What is this?
Puzzle in Place is a summer puzzle-solving event! For students, alumni, parents, faculty, staff, and anyone else who wants to participate, it's an opportunity to indulge in some fun and interesting puzzles (and bragging rights). For both incoming and returning MathCS students, it is also a friendly competition with a chance to earn a gift card for the OBU Bookstore!
August 3 (Week 10)
Course Lists
Here is a bit of a challenge to conclude the event. Can you figure out
the puzzle solution from these lists of Fall 2020 OBU classes?
July 27 (Week 9)
Seating Charts
Find available seats based on cryptic guidance.
July 20 (Week 8)
Breaking Quarantine
Help quarantined students tunnel out!
July 13 (Week 7)
OBU Housing Plans
Determine the design of the new apartment village.
July 6 (Week 6)
Cryptograms
Decipher the secret messages.
June 29 (Week 5)
Paint by Numbers
Reveal the picture by filling in squares based on numbers representing the size of the clusters.
- Solutions
June 22 (Week 4)
Grid cycles
Find a loop that passes through specified points on a grid.
- Solutions
June 15 (Week 3)
Fill-er-up!
Help Dr. Jack's figure out which vessels in the grid contain coffee.
- Solutions
June 8 (Week 2)
Sudok-what?
Logic your way through a basic Sudoku puzzle and two other Sudoku variants.
- Solutions
June 1 (Week 1)
Purple and Gold
Color each square in the grid such that each row/column has the same number of purple/gold squares and with no instances of three squares in a row with the same color.
- Solutions