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Monthly Archives: January 2016
Puzzle #129: The Einstein’s Puzzle
I am sure the title will catch everyone’s attention. It is a very cute puzzle that Einstein invented as a child. The puzzle is also attributed to Lewis Carroll. There are many versions of this puzzle, the one here is … Continue reading
Solution to Puzzle #127: Building and Eggs Again
This was a difficult puzzle, and I did not get any complete answer from anyone. Ofcourse, Alok Aggarwal, who contributed the puzzle, had an answer. I will replicate the answer I gave to Alok. The answer is 8, i.e. within … Continue reading
Puzzle #128: The Milkman Again
Almost 3 years back, I had posted a milkman puzzle, which was the second puzzle I posted (https://alokgoyal1971.com/2013/02/10/solution-to-puzzle-2-milkman-puzzle/). Here again is a modified version of the same puzzle. A very interesting puzzle that Alok Mittal gave to his Mathematical Circles … Continue reading
Solution to Puzzle #126: The Tricky Square Root
Again received an overwhelming number of answers to this puzzle. People who answered it correctly included Pratik Poddar, Anant Aggarwal, Siddharth Mulherkar, Suman Saraf, P R Kumar and Amit Mittal. The puzzle had a simple trick to it, which is … Continue reading
Puzzle #127: Building and Eggs Again
This is a wonderful puzzle shared by a good friend Alok Aggarwal, who lives in California and are a family of math wizards (which includes him as well!). This puzzle is a variation of puzzle #94 (https://alokgoyal1971.com/2015/03/01/puzzle-94-two-eggs-and-a-building/), where with two … Continue reading
Solution to Puzzle #125: Test Your Creativity
I was overwhelmed not only by the response, but also by the creativity. While I do not like to single people out, Suman Saraf turned out to be the champion of creativity on this one, had some remarkable variations that … Continue reading
Puzzle #126: The Tricky Square Root
Here is another nice puzzle I saw on brilliant.org The figure states it all…Happy rooting!
Solution to Puzzle #124: Add the Numbers
Lot of correct answers to the puzzle – the ones who sent the correct answer include Siddharth Mulherkar (good to see you on the blog!), Sandeep Singhal, Ritesh Banglani, Aditya, Pratik Poddar, Suman Saraf, Karan Sharma (my nephew who gave … Continue reading
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