning that A is not a knave and B is not a knight. That would mean that A is a knave and not a knave at the same time. So he must be a knight. His statement must be true and at least one of the phrases must be true. Since A isn't a knave, B must be a knight. They are both knights.

5. Suppose A says, "Either I am a knave or else two plus two equals five." What would you conclude?

Answer

This is a trick question. Neither a knight nor a knave could say that sentence.

6. There are three people, A, B, and C, who are each either a knight or knave. A says "All of us are knaves" while B says "Exactly one of us is a knight." What are A, B, and C?

Answer

A is a knave, B is a knight, and C is a knave.

[flowersforgraves]

I'm so excited to look through these, thank you!

(And yes, the sticking point was how fibrous it was. I got through most of it through sheer adrenaline and the last of it from stubbornness, lol.)