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Here's a twist on another puzzle from Alex Bellos's Can You Solve My Problems?. The original puzzle is this: Arrange the digits 1-9 to satisfy the following equations:
_ _ * _ = _ _
_ * _ = _ _
This is doable, and, for me, a brute force approach worked as soon as I figured out where the 5 has to go. The answer?:
27 * 3 = 81
6 * ...
During the last family get together, my nephew was bragging about his newly acquired bowling skills. Apparently, he has this amazing talent to bowl a ball at precisely his desired speed. I was feeling a bit annoyed by all the fuss, so when it was time for ice cream for everyone, I came up with a challenge to settle it once and for all. He could have his ice cream, but only if...
This is a substitution cipher from eva voynich that are equivalent to the voynich glyphs then substituted to Latin letters. Is this considered a Caesar cipher?
If you would like to know what it produced, watch this.
My original puzzle: Six variables 𝐴,𝐵,𝐶,𝐷,𝐸,𝐹 are distinct integers from 1 to 10 (inclusive).
They satisfy the following conditions:
B - D = 2
F + A = 11
A is between D and C
No two variables sum to 14
No two variables sum to 5
C − A = 1
Determine the value of each variable.
This puzzle has exactly o...
When my friend and I were in the living room, my friend suddenly told me to enter the kitchen. My friend had arranged a puzzle for me, and wanted to see if I could come up with a method to crack it. Also told me that I would be in the kitchen for a long time, before I could solve it.
So I entered the kitchen...
In front of me (on the table)...