A puzzle that involves numerical calculations, such as multiplication and addition.
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A Secret Math Society
I was about to try to join the famous Math club at my school when I stopped to hear my classmates doing the same. I didn't know that newcomers had to take a simple test to be qualified until my they ...
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1answer
144 views
Another pattern puzzle with a twist…well, not quite so
What are the next two terms of the following crazy sequence:
I, h, 6, 9l, 52, 9E, 6h, __, __
?
4
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1answer
223 views
The wine paradoxon
You're a fellow salesman who happens to have to sell a barrel full of wine. The barrel has a capacity of 5 Litres.
Unfortunately, your apprentice is a wine lover and steals some wine each night, ...
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1answer
91 views
double the stone puzzle
Story:
I've x number of stones. On my way, I will cross three wells. When I reach a well, then I will throw y number of stones ...
4
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1answer
168 views
How to choose the next board in the 8-puzzle?
I hope to have your help to solve the problem I am facing. I'm trying to make an 8-puzzle solver but I'm in doubt about how to select the next board, from the one they have already given me. Below I ...
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0answers
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M Professors and N dishes
Suppose 'M' number of professors have to guess 'N' number of dishes on a roulette menu offered by a restaurant. This restaurant has a special "roulette menu" with N items, in which you choose a menu ...
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4answers
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New Arithmetic Operator?
So my British friend proposed a new operator, but he wouldn't tell me how it works. He told me if I could figure it out then I could know. He's not very nice. Anyway, help me figure it out?
1 🎫 1 =...
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1answer
364 views
I have more than one face, but I have no eyes. I roll out of hand during multiple tries
Riddle me this:
I have more than one face, but I have no eyes.
I roll out of hand during multiple tries.
I very much often do not roll alone;
I have a partner, who like myself, ...
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5answers
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Streets Puzzle and Positions
The diagram below shows the street map of a city. If three police officers are to be positioned at street corners so that any point on any street can be seen by at least one officer, what are the ...
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3answers
555 views
Order matters twice
Mr. Accurado, a keen and sharp eyed professional thought of starting his special assignment at few seconds past midnight.
However due to a distraction- which lasted for less than a minute - he could ...
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6answers
1k views
How cold is too cold? [closed]
On a day during a severe winter, somewhere in cold countries, I watched a weather report on a television.
The report showed that on that particular day the temperature was 0° ....but due to some ...
8
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1answer
443 views
Magic Square Puzzle
Construct a 5x5 magic square.
1- Numbers from 1 to 21 can be used.
2- Sum should be 55 (Horizontally, Vertically and Diagonally)
3- Any 4 digits from 1 to 21 can be repeated only once.
4- The Numbers ...
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5answers
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Making Things Difficult
An entry in Fortnightly Topic Challenge #35: Restricted Title 1.
Factoring the Time
Think fast! If you're looking for meaning, these clocks have some for you.
Keyboards are Disgusting
Gunky ...
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2answers
281 views
Houses and Telephone #s
There are 16 houses consecutively numbered 1-16. All houses have 7-digit telephone numbers, numbered consecutively, in the same order. For example, if house #3's phone number is 1111111, house #4 will ...
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0answers
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3 Horses out of 25 Horses [duplicate]
You've got 25 horses and you can host races in groups of 5. You don't have a stopwatch, obviously. Then what should be the minimum number of races that you should be conducting so as to ascertain the ...
3
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1answer
131 views
An Incorrect Summary of a Twenty-Two Day Tour
After a long but rewarding life in an office cubicle, Sally the office worker became Sally the retiree. Feeling unfulfilled, and with ancestors who had served admirably in the Navy, Sally the retiree ...
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2answers
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How old are Charlie's pets?
Last year at a picnic, Charlie told Julie's daughter the sum and the product of the ages of his dog and two cats, but she guessed the ages incorrectly. This year, he gave Steve's daughter the same ...
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1answer
141 views
Need little help
Note: Sorry, this puzzle almost similar with the last question:
The main purpose of this QUESTION is:
To know what types of this puzzle is exactly.
It is still can be solve if I remove the most ...
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1answer
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An Incomplete Puzzle
I'm sorry to offload some of my work as the puzzle creator on to you solvers. (No, I'm not.) At least there's only one clue missing, right? EDIT: When the puzzle is ready to be solved, there will be ...
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2answers
178 views
What are the chances on watching the clock? [closed]
This is a relatively straightforward little puzzle, but the answers are somewhat unintuitive or can prompt a new perspective. It might be an interesting little puzzle for a probability teaching ...
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1answer
90 views
Surprisingly(not literally) easy one? [closed]
What are the next two numbers in the following sequence:
0, 1, 4, 18, __, __.
Please explain your logic.
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3answers
1k views
A pokemon puzzle [closed]
You have recently caught
N Pokemon and you also have
M Pokemon candy bars. You can evolve any of your Pokemon by paying
X candy bars. Alternatively, you can sell any of your Pokemon for a price of
...
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3answers
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Fully confused calculation
The sum of a three digit number (ABC) and another three digit number (DEF), where DEF is obtained by thoroughly shuffling* the original three digits of ABC, is 1000. Then, find all possible such pairs ...
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1answer
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Extension to The grazing cows of Sir Isaac Newton
There is an earlier question, The grazing cows of Sir Isaac Newton, which says:
Sir Isaac Newton's book "Arithmetica Universalis" contains the following famous puzzle:
In $4$ weeks, $12$ ...
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1answer
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systematic number removal [duplicate]
The whole, natural numbers 1 through 50 are written on a board. The following operation is performed 49 times: select any two of the numbers on the board and write the absolute value of their ...
