The twentieth-century philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein once wrote that: “Logic takes care of itself; all we have to do is to look and see how it does it.” These words bring out the crux of the problem ...

As an academic discipline, logic is the study of reasoning. Logic puzzles, therefore, involve solving problems by making a series of inferences and assessing these using reasoning. Sounds easy, right?

The word logic comes from Greek lógos, where it meant both “reasoning” and “word.” The Greeks were clearly aware of the relation between logic and language, coining the perfect term for it. So, in a ...

IQ 160-level problems refer to questions with a difficulty level considered to be less than one in 1,000 people in general ...

This logic puzzle has been doing the rounds for some time. It’s called “The Bridge Riddle”, and this is how it goes: You are a young explorer on a remote island with three other people—a fellow lab ...

We shall identify the LHS as (AB) + (CD) and RHS as (A + B) + (C + D) ...

In 1996, the mathematical logician George Boolos (above) published a paper describing “the hardest logic puzzle ever” which he attributed to the logician Raymond Smullyan. The puzzle has gained much ...

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