16 points by hussainkader 36 days ago | 2 comments
Cracking the Dave and Buster's Anomaly(rambo.codes) I was listening to an episode of one of my favorite podcasts this weekend. The show is called Search Engine, and every episode tries to answer a question that can’t be easily answered through an actual search engine (or even AI).
Show HN: Robot Unlock – an open-ended programming game/zachlike(steampowered.com) Robot Unlock is an open-ended puzzle game with 75+ levels. Design your own solutions and optimize them for speed, instructions or space and compare with other players. Create your own levels, challenge other players and solve community made ones.
Show HN: Logiquiz – Daily Self-Referential Puzzles(logiquiz.com) Logiquiz, also know as Self-Referential Quiz or Puzzle, is a type of quiz where the questions refer to the quiz itself or other questions within the same quiz. The answers often depend on the content or structure of the quiz, making it a meta-puzzle.
Reptends and Reciprocals(gregegan.net) Is there an integer d whose reciprocal, 1/d, has a decimal representation with a recurring block of digits exactly 10 digits long, containing all ten decimal digits?
49 points by hyperbrainer 69 days ago | 13 comments
Solving Greater Than Sudoku using constraint logic programming(sdymchenko.com) Greater Than Sudoku (Compdoku) is a variant of sudoku where no initial values are given, but there are greater-than relations inside 3×3 squares that the values must satisfy (the picture from http://avva.livejournal.com/2832977.html):
Unlocking Sudoku's Secrets(chalkdustmagazine.com) Sudoku has long captivated puzzle enthusiasts worldwide with its logical challenges and addictive nature. While it may seem like a simple game of numbers, beneath the surface lies a fascinating connection to the realm of mathematics.
Solving a “Layton Puzzle” with Prolog(buttondown.com) I have a lot in the works for the this month's Logic for Programmers release. Among other things, I'm completely rewriting the chapter on Logic Programming Languages.
AI/Math Puzzle(aggressivelyparaphrasing.me) I found a poster with a math puzzle that points to a reward website. I couldn’t figure it out, so maybe the prize is still available!
Don't Think, Just Solve(nytimes.com) Max Park is a longtime speedcubing world record holder — for the 3x3x3 cube, his best official time is 3.13 seconds. Let's show you how he does it.
Show HN: Betting game puzzle (Hamming neighbor sum in linear time)(ycombinator.com) In Spain, there's a betting game called La Quiniela: https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Quiniela_(Espa%C3%B1a)<p>Players predict the outcome of 14 football matches (home win, draw, away win). You win money if you get at least 10 correct, and the prize amount depends on the number of winners. Since all bets are public, the number of winners and the corresponding payouts can be estimated for each of the 3^14 possible outcomes.