• Algorithmic Puzzles is a book of puzzles based on computational thinking. It was written by computer scientists Anany and Maria Levitin, and published...
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    Tower of Hanoi (redirect from Reve's puzzle)
    (m & -m)) % 3 to peg (m + (m & -m)) % 3. These hold for odd n puzzles. For even n puzzles, the output references to pegs 1 and 2 need to be reversed. Furthermore...
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    use of short variable names, etc.). Also, by offering only small algorithmic puzzles with relatively short solutions, programming contests like ICPC and...
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  • move. Well-known puzzles fitting this description are mechanical puzzles such as Rubik's Cube, the Tower of Hanoi, and the 15 puzzle. The one-person game...
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    have developed computer programs that will solve Sudoku puzzles using a backtracking algorithm, which is a type of brute force search. Backtracking is...
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    Combination puzzles Jeu de taquin, an operation on skew Young tableaux similar to the moves of the 15 puzzle Klotski Mechanical puzzles Pebble motion...
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    better performance, solving sudoku puzzles, hyperparameter optimization, and causal inference. In a genetic algorithm, a population of candidate solutions...
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    Disentanglement puzzles (also called entanglement puzzles, tanglement puzzles, tavern puzzles or topological puzzles) are a type or group of mechanical puzzle that...
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    Control Algorithm aversion Algorithm engineering Algorithm characterizations Algorithmic bias Algorithmic composition Algorithmic entities Algorithmic synthesis...
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    Rubik's Cube (redirect from Rubik's puzzle)
    6×6×6 versions of the puzzle. Puzzles, like Rubik's Cube, can be simulated by computer software to provide very large puzzles that are impractical to...
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  • in the evaluation of computer algorithms for solving constraint satisfaction problems. The following version of the puzzle appeared in Life International...
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    level of challenge and difficulty. The Super Square One and Square Two puzzles have also been introduced. The Super Square One has two additional layers...
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    during the 1970s and the 1980s. These puzzle caps are also called "crown ticklers". Narragansett Beer uses rebus puzzles on their bottle caps, and bar coasters...
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    bag of beans puzzle and the jealous husbands problem. Well-known river-crossing puzzles include: The fox, goose, and bag of beans puzzle, in which a farmer...
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    Speedcubing (category Mechanical puzzles)
    These events encompass a range of puzzles, including N×N×N puzzles of sizes varying from 2×2×2 to 7×7×7, and other puzzle forms such as the Pyraminx, Megaminx...
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    different combinations by a group of operations. Many such puzzles are mechanical puzzles of polyhedral shape, consisting of multiple layers of pieces...
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    algorithmic trading, with about 40% of options trading done via trading algorithms in 2016. Bond markets are moving toward more access to algorithmic...
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    Nonogram (redirect from Shady puzzles)
    three picture grid puzzles in Japan under the name of "Window Art Puzzles". Ishida showed her puzzles to James Dalgety, a puzzle collector in the United...
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  • arXiv:0804.0640. doi:10.37236/554. MR 2788684. S2CID 35020735. Levitin, Anany (2011). "Toads and Frogs". Algorithmic Puzzles. Oxford University Press. p. 53....
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    Sudoku (category Puzzles)
    program to rapidly produce unique puzzles. Number puzzles appeared in newspapers in the late 19th century, when French puzzle setters began experimenting with...
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    Pyraminx (category Mechanical puzzles)
    visualization and "intuition" to solve the last four edges while algorithmic L4E uses algorithms. Algorithmic L4E is generally used more at higher levels, although...
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  • This is a list of puzzles that cannot be solved. An impossible puzzle is a puzzle that cannot be resolved, either due to lack of sufficient information...
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  • is a partial list of notable puzzle video games, sorted by general category. Tile-matching video games are a type of puzzle video game where the player...
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  • Transport puzzles are logistical puzzles, which often represent real-life transportation problems. The classic transport puzzle is the river crossing puzzle in...
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  • The eight queens puzzle is the problem of placing eight chess queens on an 8×8 chessboard so that no two queens threaten each other; thus, a solution requires...
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    reflected. The earliest puzzle containing a complete set of pentominoes appeared in Henry Dudeney's book, The Canterbury Puzzles, published in 1907. The...
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  • Situation puzzles, often referred to as minute mysteries, lateral thinking puzzles or "yes/no" puzzles, are puzzles in which participants are to construct...
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  • whitepaper outlined a system using the SHA-256 algorithm, where miners compete to solve cryptographic puzzles to append blocks to the blockchain, earning...
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    Megaminx (category Combination puzzles)
    Selling Puzzles. Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers. ISBN 978-1-57912-805-0. "Number of Positions of Generalized Twisty Polyhedra". Notes on Twisty Puzzles. 27...
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    hidden words is provided, but more challenging puzzles may not provide a list. Many word search puzzles have a theme to which all the hidden words are...
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