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“Oh, it’s just a trick thing.” – Ben Ames Williams, Coconuts
Here are six puzzles, some of them classics, that don’t look much alike on the surface. After stating them, I’ll give a hint about what they have in common. Then I’ll present solutions that all make use of the same slick trick in one form or another.
Puzzle
A few weeks ago I was minding my own business, peacefully reading a well-written and informative article about artificial intelligence, when I was ambushed by a passage in the article that aroused my pique....
I’m a great believer in low-tech math. I don’t like to rely on things a computer tells me; what if there’s a bug in the code? I prefer trusting things that I can check for myself. At the same time, I’m keenly aware of the limits of my imagination even when it’s aided by paper and pencil. Sometimes I need a computer to show me things I can imagine myself imagining but...