ball pit
Math

How many balls in the urn?

Probability ; Difficulty: medium How many balls in the urn? This week’s Riddler Classic is a statistical parameter estimation exercise. The Classic reproduced: This week’s Classic may seem nonsensical at

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log
Math

Quantum Grasshopper

Probability ; Difficulty: hard Can you catch the Grasshopper? This week’s Riddler Classic features a grasshopper whose position on a log is only probabilistically determined (a quantum grasshopper?). The Classic

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desert
Math

Escaping the Desert

Pobability; Difficulty: easy A Sandy Puzzle The Riddler Classic from this week (Jun 3rd, 2022) at first glance might appear to be a geometry /alegbra/calculus problem; but is a straightforward

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