For this week’s Friday Challenge, I give you a game:
A child is organizing her playroom, and will put a series of blocks, each bearing one of the following eight letters – F, G, H, I, J, K, L, M – into a cabinet one at a time in accordance with the following conditions:
J is put [...]
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The Child and Her Blocks
Aloysius the Organized.
Without further ado, then, here is a pictorial answer key for Friday’s Challenge (followed by step-by-step instructions for the game):
First, notice that I took inventory of my elements, using initials for signifiers. I needed a way to deal with the whole puce/teal/vermilion thing, so I’ve used shapes that I can place into my diagram as [...]
It’s Gamey, Gamey Games Day
For this week’s Friday Challenge, as promised, your game (answers will follow on Monday as usual):
Aloysius is arranging his filing cabinet. He keeps files on the following nine subjects: Feng Shui, gardening, herpetology. Jack the Ripper, Charles Manson, Lee Harvey Oswald, Ludwig Wittgenstein, Xerxes, and Zeno. Each of the nine files is hung in a [...]
