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Day-knights and night-knights (Posted on 2011-03-08) Difficulty: 1 of 5
There is a land where every inhabitant is either a day-knight or a night-knight. Day-knights tell the truth in the day and lie at night. Night-knights lie in the day and tell the truth at night. One inhabitant once said, "It is day." Is the inhabitant a day-knight or a night-knight?

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Solution night and day | Comment 3 of 4 |

Usually, in similar puzzles knights never lie, so it would be wiser to use a terminology  tailored to fit this peculiar land
e.g. D-knave & N-knave.

Addressing the puzzle per se  we can check 4 cases:
c1: The inhabitant is a day- knight and it is day
- He'd say "it is day".
c2: The inhabitant is a day- knight and it is night
  - he would say "it is day".
c3: The inhabitant is a night- knight and it is day
- He'd say "it is night".
c4: The inhabitant is a night- knight and it is night
  - he would say "it is night".

Ergo, the speaker was a day-knight


  Posted by Ady TZIDON on 2011-03-09 06:25:46
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