Problem-solving posts

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If you're coming here from the most recent X-men night, you might want to check out these posts about problem solving:

Also some posts about olympiad-adjacent topics (mainly theory that can solve some hard olympiad problems) - if you're an experienced problem solver you should have enough context for a bunch of these:
There's also a lot of interesting stuff beyond! Feel free to look around (:

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