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Schedule
Art
Neil Calkin — Constructing the Dodecahedral Trail
Erik D. Demaine, Martin L. Demaine — Folding Martin Gardner
Robert W. Fathauer — Fractal Trees
Gwen Fisher, Florence Turnover — Infinity Bead
Akio Hizume — Quasi-Crystal Pavilion
Masayoshi Iwai — My Fractal Tool
Margaret Kepner — Quilt 100
Robert J. Lang — Hyperbolic Crane
Hilarie K. Orman — It’s Not Music, It’s Theory
Robert Sandfield — Anti-G
Craig Swanson — Perspicuity: Cartoons
Arthur T Terlep — ‘Twas the Night before Gardner
Zdravko Zivkovic — Gathering for Gardner 10
Games
Jerry Butters — Another Chess Mystery of Sherlock Holmes
Alda Carvalho — Portuguese Championship of Mathematical Games
Barry Cipra — Factor Subtractor
Jason Colwell — Borders
Jeremiah Farrell — The Seaborgium Chemical Table
Andrea Hawksley — Non-Euclidean Board Games
Hirokazu Iwasawa — Let’s Play a Concentration Game with a Few Cards
Yoshiyuki Kotani — Computer Shogi
Ivan Moscovich — The Story of “THE GRASSHOPPING GAME”
Thane Plambeck — The Secrets of Notakto: Winning at X-Only Tic-Tac-Toe
Ayelet Pnueli — Quasimino – Playing Dominos on (almost) The Penrose Tiles
Burkard Polster — 2 x ribbon spread turnover = 1 x tractrix racer
Robert P. Schneider and Cyrus Hettle — Al – Jabar; A Mathematical Game of Strategy
Aaron N. Siegel — Some New Combinatorial Games
Jorge Nuno Silva — 4G4G4G10 – Four Games for G4G10
Henry Strickland — TerseTalk; An Android App for Programming Recreational Maths
Jim Wilder — The Domino Effect (An Elementary Look at the Kruskal Count)
Magic
Anthony Barnhart — So Many Presentations, So Little Time!
Jeremiah Farrell, Connor Hofmeister — Ten Card Magic Spell
Louis H. Kauffman — 10 MatheMagics for G4G10; In Between Magic and Topology
Doron Levy — So you want to become a magician…
Math
Thomas Banchoff — A Ten-Cell Ornament
Steve Butler — Backwards addition
Steve Butler, Ron Graham, Richard Strong — Collapsing numbers in bases 2, 3, and beyond
Tim Chartier — Chocolate Chip Pi
Tim Chartier — Vanish Building
Lacey Echols, Jeremiah Farrell, William Johnston — Representations of the 10 Geometric (10,3) Triangular Configurations
Lew Goldklang — Clouds in My Coffee / Pattern Recognition
Bill Gosper, Julian Ziegler Hunts — Strange Series for Sierpinski’s Gasket
Bruce McLean — The Bicolored Hexahexaflexagon
John Miller — What Shape is a Tree?
Robert Orndorff — Folded Cookies for a Skeptic
Jaap Scherphuis — Pentagon Tilings
Carlo H. Séquin — A 10-Dimensional Jewel
Carlo H. Séquin — The Regular Hendecahedron
Toshihiro Shirakawa — Harmonic Magic Square
Jorge Nuno Silva — Recreational Math Colloquium
Robert Wainwright — Generic Numerical Challenges
Scott Wang — An Intergalactic Franchise War
John J. Watkins — T2 TEN T2
Puzzles
Zachary Abel — A “Stressful” Puzzle
Adam Atkinson — Four semi-chestnuts
George Bell — Lominoes for G4GX
George Bell — More Icosahedron Puzzles
Laurie Brokenshire — G4GX Knight’s (GG’s!) Tour
M. Oskar van Deventer — Out of the Box
M. Oskar van Deventer — Developing the “Over the Top”
Lacey Echols — Tourmaline; A Gem of a Gem
Frans de Vreugd — Trick-opening cricket boxes from China
Noam Elkies — Word Rectangle
Yossi Elran — Retrolife – revisited
Andrea Gilbert, Robert Abbott — The Stepping-Stone Maze A “Self Writing” Multi-State Maze
Darren Glass — A Chip-Firing Puzzle on Graphs
Markus Götz — Two-Minute-Folding-Puzzle
Jean-Marc Haché — Real-World Applications of Twisty Puzzles
George Hart — 12 Card Star Puzzle
George Hart — Rubber Bandzzles: Three Mathematical Puzzle Art Challenges
Frederick Henle — Clueless Word Puzzles
Carl Hoff — Untouchable 11
Kate Jones — Bowties
Tanya Khovanova — Tricky Arithmetic
Peter Knoppers — 10 x 1 in a cube
David Lawrence — Puzzles with Hidden Sines
David Leschinsky — Eureka!’s Cross‐reference to Mathematical Thinking
Anany Levitin — Three Variations on the G4G10 Theme
Oded Margalit — IBM Research Challenge Corner – Ponder This
Chris Morgan — Square and Pentagon
Harold Raizer — Stewart Coffin Design #225
Philip Riley and Laura Taalman — Sudoku Variation Puzzles from Brainfreeze Puzzle Books
Ira Sager — Ponder This
Norman L. Sandfield — TEN-Piece Dissection for Martin
Karl Schaffer — Gwen’s 65 Puzzle
Les Shader, Bryan Shader & Lynne Ipiña — 3 LIGHTS OUT Puzzles for G4G10
Jerry Slocum — Quintet in F Puzzle
Hideki Tsuiki — Imaginary Cubes H and T
Ryuhei Uehara — Cross Checker Paper Folding Puzzle
Ryuhei Uehara — (Im)possible Origami Puzzle
Colin Wright — The Mutilated Chess Board
Science
Duane A. Bailey — A Porous Aperiodic Decagon Tile
Robert P. Crease — Critical Point Fruitloopery
Chen Danyang — Fads and Fallacies in the Name of Science and Pseudosciences in China
Richard D. Dunlap — Puzzles as a Recruiting Tool
Douglas A. Engel — A Simple Time Machine
Rik van Grol — Virtual Mechanical Puzzles
Simon Nightingale — Doodles; Benefits to Psychology, Mathematics, Teaching, Graphology, and Metagrobology
Scott Sherman — Flex Theory
Daniel J. Simons — Monkeying Around with the Gorillas in Our Midst: Familiarity with anInternational-Blindness Task does not Improve the Detection of Unexpected Events
David Wayne — Cyclic Paths Inside Platonic Shells