Erik Demaine and Martin Demaine's Puzzles

Erik Demaine and Martin Demaine are big fans of puzzles. Some of our research is on combinatorial games and puzzles. Below are a few puzzles that we designed for fun. You are free to print them out, play with them, and give them away as individual puzzles, but any redistribution must name the puzzle designers (Erik Demaine and Martin Demaine). Also, you need permission before publishing these puzzles in any form.

MIT CSAIL Annual Meeting Puzzles

In what has become a regular event, we give out puzzles each year at our lab's Annual Meeting in July.


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PCOC Play Puzzles

These two puzzles appear in the book PCOC Play, organized by the 2005 Pacific Coast OrigamiUSA Conference and published by OrigamiUSA.

Puzzle 1: Black and White Squares

Puzzle 2: Colored Squares


Last updated June 29, 2008 by Erik Demaine.