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The Blue Eyes Puzzle
a logic puzzle about common knowledge
An island of perfect logicians, none of whom know their own eye color. A visitor says one sentence everyone already knew — and on the k-th morning, all k blue-eyed islanders leave together. How can saying the obvious change anything?
Source: The blue-eyed islanders puzzle, dramatized
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