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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 ...
...ugh 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...
Each integer from 1 to 36 is associated with a letter (a, b, or c) as given below. Place the integer/letter combinations ('ILC's) into the spaces (one ILC per space) of a 6-by-6 grid such that: *
.... 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 te...
Hi. Here's a puzzle for you. The numbers 11744191923281353172742556581531980804279343045780380901680418304689456 67872928008443556443608502676940838861513446894995790013601143904693819 99970854767
...enham. 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 a...
...nigma 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 state...
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
...r system based on the notes of a musical scale be cool? How about basing a number system on astronomical numbers? The base-13 or base-12 (again) system would make sense, in a sense, given the number...
...ed when a player said '97' instead of 'buzz' my only contribution was to say 'buzz' twice. (a) Which two numbers did I say 'buzz' for? (b) How many players took part? Ciao,...
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
...lse statement in the list. 3) There exist three consecutive false statements. 4) The difference beween the numbers of the last true statement and the first true statement is a factor of the unknown nu...
... trying to end the game early, attempting to continue the game, bluffing,...?) Sample completed game: (Numbers are filled-in squares. *'s are empty squares.) 1 2 * * * 4 3 101112 5 8 9 1413 6 7 ...
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
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
...n Denham. Sixteen players numbered 1 to 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...
...a 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 follow...
...following 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 ...
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 = BI...
...besides any beautiful designs which result...) is the scoring. Each player's score is the product of the numbers of squares in the 'islands' formed of their colors/symbols. An island is any contiguo...
'Peter Webb' wrote The 'least interesting number' is very special. I suggest it should go at the top.
...hey wait, how'd this get in here?' But I googled it and apparently there is some version of bingo with the numbers from 1-100. In which countries is this the norm?...
Following is a puzzle submission, please. (not culture fair.) Regards, Don. Population growth or phone numbers! (What will be NZ Population at next Census?)
...(eg. 33,44,etc.) What is the average speed of the driver ? I think all that this question wants is three numbers equally spaced from each other....the first two bein reverse of each other and the ls...
... figures, together with any regular mathematical 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). Yo...
... haven't found any cases where twice one square is exactly another square, just almost. Are there any such numbers? If so, what are they? If not, why not? Bazerko Bob...
...on Internet (I have also some difficult to find keywords to search...:-) I have to dispose first n natural numbers in a triangular shape, with the following characteristic: any number must be the subr...
Here's an easy one I saw in a paper on Friday... Choose 2 numbers which can be multiplied together to make 1,000,000. Neither number can contain the digit '0' (zero). To make it a little more chal
...that contains all the English phonemes? A trivial fact I read recently ... what is significant about the numbers 23, 23?...
... The answer might be a bit complex. I am interested to see if anyone can figure it out. There are 40,319 numbers in this sequence. The first six are: 9, 81, 18, 81, 9, 702. What is the seventh num...
Hello, Where could I test on-line the primality of numbers having more or less 500 digits? When I use the applet below I get sometimes : « X... is probably prime ». I would like to be 100% sure! R
...= 3, unless I made 1 3 2 6 4 7 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 s...
My friend gave me this puzzle to solve: given the numbers 1 - 8. X X X X X X X X Each X is a number. Each number is in a box. Arrange the boxed numbers in such a way that consecutively boxed numbe
...n asked the following... ** start Given 1 is not a prime number, fill the remaining squares with prime numbers only. Each row, column and the main diagonal must sum to 111. # 1 # # # # # # # *...
Fill in the missing numbers to complete the sequence. 0.5, 1,
[posted also in sci.math] Consider the string of digits formed by concatenating the natural numbers in base 10: C = '123456789101112131415...' Some integers (as consecutive digits) occur 'prematur
...you are now trapped in by a heavy metal door. On closer examination of the floor, you notice many raised numbers are to be seen arising from the large flags, appart from the centre one which appears...
..., and the team with only four members comes on, but takes a man from the team leaving the pitch to make up numbers. The only snag is that it gets confusing for a team to have two players who share t...
...t has a solution, but im just not smart enough. The rules are simple and follow below. Combine the three numbers in each group to get the same result in each of the three groups. You can use additio...
...63rd St. But I believe the Seattle street numbering continues far outside the city, yielding much higher numbers in some places. Of course, there are really two separate questions here. What is th...
Find all 3 digit numbers so that ANY power of it will have the same 3 digits at the end. ie. if its xyz, then xyz^n will end with xyz. ( here
...digit number which (perhaps?) I could find in a book of logarithms by simply remembering the page and line numbers. Or maybe not. Any ideas?...
...is the batter. Both of them show any amount of fingers on one hand at the same time. If they are different numbers, the batter is out. If the same - 1 is single, 2 is double, 3 is triple, 4 is home ru...
... I'm sure you're all familiar with magic squares. In case you're not, a magic square is a square made of numbers in which the sum of all the numbers in every horizontal row, vertical column and diag...
...t reach here by Monday, June 25th, 6 P.M. (L.A. time, zone -7). I encourage you to enter my other contest, Numbers Contest, NUM2, which is posted only in rec.puzzles The rules below are essentially ...
...rgraduate.) Instead, let p/q be any rational number, and express p/q explicitly as the sum of 4 rational numbers cubed. (This problem has been in the math...
...sitions of the balls. But instead of showing the number on each ball, instead you are shown the sum of the numbers on any balls that touch that ball (and including that ball). You are also shown the s...
...ch time, but only one of each and no other figures at all, you have to make expressions for the successive numbers. Start with an expression for 'one' and work up as far you can go. For example, you c...
...the programming challenge, and on the other hand one could search for other possibilities and whether some numbers are really impossible. Thank you for all answers, Lars...
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