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Mathematical writing · The Fiddler: Solutions

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117 chapters. Puzzles are from Zach Wissner-Gross's Fiddler on the Proof, reproduced with attribution; all solutions are my own.

  1. 1Can You Swim With the Fishes?
  2. 2Can You Frame the Triangle?
  3. 3Can You Swap the Cups?
  4. 4Can You Cheat on the Quiz?
  5. 5Can You Win at Asymmetric Bingo?
  6. 6Can You Spell Like a Queen Bee?
  7. 7How Far Can You Roll?
  8. 8Camp Algebra
  9. 9How Lucky Can a Baseball Team Get?
  10. 10Can You Sneak Past the Rings?
  11. 11Can You Win the World Cup?
  12. 12Can You Power up the Hill?
  13. 13Can You Fit the Stars on the Flag?
  14. 14Can You Tile the Hexagon?
  15. 15Can You Fix the Random Number Generator?
  16. 16Can You Catch the Longest Wave?
  17. 17Can You Infer the Color of Your Hat?
  18. 18Can You Spot the Sheep?
  19. 19The Ant Goes Marching
  20. 20Can You Play Hide-and-Seek?
  21. 21Can You Drink the “Random-ade”?
  22. 22Can You Hop Around the Chessboard?
  23. 23Will You Be Right on Time?
  24. 24Have You Heard the Buzz?
  25. 25Can You Number the Number Cubes?
  26. 26Can You Rile and Grace the Polyhedron?
  27. 27Can You Pile the Primes?
  28. 28Can You Trace the Locus?
  29. 29Can You or “Cantor” You Find the Distance?
  30. 30Can You Shovel the Snow?
  31. 31Can Every Day Be First?
  32. 32Can the Archers Coordinate?
  33. 33Can You Get the Rover Home?
  34. 34How Long Is the All-Star Streak?
  35. 35Can You Hop in a Spiral?
  36. 36Bingo!
  37. 37Can You Brighten Up the Room?
  38. 38Some Coffee With Your Tea?
  39. 39Can You Topple the Tower?
  40. 40Can You Fling the Fractal Darts?
  41. 41Can You Take the Heat?
  42. 42A Loopy Holiday Gift Exchange
  43. 43Can You Irrigate the Garden?
  44. 44The Randy Hall Problem
  45. 45How Much Does Game 1 Matter?
  46. 46Will the Odds Be Ever in Your Favor?
  47. 47Can You Reach the Edge of the Square?
  48. 48Let’s Make a Tic-Tac-Deal!
  49. 49When Will You Cross Your Path?
  50. 50Can You Take a “Risk”?
  51. 51Can Your Team Self-Organize?
  52. 52Can You Box the Letters?
  53. 53How Low (or High) Can You Go?
  54. 54How Far Can You Run Before Sundown?
  55. 55How Much Free Money Can You Win?
  56. 56Can You Canoodle at the Coldplay Concert?
  57. 57Can You Squeeze the Squares?
  58. 58Can You Sprint to the Finish?
  59. 59Can You Meet Me at the Mall?
  60. 60Can You Hack Bowling?
  61. 61The Dozo Board and the Fifty Stars
  62. 62Can You Crack the Roman Code?
  63. 63How Greedily Can You Mow the Lawn?
  64. 64Can You Race Against Zeno?
  65. 65Can You Squeeze the Bubbles?
  66. 66Can You Weave the Web?
  67. 67How Long Is the River?
  68. 68Can You Permeate the Pyramid?
  69. 69Can You Sweep the Series?
  70. 70How Many Rides Can You Reserve?
  71. 71Can You See Between the Trees?
  72. 72Can You Throw the Hammer?
  73. 73Can You Grow a Hibiscus Hedge?
  74. 74A High Schooler’s Favorite Puzzle
  75. 75Can You Root for the Underdog?
  76. 76Can You Play the Favorite?
  77. 77A Pi Day Puzzle
  78. 78Can You Tip the Dominoes?
  79. 79How Many Rabbits Can You Pull out of a Hat?
  80. 80Can You Defend Your Trivia Knowledge?
  81. 81Can You Squeeze the Heart?
  82. 82Can You Bounce a Ball Like an AI?
  83. 83Can You Spin the Graph?
  84. 84Can You Hop to the Lily Pad?
  85. 85Can You Break the Bell Curve?
  86. 86Can You Survive Squid Game (Season 2)?
  87. 87Can You Squeeze the Sheets?
  88. 88Can You Survive “The Floor”?
  89. 89Can You Squeeze the Particles Into the Box?
  90. 90Did xkcd Get Its Math Right?
  91. 91Can You Fold the Hexagon?
  92. 92Where Will the Sorting Hat Put You?
  93. 93Can You Solve the Tricky Mathematical Treat?
  94. 94Can You Make the Biggest Bread Bowl?
  95. 95How Many Dice Can You Roll the Same?
  96. 96Can You Win at “Rock, Paper, Scissors, Lizard, Spock”?
  97. 97Can You Make a Toilet Paper Roll?
  98. 98Can You Shut the Box?
  99. 99Can You Turn a Right Triangle Into an Isosceles Triangle?
  100. 100Round, Round, Get a Round, I Get a Round
  101. 101How High Can You Jump?
  102. 102Can You Hack Gymnastics?
  103. 103Can You Even the Odds?
  104. 104Can You Catch the Breakaway?
  105. 105Can You Find a Matching Pair of Socks (Again)?
  106. 106Can You Pack the Circles?
  107. 107Can You Ace the Technical Interview?
  108. 108Can You Win at Non-Traditional Blackjack?
  109. 109When Is a Triangle Like a Circle?
  110. 110Can You Solve a High Schooler’s Favorite Puzzle?
  111. 111Can You Beat the Heats?
  112. 112Can You Play ‘The Price Is Right’ Continuously?
  113. 113Can You Win the Collaborative Card Game?
  114. 114Can You Eclipse via Ellipse?
  115. 115Can You Paint by Number?
  116. 116Can You Pour the Water?
  117. 117Can You Survive March Madness?