Unanswered Questions
16 questions with no upvoted or accepted answers
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Edge Removal Game
There is a complete undirected graph with n nodes (n > 1). Alice and Bob take turns removing one edge from the graph, with Alice going first. The player whose move causes any node to become ...
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Quantum tic tac toe strategy
Most of us learn tic tac toe early in our life. Also, it is easy to find an optimal strategy for playing.
How about Quantum tic tac toe? What is the optimal strategy for playing it?
Rules
On a ...
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A Glutton and a Split Check
N, T, A, B are arbitrary constants in this problem. I have only definitively solved the N=1 subproblem, so, if the general problem cannot be solved, I will be satisfied to mark as accepted a solution ...
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Avalon's rock-paper-scissors
This puzzle is a symmetrical version of Three-player Avalon (transmitting private knowledge over a public channel). I came across this version (for which I think I have a solution) while looking for ...
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What is the optimum strategy for a logic word puzzle?
I’ve made a small browser puzzle called Codextri where you have to identify a hidden set of three letters by guessing words. Each guess returns a score based on how many of those hidden letters your ...
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The Jumbled Jaunts of Jormungandr
Jormungandr, the Snakebot of Doom has left New York. The world's armies and air forces have been decimated and cannot stop it. It has moved on from New York, and has flattened the following North ...
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Strategies better than brute force for solid-color areas of a jigsaw puzzle, where the pieces have the same general shape?
I have a jigsaw puzzle that I've been working on for a while where I have somewhat stalled out because the remaining pieces/areas are all solid black (or if there are color variations between them, ...
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By what rules are they changing the switch?
First of all, I don't know the answer to this question; I have some ideas, but nothing rigorous. Apologies if it's not on-topic. I have solved the puzzle now.
Suppose there is a light switch in a room....
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Police and Thieves
I played this game when I was young, but cannot find it online. It is played on a checkers board (e.g. the black squares of a chess board) between two players P and T. The game goes as follows:
P ...
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Cat and Mouse Puzzle Part 2
This is a continuation to the puzzle I created in part 1 found here.
A cat and mouse are in a square side length 2.
The same rules and starting conditions apply as in part 1:
The mouse has to move a ...
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How do you force a win in 4x4x4 TicTacToe
I have read in the wikipedia page of TicTacToe that it is possible for the first player to force a win in a 4x4x4 board. I tried to find a strategy on how to do it online but failed. So, how do you ...
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What are some tips to solve an environmental-based enigmatic puzzle (EBEP's)?
First, some rough definitions:
enigmatic puzzle: a problem where the goal / answer should be well-defined (e.g. enter a certain word or phrase into an form which is accepted; find a clue to a ...
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Strategy for solving "Hypatian Enigma" puzzle (all lines add to 38)
The "Hypatian Enigma" puzzle consists of 19 hexagonal blocks numbered 1 through 19.
The blocks are arranged in 5 rows. The first and last rows have 3 blocks, the second and fourth row has 4 ...
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How do I solve Jumble word puzzles using the scrambled letters and final answer pattern?
I'm trying to understand how to solve Jumble puzzles (the daily word scramble puzzle).
Each puzzle gives:
Four scrambled words
Some circled letters from each word
A final answer with a pattern of ...
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Diamond-Shaped Light Out Game
The diamond-shaped Light Out game refers to a Light Out variant with a diamond-shaped grid, characterized by the following structural properties:
Total number of rows/columns: $2k+1$ rows (where k is ...
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