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The Faulty Keypad Safe
I originally encountered this as requiring a pattern that a human could execute without having to memorize a long sequence, even if it made the total number of numbers pressed longer. My solution to c …
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Ten girls around a table
Less rigorous and mathematical, but perhaps more intuitive approach:
(a) note that for each girl,
(b)
(c)
(d) to check the work, go the other way around the circle: