Scott Duke Kominers, Columnist

Kominers’s Conundrums: True or False? That’s Just the Start

A multi-part puzzle combines trivia and logic in a surprisingly fun way.

October 24, 2021 at 12:00 PM UTC

Scott Duke Kominers is the MBA Class of 1960 Associate Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School and a faculty affiliate of the Harvard University department of economics.

Be careful: some of the statements that look like hints are, well, false.
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Last week we solved a series of trivia clues in the style of “Jeopardy!” This week, we’re adding a logical dimension with the help of our puzzle-loving friends Don Laackman & Dan Zaharopol of BEAM — “Bridge to Enter Advanced Mathematics.”

This Conundrum is a remix of an incredibly fun puzzle that their students faced in 2018. It starts with a series of true/false questions. But when you take a look, you’ll see some of them reference each other, which means you’ll have to use logic to find a way to mark them “true” or “false” in a way that’s consistent across all the different questions.