I have not written to this group in 4-5 years. Am still on J402 (I think), and have not fired it up in years.
(many reasons, none really good, but, that's life) Never-the-less, Krypto captured my attention. I ask, is it possible to "deal" a Krypto hand that cannot be solved? I think so, and posit, a prime "objective card", and the remaining five, even numbers. Can someone please critique my query & self-response ? Thanks. Dick Penny ----- Original Message ----- From: "Roger Hui" <rogerhui.can...@gmail.com> To: "Programming forum" <programm...@jsoftware.com> Sent: Thursday, July 4, 2013 1:37:45 PM Subject: [Jprogramming] Krypto Happy Fourth of July to our American colleagues. A new essay "Krypto" <http://www.jsoftware.com/jwiki/Essays/Krypto> has been added. It's an amusing puzzle which you may want to try your hand at before looking at the solution. Krypto <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Krypto_(game)> is a mathematical card game. The Krypto deck has 56 cards: 3 each of numbers 1-6, 4 each of the numbers 7-10, 2 each of 11-17, 1 each of 18-25. Six cards are dealt: an objective card and five other cards. A player must use all five of the latter cards' numbers exactly once, using any combination of arithmetic operations (+, -, *, and %) to form the objective card's number. The first player to come up with a correct formula is the winner. The more strict "International Rules" specify the use of positive integers only; fractional and negative intermediate results are not permitted. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
