Last week I posted my first puzzle. I only received one response this week; it was from Calden, whose solution was quite a bit different from mine but which also made plenty of sense. I’ll cover his solution later on; for now, here is the intended solution. As you recall, we have two one-dimensional ropes at [...]

This is the first puzzle in what I hope will be a successful series operating in concert with Calden. This first puzzle is fairly straightforward and was posed by another student at SFL. You are given two one-dimensional ropes. Each rope takes exactly one hour to burn, however the time is not distributed evenly through the [...]

A friend of mine, Calden Wloka, has started an interesting semi-regular feature on his blog — puzzles! I try to participate in as many of these as I can, if only for the entertainment value, but the truth is that I enjoy the challenge and stimulating my disused brain cells. I have decided to pursue [...]