Tag: puzzles
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Tick Tock
Dan reviews Tick Tock, a cooperative puzzle game that he and Ruth played for their Date Night this week, and recommends you give it a go!
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Quickly Solving Jigidi Puzzles
Forced with a digital jigsaw puzzle to unlock the location of a geocache... Dan resorts to hacking.
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Break Into . Us (lock puzzle game)
Some people, when faced with a puzzle, try to solve it. Dan tries to recreate it. That's how he wrote his latest game: Break Into Us.
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Who finished second?
Nick Berry shares an amazing maths/logic puzzle, and Dan encourages you to give it a go for yourself.
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Elf Chalkboard Puzzle
A puzzle: elves wipe numbers from your chalkboard in a particular pattern. Is the number that's left odd or even?
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Word Ladder Solver
It's likely that the first word ladder puzzles were created by none other than Lewis Carroll (Charles Lutwidge Dodgson), the talented British mathematician, and author of the Alice's adventures. According to Carroll, he invented them on Christmas Day in 1877.
A word ladder puzzle consists of two end-cap words, and the goal is to derive a … -
Puzzle Montage Art by Tim Klein
Jigsaw puzzle companies tend to use the same cut patterns for multiple puzzles. This makes the pieces interchangeable, and I sometimes find that I can combine portions from two or more puzzles to make a surreal picture that the publisher never imagined. I take great pleasure in “discovering” such bizarre images lying latent, sometimes for … -
Mystery Pipe
There's a strange pipe on this steam locomotive. Can you guess what it's for?
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Lucy`s Secret Number puzzle
Lucy’s Secret Number puzzle (datagenetics.com) You are at a party and overhear a conversation between Lucy and her friend.
In the conversation, Lucy mentions she has a secret number that is less than 100.
She also confesses the following information:
"The number is uniquely describable by the answers to the following four questions:"
Q1) Is the number divisible by … -
100 prisoner escape
A classic prison escape puzzle featuring 100 prisoners, 100 boxes and 100 tickets.
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Geocaching Like Batman
Dan finds his first "terrain 5" geocache. They said he needed a boat, but Dan laughs in the face of boats. Also in the face of safety.
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![Image representing post: Suppose you have a time machine that can only jump to leap days. What's the chance that a random jump will put you on a Monday? [Maths]](https://bcdn.danq.me/_q26u/2012/09/tardis-500x480.jpg#5162)
Suppose you have a time machine that can only jump to leap days. What's the chance that a random jump will put you on a Monday? [Maths]
Here’s a puzzle for you –
AltLike the TARDIS, your time machine has a fault.Like the TARDIS, your time machine has a fault. The fault isn’t a failure of its chameleon circuit, but a quirk in its ability to jump to particular dates. Picture courtesy aussiegall (Flickr), licensed Creative Commons.
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The Leap Machine (Puzzle)
Dan proposes a puzzle: if you know that it is 29th February in some randomly-selected leap year, what is the probability that it is a Monday? The answer is not one-seventh...
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Webcomics With Puzzles
Dan shares two webcomics that you might like to see, if you enjoy a good puzzle from time to time.
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A Primer Puzzle
There's a film that I'm a huge fan of, called Primer. Since I first discovered it I've insisted on showing it at least twice at Troma Night (the second time just for the benefit of everybody who didn't "get it" - i.e. everybody - the first time). If you haven't already seen it, this post …