Pigment puzzle

Puzzle Generators and Symmetric Puzzle Layout

We present two abstract models of puzzles, permutation puzzles and cyclic puzzles, which can be modelled as puzzle graphs. Based on these models, we implement two puzzle generators and produce various layouts of the puzzles using graph drawing algorithms. Using these puzzle generators we can create new puzzles. Further, we can create new user interfaces of a puzzle by applying different layout ...

Affine Puzzle

The affine puzzle problem can be formulated as follows: Given a binary image of an object (the template) and another binary image (the observation) containing the fragments of the template, we want to establish the geometric correspondence between these images which reconstructs the complete template object from its parts. The overall distortion is a global nonlinear transformation with the fol...

Subcomparative puzzle

Although crosslinguistic variation in comparatives has been drawing much attention among researchers, the puzzling fact that languages like Japanese and Korean in general impose a ban on subcomparatives remains without satisfactory explanation (see Shimoyama 2012: 103–105). In this paper, I provide a preliminary version of such explanation by capitalizing on the assumption that scalar predicate...

Carromboard Puzzle

There is a table with four coins in the positions north, east, south and west, and the player’s goal is to get them all in the same orientation, i.e. all heads or all tails. The player never sees the coins but will be informed as soon as he has reached his goal. A move consists of the player mentioning one or more positions in which the coins will then be turned over; the complication is that, ...

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