The Solution of the Christmas puzzle is now available:
Christmas Maths Puzzle – Solution
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New Year Puzzle Solutions
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The solutions to the imp and pixie puzzles are below.
Happy Boxing Day from The Indisputable Santa Mathematical Advent Calendar!
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Happy Boxing Day!
Throughout the month, to accompany the release of our book on the Mathematics of Christmas, Hannah Fry & I were tweeting out Christmathsy bits and pieces, one a day, advent calendar style.
A final post, to provide the solution to Friday’s puzzle.
Merry Christmas from The Indisputable Santa Mathematical Advent Calendar!
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Merry Christmas!
Throughout the month, to accompany the release of our book on the Mathematics of Christmas, Hannah Fry & I were tweeting out Christmathsy bits and pieces, one a day, advent calendar style.
Thanks for following the Indisputable Santa Mathematical Advent Calendar. Just a few loose ends to wrap up, with a solution to our Christmas Eve puzzle today, with the solution to Friday’s puzzle (Santa’s Dressing Room Disasters) to come tomorrow…
Sequence Challenge – SOLVED!
After 19 days and 55 rule guesses, the sequence challenge was SOLVED on Saturday morning.
The not-so-fabulous mystery prize will be revealed tomorrow. The image is a clue to its identity.
UPDATE: The mystery prize is now revealed at the bottom of the solution page.
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Gridlock Unlocked
The solution to the Gridlock puzzle is now available:
The next puzzle will be the really hard one that I have been promising for ages. The Mad Hatter is back, and this time he’s wearing a stetson…
No, the answer wasn’t obvious…
Stephen Morris has provided a very detailed response to this question, which I have copied to the end of the original post.
It turns out that my intuition was correct (the tiling is possible if and only if r is a rational number lying in the half open interval (0,1]), but the proof is not obvious. The maths involved seems to be rather lovely though, so Stephen’s comments are well worth a look.
Solution: Match Point Mystery
There Wolf!
The solution to the “Where Wolf?”
puzzle is now available:
#5: Where Wolf?
A truth-tellers and liars puzzle.
Published: 12/06/2015
Difficulty: **
Maths knowledge required: None
The solution to the algebra puzzle…
The solution to Puzzle #4 is now up. Either follow the links from the puzzle itself HERE, or, if you have seen the question already, click HERE to go straight to the solution.
As I mentioned previously, I think this is a good puzzle for mathematics learners at GCSE level or for those setting out on A-level courses, both for checking up on basic algebraic understanding and for illustrating some specific problem-solving skills. I have summarised the key learning points that I think the puzzle raises on the solution page.