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### The universal ticket

Update: Honing in the parameters allowed for a score of 153. This is much closer than I expected to get to the 165 mentioned on the website. original: I decided to go for a brute force approach and ...
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### Checkmate N Kings with M Knights

50 Kings,14 Knights: This is optimal but not unique, see bottom of this answer. Reasoning: I think the problem is equivalent to covering every square on the board with as few knights as possible and ...
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### Checkmate N Kings with M Knights

This seems like it could be optimal [Edit: it is not - see loopy walt's answer]: 16 knights, and 48 kings.

### The universal ticket

Very unlikely to be optimal, but got to 120 on my first go: Approach: mess around with the problem until it becomes clear that connectivity of the squares will be the main problem. invent glue, ...
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### The longest path of edges on a 3x3 grid

I believe I have the solution for the general $n \times n$: For even $n \geq 4$: For odd $n \geq 3$: For completeness, $n=2$ is a special case, which can be solved like so:
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### The longest path of edges on a 3x3 grid

I think the highest number of edges you can visit is Reasoning Example
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### Checkmate 30 kings with rooks

This just gives a lower bound on what the best solution could be. For a black king to be in mate, all neighboring fields must be either threatened or blocked and the field where the king is must be ...
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### Checkmate 30 kings with rooks

Here's a solution with 11 rooks and 1 king: kkkRkkRk/2kRkkRk/R1kkkkkk/2k2Rk1/k1k1R1k1/k4Rk1/kRkk3R/kR1kkk1K b - - 0 1 https://lichess.org/editor/kkkRkkRk/2kRkkRk/R1kkkkkk/2k2Rk1/k1k1R1k1/k4Rk1/kRkk3R/...
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### Checkmate 30 kings with rooks

Another solution with 12 rooks and 3 kings: FEN: k1RR1k1K/kkkkkk2/RRkkRRk1/kkkkkk2/k1RRk2K/kkkkk1K1/RRkkR3/kkk1Rk2 w - - 0 1
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### Checkmate 30 kings with rooks

Solution with 12 rooks and 3 kings: https://lichess.org/editor/K1k2Rkk/2kkkRk1/1kRRkkk1/2kkkkRR/K1kkRkk1/3kRkkk/1KRk1kRk/1R1kkkRk_w_-_-_0_1 There are some trivial modifications to add 2 checkmated ...
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### Checkmate 30 kings with rooks

Here is a solution with 1 king, 13 rooks. It feels like it might be possible to remove one rook with a few adjustments, but I haven't achieved this after hours of shuffling pieces around. For a ...
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### Checkmate 30 kings with rooks

To kick things off, here is a solution with 1 white king and 14 white rooks. I have a feeling this could be tweaked to remove a rook by adding some more kings, but haven't quite managed yet.

### Multi-colored polyominoes inside a 7x7 grid

An obvious upper bound for the maximum number of distinct shapes is $2+4+4=10$, and...
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### Multi-colored polyominoes inside a 7x7 grid

Here is a solution in which the red and green do not touch.
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### Multi-colored polyominoes inside a 7x7 grid

I think this would work as a possibility
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### Fitting pentominoes inside a 10x10 grid

Rob Pratt beat me to it, but I'll post anyway because my computer found a couple of other solutions to the bonus question. I used my own program to solve it. I ran it overnight, and after 15 hours it ...
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### Fitting pentominoes inside a 10x10 grid

Bonus: I used integer linear programming as follows. Introduce binary decision variable $x_p$ for each possible placement of a pentomino in the grid. Let binary decision variable $y_{ij}$ indicate ...
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### Fitting pentominoes inside a 10x10 grid

As a quick baseline solution: Bonus: (Edit) I also found a nice symmetric solution for the first question: I wonder what Hexomino's solution is...
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### Four pipes on a 8x8 grid

Assuming you pick all 8 start/end points and then all the pipes get laid: I think I've got but not sure if I can prove it's the shortest possible route, with these starting points:
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### Four pipes on a 8x8 grid

Do you need to select all four pairs of cells before the workers start, then they pick paths that minimize the total number of sections used across all four pipes? Or can you select one pair, they ...
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### The Game of Golden Squares

I've achieved tiles, and can prove that this is the optimal solution. Reasoning: Golly 4.0+ pastable RLE of this solution: ...
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### The Game of Golden Squares

While I cannot beat loopywalt's answer, my construction got just over halfway there. I'm posting it in case it sparks ideas for better constructions.
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### The Game of Golden Squares

I can get up to How do:
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