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Folded Cards

Erratum on Mon, 1/16/23, 9:23 AM UTC: For this puzzle only, index into all non-space characters when you are indexing into a string.

Erratum on Mon, 1/16/23, 11:54 AM UTC: The sudoku mini-puzzle has changed. The previous erratum is now redacted. You should no longer index into any non-alpha characters.

We had to reject these numbered cards.


Hash Browns

There's somewhere between 3 and 256 (lowercase) hash browns concatenated here. What's at the end of the hash?

  • Something roasted over an open fire (8)
  • Cash crop used to make clue 5 (5)
  • Borough that's also a cocktail (9)
  • Long-ranged golf club (4)
  • Dessert made from clue 2 (9)

List of Primes

I took this hard puzzle from a famous mathematician.

Problem ?: Are there infinitely many primes of the form n2 + 1 for integer n?


MIT's Weekly Math Seminars

I think I took this picture in building 2…


Sudoku

There can't just be one solution.

Sussy Baka

Some of these characters don't seem like they are from anime…


Wow!

No wonder this puzzle got scrapped, the author made so much up.

  • Wow! I didn't know that the main train is blue on the Isle of Man!
  • Wow! I didn't know that there's a whole district dedicated to fishing in the United States!
  • Wow, I didn't know that there are electrically-lit gymnasiums in the Tristate Area!
  • Wow! I didn't know that all talking snowmen like warm hugs and have the same number of buttons in Norway!
  • Wow, I didn't know that a mushroom lost blue coins on a volcano in Amalfi Bay!