Did you solve it? Blockbusters!
by Alex Bellos from on (#61SCN)
The answer to today's percolation poser
Earlier today I asked you the following problem about a hexagonal grid similar to the one that was used in Blockbusters, a student quiz show from the 1980s and 1990s.
The grid is also a model of the mathematical theory of percolation - but more of that later.
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