On his sister's birthday, James gave her a special treasure chest containing her birthday gift. However, knowing her love for riddles and puzzles, he did not give her the key. Instead, he gave her this Sudoku, wished her luck, and left her to solve the mystery. All he told her was that he had hid...
my name is Fblthp, and I am completely lost.
I don't know the location of my home planet, and given the barriers in language and culture, I can't tell you its name in any meaningful manner either.
The one thing I can tell is that in our base-10 mathematics, (we count both fingers in all 5 of our ...
anyone could spam me with lyrics with lines starting with "Attack"? i desperately need it within today (ongoing word hunt competition that allows teaming so couldn't be a question on puzzling)
There is an intellectual puzzle 3x3, as in the photo:
You need to get an ordered set by moving the buttons using an empty area, like:
Question: Is a 4x4, 5x5, 6x6 game possible?
Sub-question: Does this game have an official name?
Thanks in advance for any comment/answer!
The numbers $2020,2019,2018,...,1$ are written on the blackboard from left to right.
John repeats the following process until there is only one number left:
John chooses the first two numbers from the left, namely $a,b$, and replaces them by $$\frac{\sqrt{a^2+3ab+b^2-2a-2b+4}}{ab+4}$$, whic...
I've just started hanging out with my friend Agatha, but we don't know what do to. Suddenly, she comes up with an idea: A game of numbers. These are the rules:
You start with a minimum of 7 and a limit of 100. Pick any number from the set.
Take the prime factorization of that number, in exponen...
Our local used book store is going out of business, and I ran in to pick up another copy of Lord of the Rings. When I picked up a likely copy, a scrap of paper fell out of The Two Towers...I've done my best to reproduce it here:
It looks like a puzzle to me...anybody care to take a crack at it?
There is an intellectual puzzle 3x3, as in the photo:
You need to get an ordered set by moving the buttons using an empty area, like:
Question: Is a 4x4, 5x5, 6x6 game possible?
Sub-question: Does this game have an official name?
Thanks in advance for any comment/answer!
The numbers $2020,2019,2018,...,1$ are written on the blackboard from left to right.
John repeats the following process until there is only one number left:
John chooses the first two numbers from the left, namely $a,b$, and replaces them by $$\frac{\sqrt{a^2+3ab+b^2-2a-2b+4}}{ab+4}$$, whic...
I've just started hanging out with my friend Agatha, but we don't know what do to. Suddenly, she comes up with an idea: A game of numbers. These are the rules:
You start with a minimum of 7 and a limit of 100. Pick any number from the set.
Take the prime factorization of that number, in exponen...
Our local used book store is going out of business, and I ran in to pick up another copy of Lord of the Rings. When I picked up a likely copy, a scrap of paper fell out of The Two Towers...I've done my best to reproduce it here:
It looks like a puzzle to me...anybody care to take a crack at it?
