Alexander N. Wilson

Puzzles

Groupdoku

Inspired by the Groupdoku puzzles by David Nacin (and looking for a way to entice my group theory students into reviewing a couple of concepts over spring break), I developed the following puzzle involving taking products in the symmetric group \(S_3\) and understanding its conjugacy classes.
A sudoku-style puzzle with dashed regions representing which elements are in the same conjugacy class.

GenGen

Gengen is a tool for generating KenKen puzzles (no promises that puzzles are solvable or have unique solutions). Because this was made by a couple of college math majors, we included some wonky options like playing on a torus.
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