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...Games magazine.
The puzzle is played in a grid of squares in which ships of different sizes are hidden. Numbers alongside the grid indicate how many squares in a row or column are occupied by part o...
...gh for at least a 1000 pc puzzle but it also needs to be big enough for the pieces too. Just throwing out numbers, I was thinking a 3' x 4' piece.
Thanks...
I know I've seen these recently, but what was the answer?
What number names a plant? Write down 4 odd digits that will add up to 19?
Cheers.
[I am not the author of this puzzle]
What's the minimum number of lettered cubes (e.g., children's blocks or custom Boggle cubes) required to create all possible three-letter combinations (AAA, AAB, ..., ZZZ)? The symbol on each face of
...ce, t times)
Me and my friend both throw a six-sided dice ten times. What are the chances that the same number comes up *none* of the ten times?
btw, is there a good un-moderated maths newsgroup? ...
...such that:
* No two ILCs of the same letter are adjacent (left/right/above/below).
* The ILC with the number m on it is adjacent (left/right/above/below) to the ILC with a (m-1) and the ILC with t...
...anet Earth we are talking about. What the hell am I gonna do with 254 quadr,... octa,... oh whatever that number is, ... widgets? Look here!!
'I need exactly one billion A-sized widgets!! Now get to...
...
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 significance of the clues or answers).
Intuition tel...
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Below, I'll add spoiler space myself and give a hint pertaining the number of letters in the clue and the solution. If you need more hints, please ask.
Cheers M...
...les in a pack are at least a 1000 cc's). Thing is: because of the sale, the vile-store has a limit on the number of packs of any particular size that a customer may purchase: only one pack of any vile...
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The grid must be square
The black squares must be mirrored symmetrically
The grid will have an odd number of squares per side
No other words other than those listed above must be used
Phili...
...riangle ABC.
I went through the whole procedure above again, but, this time with each occurrence of the number 2/5 replaced by the number k, which is between 0 and 1/2. This time I found that the ar...
...LLOWED] 6 [Scores 1]
Q3. Name one of either TO, TOO, or TWO 1 TO 587 2 TWO 407 3 TOO 276
Q4. Name the number of leaves on a fully grown tree. 1 1,000 207 2 10,000 115 3 1,000,000 110 4 500 68 5 5,...
... magazine has printed a set of these puzzles from time to time in the last while, and each set has used a number of different partition layouts. (I don't remember what they called them, but it wasn't ...
Hi.
Here's a puzzle for you. The numbers
11744191923281353172742556581531980804279343045780380901680418304689456 67872928008443556443608502676940838861513446894995790013601143904693819 99970854767
...even a state with only 8 people gets 3 full electoral votes and it got me thinking:
What's the smallest number of people that could pick the U.S. president?
I'm thinking that the answer would lie ...
I call a set P of positive integers primeary if the sum of an odd number of elements of P is always prime.
It's clear what the sum of an odd number k > 1 of integers means; for k = 1, the sum of an
...nteger N.
Therefore a googol = 10^100 is congruent to 1 mod 3. A googolplex has googol+1 digits, so the number of digits is congruent to 2 mod 3. So there are 2 digits before the first comma....
Here is another game.
For 2 players.
First, players alternatingly take turns placing the same number of dots on a piece of paper. Each dot can be anywhere on the paper as long as no 3 or more dots
...nham.
You are probably very familiar with magic squares such as:
8 1 6 in which you have to place the numbers 1 to 9 so 3 5 7 that each row, each column and each of the two 4 9 2 main diagonals ad...
...igma puzzle in both English and French versions, but incredibly it also works in Portuguese.
Triangular numbers are those that fit the formula n*(n+1)/2, like 1, 3, 6 and 10. In the following statem...
...word used to describe the weather. 1 SUNNY 271 2 HOT 138 3 COLD 133 4 RAINY 77 5 CLOUDY 70
Q3. Name the number of ants you could fit in a shoe. 1 1000000 202 2 1000 157 3 10000 77 4 5000 44 5 100000...
