Debatable Strategy: Carry a Big Shtick

by Michael Hanko and George Barany

This "mid-week level" puzzle was released at a critical point of the 2012 Presidential campaign.

Click here (two pages) or here (one page, for those with good eyesight) view or download the puzzle in PDF format; here to download it as a puz file; here to download it as an ipuz file [requires the free Puzzazz app to solve]; here to solve the puzzle interactively (thanks to Jim Horne); here for the solution. The authors thanks Noam Elkies, Martin Herbach, and Paul Schoenholz for invaluable suggestions.

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