Closed Fences

A closed fence in the plane is a set of non-crossing, connected line segments with N corners (3 < N < 200). The corners or vertices are each distinct and are listed in counter-clockwise order in an array {x_i, y

Consider the following two-player game played with a sequence of N positive integers (2 <= N <= 100) laid onto a game board. Player 1 starts the game. The players move alternately by selecting a number from either the left or the right end of the sequence. That number is then deleted from the board, and its value is added to

Farmer John grazes his cows on a large, square field N (2 <= N <= 250) miles on a side (because, for some reason, his cows will only graze on precisely square land segments). Regrettably, the cows have ravaged some of the land (always in 1 mile square increments). FJ needs to map the remaining squares (at least 2x2 on a side) on which his cows can graze (in t

Centuries ago, King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table used to meet every year on New Year's Day to celebrate their fellowship. In remembrance of these events, we consider a board game for one player, on which one chesspiece king and several knight pieces are placed on squares, no two knights on the same square.

This example board is the standard 8x8 ar

In a certain shop, each kind of product has an integer price. For example, the price of a flower is 2 zorkmids (z) and the price of a vase is 5z. In order to attract more customers, the shop introduces some special offers.

A special offer consists of one or more product items together for a reduced price, also an integer. E

Farmer John owns a large number of fences that must be repaired annually. He traverses the fences by riding a horse along each and every one of them (and nowhere else) and fixing the broken parts.

Farmer John is as lazy as the next farmer and hates to ride the same fence twice. Your program must read in a description of a network of fences and tell Farmer John a path to tra

Farmer John has discovered the secret to making the sweetest butter in all of Wisconsin: sugar. By placing a sugar cube out in the pastures, he knows the N (1 <= N <= 500) cows will lick it and thus will produce super-sweet butter which can be marketed at better prices. Of course, he spends the extra money on luxuries for the cows.

FJ is a

Following the success of the magic cube, Mr. Rubik invented its planar version, called magic squares. This is a sheet composed of 8 equal-sized squares:

Farmer John feeds his cows only the finest mixture of cow food, which has three components: Barley, Oats, and Wheat. While he knows the precise mixture of these easily mixable grains, he can not buy that mixture! He buys three other mixtures of the t

Each of five opaque spinning wheels has one or more wedges cut out of its edges. These wedges must be aligned quickly and correctly. Each wheel also has an alignment mark (at 0 degrees) so that the wheels can all be started in a known position. Wheels rotate in the `plus degrees' direction, so that shortly after they start, they pass through 1 degree, 2 degrees