Barry Leung, KoMG

• How Would You Find The YELLOW Area In 12 Seconds?

  We know that the area of the red square is 12 🎯

  math

  Sep 04, 2026
• Two Maths Puzzles Hidden By Lewis Carroll

  The following is an excerpt from A Tangled Tale by Lewis Carroll. He is, of course, best known as the author of Alice's Adventures in...

  fiction

  Sep 04, 2026
• I Just Want To Live

  Between The Platforms

  self

  Sep 03, 2026
• Let's Try This 1997 Maths Exam Question From Cambridge University

  Wording this sort of question is a real headache for the examiners. Suppose you guess wrong; how can you then prove your guess by induction...

  math

  Sep 03, 2026
• A Very Difficult Geometry Puzzle From 2008: Can You Solve It In 1 Minute?

  A round table has radius 4. Six rectangular place mats are placed on the table.

  math

  Sep 02, 2026
• A Classic Probability Teaser With Lewis Carroll: When Are Both Balls Red?

  Please stay for Lewis Carroll's Pillow Problem at the end 🛌

  math

  Sep 02, 2026
• My Favourite Quotes From Riftbound Trading Cards

  I've always loved League of Legends, not least their fervently motivational music videos like Legends Never Die and Warriors.

  poetry

  Sep 01, 2026
• A Maths Challenge: How MUCH Of The Field Is Planted By Me?

  math

  Sep 01, 2026
• Can YOU Find The ODD One Out In 9 Seconds?

  Similar but not quite ...

  philosophy

  Aug 31, 2026
• Are You Smart Enough To Solve Aristotle's Wheel Paradox? 🎡

  math

  Aug 31, 2026
• Can YOU Pick The RIGHT Relation?

  I designed a flag using blue triangles, small white squares, and a red center square, as shown.

  math

  Aug 30, 2026
• Can You Solve This MIT Geometry Puzzle In 8 Seconds?

  I probably solved it in 1 minute and came up with four different solutions!

  math

  Aug 30, 2026
• An Oxford University Maths Admission Question

  Universities have sadly become ideological echo chambers that indoctrinate students with certain political agendas. It used to be about...

  math

  Aug 29, 2026
• Are You Smart Enough To Solve This Old USAMO Maths Problem From 1973?

  When I first looked at this maths problem, it looked like a fairly intimidating system.

  math

  Aug 29, 2026
• Can You Figure This Out: A Maths About Circular Cones 🔴

  What is the ratio of the rise of the liquid level in the narrow cone to the rise of the liquid level in the wide cone?

  math

  Aug 28, 2026
• What Does A Riemann Integral Do?

  A Complicated Method To A Simple Integral

  math

  Aug 27, 2026
• Here's What Cambridge University Asked In 2011: Now Are You Smart Enough To Solve It?

  Let's learn some maths about sketching functions together

  math

  Aug 27, 2026
• Here's How China Discovered The Pythagorean Theorem Before Pythagoras

  Everyone always jokes about the impracticality of Pythagoras Theorem in real life. And as someone who has studied maths at university and...

  math

  Aug 26, 2026
• A Response To "Britain's Bloated University System Is A Drain On The Economy"

  Employers are fuelling the degree myth by demanding qualifications their jobs don't need

  education

  Aug 25, 2026
• Can You Find The RED Area in 8 Seconds?

  Or Can You Do It In Your Head?

  humor

  Aug 24, 2026
• 4 Challenging Maths Problems To Try Before You Sleep

  Can You Figure Them Out?

  math

  Aug 24, 2026
• This Is An Intellectual Country Club

  I didn't know what consultant firms were until my first year of university. After chatting to the other students and doing a bit of...

  education

  Aug 23, 2026
• So How On Earth Is 8i Equal To INFINITY?

  These 4 Simpsons Math Jokes Are Too Smart for Most People

  math

  Aug 23, 2026
• Can You Solve This Maths Olympiad for Girls Problem?

  A British Geometry Challenge

  math

  Aug 22, 2026
• A Deep Dive Into An Oxford University Maths Exam 🐂

  A Maths Exam For Prospective University Students

  math

  Aug 21, 2026
• A Selfish Genius Wants More Money. Can You Help Him Get It?

  philosophy

  Aug 21, 2026
• Truth Hidden In Plain Sight

  Cyberpunk2077

  fiction

  Aug 20, 2026
• Mathematical Magic with a Matrix

  Magic squares have intrigued mathematicians for more than 2,000 years. In the traditional form the square is constructed so that the...

  math

  Aug 20, 2026
• I Saw This Jumping Pegs Puzzle On 3blue1brown's Page

  Here's how I solved it

  math

  Aug 19, 2026
• How Would You Divide 3 Cupcakes Among 5 People?

  Such that the smallest piece of cake is greater than 1/5?

  math

  Aug 19, 2026
• So Who Gets There First?

  math

  Aug 18, 2026
• Think You Are Smart Enough TO Make £200K Working For The British Government?

  Solve This Geometry Puzzle

  math

  Aug 18, 2026
• 7 Mathematical Fallacies To Ponder Before You Sleep

  or after breakfast

  math

  Aug 17, 2026
• Here's How Albert Einstein Proved Pythagoras Theorem When He Was 11

  math

  Aug 16, 2026
• The Way Things Used To Be

  Cyberpunk 2077

  work

  Aug 15, 2026
• How Would You Solve This Difficult Oxford University Maths Challenge?

  Can you solve this 5-part logic puzzle?

  math

  Aug 15, 2026
• A Movie Math Problem Nathan Solves

  Movie X + Y

  math

  Aug 14, 2026
• 7 Books I Have Been Reading

  I must admit that I too have fallen prey to the pandemic of doomscrolling. That said, I still have bouts of focused reading from time to...

  books

  Aug 13, 2026
• Scientists Just Discovered Black Holes Can Be ANY Shape

  And It Breaks Everything We Thought We Knew

  space

  science

  Aug 13, 2026
• What's Your Dream?

