CrSb0001 has been studying the minimum number of clues to force a unique solution in Hidato for variously sized boards. They came up with a 5x5 Hidato with 5 clues but it was found that it has multiple solutions.
Goal of Hidato:
Fill in a grid with a series of consecutive numbers that connect ea...
Place 6 white pieces (a king, a queen, a rook, a bishop, a knight and a pawn) on 6 different squares of a regular 8x8 chessboard so that there is at least one empty square attacked by exactly one piece, at least one empty square attacked by exactly two pieces, ..., at least one empty square attac...
I recently encountered the Pirate's Game and I found the solution for the malevolent pirates where the strict majority is needed for the highest ranking pirate's survival. here is the rules of the game:
we have $P$ pirates and $G$ gold coins which are indivisible. the pirates are ranked in order...
What character am I thinking of? I just imagined that instead of just solving puzzles, I could make friends by making one.
I wanted to order Vowelburgersâ„¢ as many as possible, and came up with one idea. But for the purposes of giving a puzzle, I'm concealing what the idea was.
Here are the Vowelburgersâ„¢ I've received, grouped in a particular way:
Here are the ones with one patty: kilogram, bog, fail, chaos.
Here ar...
Anna and Boris play a game with a red stick, a white stick and a blue stick, each of which is 1 meter long. Anna starts by breaking the red stick into three pieces. Then Boris breaks the white stick into three pieces. Finally, Anna breaks the blue stick into three pieces. She wins if she can use ...
