A Möbius Quantum Cryptic Crossword puzzle: this is among the nerdiest, most on-brand things I ve ever made. tl;dr Instructions: They use a variety of classic Cryptic wordplay tricks, so keep an eye out for Anagrams, Hidden words, Homophone, Double Definition, Assemblage, Deletion, and Reversal Because each step relies on getting the previous answer, feel free [ ]
For my fellow nerds, here are some elements of the National Football League that you can look at on a strategic game-design level and say "Ok, that's actually really cool."
You, like I, might wish to bend time and space and wake up after the election results are in. Barring an unsafe quantity of alcohol, we can't. But second best, here are 10 Time/Space manipulation puzzle games which can take your mind off things.
You might know all about the 'Birthday Paradox', but I bet you can't solve this mathy variant. Birthdays, Bridges of Konigsberg, de Bruijn Graphs, and... Bgenomics.
There's 2-D, 3-D, and even 5-D Chess. But could 1-D chess work? Many people have tried their hand at designing a one-dimensional chess including the late great Martin Gardner. I'm throwing my hat into the ring, designing a version with depth but not complexity.
I struggle with perfectionism. Well, not so much struggle with I m f*cking great at it. It comes naturally. There are some upsides, but perfectionism is also associated with anxiety, depression, procrastination, and damaged relationships. Perhaps you, like I, have spent far too much time and emotional energy making sure that an email had the [ ]
If I gave you 10,000 random numbers between 0 and 1, how precisely could you estimate pi? It s Pi Approximation Day (22/7 in the European format), which seems like the perfect time to share some math! When we re modeling something complex and either can t or don t want to bother to find a closed-form analytic solution, [ ]
In football, it pays to be unpredictable (although the wrong way touchdown might be taking it a bit far.) If the other team picks up on an unintended pattern in your play calling, they can take advantage of it and adjust their strategy to counter yours. Coaches and their staff of coordinators are paid millions [ ]
You could say that Donald Trump has a distinct way of speaking. He doesn t talk the way other politicians do (even ignoring his accent), and the contrast between him and Clinton is pretty strong. But can we figure out what differentiates them? And then, can we find the most Trump-ish sentence? That was the challenge [ ]
The idea of a coming-of-age ceremony has always been a bit strange to me as an atheist. Sure, I attended more than my fair share of Bat and Bar Mitzvahs in middle school. But it always struck me as odd for us to pretend that someone became an adult on a particular day, rather than [ ]