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Murder at the Asylum

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Authors: Tanya Khovanova
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Abstract

I describe a puzzle I wrote for the 2018 MIT Mystery Hunt which introduced new types of people in logic puzzles. I discuss the puzzle itself, the solution, and the mathematics behind it.

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@article{arxiv.1803.09607,
  title  = {Murder at the Asylum},
  author = {Tanya Khovanova},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1803.09607},
  year   = {2025}
}

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