type of tiling puzzle
A puzzle by National Security Agency applied research mathematician Nicholas R., from the agency’s October 2016 Puzzle Periodical: Eddie, Layne, Kurt, and Chris are locked in a heated game of CyberCha
"... to solve the Crossword. Ten years in, 'it’s been part of my daily routine for so long, I will never voluntarily give it up,' Ms. Rodman, 67, said. 'Someday when the lights go out, that’ll be how
It's a deeply bloggy tag, so it makes me want to do a post collecting recent iterations of "deeply." The first time I used it — in "Deeply... it's such a poser word" — I had a 12-point list. That was
A puzzle by Russian mathematician Boris Kordemsky: A house has 6 stories, each the same height. How many times as long is the ascent to the sixth floor as the ascent to the third?
In 2020 Brooklyn’s Honey & Wax Bookseller came into possession of a strange manuscript consisting of 7,000 illustrations, each 3 centimeters square. The images fill 106 loose sheets that of
An old puzzle from the Car Talk radio show on NPR: You and I each draw a number from a magic hat. We don’t know each other’s numbers, but the hat ensures that they’re adjacent positi
The 65-year-old man who was flipped eight feet in the air by a bison this month at Yellowstone National Park shared his story from his hospital bed. Carl Isom-McDaniel broke his femur in four places,
A problem from the Eighth International Mathematical Olympiad, held in Sofia, Bulgaria, in July 1966 (contributed by the Soviet Union): In a mathematical contest, three problems, A, B, C were posed. A
