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Solution to Puzzle #143: Magic 8
Apologies for a long period of silence, I was traveling on work and then on vacation outside India and in the process just did not have the time to respond to messages and also add any posts. Normal service resumes … Continue reading
Puzzle #144: Pirates and Gold Once Again!
This is a beauty of a puzzle taken from the recent internet puzzle series on Ramanujan going on. Several great puzzles, this one of them. Jack and Will are very successful pirates who have become very wealthy from their years … Continue reading
Puzzle #143: Magic 8
This is a simple puzzle, and I hope that the adults will take the pain of showing this to their children. This was contributed to me by my daughter, Arushi, who got this puzzle in her holiday homework. While the … 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
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”. I am reproducing this verbatim from his collection. This cryptarithm (or alphametic, as some … Continue reading
Puzzle #135: Two Dice = Nine Cards
This is a gem of a puzzle from Gurmeet.net, one of my favourite collection of puzzles! Alice has two standard dice with labels 1 thru 6. When she rolls them and adds their labels, she gets a distribution over integers … Continue reading
Solution to Puzzle #133: Find the Letters
This was a relatively simple problem and many people sent me the correct solution, that includes – Anisha and Arushi Goyal (together), Piyush Maheshwari, Suman Saraf, Karan Sharma, Manjiri, Arun Kohli and Abhinav Jain. Well done all! The answer is as … Continue reading
Solution to Puzzle #132: Boys, Girls and Pennies
I got a few correct solutions to the puzzle – Suman Saraf, Manjiri and Karan Sharma. Congratulations to all three! Answer: Boys count out at interval of 14 and girls count out at interval of 13. Unfortunately, I was hoping … Continue reading
Puzzle #133: Find the Letters
This is a cute problem, a relatively easy one, from Brilliant.org. For those of you who have stopped sharing the puzzles with children, might be a good idea to share this one, I think most kids can do this with … Continue reading
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