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Can you guess your hat color?
From Todd Ebert comes an incredibly satisfying, seemingly innocent variation of the classic hat puzzle that will have you delving into the world of hypercubes and Hamming codes!
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The perplexing puzzle of the prideful partygoers
From The Riddler comes "The Perplexing Puzzle of the Prideful Partygoers." Let's see if we can tackle this alliterative enigma.
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The mysterious man in the trench coat
From the book The Riddler, by Oliver Roeder comes an excellent little puzzle about a man in a trench coat handing you money. Interested?
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Solving "Foggy Ninefield" by Albin Bernhardsson
In this video, I solve an excellent fog of war sudoku, which starts with 1 square revealed and no given digits...
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CHAMP: Can we count to 100?
Every couple of weeks, a member of the Branson Math department, Dave, sends out a "CHAMP" to our student body. Lets see if we can tackle this weeks CHAMP...
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Solving "Cascade" by Scojo
In this video, I solve a beautiful sudoku called Cascade, which has a simple ruleset and 0 given digits.
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