  Recently I have come across many of Simon Squibb's Instagram reels, where he interviews people on the streets, asking them what their...

  self

  work

  Aug 12, 2026
• Are You Smart Enough To Solve These 7 Brain Teasers?

  Instead of highly mathematical puzzles, let's take down a notch and have some fun solving these 7 brain teasers instead.

  math

  Aug 11, 2026
• A Multiplayer Game of Backgammon

  self

  Aug 10, 2026
• Let's Look At This 2018 Maths Exam For Gifted Students in Britain Together

  Okay to be clear, this is a practice paper that follows the Pearson Edexcel Syllabus, and was designed for first assessment Summer 2018.

  math

  Aug 09, 2026
• I Found This Wine Measuring Problem In A Cinema in Banbury: Can You Solve It For Me?

  A barrel contains exactly 9 litres of red wine.

  math

  Aug 08, 2026
• Can you find the 3 Areas? 🟦🟧🟥

  The figure above shows a unit square target for shooting on the rectangular coordinate plane. The target is divided into three regions 1, 2...

  math

  Aug 07, 2026
• Actually You Will Never Be Correct

  A Tricky Question From MIT Puzzle Club

  math

  Aug 05, 2026
• Even A 6 Year-Old Can Solve This. But Can You?

  Either you roll a 12-sided fair die once. Either you roll a 6-sided fair die twice.

  math

  Aug 05, 2026
• 7 Years Ago, I Solved Over 6,000 Maths Puzzles

  Back in secondary school, I used to look forward to solving maths puzzles on my laptop after dinner.

  math

  Aug 04, 2026
• So Which Outcome Is More Likely? A or B? Or Both?

  Here's a fun teaser for you.

  math

  Aug 04, 2026
• An American President's Proof of The Pythagorean Theorem

  US President: James A Garfield

  math

  Aug 03, 2026
• How Would YOU Find The Total Shaded Area?

  This is another geometry puzzle by Catriona Agg on X.

  math

  Aug 03, 2026
• What Is The Area Of The Square?

  The circle has a radius 1. The diagonal of the square extends to be a tangent of the circle. The circle touches the black lines at three...

  math

  Aug 02, 2026
• A Critique of The Dark Night of Mathematics by Kirwin Hampshire

  The following is a Substack essay on the existential implications of AI for mathematics by Kirwin Hampshire.

  math

  Aug 02, 2026
• How Would You Tether Your Goat?

  A goat is tethered to the edge of a circular paddock, with a lead adjusted so that the goat can eat just half of the field.

  math

  Aug 01, 2026
• Life Is a Game of Musical Chairs

  It's an unfortunate reality of the human condition that there are more people vying for an ever dwindling number of musical chairs.

  work

  Jul 30, 2026
• Wilnecote, Middleton Lakes, Kingsbury & Echills Wood Railway

  Life itself is the best game there is to play. You as a character get to explore the uncharted lands of the map.

  travel

  Jul 30, 2026
• Write For Math Games

  A Publication for the Best Maths Puzzles on Medium

  math

  Jul 30, 2026
• The Public Goods Game

  You Are Not So Smart by David McRaney

  economy

  Jul 29, 2026
• A Maths Puzzle About Pirates Shooting In A Circle🏴‍☠️ 🪎

  Here's a classic maths retold: 1,024 pirates stand shoulder to shoulder in a circle, numbered 1 through 1,024. On the captain's whistle...

  math

  Jul 29, 2026
• The Consciousness Curse

  Shard from Cyberpunk 2077

  poetry

  Jul 29, 2026
• Women in High Paying Jobs

  Jordan Peterson's Lecture

  work

  feminism

  Jul 28, 2026
• How Can I Monetise This?

  I used Claude to create this HTML-based interactive maths puzzle. (Please click the link above to test it yourself!)

  programming

  Jul 28, 2026
• Let's Look At This 2026 Maths Exam For Gifted Students In Iraq

  I was scrolling on Reddit today and came across this difficult maths exam from Iraqi High School for gifted students.

  math

  Jul 28, 2026
• Are You Smart Enough To Find The Sum Of Angles?

  Sometimes I use AI to generate my blog posts on Medium. The thing is I am doing this for money like I don't care too much anymore about...

  math

  Jul 27, 2026
• Twin Stars: Deng Yu, Hong Wang, and the Proofs That Moved A Century-Old Mountain !

  On July 23, 2026, at the International Congress of Mathematicians in Philadelphia, the Fields Medal went to four mathematicians. Two of...

  math

  Jul 27, 2026
• The Most Productive Failed Walk in History

  When there's no route, stop optimizing and redraw the map.

  math

  Jul 26, 2026
• How To Find The Arc Length And Its Surface Area?

  In this article, we will take a deep dive into the derivations of the arc length of a curve and the surface area of the revolution of a...

  math

  Jul 25, 2026
• Do You Think You Can Study Maths At Oxford University?

  The function f, defined for whole positive numbers, satisfies f(1) = 1 and also the following rules

  math

  Jul 24, 2026
• Who Are You? Who Am I? Who Are We?

  If someone asks you the question, 'Who are you?', how would you answer? Perhaps you will say your name, followed by your country of origin...

  self

  Jul 23, 2026
• A Classic Maths Puzzle: How Many Cats Are Needed?

  The answer might not be what you think

  math

  Jul 23, 2026
• About Vegetarianism and Killing for Food

  I came across Dr Natasha Campbell-McBride's blog post on vegetarianism. I believe it is one of the most important posts anyone should read...

  food

  climate-change

  Jul 22, 2026
• Should You Roll Or Not? - A Counterintuitive Maths Puzzle

  Two bullets are loaded into a gun's round barrel consecutively.

  math

  Jul 22, 2026
• So How Does The Koch Snowflake Have Finite Area?

