ELMO SL 2014 C1
You have some cyan, magenta, and yellow beads on a non-reorientable circle, and you can perform only the following operations:
- Move a cyan bead right (clockwise) past a yellow bead, and turn the yellow bead magenta.
- Move a magenta bead left of a cyan bead, and insert a yellow bead left of where the magenta bead ends up.
- Do either of the above, switching the roles of the words
magenta'' andleft'' with those ofyellow'' andright'', respectively. - Pick any two disjoint consecutive pairs of beads, each either yellow-magenta or magenta-yellow, appearing somewhere in the circle, and swap the orders of each pair.
- Remove four consecutive beads of one color.
Starting with the circle: yellow, yellow, magenta, magenta, cyan, cyan, cyan'', determine whether or not you can reach a) yellow, magenta, yellow, magenta, cyan, cyan, cyan'',
b) cyan, yellow, cyan, magenta, cyan'', c) magenta, magenta, cyan, cyan, cyan'',
d) ``yellow, cyan, cyan, cyan''.
Proposed by Sammy Luo
Dataset text AI-MO AoPS. Quoted with source.
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