Scott Duke Kominers, Columnist

Kominers’s Conundrums: Resequencing a Puzzling Summer

Believe it or not, there’s actually a word behind all these digits.

August 22, 2020 at 12:10 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 Conundrum that can easily spiral out of control.
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September is on the horizon, but we’re still rocking out to summer hits. Here at the Conundrums Cabana, that means looking for ways to remix our favorite puzzles of the season.

This week, we’ll mashup our integer sequence and playlist puzzles. I’ve pulled together nine well-known sequences for you to identify. But there’s a twist: As in the playlist puzzle, I’ve left something out of each.