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Wes Carroll's Puzzler
Easy to visualize but challenging to solve: that's the kind of math puzzle you get here, one per episode. (Do you love the Car Talk Puzzler too? Yeah, that's what I'm trying for here, only with even more of a math bent.)
Wes Carroll's Puzzler
04: Many stuffie lines [*]
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Wes Carroll
Use Left/Right to seek, Home/End to jump to start or end. Hold shift to jump forward or backward.
You have four stuffed animals. You line up three of them at a time, always single file. How many distinct lineups are possible?
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Bonus points if you also tell me the number of distinct ways you can arrange them in a circle instead of a line.
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Spiciness: * out of ****