Dan Hoey's posts to rec.puzzles

Date	Subject
March 29, 1989	Weighing 5 balls
March 30, 1989	Weighing 5 balls
December 20, 1989	Old chestnut (spoiler)
December 21, 1989	Old chestnut
April 3, 1990	Pythagorean Problem (SPOILER)
May 18, 1990	Palindromes (was Re: No rhyme or reason - word games ??!!)
August 30, 1990	Rubik Cube Notation for > 3x3x3
September 25, 1990	Finite Automata puzzle
December 11, 1990	Monty Hall problem: a precise statement
December 14, 1990	Swimming pool riddle (SPOILER)
December 14, 1990	Swimming pool riddle (SPOILER) (patch)
December 19, 1990	A new and better digit puzzle
December 20, 1990	Another 10-digit puzzle (no spoilers)
January 8, 1991	An old Math Magazine problem (was Re: A mysterious shell script.)
January 10, 1991	Numbers from 1 to 1,000,000 (corrected)
January 28, 1991	Perfect numbers
February 19, 1991	Correction to which kind
February 25, 1991	CS problems with names
March 22, 1991	Cross-sectional symmetry (was Re: Four ounces)
March 22, 1991	seeing the trees for the forest (correction)
April 9, 1991	Longest minimum path (was word tesselation)
April 9, 1991	Palintuples
April 15, 1991	Palintuples solution
April 15, 1991	NPR Sunday Puzzler
May 8, 1991	Name this property
May 14, 1991	Optimal change and related trivia
May 16, 1991	Optimal change and related trivia
July 10, 1991	GAMES magazine
July 10, 1991	Boxes with same volume and area
July 11, 1991	Help on a Boolean logic problem
July 15, 1991	Stamps spoiler: (was Chris? & Balls & Balances)
July 16, 1991	NPR puzzle
July 22, 1991	Placing tiles in a grid (was: Covering a grid with tiles)
July 24, 1991	A Puzzling Catalyst (Spoiler, but the puzzle continues)
January 2, 1992	Convergent/Divergent series
January 8, 1992	Noughts and crosses
January 9, 1992	Perfect numbers (was 2 things...)
February 12, 1992	"the other is a girl" - a chance to read the rules
February 26, 1992	Go-moku (renju) book.
March 27, 1992	(different) Number puzzle
April 22, 1992	Representing 4 with 7's (was Re: hmmmm)
April 23, 1992	Counting down to 383, hints
April 23, 1992	Rubik's Cube, Speed
May 5, 1992	Counting down to 383, spoiler
May 8, 1992	Triangle/Hexagon Area Ratio (corrected spoiler)
May 8, 1992	Hypercube puzzle
May 20, 1992	Solution of the Tiling Problem.
May 20, 1992	Pseudoshuffle
May 20, 1992	Extension to Perfect Squares
May 20, 1992	Massive logic problem (FAQ, continued)
June 22, 1992	CHOMP
July 14, 1992	Chomp
July 17, 1992	Unavoidable sets of congruences (was The Erdos kitty)
July 23, 1992	Plane Division
July 25, 1992	Digital Invariants (was Number Theory)
August 3, 1992	Gummy Drop-bears (spoilers and discussion)
August 4, 1992	sod.! (was a series problem and answer)
August 4, 1992	Prime of concatenated primes (spoiler)
August 7, 1992	Gummy Snipes (spoiler)
September 25, 1992	Factorization puzzle (many more solutions)
October 7, 1992	Wooden "Puzzles"...
October 16, 1992	Results: Unfolding the tesseract
November 18, 1992	Our favorite series
February 3, 1993	an algorithm for determining the shortest Roman numeral string?
February 3, 1993	word used as its own opposite
February 3, 1993	word used as its own opposite
March 11, 1993	Computer dating (was Re: Computer logic)
July 7, 1993	Floor Tiling
July 8, 1993	Tiling: The Conway Criterion
July 26, 1993	Matching digits (was Re: A puzzle)
October 1, 1993	Folding a strip of stamps
October 5, 1993	Correction Re: Folding a strip of stamps
October 7, 1993	Rare Vintage Whine [ Was Re: squares puzzle (no computer) ]
November 26, 1993	Picking a tiling of the M*N rectangle with dominos
December 16, 1993	Wanted: Rubik's Revenge
December 22, 1993	The 4^3 and 3^4 Rubik puzzles (was Re: Wanted: Rubik's Revenge)
March 11, 1994	More on Marilyn
April 8, 1994	SUMMARY: card shuffling algorithms
May 3, 1994	Digital Invariants (was Factorions)
May 17, 1994	Geometric Construction Puzzle
June 22, 1994	Kaprekar's process (was Re: Help! Pattern Driving Me Nuts!)
