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Forum Post Simple puzzle?
Whilst reading 'The Code Book' by Simon Singh I had an idea for a simple code, Although it can be generated by pen and paper i think it would be quite difficult to crack. Would anyone li...
Forum Post Write your own blog here with simple non techie tools
...ith non-techie tools and be widely read thanks to our large, active community - example . Starting is as simple as one click . Vote for blog posts. Browse the Top Blog Posts list, linked fro...
Forum Post Simple word puzzle
Match the items in group one to the items in group 2 to get something meaning the same as something in group 3. There's a fair bit more too it than i've let on and you may feel that these in...
Forum Post Message in a simple cipher
TOWAG NSWT AFO A BSSI ASWOF ZNWT WDI HNAIAAH RNE NAHT NH I UREEEH IOK ECSRM NO I DLNE AOTR INX EELERE LEAPLARW HEJT KYLR EDPN SNIA EA DRNDOAU
Forum Post Simple puzzle: train crossing
I was given this puzzle the other day and couldn't find it in the FAQ so figured it would be worthwhile posting here. I've seen a few variants of this puzzle and to my great annoyance the si...
Forum Post Help finding four four piece puzzle to buy.
I am looking for the classic T puzzle. It is four simple pieces that can for a T. I had a nice version made of wood but lost it. I want one that is good sized (the bars of the T would each be abou...
Forum Post infinite grid of resistors
Possibly the simple 'trick' gives a different answer than the math-intensive one. The infinite grid of resistors was one of my favorite problems. Unfortunately, that was 50 years ago. I ...
Forum Post Statues, Snakes, Spies and SUbmarines....oh, and a question.
...y spy. 2. The only person mentioned directly, other than the Captain, is the communications officer. 3. A simple code (e.g., one that could be broken by the average puzzler solver), would never have b...
Forum Post How to solve word ladders
...trying to program a game that would solve word ladders by using a given dictionary file. The idea sounded simple at the start (simple string matching, or so I thought), but now that I've tried to...
Forum Post 0542986731
Simple really - it is an experimental design. The digits have been rearranged to ensure that the correlation between that sequence and the sequence 0123456789 is less than 2%. This makes any experimen...
Forum Post Smallest Number of pieces from Right Angled Triangle
Ok it is possible to find an answer taking 7 triangles: Its very simple take a pentagon and put 2 more triangles in to make one big triangle.
Forum Post Who put the variation in variance?
...large value of N? In which case, why bother playing around with it at all and just keep life nice and simple and use N?...
Forum Post A Knight Tour in Black and White
[...] I made a simple web page that can be used to play around with the Horse's Journey. No Java or JavaScript is required. You can find it at http://puzzles.zzlevo.net/horsejourney.html ...
Forum Post countdown - next in series
...sy, I put this problem in Excel, and let Excel do the adding for me.... My Excel formulas were *VERY* simple. All I had to do was copy *ONE* simple addition formula & paste it repeate...
Forum Post darn picture
...t ended up in chaos. In all their previous discussions they hadn’t even asked themselves whether such a simple object as a brick, much less an electron, is an ‘essential object.’ ”—Richard F...
Forum Post Complete the Alphabet
Only I replaced it wrongly, due to an error in the simple program I was using to choose words that fit! Corrected version below, with one other change to prove I know what I'm talking about. ...
Forum Post Sliding Tile Puzzles
... and 8 but I just can't seem to do it. I'm sure it can be done and I'm sure it's very simple. Is there a solution on a web page somewhere? I have tried looking in the rec.puzzl...
Forum Post Post Puzzles with strong logic
... defective coin, which has a different weight (could either be light or heavy). In three weighings with a simple pan balance, how would you separate the defective coin from the lot....
Forum Post Fibonacci geometric series
...t S(n) = Fib(1) / 2^1 + Fib(2) / 2^2 + ... + Fib(n) / 2^n. It's easy enough to write & run a simple program and figure out the infinite sum S = Fib(1) / 2^1 + Fib(2) / 2^2 + ... +Fib (n) ...
Forum Post matchstick equations
...chsticks 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 s...
Forum Post Insanly huge number puzzles/challenges
... that you can find m[-3]n such that: m[-2]n = 1 + n = m[-3]m[-2](n-1) I think it's possible. Simple substitution results in: m[-2]n = 1 + n = m[-3]( 1+n-n ) = m[-3]n And we need a limitin...
Forum Post Shuffle Words 2.
... Exit + Cement = Excitement 11 Comb + Prehensile = Comprehensible 12 Candle + Heir = Chandelier And a simple pair(?)of of mine which came up while failing to solve one of yours A. Shuffle a tr...
Forum Post A bit of help, please?
...ght of 13, and then move them together. Using the same technique, move 10 and 14. Now it will be very simple, to rearrange the rest. Do a web search on 'Fifteen Puzzle'. You will get...
Forum Post Distance on a Chess Board
...r) which is pretty much the same as the isometric paper as far as I can see.) So... Is there any (simple) way of constructing a board where the physical distance matches the playing distance? ...
Forum Post Waldos daily meals
...this is a puzzles newsgroup, I'm sure you can figure out the code without them. Carl G. // A simple Java permutation routine. The elements in b.. code example snipped ... You could us...
Blog Post The Arrow Of Times
...w ones. It means people can experiment with the stuff they unlock forever! It was supposed to be a fairly simple looking game but as soon as I got my hands on it I went crazy and designed a million sp...
Forum Post Microsoft puzzles
The best questions that I have seen is for the questioner too ask about some simple object or concept of in the field, and then to keep asking for more information, based on your responses. This is so...
Forum Post Magic Square
Here is a problem by J.A.H. Hunter. You probably know the very simple Magic Square: 4 3 8 9 5 1 2 7 6 Each row, each column, and each diagonal totals 15. And the 8 is in one corner. Now make a...
Forum Post shuffled text
...d a text shuffling function bishuffle such that bishuffle(bishuffle(text)) = text. It's a pretty simple function. I shuffled the following text using my bishuffle function. Can you un...
Forum Post The X-men
...; solution to this than simply brute forcing it, which, as I'm sure you can all see, would be fairly simple)...
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