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Paper traces history of Muddy Children logic puzzle

A new paper on arXiv traces the history and variations of the Muddy Children Puzzle, a logic puzzle that has influenced the development of epistemic logic. The authors explore the puzzle's origins across logical and literary publications over the last two centuries, noting its inspiration for numerous related puzzles involving numbers or colored hats. The paper also introduces a new self-referential hats puzzle. AI

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  1. arXiv cs.AI TIER_1 English(EN) · Hans van Ditmarsch ·

    History of the Muddy Children Puzzle

    arXiv:2606.13703v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The Muddy Children Puzzle is a puzzle about knowledge and ignorance that has been inspiring for the development of epistemic logic. Who came up with it first? This is unclear. We trace the origin of the Muddy Children Puzzle through…