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Celebration Of Mind Puzzle-Game, Jeremiah Farrell

Scholarship and Professional Work - LAS

Each different letter of "Celebration of Mind" is used exactly three times in the following words: ACE, BAM, BID, BLT (the sandwich), CON, FEN, FIT, MIC (microphone or 1099), OLD, RAN, ELM, RFD (rural free delivery), ROT.

Two Games Displayed By Butler’S 2017 Celebration Of Mind, Jeremiah Farrell

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Jeremiah's two games displayed by Butler's 2017 Celebration of Mind.

Some Curious Cut-Ups, Jeremiah Farrell, Ivan Moscovich

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We have noticed a certain kind of n-gon dissection into triangles that has a wonderful property of interest to most puzzlists. Namely that any two triangles have at least one edge in common yet no two triangles need be congruent. In an informal poll of specialists at a recent convention, none of them saw immediately how this could be accomplished. But in fact it is very straightforward.

Cube Mentalism, Jeremiah Farrell, Ivan Moscovich

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Our tour of multidimensional cubes begins with the marking of the eight comers of a 3-cube with the eight words HOT, POT, POD, HOD, HAD, HAT, PAT, and PAD. The figure below shows how these eight inherit the labels of the HOT-PAD).die where the letter H is opposite P, the letter O is opposite T and the letter T is opposite the letter D...

Farrell's Spider, Jeremiah Farrell, Ivan Moscovich

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Puzzle game featured in Ivan Moscovich's magnetic puzzle pack:

Place the 18 discs on the web so that the sum of the numbers on each of the three hexagons and on each of the three ribs equals 57.

Martin Gardner = Mint! Grand! Rare!, Jeremiah Farrell

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Jeremiah Farrell's contirbution to "The Mathemagician and Pied Puzzler: A Collection in Tribute to Martin Gardner"

Related works:

The puzzle from figure one is also available in Colloquy (Wordways 14,2) online at: http://digitalcommons.butler.edu/wordways/vol14/iss2/8/

Election Day Puzzle, 1996, Jeremiah Farrell

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Jeremiah Farrell's famous 1996 Election Day Puzzle. The puzzle was released the day before the results of the election were announced and the answer to 39 across could have been either CLINTON or BOBDOLE.