The most recent game I uploaded to this site is a Printable Latin Square Puzzle. The goal of the puzzle is to arrange a set of 16 cards into a 4 by 4 grid, following certain rules.
Tag: puzzle
The Puzzle Universe – A History of Mathematics in 315 Puzzles
The other day I received a marvellous package in the post. Inside was a book, The Puzzle Universe, by Ivan Moscovich, published by Firefly Books. Ivan Moscovich has made a career out of making amazing mathematical puzzles and games.
Continue reading The Puzzle Universe – A History of Mathematics in 315 Puzzles
Movie Ticket Puzzle Solution
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It’s Monday Morning Math Time!
If you’re hungry, have a look at this yummy breakfast math video. You’ll see there’s more than one way to cut a bagel, and maybe learn a bit of topology too.
I promised to give you a solution to the movie ticket problem.
If you missed it, have a read here and see if you can solve it before you read on here!
Movie Tickets and Time Machines
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Here’s a puzzle for you to try – how creative can you get while solving it? Continue reading Movie Tickets and Time Machines
Old Game Now New
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Monday Morning Math is late this week, but for a good reason – I was rushing to finish the new version of my online traffic jam game! Continue reading Old Game Now New
How Much For 12 Shirts?
I spotted this sign at a shirt shop while on holidays overseas:
Can You Solve This Puzzle?
I saw this puzzle the other day.
You have two fuses. Each fuse is a piece of string, that burns for exactly 1 minute. However, the fuse doesn’t burn evenly, so cutting the fuse in half doesn’t give you two 30 second fuses.
A Simpler Solution
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Last week, I emailed you a way to solve a simple math puzzle – how do you find a rectangle whose area equals its perimeter?
I took the puzzle, mixed in a little bit of algebra, and voila! A puzzle solution factory popped out, letting you generate rectangles from pythagorean triplets.
More On The Rectangle Puzzle
Last week, I posted a solution to a puzzle – how can you find a rectangle whose area equals its perimeter?
This week, I’ll post a simpler solution.
Rectangles and Right Triangles
Can you find a rectangle whose perimeter equals its area?
I’ll explain one way to solve this puzzle below.
Allergy warning: this product contains algebra. May contain traces of number theory.