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Publications and source records attributed to Donna A. Dietz.
This is a theoretical and computational strategy exploration of the visually attractive game IQ-Link. Not all games which are visually appealing are worthy of your time as a puzzlist. This analysis gives a would-be addict some idea of what type of game they are falling for.
The game of Spot it(R) is based on an order 7 finite projective plane. This article presents a solitaire challenge: extract an order 7 affine plane and arrange those 49 cards into a square such that the symmetries of the affine and projective planes are obvious. The objective is not to simply create such a deck already in this solved position. Rather, it is to solve the inverse problem of arranging the cards of such a deck which has already been created shuffled.