====== Puzzles ======

I like solving puzzles, it's fun and challenging and blah blah blah. Anyway, here are some of the more interesting ones that I've beaten my head against over the past short while. Stars are used to indicate difficulty: //0// (trivial), %%*%% (easy), %%**%% (hard), and %%***%% (very hard).

  * [[puzzles:water]] - an easy one to start with (//0//)
  * [[puzzles:smith]] - harder, but such a beautiful solution (%%**%%)
  * [[puzzles:eggs]] - I'm not sure why, but mathematicians always seem to have it in for eggs (%%**%%)
  * [[puzzles:string]] - this one's great, lots of chances to be off-by-1 or off-by-k (%%*%%)
  * [[puzzles:bear]] - like "Dinner at the Smith's", but easier (//0//)
  * [[puzzles:312211]] - thanks to Nela Cicmil for this one, you will find it either absurdly easy or extremely hard (%%*%%)
  * [[puzzles:cannonballs]] - thanks to Alex Flint for this one, we concocted the variants in discussion over wine and dinner one evening (%%*%%)
  * [[puzzles:cabins]] - some riddles, if you get one you know how to get the rest (%%**%%)
  * [[puzzles:chains]] - another easy one (//0//)
  * [[puzzles:census]] - a nice one while at BCG London (%%*%%)
  * [[puzzles:prisoners]] - not %%***%% only because the solution is so simple, thanks to Alex Flint for this one (%%**%%)