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Recreational mathematics or puzzles with serious mathematical content. Note that math contest problems are generally considered off-topic.

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Identifying poisoned wines

This problem also goes by the name "nonadaptive combinatorial group testing" and has been around since at least World War II, when the U.S. government was trying to isolate syphilis cases in soldiers …
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