[ExI] new and improved intermittent liar

Adrian Tymes atymes at gmail.com
Sun Jan 23 02:56:48 UTC 2011


On Sat, Jan 22, 2011 at 2:43 PM, spike <spike66 at att.net> wrote:
> ... Adrian Tymes
>>> Larry always tells lies during months that begin with vowels but
>> always tells the truth during the other months.  During one particular
>> month, Larry makes these two statements:
>>
>>>          I lied last month.
>>>          I will lie again six months from now.
>>
>> During what month did Larry make these statements?
>
>>August.  Adrian
>
> RIGHT!  Now here is my new and (I hope) improved version, don't know if it
> is correct.  Same Larry, same intermittent bad habits, with the following
> three conditions:
>
> Larry utters the comments
>
> 1.      I told the truth last month
> 2.      I will lie six months from now
>
> An all-knowing always-truther hears Larry's statements and comments
>
> 3.      Larry is lying now.
>
> This one should be extremely easy, ja?

N/A.  Comments 1 and 2 from Larry could only happen together in February.
(Simple mod of previous answer.)  However, Larry tells the truth in February.

Unless by "always-truther" you mean something other than "one who
always tells the truth", or some twist like that.




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