  Following part one of the series, we will now look at the area of a Koch snowflake starting with an equilateral triangle with a side length...

  math

  Jul 21, 2026
• What If Even Your Point of View Is Uncertain?

  Quantum Physics Says It Can Be

  science

  Jul 21, 2026
• Even A 6 Year-Old Kid Can Solve This In 7 Seconds. But Can You?

  The area of a triangle is 1/2(b)(h), where b is the base and h is the height.

  math

  Jul 20, 2026
• How Does The Koch Snowflake Have Infinite Perimeter?

  What is the perimeter of the above Koch snowflake starting from an equilateral triangle with side length 1?

  math

  Jul 20, 2026
• Student Finds Embarrassing Error in Cambridge Exam!

  The Cambridge IGCSE is the international equivalent of England's GCSE, a qualification typically taken by students aged 14 to 16.

  math

  Jul 19, 2026
• Are You Smart Enough To Get Into Cambridge University?

  math

  Jul 18, 2026
• A Memoir of Berry Picking

  My Chinese name is 梁信廉, and the English translation of that is 'Leung Shun Lim'. That said, I also have an English name (Barry) so that the...

  travel

  food

  Jul 18, 2026
• What's the Area between the Curve and the x-axis?

  This is the Witch of Agnesi, a bell-shaped mathematical curve named after the Italian mathematician Maria Gaetana Agnesi, famous because...

  math

  Jul 17, 2026
• Why Babies Spit Out Vegetables

  Because they are unhealthy and it's your sign to stop ingesting these toxic green leaves

  food

  Jul 17, 2026
• How Many Duplicate FIFA World Cup Stickers Should You Expect?

  A World Cup Maths Puzzle

  math

  Jul 15, 2026
• Hawking's Black Hole Prediction Faces a Mathematical Challenge

  A decades-old assumption that extremal black holes couldn't exist has been overturned by a surprising new proof.

  space

  Jul 14, 2026
• Don't EVER Try This Sum Of Sums Problem!

  The challenge for you is to solve for x.

  math

  Jul 13, 2026
• Do You Think YOU Can Solve This In 10 Seconds?

  math

  Jul 13, 2026
• Can You Evaluate This Without Using The Square Root On The Calculator?

  My challenge for you today is to find the value of this expression.

  math

  Jul 12, 2026
• New Mathematics Breathes Life Into Geometry's Most Ancient Mysteries!

  More than 2,200 years ago, the Greek geometer Apollonius of Perga posed a deceptively simple question: How many circles can touch three...

  math

  Jul 12, 2026
• Pictures From Hinckley & Wolverhampton

  I really think society is collapsing. People are struggling around the world. They cannot get any jobs to save their lives.

  travel

  Jul 11, 2026
• When Infinity Stops Making Sense: 7 Mathematical Paradoxes

  "Infinity is not just a very large number. It's a place where logic begins to behave in ways that seem impossible."

  math

  Jul 11, 2026
• Don't Get Fooled By This Oxford University Question!

  A red herring in plain sight

  math

  Jul 10, 2026
• Are You Smart Enough To Solve This In 7 Seconds?

  math

  Jul 09, 2026
• An 80-Year-Old Puzzle That FINALLY Changed Number Theory!

  math

  Jul 09, 2026
• How Quickly Can You Come Up With All 3 Solutions?

  A Geometry Problem

  math

  Jul 08, 2026
• A Slice of Coventry, United Kingdom

  Through Friary, Arboretum, Chapel, Tombstones and Everything in Between

  travel

  history

  Jul 08, 2026
• A Surprising Game Theory Challenge

  Not What You Think!

  math

  Jul 07, 2026
• A Cambridge University Geometry Puzzle

  The shape MNOP is a square of perimeter of 40 cm and has two lines of reflectional symmetry.

  math

  Jul 07, 2026
• How Would YOU Evaluate This INFINITE Series From Cambridge University?

  Let me know your approach!

  math

  Jul 06, 2026
• A 300-Year-Old Geometry Puzzle Finally Has an Answer

  The first known shape that cannot pass through itself has been discovered, settling a mathematical question born from a royal bet

  math

  Jul 06, 2026
• Can You Solve This MIT Probability Puzzle? 🇺🇸

  The figure shows a 4-digit password lock. Each gate has the digits 0–9.

  math

  Jul 05, 2026
• A Fun Cambridge University Maths Challenge From The Year 2023: Can You Do It In Your Head?

  I feel like because I have been posting daily maths puzzles over the past few years, whenever I look at a solution to any maths question, I...

  math

  Jul 05, 2026
• Think You Can Pass Cambridge University's Difficult Admission Test?

  All so-called math or science communicators are just rehashing existing ideas and materials. To be clear, there are more than enough...

  math

  Jul 04, 2026
• The Most Natural Mathematician

  It's not a badge of honour to study mathematics through coffee-fuelled late nights. It's not cool to have to sacrifice health or happiness...

  math

  education

  Jul 03, 2026
• Do You Think You Are Smart Enough To Study At Cambridge?

  This question comes from Cambridge University's Test of Mathematics for University Admission. To be clear, this is designed for students...

  math

  Jul 03, 2026
• What's The Volume Of The Vase?

  A Very Very Interesting Calculus Problem

  math

  Jul 02, 2026
• Can You Solve This EASY Oxford University Maths Question?

  This puzzle comes from an Oxford University's mathematics admission test. I must say back then we didn't have any AI that would scramble...

  math

  Jul 01, 2026
• The Coin Flip Hidden Inside Every Cubic Equation

  Somewhere in the Mediterranean, around 500 B.C., a group of men threw their colleague overboard for doing mathematics.

  math

  Jul 01, 2026
• Can You Find The Height of the Red Bar?

