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This logic puzzle is the numerical equivalent of a crossword. Each white cell in the diagram is to be filled with a digit from the range 1-9. The sum of each string of digits must match the “clue” given in the diagram. For example, th...
The programming language efghij is literally object-oriented — its logic is expressed by arranging ordinary items in meaningful tableaus:
In this example, the tray and the cutting board constitute code blocks. The oblong plate, however, has a clothes peg on it, which exp...
Ho! Ho! Yes! Yes! It’s very all well,
You may drunk I am think, but I tell you I’m not,
I’m as sound as a fiddle and fit as a bell,
And stable quite ill to see what’s what.
I under do stand you surprise a got
When I headed my smear with gooseberry jam;
And I’ve swallowed, I grant, a beer of lot —
But I’m not so think as you d...
A puzzling passage from Vladimir Nabokov’s 1957 novel Pnin:
Pnin’s birthday … fell on February 3, by the Julian calendar into which he had been born in St. Petersburg in 1898. He never celebrated it nowadays, partly because, after his departure...