At a local hardware store, most of the people who walk to the store to buy a particular item pay $\$3$ for it, while most of the people who drive there pay $\$4$ for the same thing. But it turns out that there is a perfectly rational reason for this trend.
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Findings over verticals
"X" marks that overlap on figure 1 and figure 2 will remain as "X" mark on figure 3.
First column: only one "X" overlaps in figure 1 and figure 2. So upper-right "X" will remain.
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These words have a remarkable form of self-symmetry:
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Alistair and Roberta are playing a game of reverse dots and boxes.
The players take turns adding one horizontal or vertical line in one free spot on the grid (marked with light gray lines in the below image). Alistair goes first.
If a move completes a $1\times1$ box, the player gets ...
