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...s or isn't" it game, your job is to determine whether each item from a list of twelve items is or isn't an example of the week's category. Give it a try. ...
here is a link to a page of a very talented bloger that shows different kinds of puzzles. Here is am example: The process Hope you enjoy his gallery.
...me puzzles- I have managed most but am struggling with these others. They are abbreviation puzzles. For Example: 7=C on the E 7=Continents on the Earth Could someone out there help me please...
...ans great, sort of. awful: 1)inspiring awe. ...3)extremely disagreeable or objectional. So, we have an example of two words which are both synonyms (in a sense) and antonyms (in a sense). Now, s...
... was one other puzzle which requires a diagram, so I'm not going to post it. Identify these occupations. Example: BOTMLN = Accountant 1. TOOFDR 2. DOC4JOX 3. MOVN FR8 Find the hidden messages (i...
...bus puzzle. The arrangement of the letters/words pictorially is supposed to suggest a common phrase. For example, mind matter Answer: Mind over matter This one has me stumped: For this one, ...
...e (m-1)_th term. *Each integer is moved onto once and only once. *The path does not cross itself. An example from the 3-by-3 grid: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 A solution: 3, 2, 1, 4, 7, 8, 9, 5, 6...
...cess to two of the most important books on the subject, so i really don't know how to go on. I know, for example, that there are some necessary conditions called 'pagoda functions'. Can someone expl...
...problem on primeary sets is: For each positive integer n, is there a primeary set of order n? Here are examples of primeary sets up to order 4. order 1: order 2: order 3: order 4: Ca...
...als are all coprime with each other. Your goal is to have the final integer be as low as possible. For example,for n = 4, we can have: 1 2 3 29 17 19 22 23 7 5 4 27 13 2 3 25 8 13 17 25 and 11 1...
...gons formed by intersecting line-segments and by dots as vertexes, but with no internal line-segments. For example, let us say that we had 5 dots (in reality, we would only have an even number of dots...
...re spacecraft for fewer dollars but the quality went down. please reply if you think you know of a counter example that would disprove the conjecture that fbc is an impossibility....
Has more different kinds of Java applets for puzzles, and more examples of each, than I recall seeing anywhere else, even Puzzle Japan. I haven't even been able to figure out how many different kinds
...s to provide a witty, silly, erudite, or other unexpected question, rather than an 'obvious' question. For example, for the answer 'hinge', the question might be 'What does a mixed-up horse say?'. Com...
3 is an example of a number that can be represented in exactly one way as the sum of two Fibonacci numbers: 3 = 1 + 2 (order of addition is ignored). The sequence of such numbers begins: 2, 3, 5, 7, 8
...eck does not catch the error because the misspelled word is an actual word in English. So, what are some examples of common words where, if the wrong adjacent letter is doubled, then we get another ...
...d to spell out as many of the three letter words as possible. Use only the words that are given below. The example's set of blocks can spell 156 out of 424 words (about 37%). How much better can you d...
...n valued each of the remaining letters B to Z, with a number relating to its position in the alphabet. For example, if A had been given the value 10, then B would be 11, C would be 12, and so on throu...
Using Scrabble rules, what two letters can bookend all five vowels creating three-letter words? For example, let's take T and G: Tag Teg Tig Tog Tug Well, two of them don't seem like words. Let's
Hi, It's a crypto-puzzle that has to deal with music related answers. For example: He provided a famous blue raincoat (7,5) = Leonard Cohen Recruited by Elvis Costello? (5,6) = Armed Forces Smooth o
...iven are 6 rows of 4 items; there are 10 distinct items. Clues are then given after each row as below. The example I'm giving isn't an actual puzzle; simply an illustration. The solution is 4 of the f...
Let's say, out of curiosity, that we form a chain of sequences from a sequence-set, such as the Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences: http://www.research.att.com/~njas/sequences/index.html#L A chain co
... person eXits, but not both. How many distinct orderings of On/eXit are possible? Prove your answer. For example, when 2N = 4 there are only two possibilities: OXOX and OOXX. OXXO is not possible: a...
... of terms in the product making up a player's score is the number of islands of a player's color/symbol. Example (n=5) completed game: x o # # x # o x x o x # o x # o x o # o # x o # x Scoring: ...
...int that the digits in the intermediate results count too. You can't use fractions like 49 1/2 + 50 38/76 (example if 0 was allowed). 49 + 1/2 is allowed. For instance, if you make 12+35 = 47 you ha...
