{"id":4355,"date":"2025-04-12T09:11:47","date_gmt":"2025-04-12T13:11:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/?p=4355"},"modified":"2025-04-12T09:11:47","modified_gmt":"2025-04-12T13:11:47","slug":"the-king-of-the-spiders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/2025\/04\/12\/the-king-of-the-spiders\/","title":{"rendered":"The King of the Spiders"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-4352\" src=\"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/King-of-the-Spiders-Fig2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"104\" srcset=\"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/King-of-the-Spiders-Fig2.jpg 400w, https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/King-of-the-Spiders-Fig2-300x156.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/>Continuing the logic thread, this is a nice logic <a href=\"https:\/\/mathsjam.com\/shout\/MJShout.pdf\">problem<\/a> from MathsJam Shout for April 2025.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe king of the spiders has four servants, and the servants have either 6, 7, or 8 legs.\u00a0 Servants with 7 legs always lie, and servants with 6 or 8 legs always tell the truth.<\/p>\n<p>The king asks \u2018How many legs do you four have in total?\u2019, and the four spider servants (who are standing behind a table, so you can\u2019t see their legs) answer 25, 26, 27, and 28, respectively.<\/p>\n<p>Who is telling the truth?\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/King-of-the-Spiders-Answer.jpg\">Answer<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>See <a href=\"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/King-of-the-Spiders-250410.pdf\">The King of the Spiders<\/a> for a solution.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Continuing the logic thread, this is a nice logic problem from MathsJam Shout for April 2025. \u201cThe king of the spiders has four servants, and the servants have either 6, 7, or 8 legs.\u00a0 Servants with 7 legs always lie, and servants with 6 or 8 legs always tell the truth. The king asks \u2018How [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[174,240],"class_list":["post-4355","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-puzzles-and-problems","tag-logic","tag-mathsjam"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4355","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4355"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4355\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4356,"href":"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4355\/revisions\/4356"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}