What Is The Name Of This Book?... For Dummies

September 7, 2023 5:20 PM

I've just started working through Raymond Smullyan's classic text of logic puzzles What is The Name Of This Book? with offspring #2 and they, not trusting my explanations of such things, have asked if there's an answer-sheet with breakdowns of the solutions for it anywhere, as the book doesn't answer the questions it poses. Can anyone point me to one?
posted by Hogshead to Writing & Language (2 answers total)

Eh? there appear to be solutions in the book (in case the linking doesn't go to the right page, it's page 14 according to the page numbers in the book), or is it just that they're not in depth enough?
posted by juv3nal at 6:55 PM on September 7

The book does have solutions, but only for some of the problems, and many of them don't explain their reasoning in detail.

I don't know of any comprehensive document that gives more detailed solutions, but a number of Smullyan's puzzles have been discussed on Puzzling Stack Exchange, so you might try searching or asking there if you're stuck on something in particular.
posted by teraflop at 11:18 PM on September 7