THE COMPLETE INDEX

All Puzzles

351 puzzles

Problems collected for the idea inside them, not merely for the answer at the end.

#0187The 100 Prisoners ProblemProbability · Logic

A cycle-following strategy turns an almost impossible search into a surprisingly hopeful one.

★★★★☆
#0186Conway's SoldiersGame · Invariant

How far can an army of pegs advance when every move must be a jump?

★★★★★
#0185The Mutilated ChessboardInvariant · Chessboard

Two missing corners, thirty-one dominoes, and one coloring that settles everything.

★★☆☆☆
#0142The Monty Hall ParadoxProbability · Conditional

One prize, three doors, and an informed host: should you switch?

★★☆☆☆
#0118The Nine-Point CircleGeometry · Circle

Nine distinguished points of every triangle quietly share a single circle.

★★★☆☆
#0117Morley's MiracleGeometry · Construction

Adjacent angle trisectors of an arbitrary triangle form an equilateral triangle.

★★★★★
#0091The Two Envelope ProblemProbability · Paradox

A seductive expected-value argument seems to say that switching is always better.

★★★★☆
#PE-003Largest Prime FactorNumber Theory · Algorithm

Find the greatest prime divisor by stripping factors from the remaining value.

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#PE-002Even Fibonacci NumbersSequence · Recurrence

Use the recurrence between consecutive even Fibonacci terms to skip every odd value.

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#PE-001Multiples of 3 or 5Arithmetic · Inclusion–Exclusion

Turn a finite scan into three arithmetic-series sums with inclusion–exclusion.

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