FiveThirtyEight Riddler — Prolog to the Rescue!

One of my weekly routines is to solve the FiveThirtyEight Riddler puzzle. If you've never done them before, they are a set of weekly riddles that tend to involve math, logic, and statistics. Sometimes, though, they make you think. That's silly, thinking is what computers are for!

This week's puzzle is a perfect example of a puzzle that can be solved with one of my favorite…