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Twilight reads a book about logic puzzles and paradoxes, and tries one out on Pinkie Pie. Silly Twilight.
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I know two good ones from the Jacobean era.
"How many knaves make an honest man?"
And, "How many fools and knaves? A fool before a knave, a fool behind a knave, between every two fools, a knave."
You can thank Thomas Middleton's "The Changeling" for those, or at least for reporting what were, at the time, common chestnuts.
"How many knaves make an honest man?"
And, "How many fools and knaves? A fool before a knave, a fool behind a knave, between every two fools, a knave."
You can thank Thomas Middleton's "The Changeling" for those, or at least for reporting what were, at the time, common chestnuts.
It's one of those OLD things that makes complete sense to the people in the culture at the time. I love them but you have to have been there. The answer is "A sergeant, a jailer and a beadle." The Sergeant catches him, the jailer holds him, and the beadle lashes him. There's an additional part that says that if that doesn't work a hangman must cure him, but that's not strictly necessary for the answer. At least not in this culture.
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