Puzzle Corner
May/June 2026
Ready for a fresh set of puzzles? Click here for the May/June 2026 Puzzle Corner, brought to you by guest editor Ed Faulkner ’03, MEng ’04. This column also includes solutions to the January/February mini Mystery Hunt from guest editor Dan Katz ’03, who notes that during test-solving for JF2, he was surprised to find out how tricky it is to de-concatenate a string of square numbers even after you know what’s going on. Is that a 36 and then a 1, or a 361?
Send problems, solutions (by June 1), and comments to puzzlecorner@technologyreview.com. Editor emeritus Allan Gottlieb ’67 launched Puzzle Corner in 1966. Find back issues through 2022 at cs.nyu.edu/~gottlieb/tr and more recent back issues at technologyreview.com/puzzle-corner.
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