Suppose you are visiting an island with knights who always tell the truth, knaves who always lie, and jokers who can do either.
You meet three islanders named Ellis, Farin, and Gobi. They all know what the others are (a knight, knave, or joker) and make the following statements:
If exactly one of them is a joker, how many of them are knights?
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The one introducing the SOLE real Joker is telling the truth but cannot be another Joker (one total 🃏), so the introducer must be a Knight, the SOLE one themselves by the sole existence of a Joker 🃏.