  A Brain Teaser From Maths StackExchange

  math

  Jun 30, 2026
• Can You Solve This Very Very Tricky Oxford University Maths Question?

  Sometimes I ask myself, you know, what's the reason for existence. What's the purpose of life? I don't have a sophisticated answer. But I...

  math

  Jun 29, 2026
• What Does A Ham Sandwich Have To Do With Maths?

  Calculus: Intermediate Value Theorem

  math

  Jun 29, 2026
• 8 Maths & Science Jokes Explained 🤡😹

  1. Why did the photon check a suitcase?

  math

  Jun 28, 2026
• An Oxford University Challenge: Does Alice Win Or Is It A Draw?

  This is a probability puzzle from the University Oxford's MAT. The test is designed for students looking to read mathematics at the...

  math

  Jun 27, 2026
• A Roundabout Puzzle: Can 12 Roads Be Made Safer?

  Roundabouts are useful for avoiding the delay of traffic lights, but they also come with a higher risk of accidents. To measure this risk...

  design

  Jun 26, 2026
• What Is The Probability That The First Ball Barry Took Was Red? 🔴🔵

  We've reached 1 MILLION views on the blog!

  math

  Jun 26, 2026
• When Is A Function Differentiable?

  These are some notes I made when studying my undergraduate degree at university. I hope you enjoy reading them. Perhaps by reading them...

  math

  Jun 25, 2026
• A Triple Summer

  Every day I wake up to straight rays of sunlight through the aperture created by the curtains I close, imitating living in an enclosed cave...

  self

  Jun 25, 2026
• An American Maths Problem A Day Keeps The Teacher Away 🍎🩺

  The figure above shows a grid of 10 squares in a row. Each square has a diagonal connecting its lower left vertex to its upper right...

  math

  Jun 24, 2026
• 7 Elegant Mathematical Proofs Without Words

  Mathematics is a vast and ever expanding subject. It's got numbers, symbols, formulas, proofs and diagrams. As one advances to higher...

  math

  Jun 24, 2026
• The Art and Science Of Maths Communication

  Is to be at peace with the fact that some people like painting on a canvass more than solving equations on a blackboard. And that's ok.

  math

  Jun 23, 2026
• The Rubik's Cube Is a Tiny Philosophy Machine

  How a plastic icon of pop culture secretly teaches group theory, humility, and the art of undoing

  math

  Jun 23, 2026
• A Geometry Puzzle With 3 Circles

  Two circles of radius 5 are externally tangent to each other and are internally tangent to a circle of radius 13 at points A and B, as...

  math

  Jun 22, 2026
• This Equation Looked in the Mirror - and Drew Itself!

  There are math formulas that calculate. There are formulas that predict planets, encrypt secrets, optimise economies, and describe the...

  math

  Jun 22, 2026
• Fighting Risks Injury And Is Unnecessary If There's Enough Food For All

  Not only is this right about cat colonies, it's also an aphorism about human society.

  work

  Jun 21, 2026
• Why Use Radians in Calculus?

  The Secret Language of the Circle

  math

  Jun 21, 2026
• French Is The Only Thing I Remember From My (Maths) Degree

  If I didn't snuggle in bed for just the right amount of time, and I didn't talk to my brother on the phone for just that many minutes, I...

  self

  Jun 19, 2026
• Can You Find The Heaviest Ornament?

  It's my goal to provide just the right level of understanding for the average reader of this blog, so the solution I provide will target...

  comics

  Jun 18, 2026
• 7 Mathematics Exam Questions From 1926, City of Birmingham University Education

  Yesterday I ventured to the birthplace of the infamous street gang Peaky Blinders - the City of Birmingham.

  math

  Jun 18, 2026
• A Spacecraft Problem: Can You Solve It?

  It's my goal to provide just the right level of understanding for the average reader of this blog, so the solution I provide will target...

  space

  science

  Jun 17, 2026
• The World Does Not Play by Your Rules

  Five paradoxes that expose the gap between how we think probability works and how it actually behaves

  math

  Jun 16, 2026
• Who Gets Their Tea Cooler Then?

  Not only is today my 23rd man-made birthday, it's also the day I earn the title of CoSP, aka Curator of Science Puzzles.

  humor

  science

  Jun 15, 2026
• Can You Separate 66 Coins?

  Happy Birthday To Myself and Those Who Happen To Share The Same Birthday

  humor

  Jun 15, 2026
• Here Are Some YouTube Thumbnails

  Well yes of course I need to make money to feed myself, otherwise how else can I complete higher order goals like learning for the sake of...

  humor

  Jun 14, 2026
• How Many Coins Does The 12th Pirate Get?

  So a group of 12 pirates agree to divide a treasure chest of gold coins aong themselves as follows.

  math

  Jun 14, 2026
• How'd You Find The Shaded Region?

  The figure above shows 13 circles of radius 1 within a larger circle. All the intersections occur at points of tangency.

  work

  Jun 13, 2026
• You Can't Win This Game

  What Conway's Soldiers teaches startup founders about hidden limits

  startups

  Jun 12, 2026
• A Mathematical Calendar Puzzle

  Today's puzzle comes from a mathematical calendar my good friend and Liminal Chief Builder Sonny Vu.

  math

  Jun 12, 2026
• How Long Is The ZigZag Line?

  I solved this in 5 seconds really

  math

  Jun 11, 2026
• How To Find The Area Of The Annulus?

  An annulus is the region between two concentric circles. The concentric circles in the figure have radii b and c, with b > c. Let OX be a...

  math

  Jun 10, 2026
• A Brief History Of Calculus

  Calculus is usually associated with Isaac Newton and Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, who are commonly called its founders. This is true in the...

  math

  Jun 10, 2026
• What P = NP Would Actually Mean

  Imagine a lock with a billion billion possible keys.

  math

  Jun 09, 2026
• Which One Is The Correct Choice?