...ifferent synonym. abrupt bawdy diminuitive draws elite in-waiting ironic off course plenty survive For example, one sense of 'wry' can mean 'twisted'. Add an A to get 'awry', which can also mean '...
...t an approximation of e that is correct to at least n digits. Try to meet this goal for each value of n. Examples: n = 1 pi = 3 e = 3 (correct to one place) n = 2 pi = 3.1 e = sqrt(3) + 1 = 2.73...
... (hey, I can't help myself): Two teams from the same college/university will be considered equivalent. For example, the 'Fighting Rare Entrants' football team will be considered equivalent to the 'Fig...
... you (not literally (. Say it's TDM-1285. Take the letters, or first three if there are more. SO TDM in my example. You have to come up woth any word that has a T D and M somewhere in it with the TDM ...
...thematical signs, you have to make up expressions for the successive numbers from '1' upwards. As a simple example, you can express the number 21 as 7*(7-4). You can use pluses, minuses, multiplicat...
...h as n = odds), then find a solution for the highest n not in that set (such as the highest even, given my example). Another question/puzzle: What about the most 'compact' solution, ie. the solution...
...ignificant, so I looked at some other squares that are almost exactly half of other squares. Here are some examples: 2 * 2^2 = 2 * 4 = 8, 3^2 = 9 2 * 5^2 = 2 * 25 = 50, 7^2 = 49 2 * 12^2 = 2 * 144 =...
... change one letter in each word, and rearrange the order of the words, to produce a familiar phrase. For example: works plan in = play on words mob she born in of alike dear tumble sat pit is sh...
... triangular shape, with the following characteristic: any number must be the subract of the above two. For example, if I want to dispose first 3 number, an obvious solution is: 3 2 1 (1=3-2). If I...
...tchsticks each (all the sticks are the same size but I can't show this just using text) Here is a simple example. Move 1 matchstick and make the equation true: _ _ _ _+ _= __|_ _The only solution is...
...nteger n, take an n-by-n grid. Label the rows with the first n primes, and do the same with the columns. Example: for n = 5 (view with fixed-width font, as always.) 2 3 5 7 11...
...n the shaded sub-squares are SUBTRACTED, while those in the unshaded squares are added to the total. The example I have been working on today (not obsessively), but have failed to come up with a sol...
...a mistake in my manual searches. 1 5 3 7 2 6 3 5 In fact, for these small numbers it is not hard to find examples, though counting the actual number of distinct ones seems to be merely a boring sear...
This was bugging me recently. I thought the solution would be simple. And after several false solutions, I have finally given up. What is the number of permutations of the first m positive integers
Here is a puzzle that I made up today that is kind of fun to solve. Start with a n-by-n grid. Place a zero in one of the squares. Then place every integer from 1 to n^2 -1 into the grid (one integer
...three groups. You can use addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, and exponentiation. Here's an example of a solved puzzle: Group 1: 15, 19, 24 Group 2: 11, 30, 36 Group 3: 20, 22, 36 Ans...
...e you desire, 1 cc, 2 cc, 3 cc,...., and 1000 cc vials. So, they are well-stocked with 437 cc vials, as an example. There are 1000 SIZES of vials in the store available. There are red vials in all 1...
...on even numbered steps). 4) Whatever you do, DON'T step on only even or only odd steps. This is just one example of the complete ambiguity possible in language. Can you come up with some other phr...
...nt twice the length of the second one, and so on. The goal is to maximize the number of line segments. Example: N = 15 L1 = 3 L2 = 3*2 = 6 L3 = 6*2 = 12 L4 = 12*2= 24 ... Solution: L1 + L3 = 3...
...person can cover only one activity per day. They cannot cover both snack and activity on the same day, for example....
...is :- Without move to a different line, what is the longest word that can be typed on a single line. Example :- dash on the second line, wort on the top line....
Based on the 'Name that Film' thread, here are a few all purpose teasers based along similar lines. Example AAObyPC = Against All Odds by Phil Collins TUSstGB = The usual Suspects starring Gabriel
... P R G S M N E A E V E L E E B U T N W N C R A R P M A R B D E E M E T O C A P I R N S O I O N D R I R Y Example: Starting at the lower left corner and reading upwards, the letters are PPESLA, which...
...e typing error in it. With this in mind, try and find the common links in each set of three words below. Example: Venue, Mark, Plato = Venus, Mars, Pluto. The obvious link is Planets of the solar sy...
...n that rainbows are not perfectly circular arcs? (Are they more elliptical?) 3) If rainbows in the above examples are indeed perfectly circular arcs, then under what situation (no matter how physica...
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