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1answer
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Fuzzy's Fizzy Dilemma
Fuzzy the Fuzzball's friends was going to the Fuzzball Festival, and of course he went along. While there, he saw the most curious display.
The booth was displaying brand new types of Fuzz. There was ...
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2answers
352 views
Elementary vowel equations
Challenge
Solve the following equations by converting to standard form (see below):
** eeeeee = aeeeeiiiouu
...
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2answers
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How can i move forward (kenken)
I can't seem to find a next step to logically come to without guesswork. Any ideas on how to move forward?
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3answers
324 views
Dividing money in school [closed]
A businessman instituted an annual award in a city school, with part of the award given to the school itself to improve its facilities. It was stated that if a student from a wealthy family were to ...
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1answer
129 views
Water Difference
While solving a puzzle, I misinterpreted the whole thing and ended up creating a new harder puzzle. Here it is:
You have 2 cups filled with water, cup A is 5oz and cup B is 3oz. How can you get one ...
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1answer
105 views
Calculate cost of excess water consumed [closed]
100 Liters of water is available equally in a month for consumption among 5 members @ 1 dollar per liter. If some members don't use their own available 20 liters, it can be used by the others at the ...
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3answers
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A game of multiplication and addition
Carol is playing a game with Alice and Bob. She secretly chooses two integers between 1 and 10 and gives the sum to Alice and the product to Bob. After some time, the following discussion occurs:
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1answer
239 views
Analyzing Single-Elimination Tournaments
I know there are many questions/answers about single elimination tournaments out there, but I wanted to approach this question in a more holistic way.
For a single-elimination tournament with N ...
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3answers
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Can you find the value of the question mark$\color{red}?$
Puzzle:
Find the value of the question mark $\color{red}?$.
$$(2, 13, 47)$$ $$(5, 7, 19)$$ $$(8, 1, \color{red}?)$$
Hint 1: $\color{red}?$ is a prime.
Hint 2: $\color{red}?$ is a cyclops.
...
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1answer
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The A-B chocolate puzzle!
Imagine you have 2 types of chocolates (A and B). You randomly pick up two chocolates at once from your bag in a specific pattern. If the same type of chocolates come out, you give them both to your ...
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3answers
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Sufficient time to fill the bucket [closed]
Suppose that we have a pierced bucket, and that the hole empties the bucket in four hours. We place the bucket under two faucets at the same time. If the bucket weren’t pierced, the first faucet would ...
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3answers
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What is the next number to appear in this sequence?
$1, 1, 0, -2, 4, 18, 328, 107638 ,?$
This problem can be complex, use your imagination.
Hint:
Hint 2:
Hint 3:
Hint 4:
Hint 5:
Hint 6:
Hint 7:
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5answers
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How Will You Get 100 Fruits in Rs.100?
Source: https://www.bissoy.com/720699/
For Rs. 0.5 you get 1 Cherry.
For Rs.3 you get 1 Orange.
For Rs.5 you get 1 Watermelon.
Your mother told you to get 100 fruits for Rs.100.
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3answers
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Mathematics IQ puzzle, solving puzzle by looking at neighboring digits [closed]
Can anyone solve this puzzle? I have tried many times but I could not find any symmetry or sequence.
\begin{array} {|c|c|c|}
\hline
3&25&5\\
\hline
16&9&6\\
\hline
125&36&18\\
...
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8answers
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How to prove that this man has a profit of 20 and not 10?
This is not actually a puzzle per se, but I'm asking for an explanation about the puzzle's answer.
The puzzle goes like this:
A man bought a goat for 60. He then sold it for 70. Later, he bought ...
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2answers
523 views
Find the next number in the sequence below?
Find the next number in the sequence below:
298 209 129 58 ?
Source: Briddles.com
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9answers
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How to use the numbers 3, 5, 6, and 7 to get 100? [closed]
Any mathematics symbols and processes to use the numbers 3, 5, 6, and 7 once each to get 100.
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8answers
14k views
The Cucumber Paradox
Suppose you have 100 lbs of cucumbers and these cucumbers consist of 99% water. You decide to leave the cucumbers in the sun for a while until they consist of 98% water. You bring the cucumbers back ...
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2answers
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3answers
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Find the value of the addition of dice [closed]
Given these:
Find the rule, and provide the answer to "?" (the last row).
EDIT:Even though "+" denotes addition, it should not be taken in a tradition sense. The positioning and pattern could affect ...
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1answer
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Find number by solving the pattern
I need to solve the pattern in given format
98 | 54 | 78
7641 | 3120 | 5402
714 | 494 | 726
...
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3answers
209 views
Integers around a circle with consecutive pairs differ to a square
Inspired by this puzzle : Integers around a circle with consecutive pairs adding to a square
The integers 1 to 50 are placed around a circle in such a way that the difference of any two of them which ...
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2answers
2k views
How many Donuts? [closed]
Three friends went on a camping trip and on the way they bought N donuts 🍩. They put them in their tent 🎪, and went swimming 🏊.
One of them came and divided the donuts in to 3 equal parts, fed ...
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1answer
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Magic: the Gathering Challenge: Getting Stuffy In Here
first time posting a puzzle in a while, thought I'd bring back some MtG related puzzles. Enjoy!
BACKGROUND:
The usual magic rules apply here. Please be explicit in mana usage in your solution ...
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1answer
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Replacing the chip problem [duplicate]
There are $13$ white, $15$ black, $17$ red chips on a table. In one step, a person
may choose $2$ chips of different colors and replace each one by a chip of
the third color. Can all chips become the ...