  I have been posting once a day on YouTube and it's good to see that our channel is growing steadily.

  math

  Jun 07, 2026
• Calculate The Whole Perimeter!

  This is a trapezoid, or a trapezium if you'd like.

  math

  Jun 06, 2026
• What Is The Radius Of The Circle?

  Eight semicircles line the inside of a square with side length 2 as shown.

  math

  Jun 06, 2026
• How Big Is The Red Area?

  As shown in the figure above, six semicircles lie in the interior of a regular hexagon with side length 2 so that tthe diameters of the...

  math

  Jun 05, 2026
• Can You Find The 28th Coefficient?

  Sometimes a polynomial problem looks like it's asking you to multiply out a huge expression.

  math

  Jun 04, 2026
• Bagot's Castle in Baginton & Bridge View Light Railway

  It was a nice day to have explored this hidden gem in Baginton, Coventry.

  travel

  Jun 02, 2026
• How Would You Find The Radius?

  A Fun Geometry Challenge

  math

  Jun 01, 2026
• Are You More Clever Than A 8 Year-Old?

  math

  May 31, 2026
• We Need To Start Planting Female Trees

  It's pollen season and oh boy for the past few days my nostrils have been flaring up so severely. My sleep hasn't been the best and I have...

  science

  climate-change

  May 30, 2026
• The Monster Group: The Largest Symmetry Nobody Expected

  Mathematics has many ways of making ordinary language fail.

  math

  May 30, 2026
• It's Time To Take YouTube Seriously

  The Wacom One budget tablet arrived today through eBay. I was out and about with my friend, but thankfully, my housemate helped collect the...

  math

  May 29, 2026
• The Fibonacci Sequence Is Hiding Inside 1/89

  Some mathematical facts feel inevitable.

  math

  May 29, 2026
• Do NOT Solve This With Calculus!

  At first glance, this maths puzzle appears to require multivariable calculus.

  math

  May 28, 2026
• Life Is The Best Video Game There Is

  I like using Apple Maps because it feels like I am the main character in one of those MMORPG saga video games exploring the world around...

  travel

  May 27, 2026
• What If the Universe Has No Edge and No Centre?

  The strange topology at the frontier of cosmology, and what a video game from 1980 has to do with the shape of everything

  space

  science

  May 26, 2026
• Slave To The Algorithm

  I think we are all slaves to something. Certainly, I don't mean we are owned by someone else as property to extract labour out of.

  math

  May 25, 2026
• Cavalieri's Principle: Calculus of the Ancient Times

  Before the Giants of Newton and Leibniz

  math

  May 25, 2026
• Apparently Researchers Are Astonished That AI Cracked An 80-year-old Mathematics Challenge

  The late Hungarian mathematician Paul Erdős thought he had the last word on a geometry problem. Now an OpenAI chatbot has proved him wrong.

  artificial-intelligence

  May 24, 2026
• How Much Of The Large Triangle Is Shaded?

  The diagram shows an equilateral triangle divided into nine smaller equilateral triangles, with two additional lines.

  math

  May 23, 2026
• What's The Height In The Middle?

  This is one of those geometry challenges you must try

  math

  May 23, 2026
• I Literally Solved This In 3 Seconds

  What's the dog's height?

  math

  May 22, 2026
• How Would You Calculate This Infinite Product?

  Here's an exciting maths puzzle about a product of infinitely many terms.

  math

  May 21, 2026
• Can You Find The Shaded Area?

  Geometry Challenge: 4 circles and one triangle

  math

  May 20, 2026
• To Make A Living Is To Find Food

  We all have to make a living to survive.

  self

  May 18, 2026
• I Have Run Out Of A CANVA Whiteboard

  A Mathematical Milestone

  math

  May 17, 2026
• Can You Solve This Japanese Geometry Problem?

  Sangaku Challenge

  math

  May 17, 2026
• So That's Why 6 Was Afraid Of 7

  It's not because 7 ate 9 🙅🙀🚫, or is it?

  math

  May 16, 2026
• So How Big Is The Biggest Prime Number?

  A two-thousand-year quest to find the largest prime, and the man who found it

  math

  May 15, 2026
• Why Doesn't The Integral Equal Zero?

  An interesting paradox in mathematics and calculus

  math

  May 14, 2026
• Are You Smarter Than A 3rd Grader? 3rd Grade Homework Troll Triangles

  Hmm notice how the answer choices are 5, 8 and 9

  math

  May 14, 2026
• Can You Solve This Volume Of Revolution Question?

  Don't forget to repost this problem!

  math

  May 13, 2026
• How To Solve The Pythagoras Pie Puzzle?

  This is A mathematically delicious mystery

  math

  May 13, 2026
• Mathematicians Finally Crack The Famous 'Moving Sofa Problem'

  What's the largest couch that can turn a corner? 🛋️

  math

  May 11, 2026
• Can You Crack This Difficult Geometry Doughnut?

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  math

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• An Ancient British Math Problem From 1984

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  math

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  math

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• Happy Chinese New Year

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  math

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• Can You Solve Tricky Geometry Puzzle?

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  math

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• How To Prove Like A Mathematician?

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• A Mathematical Bracelet Puzzle

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  math

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• Can You Move Two Match Sticks To Make A Bigger Number?

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  math

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• Mathematical Properties of 2025

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  math

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  math

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  math

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• Here's How You Fold An Equilateral Triangle 🔺

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  math

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• A Hint To A Very Difficult Geometry Teaser

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  math

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• A Very Hard Four-Circle Problem

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• How Many Of The Combinations Are Prime?

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• Can You Find All 4 Solutions?

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  math

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• A Very Difficult Geometry Teaser

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  math

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• How Many Wolves Will Remain?

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  math

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• What Is The Area Of The Circle?

