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• knaves — neɪv n. jack, playing card with the figure of a knave; rogue, cheater, crook, scoundrel, villain …   English contemporary dictionary

• Knights and Knaves — is a type of logic puzzle devised by Raymond Smullyan.On a fictional island, all inhabitants are either knights, who always tell the truth, or knaves, who always lie. The puzzles involve a visitor to the island who meets small groups of… …   Wikipedia

• The Ace of Knaves — infobox Book | name = The Ace of Knaves also The Saint in Action title orig = translator = image caption = Early 1980s reprint edition, with alternate title author = Leslie Charteris cover artist = country = United Kingdom language = English… …   Wikipedia

• List of solitaire card games — This is a list of solitaire or patience card games. Some varieties that are played by more than one player are marked with a plus sign.This list is marked incomplete because this list below does not list all solitaire games available. Some games… …   Wikipedia

• The Hardest Logic Puzzle Ever — is a title coined by George Boolos in La Repubblica 1992 under the title L indovinello più difficile del mondo for the following Raymond Smullyan inspired logic puzzle:Boolos provides the following clarifications:George Boolos, The Hardest Logic… …   Wikipedia

• Dungeons & Dragons simulacrums — are restatements of rule sets no longer supported by Wizards of the Coast. They are made possible by the terms of the Open Game License and System Reference Document, which allows the use of much of the proprietary terminology of Dungeons Dragons …   Wikipedia

• Knave — (n[=a]v), n. [OE., boy, servant, knave, AS. cnafa boy, youth; cf. AS. cnapa boy, youth, D. knaap, G. knabe boy, knappe esquire, Icel. knapi, Sw. knape esquire, kn[ a]fvel knave.] 1. A boy; especially, a boy servant. [Obs.] Wyclif. Chaucer. [1913… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

• Knave child — Knave Knave (n[=a]v), n. [OE., boy, servant, knave, AS. cnafa boy, youth; cf. AS. cnapa boy, youth, D. knaap, G. knabe boy, knappe esquire, Icel. knapi, Sw. knape esquire, kn[ a]fvel knave.] 1. A boy; especially, a boy servant. [Obs.] Wyclif.… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

• The Man from U.N.C.L.E. — THRUSH redirects here. For other uses, see Thrush (disambiguation). The Man from U.N.C.L.E. Genre Spy fi Format …   Wikipedia

• Raymond Smullyan — Infobox Writer name = Raymond Merrill Smullyan imagesize = caption = pseudonym = birthdate = birth year and age|1919 birthplace = Far Rockaway, New York occupation = mathematician, logician, philosopher, and magician nationality = American period …   Wikipedia