OddThinking

This is background information for Part 1. About six years ago, I was taught a dice game called Farkle. If you haven’t heard of it, it is not the same as Yahtzee, but it is close enough for this discussion. I have been meaning to get around to modelling Farkle, and coming up with an […]

So, suppose we’ve been hired by the research division of SomeBetOdd
Casinos. They want an analysis of some new dice games they are thinking of introducing.

I unnecessarily answer the ambiguity issue in the Circuit Puzzle, in living colour.

Another puzzle solved with the same architecture as before, but this time, with added code re-use.

In this article, I introduce another puzzle game, talk about some variations that are possible, provide a glossary (and then fail to use it, for now), discuss how the puzzle is solved, and then promise more in a future article.

This article focuses on that message-passing system and the variants I have tried in the puzzle-solving architecture that has evolved over a number of pet projects.

This article includes some Slitherlinks tips for players who understand the basics and want to tackle the medium and hard examples.

Virus 2 is a flash game with a disturbing name, but quite simple game-play.

I set out to solve it under some arbitrary constraints.

Meantime, I started negotiating a deal. Grace would persuade Ben to give up the secret to the binary trick…

Could McDonald’s afford to charge $50 for a hamburger?