D_Malik comments on Open Thread, Apr. 13 - Apr. 19, 2015 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: D_Malik 14 April 2015 09:15:57PM 2 points [-]

Raymond Smullyan calls these sorts of puzzles (where characters' ability to solve the puzzle is used by the reader to solve the puzzle) "metapuzzles". There are some more examples in his books.