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A comment on Seven Puzzles You Think You Must Not Have Heard Correctly (2006) [pdf].

Re:Seven Puzzles You Think You Must Not Have Heard Correctly... by hyperpape on Friday May 04, 2018 @08:27PM (#16999518)
Problem 7 has an even more fiendish counterpart: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hardest_Logic_Puzzle_Ever.
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Re:Seven Puzzles You Think You Must Not Have Heard Correctly... by quickthrower2 on Friday May 04, 2018 @09:40PM (#16999810)
To make it more fiendish, what if the gods / natives don't know about each other's TRUE/FALSE/RANDOM status (but they are excellent logicians, so they can intuit any information from answers to your previous questions).
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Re:Seven Puzzles You Think You Must Not Have Heard Correctly... by qz3 on Saturday May 05, 2018 @01:22AM (#17000468)
Very interesting, but incredibly complex. I'm tempted to make a python implementation to play around with for better understanding.
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