LivingLegend's First Puzzle!

LivingLegend

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10 Oct 03

LivingLegend

Amsterdam

Joined: 26 Jan 03
Moves: 27540

10 Oct 03

In a land you have Royal Knights and you have Filthy Thieves, Knights ALWAYS speak the truth and Thieves ALWAYS lie!

Person A sais to Person B: 'At least one of us is a thief'

What can you now say about A and B?

Olav

ivanhoe

Felicific Forest

Joined: 15 Dec 02
Moves: 50145

11 Oct 03

Originally posted by LivingLegend
In a land you have Royal Knights and you have Filthy Thieves, Knights ALWAYS speak the truth and Thieves ALWAYS lie!

Person A sais to Person B: 'At least one of us is a thief'

What can you now say about A and B?

Olav

That depends !

rob73

Joined: 01 Oct 03
Moves: 648

11 Oct 03

It was a royal knight speaking from a pairing of a royal knight and a filthy thief. If there had been two royal knights, a knight couldn't make that statement as it wouldn't be true. A thief couldn't make a statement admiting that either one or two of the pairing were thieves as that would be a true statement.
Correct?

LivingLegend

Amsterdam

Joined: 26 Jan 03
Moves: 27540

11 Oct 03

Originally posted by rob73
It was a royal knight speaking from a pairing of a royal knight and a filthy thief. If there had been two royal knights, a knight couldn't make that statement as it wouldn't be true. A thief couldn't make a statement admiting that either one or two of the pairing were thieves as that would be a true statement.
Correct?

That is correct, this was one of the more easy problems I had..🙂