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This is a very brief post just thought you might want to see this amazing blog, the NY Times Crossword Drawings. It features absolutely magnificent photos of illustrated crossword puzzles. You should
...izzes that you are not to take seriously but atleast won't ruin your credibility when you quote them. Draw a pig personality test, here. Find yourself on the Human metrics, here. Have fun. ...
...tests where puzzles were posted on advertising panels and solvers could send their names in for a prize draw. I don't imagine people here will have much trouble with them, but here are most of the p...
Enigma 1313 - Triangles New Scientist Magazine, 30 October 2004. by Keith Austin. Draw a triangle ABC. On the side AB mark the point P such that AP=(2/5)AB, on BC mark Q such that BQ=(2/5)BC and on
Consider a typical NYTimes Sunday diagramless puzzle. Is it possible to write a computer program will draw the puzzle DESIGN given the only 'inputs' are the NUMBERS of the clues? (i.e. it takes no s
...e squares that it controls) of the opponent's rook without being captured. This game can never end in a draw if both players know the winning strategy. Question: What is the winning strategy ? 2) We...
Here is a simple grid game based on coprimality. Any number of players. Start with an n-by-n grid drawn on paper. (I suggest an n of at least 5 or 6.) Players take turns writing integers into an
... dot is placed where no dot existed previously. Second, the players take turns connecting the dots by drawing straight line-segments (with a straight-edge, if necessary). Each segment is drawn from ...
A Lotto is 6/49 What is the probability that at least one of the 6 numbers that appeared on the last draw will appear again for second time? What is the probability that the same number will appear
...8 - Passing through New Scientist magazine, 25 September 2004. by Richard England. If you are told to draw a rectangle along the lines of a sheet of graph paper such that its area is 40 squares you ...
... 16 entered a men's knockout tennis tournament. In each round the numbers of the remaining players were drawn at random to decide who played whom. At the end of the tournament each player wrote down...
...ekly Enigma problems from the New Scientist magazine. If George has just won his second 30 pound prize (drawn at random from the correct entries) and the number of correct entries received each week i...
Draw a square and draw lines to cut it in half horizonally, vertically and along both main diagonals so that you now divided into essentially eight congruent triangles. If reflections and rotations
...hat is the maximum value possible for 'A'? 2) Choose two of the lower 48 contiguous states. On a map, draw a straight line connecting the captial cities of the states you choose. Let 'B' be the numb...
...imple and unoriginal, but possibly fun, game. Any number of players >= 2. Start with an n-by-n grid drawn on paper. (I suggest an n of at least 5.) Before play each player *secretly* picks a pos...
...ur labels correctly described the contents of the box to which it was attached. Each girl was told to draw two balls from her box, at which point the blindfold would be removed so that she could see...
...en describe a puzzle and a sequence based on the idea. 2 or more players. Start with an n-by-n grid drawn on paper. (I suggest an n of at least 10.) Players take turns drawing dots at the lattic...
Here is another simple game of mine (probably unoriginal) which is played using an n-by-n grid drawn on paper. (I would suggest an n of at least 5 or 6.) Game is for any number of players >=2. Eac
...t, either an apple or an orange. An orange is put in the bag and the bag is shaken. A piece of fruit is drawn out, which happens to be an orange. What is the probability that the remaining piece of fr...
...irings have been obscured by replacing each cousin with a different synonym. abrupt bawdy diminuitive draws elite in-waiting ironic off course plenty survive For example, one sense of 'wry' can me...
The original Challenge problem posted had a number of grievous errors. It has been withdrawn and a new, similar (and one hopes, correct) puzzle has been posted at http://math.smsu.edu/~les/Challenge
I have a circle around which I want to draw an equilateral triangle with each side of the triangle just touching the circle. I can do this fairly easily using a 60 degree set square and a compass. W
...r, as presented in the Boston Globe, this wasn't true. In the typeface used for the puzzle, the K was drawn in such a way that it was NOT vertically symmetrical. Often a K is drawn with northeast an...
Can anyone solve this unicursal puzzle? Draw a box with an X inside and a half circle on the outside of each of the 4 sides. Start any where but you cannot retrace a line or lift the pencil.
If this was asked before, pls donot flame. Can you draw a line through each one of these dots, without lifting your pencil, and by drawing only 4 lines? (This means that you can make only 3 turns.)
...e this: A B A A A B A A A A B A A A B B B B A B B B B B Easiest way I can think of doing this is to draw a 5 x 5 grid and use 2 different coins to represent A and B. If you can figure this one o...
...e, a bird which is 30 km away from the train, exactly on a line perpendicular to the trains trajectory, drawn from the point where the train is at that moment, starts travelling towards the train at s...
...tom is .5, and so forth. You generate two random numbers between 0 and 1, mark them on the circle and draw a lime between them to form a chord. You repeat this process with two other random number...
...ame. In the game there are several rectangular regions (perhaps thousands) on the screen that must be redrawn for each frame. If, before drawing, two or more of these regions overlap, then these regio...
... appeared on this ng before... Imagine a regular 3 x 3 grid of dots. Starting from anywhere you like, draw 4 straight lines without lifting your pen such that the lines go through all 9 dots... Tu...
...and ) player D defeated all players who defeated player C. ) ) Then what is A's score? ) ) There was no draw in this game. s p o i l e r There are 28 games played in a round-robin tour...
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