Look, I never promised that this blog was gonna have any sort of consistency in subject matter. With that being said, here’s a small puzzle that I conceived the other day. I don’t know if it is particularly good or clever, but it did rather amuse me, enough that I wanted to write it down.
I wouldn’t dare claim to have invented it, as such – it’s a combination of a few different concepts and things that I enjoy greatly. But I won’t say too much more, for fear of giving the game away. So, without further ado (though I will likely revisit this in a few days and explain it in a little detail):
The Puzzle of Mazarbul
The letters in this sentence are red.
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Two plus two equals four.
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JRR Tolkien died on the 2nd of September in 1973.
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One of the statements in this puzzle is false, while the others are true.
— To solve the puzzle, deduce which statement is false.
And for those of you who just want the answer and are cowards and don’t want to figure it out…
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