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Today we'll look at some reconfigurations of the 2x2x2 Rubik's cube that allow for different explorations and lower the floor.

Daniel Kline has been playing around with an in-person version of Panning for Gold and was wondering what other puzzle variants could be done on a balance scale. This post is an attempt to answer that question!

Today we'll look at a puzzle set based on a classic problem about flipping pancakes.

It's tough coming up with a good activity that deals with numbers or geometry in a continuous way, since it usually requires a good amount of prerequisite knowledge. Today's activity is a set of discrete puzzles inspired by a continuous result colloquially known as the ham sandwich theorem.

Rubik's cubes have a strange place in our pop culture as artifacts that only geniuses can solve, but the many guides on solving them have made solution techniques pretty accessible to a wide audience. Mathematicians like them because they provide a shiny introduction to group theory that leave students with a neat party trick. Today we'll look at the "pocket cube" (the 2x2x2 version, typically abbreviated 2x2), which I've had good luck introducing to beginners.