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Can you solve the famously difficult green-eyed logic puzzle? - Alex Gendler

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One hundred green-eyed logicians have been imprisoned on an island by a mad dictator. Their only hope for freedom lies in the answer to one famously difficult logic puzzle. Can you solve it? Alex Gendler walks us through this green-eyed riddle.

What was it about your statement that tricked the dictator into allowing you to say it?

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