Example, I once told him the three gods puzzle and he had it solved in ~20 minutes; he didn’t even use paper.
Whoa! 20 min and in his head? I wish I were that smart.
EDIT: Given that I am average or worse at logic puzzles, and that I haven’t heard this one before, somehow, I have decided to document my thought process as I was solving it. It certainly helps to know that there is a solution. Anyway, my explorations are documented here. Warning: the write-up is rather long and not edited for clarity.
I was quite happy that I had found that you have 1 in 3 chances to solve the puzzle with just two questions (without “exploding god-heads”)! The total time passed spent thinking and writing things up was probably several hours over several days, so an order of magnitude worse than your father :)
Whoa! 20 min and in his head? I wish I were that smart.
EDIT: Given that I am average or worse at logic puzzles, and that I haven’t heard this one before, somehow, I have decided to document my thought process as I was solving it. It certainly helps to know that there is a solution. Anyway, my explorations are documented here. Warning: the write-up is rather long and not edited for clarity.
I was quite happy that I had found that you have 1 in 3 chances to solve the puzzle with just two questions (without “exploding god-heads”)! The total time passed spent thinking and writing things up was probably several hours over several days, so an order of magnitude worse than your father :)