• D20. Geometry Game

    Geometry Game

    You and a buddy start with a rectangular cake, represented by rectangle A B C D in Figure 1. Then you get to pick any point E between C and D , and the cake is sliced with two straight cuts, from B to E and E to A . Then it’s your friend’s turn…

    Posted: 2024-03-01 21:08:40
  • D19. Covid Conundrum

    Covid Conundrum

    Suppose you stood on line as part of a group of 30 people waiting to receive a vaccine. After everyone finished, you were told that ten members of the group turned out to have cases of Covid. You never came down with the infection, so you couldn’t have been one of the ten. If you…

    Posted: 2024-03-01 20:39:35
  • D18. Domino Design

    Domino Design

    In the arrangement of five dominoes shown in Figure 1, obeying the usual rule that adjacent squares have matching numbers, the two at the end total five spots, and so do the three in the middle. There are three other ways to achieve this, not counting left-right reflections as different. Can you find them?

    Posted: 2024-03-01 20:36:30

Issue: 2024 Spring