July 1, 1994	Rubik Nightmare (a.k.a. Rubik's Revenge)
July 4, 1994	Rubik Nightmare (a.k.a. Rubik's Revenge)
July 12, 1994	COMMON DIVISORS
July 15, 1994	A turn on the carouselsius (Re: Move one digit ...)
July 20, 1994	Game analysis sought
August 26, 1994	Tuition FEES
August 29, 1994	filling the surface with 3,4,6-gons (spoiler and new puzzle)
August 29, 1994	Q: What is FreeCell?
September 2, 1994	physics/milk.and.coffee
September 16, 1994	Instant Insanity
September 19, 1994	POINT PUZZLE
September 19, 1994	Painted cubes
September 19, 1994	4-D puzzles
September 23, 1994	C puzzle
September 30, 1994	An interesting riddle
September 30, 1994	An interesting riddle
October 5, 1994	The Money Pump Paradox
October 5, 1994	8 bishops puzzle from "The 7th Guest"
October 6, 1994	Pudgiest Mobius band
October 11, 1994	Pudgiest Mobius band
October 24, 1994	Rubik's Cube impossible states
October 25, 1994	Rubik's Cube impossible states
October 29, 1994	Rubik's Cube impossible states
December 5, 1994	number theory stuff
December 7, 1994	Dogs Mead
December 8, 1994	Dogs Mead
December 20, 1994	Cube inside other cube
December 23, 1994	Cutting up "nice" 3D objects
December 23, 1994	Cutting up "nice" 3D objects (oops)
December 27, 1994	Cutting up "nice" 3D objects (oops)
January 6, 1995	Heading northwest
January 20, 1995	WE puzzler for 1-15-95 [spoiler]
February 7, 1995	What happened to POSH on NPR?
February 24, 1995	Boodle Phil moiven?
March 7, 1995	Triangle Puzzle
March 7, 1995	Triangle Puzzle (spoiler)
March 7, 1995	Sequence Problem
March 21, 1995	Enigma's Puzzle 1 (SPOILER + quibble puzzle)
March 23, 1995	Enigma's Puzzle 1 (SPOILER + quibble puzzle)
April 11, 1995	Strings
April 20, 1995	aba string problem
May 5, 1995	partial spoiler Re: NPR puzzle for 4-30-95
May 8, 1995	An interesting Moebius band problem
May 12, 1995	integral pythagorean theorem puzzle...
May 15, 1995	More Number Puzzlers [ spoiler ]
June 21, 1995	Washington Post on Statistics in Elementary School
June 26, 1995	A cute counting problem <yaSPOILER>
July 5, 1995	Rubik's cube size of data file
July 7, 1995	NEW SORT METHOD!! FAST!!!!!! NEW??
July 9, 1995	Marlow's Units, Unit One - How? [SPOILER]
July 12, 1995	Rubic's 2x2x2 3x3x3 4x4x4 ... nxnxn virtual cubes
July 19, 1995	Silverman's South American Game
July 20, 1995	tough math puzzle ! ?
July 20, 1995	Cool: WH Smiths. Marvelous people
July 27, 1995	angle trisection
September 11, 1995	NPR puzzle for 9-10-95.
September 15, 1995	In the Bag! (spoiler)
September 20, 1995	cutting sticks - an algorithm?
September 21, 1995	cutting sticks problem (puzzle)
October 29, 1995	4x4x4 Cube (Rubiks Revenge) Solution?
October 29, 1995	Another Tetris puzzle
November 8, 1995	WE puzzle for 11-5-95 (spoiler)
November 16, 1995	Counting rectangles (Spoiler) (was Re: WE puzzle for 11-5-95)
November 17, 1995	Palendromes
November 18, 1995	Addition Problem
December 1, 1995	Smallest dying "life" group?
December 2, 1995	Floating Prism Problem[Spoiler?]
December 3, 1995	Vanishing Leprechaun
December 4, 1995	ASK MARILYN
December 7, 1995	Dense plane-coverings in Conway's "life".
December 8, 1995	ASK MARILYN
December 9, 1995	ASK MARILYN
December 9, 1995	Geoboard squares [spoiler]
December 10, 1995	Checkerboard Problem [more spoilers]
December 10, 1995	Checkerboard Problem [more spoilers]
January 9, 1996	Help wanted for 25 piece cube
January 19, 1996	Doh. Monty hall problem...
January 20, 1996	a puzzle I got for christmas
January 22, 1996	Shortest Electric Cord
January 26, 1996	SPOILER to math puzzle 6
February 2, 1996	picture/design/engineering puzzle
February 4, 1996	update to picture/design/engineering puzzle (corrected spoiler)
February 6, 1996	update to picture/design/engineering puzzle (corrected spoiler)
March 8, 1996	Solubility (was Re: FreeCell)
March 21, 1996	NPR Sunday Puzzle for 17 March
March 26, 1996	NPR puzzle for 3-24-96
March 28, 1996	Programs that output themselves
April 3, 1996	REPOST - the 0-1 necklace puzzle.
