Here you can find the
and 
descriptions of all the old POTM problems,
along with the 
and some of the best 
submitted. Find out about
the 
used by the participants and who won
the 
prizes. All you gotta do is click ...
and
descriptions of all the old POTM problems,
along with the
and some of the best submitted. Find out about
the used by the participants and who won
the prizes. All you gotta do is click ...
| 10/2K: SUITCASE won by Alex Huysegoms | Fit an item into a suitcase |
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| 05/2K: PAHTUM won by Gunnar Andersson | Place X's and O's on a board to form lines |
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| 12/99: WORDSEARCH won by Jaco Cronje | Find words in a grid of letters |
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| 09/99: POWERSAW won by Pavel Ouvarov and Frederic van der Plancke | Cut a board into equal size pieces |
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| 05/99: MOO won by Frederic van der Plancke | Guess the word I'm thinking of |
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| 12/98: QUILTS won by Ben Nye | Construct a quilt from multi-colored squares |
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| 6/98: SCENIC TOUR won by Chad Hurwitz | Find the shortest and longest paths across a terrain map |
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| 2/98: ELBONIA LOTTERY won by Doug Jones | Buy minimum number of tickets to guarantee a win in a 7-ball lottery |
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| 10/97: INVERSE BOGGLE won by Tim Ruhl | fit as many words as possible into a 5x5 square using Boggle rules |
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| 06/97: SHOWDOWN was a tie between Mike Anderson and Don Kirkby | head-to-head competition to reach the opponents home base |
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| 04/97: PEGGED won by Gerhard Lutz | a peg-jumping game - remove all the pegs from the board |
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| 12/96: RESET won by the team of Bill Burley and Arthur Goldstein | making your odometer show all different numbers |
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| 08/96: AIMLESS won by Mihai Badoiu | wander through a 10 story building and try to go everywhere |
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| 04/96: CROZZLE won by Franz Korntner | create a crossword puzzle from a word list |
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| 01/96: KNIGHTCRAWLER won by Chad Hurwitz | traveling salesman and a knight's tour |
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| 09/95: CHOMP won by Andre Wilhelmus | programs compete against each other to eat cookies from a checkerboard |
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| 05/95: LOYD won by Stan Peijffers | solve a sliding number pocket puzzle |
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| 01/95: PRIME TIME won by Allan WIlks | find prime numbers in a boggle-square |
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| 09/94: SEND MORE MONEY won by Bill Tanenbaum | solve word addition problems by substituting numbers for letters |
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| 06/94: SHUFFLE, CUT, AND FLIP won by Jim Roche | unshuffle a deck of cards |
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| 03/94: SCRABBLE SQUARE won by Neil Weinstock | make words from scrabble letters |
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| 01/94: BOXING MATCH won by Palith Balakrishnabati | programs compete to capture area in the playing area |
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| 10/93: ODOMETER FUN won by Vincent Goffin | make a straight from your odometer |
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| 08/93: MR. NOISE won by Scott Kennedy | spellchecker for numbers |
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| 06/93: CATS AND DOGS won by Julius Collins | change a letter at a time to change one word to another |
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| 03/93: AMAZING MAZE won by Debbie Brown | solve a maze in the shortest number of moves |
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| 01/93: NUMBERS GAME won by David Thomson | programs compete to subtract numbers without reaching zero |
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There were a few before 1993 ... when the contest was very local. But I'm holding these back since I may end up using them in the future!