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A [FiveThirtyEight]( email [Popular This Week] Sunday, April 18, 2021 [1. It’s Not Just Young White Liberals Who Are Leaving Religion]( [0416_POLLA-4×3]( [Read more]( [2. Few Americans Who Identify As Independent Are Actually Independent. That’s Really Bad For Politics.]( [INDEPENDENTS-4×3]( [Read more]( [3. How Views On Black Lives Matter Have Changed — And Why That Makes Police Reform So Hard]( [Police Shooting Near Minneapolis Sparks Protest]( [Read more]( [4. The Johnson & Johnson Pause Shows The System Is Working]( [Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine boxes are seen at a]( [Read more]( [5. In Formula One, Does The Driver Or Car Matter More?]( [F1 Grand Prix of Bahrain]( [Read more]( [6. Zion Williamson Is Used To Rejection]( [Pelicans Lakers Basketball]( [Read more]( [7. It’s Not Just Georgia: More Than A Dozen Other States Are Trying To Take Power Away From Local Election Officials]( [Georgia Begins Hand Tally Of Presidential Race]( [Read more]( [8. Are Ambitious Parts Of Democrats’ Agenda Good For Democracy … Or Just The Democratic Party?]( [SlackChat_0413-4×3]( [Read more]( [9. Democratic Values Are Still Under Attack — Even Without Trump In The White House]( [Protest against House Bill 531 in Atlanta]( [Read more]( [10. The Mavericks Bet Big On Kristaps Porziņģis. It’s Paying Off On Offense, But What About Defense?]( [Kristaps Porzingis,Donte DiVincenzo]( [Read more]( --------------------------------------------------------------- Weekly Listen [Play]( [Small Sample Sizes Be Damned, Let’s Talk About Baseball]( Lastly, The Riddler By [Zach Wissner-Gross]( [riddler_4x3_default]( From Curtis Karnow comes a puzzle that boldly goes where no human has gone before: You are creating a variation of a Romulan [pixmit]( deck. Each card is an equilateral triangle, with one of the digits 0 through 9 (written in Romulan, of course) at the base of each side of the card. No number appears more than once on each card. Furthermore, every card in the deck is unique, meaning no card can be rotated so that it matches (i.e., can be superimposed on) any other card. What is the greatest number of cards your pixmit deck can have? Extra credit: Suppose you allow numbers to appear two or three times on a given card. Once again, no card can be rotated so that it matches any other card. Now what is the greatest number of cards your pixmit deck can have? [Solve it!]( [FiveThirtyEight] [View in browser]( [ABC News]( [Unsubscribe]( Our mailing address: FiveThirtyEight, 47 West 66th Street, New York, NY 10023.