A Man’s Guide to Shopping at Wal-Mart

NOTE: Apparently I have not yet learned all the more subtle features of formatting with this new platform on[…]

Isn’t Math Wonderful? – January 2025

2025: What a Year! Seems like every year, we have lots of fun facts to discover about the year[…]

Pesky Puzzlers 2025

PP 25.4: Do any or all: Some Previous Puzzlers – and Solutions PP 25.3: Do any or all: PP 25.2: Do any[…]

Curiosity Tidbits – 2025

March 10:  Edwin Smith, a miner in the California gold rush of the mid-1800s, liked his beard so much[…]

Isn’t Math Wonderful? – September 2024

Beautiful patterns and neat results occur everywhere in mathemtics.  Here’s a combination of both that can also be used[…]

Other “Creative Fun” Submissions

Here are other submissions from the “Creative Fun” options in the 9/2/24 Mailing: Write as long a sentence as[…]

Limericks from Subscribers

A recent Pesky Puzzler (24.16) pitched out the creative challenge to write a limerick with a first line of[…]

A Cannibal Chief and His Wife

Decades ago, I taught an experimental campus-wide Seminar entitled “Creativity and Problem Solving”.  One of the early assignments was[…]