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• 65 Entries On Modernization, Mother Nature And Their Relations

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• How Many Zeroes Are There?

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  math

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• I Have A CoMN Degree From The Best University In The World

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• An Algebra Challenge

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• A Complex Counting Puzzle

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  math

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• How Likely Is 4?

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  math

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• How Large Is The Shaded Region In A Square?

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  math

  Oct 23, 2024
• A Very Challenging Integral

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  math

  Oct 22, 2024
• How To Find The Area?

  🎯 Math Games | Solution 22 | 22/10/2024

  math

  Oct 21, 2024
• How Long Is This ZigZag Path?

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  Oct 20, 2024
• Math Games is also on Substack 👑

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  math

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• How To Find The Area?

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  math

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• How Much Area Can The Goat Graze Outside The Barn?

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• It's always better to have something rather than nothing

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• How Large Is The Square?

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• Can You Solve This Difficult Integral?

  🎯 Math Games | Solution 21 | 14/10/2024

  math

  Oct 14, 2024
• Are You Smart Enough For This Cambridge University Geometry Puzzle?

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• Can You Solve This Difficult Integral?

  🎯 Math Games | Puzzle 21 | 12/10/2024

  math

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• Can You Do This Very Tricky Integral?

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  Oct 11, 2024
• University Library Is Depressing

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  math

  Oct 10, 2024
• 39.27% of You Can't Solve This???

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  math

  Oct 10, 2024
• When Do They Touch At Just One Point?

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  math

  Oct 08, 2024
• What is a + b?

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  math

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• Can You Find The Right Box?

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• What is a + b?

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  math

  Oct 05, 2024
• How Would You Do This Functional Equation?

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  math

  Oct 04, 2024
• Can You Solve This Oxford Geometry Puzzle?

  An Oxford MAT Problem ❄️

  math

  Oct 03, 2024
• Can You Roll Two 8-sided Dice?

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  math

  Oct 02, 2024
• A 2007 Oxford University Math Puzzle

  An Algebra Challenge

  math

  Oct 01, 2024
• Blogging Is Typing Man-made Letters On A Man-made Laptop

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• Can You Find The Equation?

  🎯 Math Games | Solution 19 | 30/9/2024

  math

  Sep 30, 2024
• Can You Find The 2024th Letter?

  A Logic Brain Teaser 🐍

  math

  Sep 30, 2024
• Can You Do It In Your Head?

  Without pen and paper!

  math

  Sep 29, 2024
• Can You Find The Equation?

  🎯 Math Games | Puzzle 19 | 28/9/2024

  math

  Sep 28, 2024
• Can You Solve This Without π?

  A Geometry Puzzle

  math

  Sep 27, 2024
• Another Oxford University Puzzle

  Oxford University's Admission Test

  math

  Sep 26, 2024
• Loving Hope & Hoping for Love

  Connecting with Mother Nature

  spirituality

  Sep 26, 2024
• An Oxford University Math Question

  A Puzzle About Logarithms 🪵

  comics

  Sep 24, 2024
• A New Chapter of Math Games

  New Rules, Better Scoring, A Bright Future

  self

  Sep 24, 2024
• Is It A Prime Number?

  🎯 Math Games | Solution 18 | 23/9/2024

  math

  Sep 23, 2024
• I Imagine Myself As The Protagonist Of A Story

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  spirituality

  Sep 23, 2024
• Can You Find The Area Of The Red Region?

  A Geometry Puzzle 💗🍀

  math

  Sep 22, 2024
• When Is The Number Divisible By 18?

  A Probability & Number Theory Puzzle

  math

  Sep 21, 2024
• Is It A Prime Number?

  🎯 Math Games | Puzzle 18 | 21/9/2024

  math

  Sep 21, 2024
• Do You Believe In Miracles?

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  spirituality

  Sep 21, 2024
• I Used To Pinch Ants With My Fingers

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  self

  Sep 20, 2024
• Can You Study Math At Oxford?

  An Oxford MAT Question

  math

  Sep 20, 2024
• How Many Ways To Reach 1000?

  A Mathematical Brain Teaser

  math

  Sep 18, 2024
• Can You Find This Infinite Sum?

  🎯 Math Games | Solution 17 | 16/9/2024

  math

  Sep 16, 2024
• How Would You Do This?

  Summing a finite series

  math

  Sep 16, 2024
• Read This and Save Yourself and Loved Ones from The Evil Sins of The Dental Industry

  Health is more important than mathematics

  health

  Sep 15, 2024
• I walk barefoot on grass twice a day

  The practice of grounding, maybe we shouldn't call it a practice

  lifestyle

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  Sep 15, 2024
• How Long Is The Arc AC?

  A Circle Geometry Puzzle

  math

  Sep 15, 2024
• I Pray To The Universe

  Source

  spirituality

  Sep 14, 2024
• Can You Find This Infinite Sum?

  🎯 Math Games | Puzzle 17 | 14/9/2024

  math

  Sep 14, 2024
• How Many Ways To Put Them If No Empty Boxes Are Allowed?

  A counting puzzle

  writing

  Sep 14, 2024
• Can You Tell Me The Number Of Digits?

  A number theory puzzle

  math

  Sep 13, 2024
• We Are Like Baby Turtles

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  self

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  Sep 12, 2024
• Can You Count Them All?

  A Fun Math Puzzle

  writing

  math

  Sep 11, 2024
• Can You Minimize The Distance?

  A Geometry Puzzle 💫

  math

  Sep 11, 2024
• Can You Find How Many Fruits There Are?

  A Simple Logic Puzzle 🍎🍊🍌

  math

  Sep 10, 2024
• Prove it! (Another one)

  🎯 Math Games | Puzzle 16 | 31/8/2024

  math

  Sep 09, 2024
• Are You Smart Enough To Find The First 2 Digits?

