beetles

Beetles

2 June, 2018 Fun & games in the working 0

The workings Today’s Divertimento fills our blog with beetles, bugs that for me are more literary than real. I remember reading Edgar Allan Poe’s The Golden Beetle (1843) when I was eleven or twelve, and […]

Solution: Beetles

1 June, 2018 Fun & games in the working 0

We publish the solution to the Beetles divertimento. This problem was proposed by Jean-Paul Delahaye, based on an earlier problem popularised by Peter Winkler. The fun Nine beetles are placed in a circular loop whose […]