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.

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

I’ve been quiet lately, because I have been working hard on transitioning to a new web host provider. I am sure there will be a few posts about that once the dust has settled. Hopefully any down time during the transition will be kept to a minimum. If I did have spare time, I wouldn’t […]

1. What colour was the Lone Ranger’s white horse?
2. Who’s buried in Grant’s Tomb?
3. Who wrote Gray’s Anatomy?

Here’s a real life puzzle that I haven’t solved yet; how to choose lollies to maximise distance between flavour repetitions.

Can you come up with two different words (spelling irrelevant but different meanings) which are pronounced exactly the same except that the “th” sound is voiced in one and not in the other?

In what direction does the sun set?

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.

Imagine a site that provides a common first name, and you and your friends try to guess who the highest page-ranked person of that name is.

In response to a few questions, I will attempt to explain the heart of my meta-gaming issue in more detail with an example from Hitori.