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Breaking old seeds is probably not too big a deal since the game is currently in early access, and the biweekly patches mean that seeds are already pretty inconsistent. For example…

Random thing I ran into while trying to seed search for a challenge run, but since the seed is passed through a 32-bit hash function it means there's effectively only 4 billion see…

The trick for Scenarios 2 and 3 is that most of the constraints don't end up being bottlenecks. For example in Scenario 2, well-connected pretty much always gets satisfied while do…

The tricky thing is the code for making decisions runs locally on the contestants machine, so the first time they submit they can record the sequence locally and compute the best s…

Nice to see another participant's thinking process for the puzzles! I ended up getting 5th place using dynamic programming for all of the scenarios, but I'm under the impression th…

You can check the diff on the file wordlist_hidden here: https://github.com/alex1770/wordle/commit/85c4a7e6

I could see it being handy to estimate probability where each word is to better inform each guess. The tricky thing is I'm not sure if each run of wave function collapse (with rand…

Good catch! I didn't know about this, I'll update the footnote. Anecdotally everyone I know was very surprised by KEFIR the other day.

Yeah, I really like the sorting formulation! I didn't notice until after I'd written out the intended solution, but it's basically radix sort going from most significant to least s…

Before publishing I found this while trying to see if there was a already a riddle like it out there (closest I could find was the 1000 barrels of wine riddle mentioned at the begi…

I originally set it up like that, but felt having to explain that you need to subtract 2000 before doing the binary conversion was unnecessary and kind of distracting

Good catch, corrected the formula!

That's really cool! I tried to get something to work last week on pen and paper but couldn't get anything to stick. Is there a strategy you used or did you just go by feel? Edit: j…

Yeah, it's in the last image and in the thumbnail at very top (which I realize now is really hard to spot on mobile), intentionally not in the spotlight to leave space for the twis…

I'm by no means a parenting expert, but my answer would be anything related to something they feel passion or wonder for in the moment. I snuck in a paragraph near the end about bu…

Thanks Cliff, it means a ton coming from you! The videos from you and all the other folks on Numberphile always inspired me to see the beauty in math growing up :)

The post presents it a bit out of order, but it was mostly from realizing at some point that the way the fractal grows by a factor of 5, base 5 number systems, and the "spiral" men…