A famous saying goes: There are many ways to skin a cat. These are words that apply especially well to sorting arrays. When asked to sort one, your sane person may immediately go with bubble sort, insertion sort, or perhaps the very lovely and very fast quicksort. The show-offs like...

Game of the Amazons is a lot like chess except all pieces cannot be killed, move like queens, and shoot fire arrows that also move like queens.

Late last year, after a session of my school’s XR club, I had, on a whim, proposed to a friend my grand idea of putting quizbowl in VR. As per usual, my absurd scheme was quickly shot down, and we moved to other points of discussion. Later at the outset...