@christianp I have heard that his famous “memo for those about to be interrogated" contains this sort of thing, but I have never found an English translation. http://www.warning.dp.ua/bezop78.htm
@christianp I don't think Yesenin-Volpin was joking. I remember reading something very interesting about how he was a well-known Soviet dissident, an author of manuals describing resistance techniques, and "take longer and longer to reply" was actually one of them.
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A puzzle problem from James Tanton that I enjoyed: Can the faces of 27 unit cubes be painted red/green/blue is such a way that they can be assembled (in different orientations) to make an all-red cube, an all green-cube, and an all-blue cube? ("All-red cube" means all the exposed faces are red, and all the blue and green faces are hidden.)
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