Basketball Graph Puzzle

Pass & Cut

Five players on a half court. The lines between them are pass lanes. Your job: connect the inbounder (PG) to the finisher at the rim (C) by securing one lane per turn. The defense answers by denying a lane you haven't locked. You score the moment your secured lanes link the two, and the defense wins if it walls off every route first. This is the Shannon switching game in a jersey — and the deep idea it teaches is min-cut: a play is safe only when there are two independent ways to the rim, so no single denial can stop the ball. Find the bottleneck, or make sure you don't have one.