  This is a big number ...

  math

  Sep 09, 2024
• I don't like cities

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  society

  Sep 08, 2024
• Can You Find The Area?

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  math

  Sep 08, 2024
• Can You Make This 24?

  The 24 Game 🎮

  math

  Sep 07, 2024
• Can You Find The Area?

  A classic geometry puzzle

  math

  Sep 06, 2024
• I hope you can read these two articles by professor Karin Badt

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  health

  Sep 05, 2024
• I am taking a break

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  poetry

  Sep 02, 2024
• Prove it! (Another one)

  🎯 Math Games | Puzzle 16 | 31/8/2024

  humor

  comics

  Aug 31, 2024
• Articles I Find Worthwhile On Medium

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  Aug 31, 2024
• No Matter What, You Keep Finding Something To Fight For

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  Aug 31, 2024
• Can You Find The Greatest Power Of 2?

  An algebra puzzle

  math

  Aug 30, 2024
• Truth, Greed, Nature

  29/8/2024

  self

  Aug 29, 2024
• How Many Different Ways Can You Put The Light Bulbs?

  A counting puzzle

  math

  Aug 29, 2024
• Can You Sum This Up In 1 Minute?

  You can do it in 20 seconds if you know your trigonometry well!

  math

  Aug 28, 2024
• I just had my wisdom teeth taken out today

  Pain is nature's way of telling us something is not right

  self

  health

  Aug 27, 2024
• Prove This!

  🎯 Math Games | Solution 15 | 26/8/2024

  math

  Aug 26, 2024
• How Likely Does The Lion Arrive At D?

  A probability puzzle of a Lion's den 🦁

  math

  Aug 25, 2024
• How Would You Find Angle x?

  An angle chasing puzzle within a pentagon ⬟

  math

  Aug 24, 2024
• Time Now Is Always Worth More Than Time Later

  Time is money, but money is never time

  self

  Aug 24, 2024
• Prove This!

  🎯 Math Games | Puzzle 15 | 24/8/2024

  comics

  Aug 24, 2024
• Can You Sum This To Infinity?

  An algebra puzzle ♾️

  math

  Aug 24, 2024
• How Often Are There 6 Legs?

  A probability puzzle with 🐥 & 🐷

  math

  Aug 23, 2024
• What's The Area Of The Triangle?

  Can you solve this geometry puzzle?

  math

  Aug 23, 2024
• Can You Do This In Your Head?

  No pens and papers needed 🚫

  writing

  Aug 22, 2024
• What's The 821st Number?

  An algebra math puzzle 🧮

  math

  Aug 21, 2024
• 22.5% of My Math Degree Marks Comes From Language Modules

  I believe learning a language is more enriching to the soul

  math

  education

  Aug 20, 2024
• Can You Find The Blue Angle?

  A circle geometry puzzle 🔵

  math

  Aug 20, 2024
• Can You Solve This Integral With Substitution?

  🎯 Math Games | Solution 14 | 19/8/2024

  math

  Aug 19, 2024
• Are You Smart Enough To Study Math At Oxford?

  Oxford MAT Algebra Challenge

  math

  Aug 18, 2024
• Can You Solve This Integral With Substitution?

  🎯 Math Games | Puzzle 14 | 17/8/2024

  math

  Aug 17, 2024
• How Much Of This Is Pentagons?

  A Simple Math Puzzle ⛪

  math

  Aug 17, 2024
• Can You Find The Area of The Semi-circle?

  Given you know how big the square is 🔷

  math

  Aug 16, 2024
• What's The Ratio The Crease Divides?

  A Geometry Puzzle 📜

  math

  Aug 15, 2024
• How Big Is The Red Area?

  A Geometry Puzzle 🏮

  writing

  Aug 14, 2024
• A Sleep Conundrum

  If only I could sleep like a cat

  lifestyle

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  Aug 13, 2024
• Are You Quick Enough To Find x?

  An algebra puzzle

  math

  Aug 13, 2024
• Can You Find cos(2Θ)?

  🎯 Math Games | Solution 13 | 12/8/2024

  math

  Aug 12, 2024
• How Likely Is A Vowel Drawn?

  A Probability Puzzle with the Alphabet

  math

  Aug 11, 2024
• Do This In 1 Second ⏳

  Does this count as a math puzzle?

  humor

  math

  Aug 10, 2024
• Can You Find cos(2Θ)?

  🎯 Math Games | Puzzle 13 | 10/8/2024

  math

  Aug 10, 2024
• Can You Measure Time Perfectly By Burning Rods?

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  productivity

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  Aug 09, 2024
• How Much Bigger Is The Dragon?

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  math

  Aug 08, 2024
• Am I Skiing Or Am I Thinking?

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  lifestyle

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  Aug 08, 2024
• How Tall Is The Middle?

  Not too hard, not too easy

  math

  Aug 07, 2024
• How Big Is Black And Red?

  A Geometry Puzzle

  math

  Aug 06, 2024
• What Time Will It Be?

  🎯 Math Games | Solution 12 | 5/8/2024

  math

  Aug 05, 2024
• 1 Knife, 2 Apples, 3 People

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  humor

  math

  Aug 04, 2024
• What Time Will It Be?

  🎯 Math Games | Puzzle 12 | 3/8/2024

  math

  comics

  Aug 03, 2024
• What's The Area of The Red Region?

  A Fun Geometry Puzzle 🍒

  math

  Aug 03, 2024
• How Would You Find The Side?

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  math

  Aug 02, 2024
• Can You Solve This New Sudoku?

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  math

  Aug 01, 2024
• When Do Two Polynomials Share A Root?

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  math

  Jul 31, 2024
• Jupiter and Saturn will never become the Sun

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  space

  Jul 30, 2024
• What is a + b + c + d + e?

  🎯 Math Games | Puzzle 11 | 29/7/2024

  math

  Jul 29, 2024
• How Many Ways To Make 19 − 18 = 10?