...ER 8
Q4. Name a type of fish. 1 GOLDFISH 506 2 SALMON 103 3 TUNA 84 4 BASS 76 5 TROUT 70
Q5. Name the number of days in a month. 1 30 677 2 31 400 3 28 68 4 29 12
Q6. Name a fraction [in the for...
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
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
...gain won't be losing out on most of the field.
3. The only possible alternative to '1' is another small number that isn't picked by many others, but on what basis do you choose? Its random pot luck ...
...at a diagonal drawn across your rectangle would pass though 12 of the squares.
(1) What is the smallest number of squares of the graph paper that can be the area of THREE different rectangles whose ...
using the numbers 1,3,5,7 there is only one number (as far as i can tell) between one and 40 which cannot be made using each one of these numbers at most once using the opeation +,-,/,* . Every number
...es. On a map, draw a straight line connecting the captial cities of the states you choose. Let 'B' be the number of states that line crosses (including the two states you choose). What is the maximum ...
... with Ramesh and what is the money with poorest fellow.
4) 8 x 8 chess board. probability of taking two number of 3 squares diagonally = ? Reg...
...e circle again when left. The game ends when the bell rings another time, but this will be after a random number of minutes after the game has started. You can only win points in this game, if the gam...
I wonder if other societies, once-isolated from the West, developed a number system using something aside from base-10. (I know, I know - the Babylonians used 'base-60'. But their system didn't have 6
...ollowing puzzle possible to solve?
A B C D E F G H I
The above alphabetical arrangement represent the numbers 1 - 9. Arrange the numbers, keeping the geometrical arrangement above, in a way that b...
...le and count in turn, the first saying '1', the next '2', the next '3' and so on. But every time the next number is a multiple of 7 or contains a 7 the player whose turn it is must say 'buzz', and the...
We have an analog clock with hour-numbers which are not glued on. An army of ants moves some of the numbers around every hour. At hour k, the ants move the numbers currently at positions (k+1) through
Assume that each statement is either true or false. What is the unknown (whole) number from the following possibly false statements:
1) At least one of the last two statements in this list is true.
Here is asimple 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* p
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
...t, each possible total can only be achieved by one particular combination of denominations. Secondly, the number of different totals possible equals the total value of the coins in pence. If I added a...
The object of this monthly contest is to pick a whole number, an integer, which is as low as you dare go - but the winning number is the lowest number (above zero) which no-one else has also picked! S
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
Enigma 1307 - KO, OK? New Scientist magazine, 18 September 2004. by Susan Denham.
Sixteen players numbered 1 to 16 entered a men's knockout tennis tournament. In each round the numbers of the remain
... 1306 - Three all New Scientist magazine, 11 September 2004. by Adrian Somerfield.
I have in mind three numbers each of three digits (no leading zero) in each of which one digit is 3. Of the followi...
...zine. 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 is constant, and George has won exacty as often a...
...capital letter consistently represents a digit, with different letters used for different digits.
Which number should be SENT?
Ciao,...
...by 2 3) add lowest prime > n 4) add or subtract 1 5) multiply by highest prime dividing n 6) subtract the number of positive divisors of n 7) if (n+1) is composite then dead-end. 8) divide by highest ...
Enigma 1303 - Lucky numbers New Scientist magazine, 21 August 2004. by Haydon Bambury.
Alex and his big sister Monica were using a new method to work out their lucky numbers. First they chose at ran
... 2 - is a C. (3 is S M I N A)
3 = ML (could it be 3 mile limit?) 9 = WOAW(i) WIGPO this is correct - no numbers 157 = MDOTSOGIF 10 = GH 1956 = VTRDBA 10 = LT 1 = WM 2 = TIADS 9 = POTL 2 = HR 6 = BIA...
... 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.
Each player uses a different colored pencil/pen, or each player uses ...
'Peter Webb' wrote
The 'least interesting number' is very special.
I suggest it should go at the top.
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