Designing Progressive Dinner Parties

TL;DR

This paper explores combinatorial design methods for scheduling progressive dinner parties, offering elementary approaches to create effective dinner schedules.

Contribution

It introduces simple combinatorial techniques for designing progressive dinner party schedules, filling a gap in practical combinatorial design applications.

Findings

Proposes elementary methods for dinner party scheduling

Provides combinatorial design solutions for progressive dinners

Enhances understanding of schedule construction in social event planning

Abstract

I recently came across a combinatorial design problem involving progressive dinner parties (also known as safari suppers). In this note, I provide some elementary methods of designing schedules for these kinds of dinner parties.