Interesting puzzle. I had to look up why the name was significant. The algorithm seemed pretty clear after a few rolls. Upon looking up the puzzle, I found I had a different algorithm than the one presented as a solution on wikipedia that resulted in the same output.
Edit: Which made the post's conclusion strange to me, if the name is not required to understanding the problem, why should Bill's interpretation be so surprising?
Edit2: Do people have other good examples of puzzles like this? I'm aware of Zendo [1] which is a similar inductive reasoning game.
Edit: Which made the post's conclusion strange to me, if the name is not required to understanding the problem, why should Bill's interpretation be so surprising?
Edit2: Do people have other good examples of puzzles like this? I'm aware of Zendo [1] which is a similar inductive reasoning game.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zendo_%28game%29