Take the helm,
be present,
remove your bib,
and do not blink
for the Dane is coming
and you must have your witz about you.
Am I able to use the bottom row of 3's to know what some of the squares around it are?
Something I thought of while playing one of those "poker solitaire" games. If you deal 5 cards, it's not too hard to calculate the relative probability of getting a straight (including straight flushes), approx 0.4% vs. the probability of getting a full house,approx 0.14%. The ratio is 2.9:1 Fo...
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December is just around the corner, and besides the upcoming Winter Bash, you'll have something else to look forward to on Puzzling.SE:
A christmas-themed puzzle every day between the 1st and 24th of December, where the best answer will be rewarded with a bounty. The bounties are calculated as fo...
]DJC7=K 23 =JC6 JJV' ]638A3" [87?4 CF8 63D =663u
Black to move, and win.
Every chess player has a compass in his heart, which points to the future of chess in his mind.
This puzzle stands for the compass of mine.
Small curvature 'twixt solid and liquid.
A number in a poolside ballroom.
An old-fashioned style of name.
An undead islander.
Constricted perspective.
For kids not to be scared.
A battle of strength.
What's going on here?
This program:
{@Hi@}
Outputs "Hi" and This program:
%[()]()
Is Truth-Machine (if the input is 0 then print 0 else if the input is 1 then print 1 infinitely)
And This program:
~1+:()()72{}
Outputs the ASCII char of ASCII char input plus one and outputs "H"
(())
,
{{}}
,
({})
,
{()}
or
1{_}
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Here is a simple formulation for, I believe, a quite difficult problem.
I have played with it, I don't have the answer yet.
The question: How many pawns can you put on a standard 8x8 chess board in such a way that the distances between two pawns are all different?
Needless to say, each pawn must ...
