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[4] [5] The name "Sleeping Beauty" was given to the problem by Robert Stalnaker and was first used in extensive discussion in the Usenet newsgroup rec.puzzles in 1999. [6] A more recent paper by Peter Winkler discussing different sides of the problem was published in The American Mathematical Monthly in 2017.
The Monty Hall problem is a brain teaser, in the form of a probability puzzle, based nominally on the American television game show Let's Make a Deal and named after its original host, Monty Hall. The problem was originally posed (and solved) in a letter by Steve Selvin to the American Statistician in 1975.
The misdirection in this riddle is in the second half of the description, where unrelated amounts are added together and the person to whom the riddle is posed assumes those amounts should add up to 30, and is then surprised when they do not — there is, in fact, no reason why the (10 − 1) × 3 + 2 = 29 sum should add up to 30.
Each prisoner has to find their own number in one of 100 drawers, but may open only 50 of the drawers. The 100 prisoners problem is a mathematical problem in probability theory and combinatorics. In this problem, 100 numbered prisoners must find their own numbers in one of 100 drawers in order to survive.
Asked why he creates cartoons and puzzles, two apparently different kinds of work, Leighton replied: "I think a puzzle is like a cartoon, like a joke, because the puzzle is the setup and the solution is the punch line. A good puzzle keeps you in suspense while you’re working on it, like a cartoon.
A trick question is a question that confuses the person asked. This can be either because it is difficult to answer or because an obvious answer is not a correct one. [1] They include puzzles, riddles and brain teasers.
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The muddy children puzzle is the most frequently appearing induction puzzle in scientific literature on epistemic logic. [4] [5] [6] Muddy children puzzle is a variant of the well known wise men or cheating wives/husbands puzzles. [7] Hat puzzles are induction puzzle variations that date back to as early as 1961. [8]