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  creativity

  writing

  math

  Jul 29, 2024
• Can You Solve This Oxford University Geometry Puzzle?

  Oxford MAT Geometry 🍊

  math

  Jul 28, 2024
• In life, as in mathematics, not everything has a real solution

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  Jul 27, 2024
• What is a + b + c + d + e?

  🎯 Math Games | Puzzle 11 | 27/7/2024

  math

  comics

  Jul 27, 2024
• What Is The Area Of The Triangle?

  I know this is simple

  math

  Jul 26, 2024
• I have heightened sensitivity to sounds

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  mental-health

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  Jul 24, 2024
• What Are The Points P and Q?

  A High School Calculus Challenge

  math

  Jul 24, 2024
• How Often Do You Win?

  If you answer 3️⃣ questions randomly

  work

  Jul 23, 2024
• What is m + n?

  🎯 Math Games | Solution 10 | 22/7/2024

  math

  Jul 22, 2024
• What Is The Area of The Intersection?

  What would the graph look like?

  math

  Jul 21, 2024
• What is m + n?

  🎯 Math Games | Puzzle 10 | 20/7/2024

  math

  Jul 20, 2024
• I don't like mathematics enough

  I just finished second year of my mathematics degree

  math

  Jul 19, 2024
• Can You Find x?

  An Algebra Puzzle

  math

  Jul 18, 2024
• Disneyland

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  self

  Jul 17, 2024
• How likely is the ball to enter Q?

  A Simple Probability Challenge

  math

  Jul 15, 2024
• Can You Find The Radius?

  🎯 Math Games | Solution 9 | 15/7/2024

  math

  Jul 15, 2024
• Can You Color Exactly Two Squares?

  A Simple Logic Puzzle 🎨

  math

  programming

  Jul 14, 2024
• The Daily Bare Minimum

  13/7/2024

  relationships

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  Jul 13, 2024
• Can You Find The Radius?

  🎯 Math Games | Puzzle 9 | 13/7/2024

  comics

  Jul 13, 2024
• How To Sum All 4 Angles?

  A Circle Geometry Puzzle 🦧🍊

  math

  Jul 13, 2024
• Are You Smart Enough To Find The Area?

  A Geometry Puzzle 🍏

  math

  Jul 12, 2024
• When Do Two Dice Add To A Prime?

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  math

  Jul 11, 2024
• I was browsing LinkedIn

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  Jul 11, 2024
• Can You Find The Sum of All Red Angles?

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  math

  Jul 10, 2024
• What's the Degree of This Polynomial?

  Are you smart enough to get into Oxford?

  math

  Jul 09, 2024
• What Is The Correct Value?

  🎯 Math Games | Solution 8 | 8/7/2024

  math

  Jul 08, 2024
• So Which Cup Is Most Likely To Hold The Coin?

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  math

  Jul 08, 2024
• How To Find ThisAlternating Sum?

  From 1996 to 1

  math

  Jul 07, 2024
• Can You Chase The Angle?

  AB and DE are parallel

  math

  Jul 06, 2024
• What Is The Correct Value?

  🎯 Math Games | Puzzle 8 | 6/7/2024

  comics

  Jul 06, 2024
• Medium Algorithm Is Like A Slot Machine

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  creativity

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  Jul 05, 2024
• What fraction of the square is shaded?

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  comics

  Jul 05, 2024
• What Is loga(b)?

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  math

  Jul 04, 2024
• Infinite Jesters and Grandi's Series

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  math

  Jul 03, 2024
• How Big Is The Shaded Region?

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  math

  Jul 02, 2024
• 6 hours to go

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  self

  Jun 30, 2024
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  Jun 30, 2024
• Can You Solve This Integral?

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  math

  Jun 29, 2024
• Expectations vs Reality

  27/6/2024

  humor

  comics

  Jun 27, 2024
• Can You Pass This Cambridge Math ?

  Cambridge University Math Problem

  math

  Jun 27, 2024
• It's always the hardest to go from 0 to 1, but the 1 is far more important than the 2, the 3 and...

  26/6/2024

  self

  Jun 26, 2024
• Can You Solve This Under Five Minutes?

  Telescoping Series and Difference of Squares

  math

  Jun 26, 2024
• I am A Divergent

  25/6/2024

  self

  Jun 25, 2024
• How Many Light Bulbs Are Still On?

  After 100 mathematicians' flicks 💡💡💡

  math

  Jun 25, 2024
• Can You Find the Sum Of All Possible Radii?

  🎯 Math Games | Solution 7 | 24/6/2024

  math

  Jun 24, 2024
• Art Work from the city of Demacia

  22/6/2024

  humor

  Jun 22, 2024
• Can You Find The Highest And Lowest Points?

  A Calculus Math Puzzle

  math

  Jun 22, 2024
• Can You Find the Sum Of All Possible Radii?

  🎯 Math Games | Puzzle 7 | 22/6/2024

  math

  comics

  Jun 22, 2024
• Draw 4 Lines, 6 Lines and 8 Lines Only

  A Math & Logic Puzzle ✏ ✏ ✏

  math

  Jun 21, 2024
• How To Find 3 Variables?

  3 Mathematical Equations

  math

  Jun 20, 2024
• I Don't Care and You Probably Don't Either

  19/6/2024

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  Jun 19, 2024
• What's the Angle in the Triangle?

  Llorenc Sole sent me this puzzle by Catriona

  math

  Jun 19, 2024
• Teddy Bear, DVD, Transience

  18/6/2024

  relationships

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  Jun 18, 2024
• Can You Solve This Old School Geometry Puzzle?

  6 Squares and 4 Triangles

  math

  Jun 18, 2024
• What's The Difference Between Max and Min?

  🎯 Math Games | Solution 6 | 17/6/2024

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