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Puzzle of $N$ men around a table

This was asked to me by a friend. $N$ men sit around a circular table. Man 1 has a sword with him and he kills the Man 2, Man 3 picks up this sword and kills the next person i.e. Man 4. Thus the man ...
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Six Frogs - Puzzle

I had come across a puzzle: The six educated frogs in the illustration are trained to reverse their order, so that their numbers shall read 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1, with the blank square in its ...
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Puzzle, Permutation and Combination problem?

I have a puzzle here: There are five colored balls: 2 green, 2 blue and 1 yellow Rule 1: All balls of the same color must be adjacent to each other. I wrote a program to find all the ...
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There is a 5 by 5 matrix of points on a plane. How many triangles can be formed using points on this matrix?

There is a 5 by 5 matrix of points on a plane. How many triangles can be formed using points on this matrix?
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When does an orthomorphism of the cyclic group exist?

I thought I would post (as a puzzle) one of my favourite results in combinatorics. I actually use variants of this result in research quite often. It's not impossible that someone will post an ...