I'm trying to design a new game that requires a 5 x 5 grid of criss-crossed words (like squareword has).
I have a word list of about 4600 5-letter words; I think that there are more than 2 x 10^18 ways of choosing 5 words from this list. I have written a brute-force computer program which just c...
Choose a date that's a Monday, e.g. 1st Jan 2024. Then keep adding 1 year until you have seven dates in a row that are the days of the week in order (Monday to Sunday).
Does such a date combination exist?
Given a list of people generate matchmaking where everyone will play only once with each other and twice against each other.
For example with a group of 8 individuals namely A B C E D F G H should generate a matchmaking such as:
# Round 1:
BF vs AD
EG vs HC
# Round 2:
EB vs FG
CA vs HD
# Round ...
This puzzle was inspired by thinking about how to implement a system like Factorio's power grid.
Start with an infinite connected undirected acyclic graph.
Graph = A set of nodes (called "vertices") with connections (called "edges") between them.
Alternatively: A set of power poles connected by...
Choose a date that's a Monday, e.g. 1st Jan 2024. Then keep adding 1 year until you have seven dates in a row that are the days of the week in order (Monday to Sunday).
Does such a date combination exist?
Add a straight line to this visual and turn it into a sport.
Given a list of people generate matchmaking where everyone will play only once with each other and twice against each other.
For example with a group of 8 individuals namely A B C E D F G H should generate a matchmaking such as:
# Round 1:
BF vs AD
EG vs HC
# Round 2:
EB vs FG
CA vs HD
# Round ...
This puzzle was inspired by thinking about how to implement a system like Factorio's power grid.
Start with an infinite connected undirected acyclic graph.
Graph = A set of nodes (called "vertices") with connections (called "edges") between them.
Alternatively: A set of power poles connected by...
