HOPEFULLY-EASY RIDDLES? Let’s try to make up for the over-complicated Puzzle from last time! Here are some good old standard riddles. (Perhaps you’ve heard some of them?) For this Puzzle, answer ANY ONE of them and get credit (and recognition :-)). Extra credit for more than one answer! 1. If two’s company and three’s a crowd, […]
Author: Larry Campbell
No Humor Concerning Humor
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Curiosity of the Week Tidbits
Curiosity of the Week: In July 1950, a patent was issued for an automatic spaghetti-spinning fork. VARIOUS SOURCES USED: The Book of Useless Information (Publications International, Ltd); Isacc Asimov’s Book of Facts (Wings Books); More Fascinating Facts (David Louis, Crown Publishers); others from the web in some form. Previous Curiosities: May 27, 2024: The only manmade structure visible […]
Isn’t Math Wonderful? & Pesky Puzzler 24.1 – Jan ’24
Consider this January 24, and look at its date, written with the two-digit year: 1/24/24. Note that the month (1) times the day (24) equals the year (24). This phenomenon happens again on February 12: 2/12/24. And again on March 8. (3/8/24). Indeed this happens SEVEN times this year. (Apr 6, Jun 4, Aug 3, and Dec 2 […]
Puzzlers VI & VII – Solutions
PUZZLER VI: What Error is in This Picture? (You may ignore the 0:10 ‘timer’ embedded in the shot.) SOLUTION: There were a few believable ‘errors’ suggested for this one, but all submitters also included the ‘obvious’ one, namely that June does not have 31 days, as suggested on the calendar in the picture. BONUS […]
Isn’t Math Wonderful?! – December 2023
The Amazing “Knight’s Tour” (Semi-) Magic Square Quick Background/Review: A magic square is a square array (of any size) of consecutive counting numbers where all the rows, columns, and diagonals add to the same number. A simple 3 x 3 example is shown to the right. An 8 x 8 Square with an Incredible Feature: […]
Puzzler(s) VII
BONUS PUZZLER(s) for DECEMBER Here are a couple of arithmetic puzzlers to tide us over until January. Solve EITHER or BOTH and send along your solutions.
Wild Cards! – Dec 11, 2023
Mailing/Schedule Updates Merry Christmas? Christmas Sale? Krazy Pic 1 Krazy Pic 2 Cartoon of the Week Christmas Sale? Amazing Location of the Week Pesky Puzzler Previous Pesky Puzzler VI Quote for the Week We don’t have to heal the earth; she can heal herself. All we have to do is stop making her sick. Black […]
Solution – Puzzler V
Here’s a two part Puzzler that should be fun. The answers are related and when you find out how, you’ll have a big clue. (There may be alternate acceptable answers to each part). SOLUTION(S): A) What is mathematically special about the Zip Code for Savannah, Georgia? I first saw this fact from another direction, so I […]
Pesky Puzzler VI
What Error is in This Picture? (You may ignore the 0:10 ‘timer’ embedded in the shot.)
