Box Steps. I created this puzzle by revisitng the classic problem of finding all the ways to unfold a cube.
Dêtente. A new chess puzzle.
Nate Cappallo came up with this nice variation:
So I was looking at the Discover 00-05 Detente puzzle and thought about the Discover 99-09 Knights of the Square Table puzzle. I started to think about different variations that one could try and decided to attempt a loop. Because of the knights and other pieces there can't be a loop, so I tried a different approach. Try to have all of the eight pieces attack exactly one piece such that they will create one continuous loop of attack back to the original piece. I was able to come up with a solution to 6X6 and was wondering if there is anything for a 5X5. If anyone's interested in the 6X6 soution I got then just ask. I'm sure there are many different solutions, but I don't know what the smallest NXN region necessary is. Or for variation, MXN such that M*N is smallest?
Elementary Anagrams. To create this puzzle Iwrote a simple program that listed all the sums of two element names, and all the possible subtractions in which one name can be found in another name. Then I ran them through an anagram engine on the internet. Unfortunately the program seems to have been using a faulty dictionary; it found apparently misspelled words sanitate (=astatine) and
Mathematics professor Bruce Reznick from University o UIUC writes:
As part of my misspent youth, I anagrammed all the chemical elements known at the time (1967) and ranked the anagrams by some metric which I've forgotten. The two "winners" might be of interest to you if you ever revisit the matter:
Rhodium = humidor
Einsteinium = in mine suite (Yiddish accent helps)
