COLORFUL CHALLENGES: Even-Odd Game

Years of work have gone into algorithms and optimizations for two-player perfect-information games such as Chess and Checkers. It is only more recently that serious research has gone into games with imperfect information, such as Bridge, or game with ...

The current issue's new challenge involves the development of two sequence processing algorithms. The naïve challenge solutions require repeated "passes" over the sequence. The problem-solver's challenge is to reduce the number of passes as much as ...