Scott Duke Kominers, Columnist

Kominers’s Conundrums: To Save a Dinner Party

Who is coming? And who is the mystery guest? You’ve got some unscrambling to do.

May 30, 2020 at 3:10 PM UTC

Scott Duke Kominers is the MBA Class of 1960 Associate Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School and a faculty affiliate of the Harvard University department of economics.

A warm yet disorganized host. Who can blame him?
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Some puzzles are just puzzles. Others tell stories – often outlandish ones. What's a hint? What's just a red herring? It’s up to the solver to sort that out – hopefully while having a lot of fun.

This week's Conundrum is one such enigma, dropping prospective solvers smack in the middle of a somewhat fantastical tale: