Stack of Cards
Brain Warm-up

Problem:

Puzzle 1:Take one pair each of Aces, 2’s, 3’s, and 4’s from a deck of playing cards and discard the rest of the deck. Now stack these eight cards so that the Aces have one card between them, the 2’s have two cards between them, the 3’s have three cards between them, and the 4’s have four cards between them. Bonus:Do the same with 14 cards numbered Ace through 7.

Solvers:

Sriram (solved: 11:00am 2-24-2005) John Tippabattuni (solved: 11:35am 2-24-2005) bill (solved: 11:39am 2-24-2005) dan (solved: 3:47pm 2-24-2005) STACK OF CARDS (solved: 10:48pm 2-24-2005) tom von kercey (solved: 11:59am 2-25-2005) Josh Giedeman (solved: 12:07pm 2-27-2005) the greathoj (solved: 2:21am 2-28-2005) trouble (solved: 2:21am 2-28-2005) eeyalpud ydna (solved: 7:02pm 3-3-2005) The Killer Llama (solved: 1:22pm 3-15-2005) = Got the Bonus puzzle as well as Puzzle 1.

Solution:

There are many solutions. Here are two of them. Puzzle 1: Bonus:

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