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Make: Technology on Your Time Volume 06
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Make: Technology on Your Time Volume 06

by Mark Frauenfelder
May 2006
Intermediate to advanced
224 pages
6h 55m
English
Make: Community
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AHA! Puzzle ThisBy Michael H. Pryor

MAKE’s favorite puzzles. (When you’re ready to check your answers, visit makezine.com/06/aha.)

Coins on the Table

Your roommate challenges you to a game with the quarters from each of your sock drawers. Whoever wins the game gets to keep all the money. (Assume you each have an unlimited supply of quarters.)

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Illustrations by Roy Doty

You sit down at the perfectly round kitchen table and each person takes a turn, placing a quarter down anywhere on the table. No quarters can overlap and the entire quarter must rest on the table surface. The first person that can’t put a quarter down on the table loses. You each ...

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