Questions tagged [mathematics]
A puzzle strongly related to mathematical facts and objects, or whose solution needs serious mathematical arguments. General mathematics questions are off-topic but can be asked on Mathematics Stack Exchange.
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The Flippin' Magician's 7-card Grand Finale
This question is a followup to this question by @ais523, which itself was a followup to this question by @Wen1now.
After touring the globe to accolades when performing his 10-card trick and 8-card ...
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Weird and complex puzzle that we need help with
So basically this is a complex deep web puzzle and we're pretty much stuck at it right now as we don't have any idea what this is about, any help will be aprreciated (the attached images are the ...
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Locked Door Number Puzzle
I'm supposed to make a delivery to a crazed botanist. In case you're curious, the shipping manifest is:
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Which Numbers Replace the Question Marks?
Can you find out what the numbers below have in common? Can you figure out what comes next?
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Which is the missing number?
I am working on this puzzle since last week.
01 ?? 05 12
10 13 15 09
14 02 08 03
04 07 11 06
which is the missing number ??
note : answer is not 16
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Find the missing element?
I've been trying to solve this for quite some time, can you help me solve it?
This puzzle was made by one of my friend's teachers. This is not copyrighted and cannot be found anywhere on the internet.
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What's the missing number?
$\begin{array}{ccc}6&7&4\\
4&11&14\\
13&2&11\\
6&8&1\\
15&3&?\end{array}$
Own attempt at building a puzzle,
find the missing number.
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Magical Evening
Tonight will be a magical evening full of fun and excitement if you can figure out this riddle.
When the clock strikes nine but loose three dash you will find a feast at the seven of these. Where ...
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Code Breaking ( Sort of )
So someone sent me this code breaking/riddle to solve and I got really confused on it. I do need help on it,
The Code needs to come out into a Phrase ( group of words )
CLUE 1: 2210232013400 - ...
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ARG Puzzle Gate 15 Help
Me and my group (yes I'm in a group trying to solve this) are currently working on an ARG puzzle and we are stuck. The first image/clue to the entire puzzle is what is seen below. The creator of this ...
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Filling a sudoku/latin square like array
Let us build a square array in the following manner, which I would like to call a modified sudoku:
1) Every row and column contains only one copy of a positive entry and there are exactly $t$ such ...
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3 bags of coins, find which bag contains fake coins, doing only 1 weighing
Probably a very easy puzzle for you guys; my point is more a mathematical one.
FYI, it was shown in an episode of Columbo.
You have 3 bags of coins. Each bag contains 50 identical coins. Two bags ...
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Distinct SemiPrimes with Close Factors
I'm in the midst of developing a game for several friends as a friendly competition.
It begins with generating the largest distinct semiprime feasible with factors that closely related in length ...
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Find the next number in the weird sequence
The following sequence has been made using a specific pattern and the last number is kept secret. We have to find that number along with the pattern followed to make the sequence.
3, 11, 32, 71, ...
