13 Dec
2004
13 Dec
'04
3:28 p.m.
There was a recent article in the Economist about the world's "hardest simple sliding-block puzzle." It concerned the Quzzle puzzle. Unfortunately for it, John Conway's Century puzzle is harder. I wrote a column setting the record straight: http://www.maa.org/editorial/mathgames/mathgames_12_13_04.html Ed Pegg Jr.