THE COMPLETE INDEX
All Puzzles
351 puzzlesProblems collected for the idea inside them, not merely for the answer at the end.
A cycle-following strategy turns an almost impossible search into a surprisingly hopeful one.
★★★★☆#0186Conway's SoldiersGame · InvariantHow far can an army of pegs advance when every move must be a jump?
★★★★★#0185The Mutilated ChessboardInvariant · ChessboardTwo missing corners, thirty-one dominoes, and one coloring that settles everything.
★★☆☆☆#0142The Monty Hall ParadoxProbability · ConditionalOne prize, three doors, and an informed host: should you switch?
★★☆☆☆#0118The Nine-Point CircleGeometry · CircleNine distinguished points of every triangle quietly share a single circle.
★★★☆☆#0117Morley's MiracleGeometry · ConstructionAdjacent angle trisectors of an arbitrary triangle form an equilateral triangle.
★★★★★#0091The Two Envelope ProblemProbability · ParadoxA seductive expected-value argument seems to say that switching is always better.
★★★★☆#PE-003Largest Prime FactorNumber Theory · AlgorithmFind the greatest prime divisor by stripping factors from the remaining value.
★★☆☆☆#PE-002Even Fibonacci NumbersSequence · RecurrenceUse the recurrence between consecutive even Fibonacci terms to skip every odd value.
★☆☆☆☆#PE-001Multiples of 3 or 5Arithmetic · Inclusion–ExclusionTurn a finite scan into three arithmetic-series sums with inclusion–exclusion.
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