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As an academic discipline, logic is the study of reasoning. Logic puzzles, therefore, involve solving problems by making a series of inferences and assessing these using reasoning. Sounds easy, right?

The twentieth-century philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein once wrote that: “Logic takes care of itself; all we have to do is to look and see how it does it.” These words bring out the crux of the problem ...