April 9, 1996	Geometry problem.
December 10, 1996	Toe-Tac-Tic problem?
December 11, 1996	Toe-Tac-Tic problem?
February 5, 1997	Question about Rubik's Cube Spoiler
February 26, 1997	Segment bisection with compass alone.
March 26, 1997	You're all jealous!!
April 12, 1997	Puzzle : Striking off sticks.
December 15, 1997	How many points (9 different queens...)
January 11, 1998	n-rooks problem , n-bishops problem
January 14, 1998	n-rooks problem , n-bishops problem (rook spoiler)
January 16, 1998	(Oh no!) Still more dice...
January 23, 1998	Nontransitive dice [ repost ]
January 8, 2000	Two Envelopes: One has twice as much money as the other . . .
January 22, 2000	Any one have an apple?
July 10, 2000	Mikero's brainwrenching grid puzzle #4 (June 29, 2000)
July 20, 2000	Mikero's brainwrenching grid puzzle #4 (June 29, 2000)
August 4, 2000	Puzzle: Guards
October 18, 2001	The man in the park
November 16, 2001	Painting a cube
March 22, 2003	Hot Dogs and coin flips
June 18, 2003	random tic-tac-toe
June 29, 2003	four bottles
October 19, 2003	That's a switch!
October 26, 2003	R = PI ohms
October 28, 2003	R = PI ohms
April 2, 2004	How much is Alice worth to Bob?
December 12, 2007	Kinda real-world puzzle
December 13, 2007	Kinda real-world puzzle
December 13, 2007	Uniform Distribution of Points on The Surface of a Sphere
December 20, 2007	Enigma 1446 - Crossed words
February 5, 2008	Enigma 1470 - Dicey dice
February 22, 2008	Enigma 1474 - Nativity places
February 22, 2008	1 3760 (spoiler and worse)
March 11, 2008	Bluffing Androids
March 11, 2008	Poor men paradox
March 14, 2008	Enigma 1475 - Lines of thought
March 17, 2008	Enigma 1475 - Lines of thought
March 19, 2008	SuDoKu
March 26, 2008	Dear Friends, do you know this puzzle, his history and solution?
June 6, 2008	Partition a square into rectangles
July 31, 2008	Hound Catches Rabbit
July 31, 2008	Chess - What's the most non-pawn pieces...?
August 7, 2008	Enigma 1499 - Not quite right
August 10, 2008	Planarity
August 10, 2008	Enigma 1499 - Not quite right
August 15, 2008	A puzzling bedside story
August 15, 2008	A puzzling bedside story
August 18, 2008	Jack Doing Whole Job
August 18, 2008	Partition a square into rectangles
August 18, 2008	Hound Catches Rabbit
August 19, 2008	Hound Catches Rabbit
August 21, 2008	Enigma 1501 - Five sets at Wimbledon
August 27, 2008	(again ?) Skolem-like puzzle sequence
August 27, 2008	Range of a two-variable polynomial
September 2, 2008	Line-Segments In Circle Game
September 25, 2008	Enigma 1505 - Brief N-counter
September 26, 2008	Homework
September 30, 2008	Wind Around Solitaire
September 30, 2008	Wind Around Solitaire
October 1, 2008	Wind Around Solitaire
October 4, 2008	Enigma 1505 - Brief N-counter
November 16, 2008	What power of 3 is closest to a whole number of millions?
November 17, 2008	What power of 3 is closest to a whole number of millions?
September 10, 2009	Sqzuaring the Circle
September 10, 2009	Two numbers
September 13, 2009	Two numbers
December 15, 2009	Integer right triangles
March 1, 2011	Uniqueness of fractional part of square roots.
March 18, 2011	Yet another sequence
March 24, 2011	One Through Nine, With Eight Missing, And Two Ones
March 24, 2011	One Through Nine, With Eight Missing, And Two Ones
March 29, 2011	One Through Nine, With Eight Missing, And Two Ones
March 30, 2011	One Through Nine, With Eight Missing, And Two Ones
March 31, 2011	One Through Nine, With Eight Missing, And Two Ones
August 3, 2011	Sum Of Products, Number Of Numbers Game
August 9, 2011	cotpi 16 - Chessboard of averages
August 16, 2011	cotpi 17 - Pawns
August 19, 2011	Enigma 1654 - Tricky cards
August 19, 2011	Enigma 1654 - Tricky cards
August 22, 2011	cotpi 17 - Product