OddThinking

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.

I want my podcasts carefully sorted so as to maximise the space between podcasts of the same feed.

Here’s my solution.

In hindsight, the clock was hideous. Royal blue and white perspex, with a brass pendulum, it was probably the height of fashion when it was purchased in the mid-seventies.

Just how many laser pointers would it take to fake a red eclipse?

The challenge is to calculate every integer value between 0 and 100 using only the number 4.

I am going to talk about three embodiments of the same paper-and-scissors magic trick, from the downright silly to the impressive to the illegal.

Then I will finish up with some discussion about the policies of the Reserve Bank of Australia.

My approach Solitaire Battleships was a precursor to my very similar approaches to Sudoku, Nonograms and Kakuro.

The result seems to be similar to finding Sudoku is NP-complete, which seems somewhat controversial amongst people who point out that they never backtrack in solving the ones that they see.

A few days ago, I commented on Usman Latif’s analysis of the very first move of Klondike.

I didn’t think Latif had given logical analysis a fair go, so I gave it a try.

Julian finds a surprising optimisation for Klondike

An analysis of Clock Solitaire – beyond merely “stupid”