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More Catching of Cats
After my first puzzle on this theme was solved relatively quickly, here is a (trickier) follow up question in the same vein!
The setup is similar - you are in a room with an infinite line of boxes, ...
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Catching a Cat on an infinite Line
Upon entering a (very) large room, you are faced with an infinite line of cardboard boxes that are labeled, in order, by the nonnegative integers. In one of these boxes, a cat is hiding, but you do ...
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Catch the invisible and omniscient thief
The thief has stolen two powerful artifacts: the Cloak of Invisibility and the Glasses of the Oracle. Now they're equipped with both. The cop at the bottom, not knowing where the thief is, is trying ...
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Police and Thieves
I played this game when I was young, but cannot find it online. It is played on a checkers board (e.g. the black squares of a chess board) between two players P and T. The game goes as follows:
P ...
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1 lion, with a zebra and a fixed enclosure
Background
See the puzzle Variant of lion and 100 zebras from @ghosts-in-the-code which remains unsolved years after it was posted.
Several times in the last couple of years I've started to write up ...
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Lions and Zebras on a Chess Board
The black knight is our lion chasing 8 white bishop zebras which can't capture. Can the zebras evade the lion forever, if team zebra positions all the pieces and has the first turn?
Rules:
The game ...
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Game against the Devil
While browsing through S.E you notice a spider crawl right out from under your keyboard! Startled, you twitch your hand and left clicked your mouse. You look up in shock as you notice that you just ...
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Precision Tag - can the lion win?
This is a spin-off motivated by Lopsy's interesting variant of Gamow's lion and zebras puzzle. It arose from a line of enquiry that tried to extend the vertical run past 5000km (or characterise the ...
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Variant of lion and 100 zebras
Note: This problem remains unsolved, as of 19 April 2020, so do try it out. 400 rep bounty guaranteed for a correct answer
This a variation of this question by @Gamow
Suppose there are $100$ lions ...
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The lion and the zebras II: The lion with millimeter-long claws
This is a variant of this excellent question. The rules of the lion-zebra hunger games are exactly the same:
The lion plays a deadly game against a group of 100 zebras that takes
place in the ...
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The lion and the zebras
The lion plays a deadly game against a group of 100 zebras that takes place in the steppe (= an infinite plane).
The lion starts in the origin with coordinates $(0,0)$, while the 100 zebras may ...
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Chasing pirates
You are asleep on your boat on open sea. When you wake up you discover you have been robbed. A quick inspection of security cam footage reveals that the pirates who robbed you left your ship exactly ...