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Puzzles that would be nice to add
Adam Kalai edited this page Jun 3, 2021
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- SET game puzzles
- Find all sets
- Find 20 cards with no set
- Sudoku including this
- Bitcoin mining
- NP-hard problems
- Traveling salesman (solution uses simulated annealing)
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guillotine_problem (Mathematical Problems category)
- SAT (in particular, random k-SAT)
- Matrix multiplication
- Matrix inverse as the solution to matrix multiplication
- Improvements on a Strassen-like matrix multiplication algorithm
- Compute Huffman codes using Garcia-Wachs algorithm
- Knights tour enumeration using OBDD
- Railroad rush hour, Sokhoban
- Erdos discrepency problem
- Stable marriage
- Stable roommates
- Prouhet–Tarry–Escott problem
- Simple calculus maximizing a 1-d function
- Block stacking problem get creative!
- For the Boolean Pythangorean Triples puzzle we have, can we create a puzzle to address the open problem of Monochromatic Pythagorean Triples problem of coloring the triples with three colors? For example, can you design a puzzle which would prove that it is impossible by finding a subset of triples with a certain property?
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disk_covering_problem (Mathematical Problems category)
- https://mathworld.wolfram.com/FiveDisksProblem.html
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Envy-free_cake-cutting (Mathematical Problems category)
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firing_squad_synchronization_problem (Mathematical Problems category)
- open problem: can you do it with 5 states?
- See https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/0304397587901241 for a 6-state solution
- This is a hard problem in designing a cellular automaton, could be fun
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hadwiger%E2%80%93Nelson_problem (Mathematical Problems category)
- color the plane so no two unit-distance points have the same color, could be converted to a nice NP problem
- Find longest play in Conway's topswop game