Should [hat-problem] be its own tag, instead of a synonym?

Question

Julian Rosen's recent post reminded me about something which has been bothering me.

In response to this post, the hat-problem tag was made a synonym of logic-puzzle. I think that this decision should be reversed: hat-problems are their own interesting category of logic puzzles, which should have a tag wiki introducing the common themes. People might want to search for these types of puzzles in particular, and not having an independent hat-problem tag makes this difficult.

The reasoning for the synonymization was that every hat problem is solved with logical reasoning. There are many categories of tags where a similar argument can be made, like liars,weighing,sudoku,game,tiling, etc, and none of these are synonyms of logic-puzzle. Even though every hat-problem is a logic-puzzle, not every logic-puzzle is a hat-problem, so these should not be synonyms.

There are several hat problems on this site (each word is a different link), and there will likely be more in the future, so I think they deserve their own tag. What do you all think?

Answer 1

I agree that this puzzle type warrants it own tag. I could easily imagine wanting to search for this kind of puzzle of particular.

I think that the tag should be limited to puzzle to devise a strategy for the players to guess their hat colors, and not include puzzles like this one or this one, where you are asked to make a logical inference from player's statements. Maybe we need another tag for inductive-knowledge logic puzzles such as blue-eyes variants or sum and product.

Answer 2

I would tag it with hats or coloured-hats rather than hat-puzzle or hat-problem, as the puzzle suffix tags are supposed to be used for very broad categories of puzzles.

But other than that I definitely agree that hat problems skills have their own tag.