In the board game "Risk," you are dealt cards that come in one of three varieties. What are your chances of being dealt three cards of the same variety or all different varieties?| thefiddler.substack.com
The New York Times has a game in which you navigate between letters around a square, never visiting the same side twice in a row. How many paths can you make through all the letters?| thefiddler.substack.com
You’re shown random numbers one at a time, and you must guess how each next number will compare to the previous one: Will it be higher or lower? How do your chances of prediction evolve?| thefiddler.substack.com
A casino offers vouchers for an even-money game. What’s the most you can earn in guaranteed winnings? What’s the most you have at least a 50-50 chance of winning?| thefiddler.substack.com
You’d like to share an embrace. You just don’t want to be caught on camera.| thefiddler.substack.com
Place a unit square in a larger square region. If you do this cleverly, how large a region can you have such that you can’t add any more unit squares? What if you initially place three unit squares?| thefiddler.substack.com
What’s the fewest pins needed to break 100? And if two players knock over the same number of pins, what’s their greatest possible difference in score?| thefiddler.substack.com
The following problem is from the Fiddler (the “spiritual successor to FiveThirtyEight’s The Riddler column”), involving the game of tenpin bowling with traditional scoring: If yo…| Possibly Wrong
