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Does that puzzle have a name, or a place to read more about it?
by thaumasiotes 2y ago
Does that puzzle have a name, or a place to read more about it?
- programjames 2y agoProblem 7 here: https://mathcontest.unm.edu/PastContests/2016-2017/2016-2017_Solutions1.pdf https://mathcontest.unm.edu/PastContests/2016-2017/2016-2017... Or a Veritasium video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iSNsgj1OCLA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iSNsgj1OCLA
- thaumasiotes 2y agoIf you'll take a followup question: what is the best that can be achieved if you must decide which boxes to open before seeing what's inside any of them? (That was how I understood the original description, and I was having a really hard time imagining a strategy other than "make sure there is an assignment of numbers to boxes that can satisfy the plan".)