Meetings
Past meetings and puzzles discussed:
- Thursday, July 26, 2007, 6:00 at the Union Rathskeller:
Infinite Checkerboard (Half-plane),
Light bulbs,
Length of a red light,
9-minute snooze,
π/n,
Least unique game,
Haunted house.
- Thursday, May 31, 2007, 6:00 at the Union Rathskeller:
Red,
24,
High or Low?,
Unit line,
Three locks,
Half plane.
- Wednesday, December 13, 2006, 6:00 at The Union Rathskeller:
Answering Machine Hacking,
The Prisoners' Hats Problem,
The Devil/Angel Problem
- Thursday, November 30, 2006, 5:30 at The Great Dane:
Typewriter Gibberish,
Self-referential Sentence,
Forcefield Detainment,
Some Sum Product Maximaztion Problem,
Dicycle,
Domino Dilemma (B) (Mark's P.O.W.)
- Wednesday, April 12, 2006, 5:30 at State Street Bar & Grill:
Two fours,
Sheep (Fair Division),
Beer Rings,
Fence and Dog,
Forcefield Detainment
- Wednesday, November 16, 2005, 5:30 at State Street Bar & Grill:
The Lion Tamer,
Typewriter Gibberish,
4-Queens,
1,000 Balls
- Tuesday, May 17, 2005, 6 o'clock P.M. at State Street Bar & Grill:
Slash and Dash Sequence,
The Lion Tamer,
Clock Hands,
Killer Robots
- Wednesday, March 30, 2005, 5:30 P.M. at State Street Bar & Grill:
Bicycle Tugging,
Card sets (shapes, colors, fill-type, numbers),
Broken Calculator (1/x, +, -),
20' Tree and Vine,
Jennifer Connelly,
Typewriter Gibberish,
a bet about Bicycle Tugging,
Buffon's Needle Problem (Mark's P.O.W.)
- Wednesday, December 1, 2004, 5:30 P.M. at State Street Bar & Grill:
Egg Dropping,
Slash and Dash Sequence,
Random Points on a Sphere,
Happy and Sad Numbers
- Thursday, October 21, 2004, 5:30 P.M. at State Street Bar & Grill:
Cell Phone Insurance,
Mr. Smith,
Criminal Cupbearers,
Submarine Puzzle (Mark's P.O.W!--Puzzle of the Week),
McNuggles?,
Particle Time
- September 30, 5:30 P.M. at State Street Bar & Grill:
The Monkey and the Coconuts,
The Stool Problem,
The Devil/Angel Problem,
The Prisoners' Hats Problem,
Combination Lock Puzzle,
Petals Around The Rose
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- August 11, 2004, 5:30 P.M. at State Street Bar & Grill:
Monkey Dance I,
Circular Shooting,
15 puzzle,
1,4,5,6,
Maid-dog,
Tic for Tac,
Answering Machine Hacking,
Car Probability
- May 18, 2004, 5:30 P.M. at State Street Bar & Grill:
An L of a Lot of Cars,
Aunt Eta's Fence
- February 11, 2004, 5:30 P.M. at State Street Bar & Grill:
The Professor and His Friend,
Bicycle Tugging,
Pills Puzzle,
Aunt Eta's Fence,
My Computer Totally Hates Me,
Sequence Puzzle A,
Sequence Puzzle B,
also, Mark is on assignment
- August 5, 2003, 5:30 P.M. at State Street Bar & Grill
(The subject of this meeting cannot be disclosed.)
- May 28, 2003, 5:30 P.M. at State Street Bar & Grill:
An L of a Lot of Cars,
The Bug Problem,
Envelope Paradox
- April 9, 2003, 5:30 P.M. at State Street Bar & Grill:
Trianglia,
Every Combination of People in a Room,
Smuggler's Blues
- February 19, 2003, 5:30 P.M. at State Street Bar & Grill:
The Other Other Prisoner's Dilemma
- January 15, 2003, 5:30 P.M. at State Street Bar & Grill:
Twin Primes,
Criminal Cupbearers,
Four Ghost Ships,
Ode to a Square,
The Termite Puzzle (again),
What's a Nice Circle Like You Doing in a Triangle Like This?,
Snow Way
- November 6, 2002, 5:30 P.M. at State Street Bar & Grill:
Phone Booth,
The Bus (2),
The Bus (1),
Lucky Willy
- October 10, 2002, 5:30 P.M. at State Street Bar & Grill:
Date Dice,
The Camel 500, and review of
Mark Square
- Favorites from before I started maintaining this page:
The Other Prisoner's Dilemma,
The Termite Puzzle,
The Amoeba Problem,
Mr. P and Mr. S,
and my personal favorite puzzle
Cyber Honker Robot Swan