Add to ORKGIn the February 1970 Word Ways, Walter Penney\u27s cryptographic Puzzle 1 asked the reader to determine the order of a set of cards bearing letters after a single shuffle, if the original order and the new order resulting from two identical shuffles were given. The solution, with its reference to trial-and-error, was rather unsatisfactory. In this short note, we suggest a more systematic approach to such problems
The crux of a card trick performed with a deck of cards usually depends on understanding how shuffle...
In the articles on Magic Spells (Word Ways, Feb and May 2010) it was proposed that tricks could be...
The mystery of magic and the artistry of juggling have surprising links to interesting ideas in math...
Summary. We present an overview of different approaches to define shuffles and synchro-nized shuffle...
Diane sat quietly, watching the evening sunlight speckle through the trees. It would be pretty, she...
An intention of MapReduce Sets for Shuffling expressions analysis has to suggest criteria how Shuffl...
There are many ways to shuffle a card deck, but one particularly interesting way is what’s known as ...
Listed below are 34 kinds of word puzzles, games and curiosities, each one in scrambled form. Your ...
C. Greene (J. Combin. Theory Ser. A 47 (1988), 126-131) studied a family of lattices denoted m,n. In...
The card-cyclic-to-random shuffle is the card shuffle where the n cards arc labeled 1,...,n accordin...
The shuffle operation on strings is a fundamental operation, well studied in the theory of formal la...
Problem: From a doubled set of 21 different letters, to form 7 six-letter words such that any two ta...
International audienceA word u is a shuffle of words v and w, which we denote by u ∈ v⧢w, if u can b...
Abstract. We consider a general shuffling operation for finite and infinite words which is not neces...
Solutions to these puzzles can be found in Answers and Solutions at the end of this issue
The crux of a card trick performed with a deck of cards usually depends on understanding how shuffle...
In the articles on Magic Spells (Word Ways, Feb and May 2010) it was proposed that tricks could be...
The mystery of magic and the artistry of juggling have surprising links to interesting ideas in math...
Summary. We present an overview of different approaches to define shuffles and synchro-nized shuffle...
Diane sat quietly, watching the evening sunlight speckle through the trees. It would be pretty, she...
An intention of MapReduce Sets for Shuffling expressions analysis has to suggest criteria how Shuffl...
There are many ways to shuffle a card deck, but one particularly interesting way is what’s known as ...
Listed below are 34 kinds of word puzzles, games and curiosities, each one in scrambled form. Your ...
C. Greene (J. Combin. Theory Ser. A 47 (1988), 126-131) studied a family of lattices denoted m,n. In...
The card-cyclic-to-random shuffle is the card shuffle where the n cards arc labeled 1,...,n accordin...
The shuffle operation on strings is a fundamental operation, well studied in the theory of formal la...
Problem: From a doubled set of 21 different letters, to form 7 six-letter words such that any two ta...
International audienceA word u is a shuffle of words v and w, which we denote by u ∈ v⧢w, if u can b...
Abstract. We consider a general shuffling operation for finite and infinite words which is not neces...
Solutions to these puzzles can be found in Answers and Solutions at the end of this issue
The crux of a card trick performed with a deck of cards usually depends on understanding how shuffle...
In the articles on Magic Spells (Word Ways, Feb and May 2010) it was proposed that tricks could be...
The mystery of magic and the artistry of juggling have surprising links to interesting ideas in math...