Discrete MathematicsVolume 207, Issues 1–3, 28 September 1999, Pages 25-32The answer to Woodall's musquash problemAuthor links open overlay panelGrant Cairns, Deborah M. KingShow moreShareCitehttps://doi.org/10.1016/S0012-365X(99)00130-2Get rights and contentUnder an Elsevier user licenseopen archiveAbstractWe prove that there are no n-agonal musquashes for n even with n≠6. This resolves a problem raised in Woodall's 1971 paper ‘Thrackles and Deadlock’.Previous article in issueNext article in issueMSCPrimary 05B30KeywordsMusquashThrackleGraphPlanar curveRecommended articlesCited by (0)Copyright © 1999 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved.