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Monthly Archives: April 2016
Puzzle #139: Gold Links
This is another famous puzzle in the Martin Gardner collection, and variations of this puzzle exist in different “sizes”. This particular one has been picked up from The Colossal Book of Short Puzzles and Problems, Puzzle 9.18. Replicating the puzzle as … Continue reading
Solution to Puzzle #137: The Burning Island
As I mentioned, this was an untypical problem, and I did not get as many responses 😦 The ones who responded correctly included Girish Tutakne, Suman Saraf and Neeraj Aggarwal+Anisha Goyal as a team over the lunch table! Solution is … Continue reading
Puzzle #138: Traffic Flow in Floyd’s Knob
This is a very nice “maze” puzzle, borrowed from Martin Gardner’s book “The Colossal Book of Short Puzzles and Problems” Problem 10.14. The puzzle first appeared in 1962, in Martin Gardner’s Scientific American column. It was created by Robert Abbott, … Continue reading
Solution to Puzzle #136: Talkative Eve
This was not as difficult a puzzle as it appeared to be, though required some work! Was glad to see most of the regular puzzlers answer this, which included Karan, Abhinav Jain, Suman Saraf, Girish Tutakne and Ruchir Godura (welcome … Continue reading
Puzzle #137: Burning Island
For a change, this one is not a mathematical puzzle, but a nice logic puzzle (and there is no play of words here). I took this one from mathsisfun.com A man is stranded on an island covered in forest. One … Continue reading
Solution to Puzzle #135: Two Dice = Nine Cards
This was a beautiful puzzle and only a few people sent correct answers. Only Suman Saraf sent the correct answer – fantastic job, this was a tough one – hats off to you! Gurmeet.net, the place I took the solution from, … Continue reading
Puzzle #136: Talkative Eve
Another beautiful puzzle from one of the Martin Gardner collections – this one is from “Mathematical Circus” in a chapter titled “Eccentric Chess and Other Problems”. Â I am reproducing this verbatim from his collection. This cryptarithm (or alphametic, as some … Continue reading
Solution to Puzzle #134: Rotating Coins
This was indeed a gem of a puzzle, and the more I have thought about it, the more I like it. Thanks again to Girish Tutakne for sharing this puzzle. I received a few correct answers – Suman Saraf, Prakhar … Continue reading
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