How many five-pointed stars are in this image? All the stars are the same size, though some have been rotated.
Archive for the ‘Numbers’ Category
My Stars!
Wednesday, June 18th, 2008Comic Relief
Monday, May 19th, 2008This past weekend was the Washington Post Hunt, a large-scale puzzle event held in Washington, DC, with puzzles by humorist Dave Barry and a few of his friends. One of the puzzles required you to scour the Sunday comics in search of hidden numbers, planted there by the artists.
Can you find the hidden numbers in each of these comic strips?
(That last one is going to be really hard on a computer screen — if you have your own copy of the Sunday comics from the newspaper, that might make it a little easier.)
If you want to read Eric Berlin’s report on the Hunt, it’s here, although be warned there are spoilers for this puzzle in the comments.
Stop Times Three
Wednesday, February 6th, 2008In the three puzzles below, replace each of the letters with a digit from 0 to 9 so that the equation is correct. A letter must be replaced with the same digit every time it appears. Each of the three puzzles uses a different code, and each puzzle has a unique answer.
Food Fight!
Wednesday, October 24th, 2007Can you replace each of the letters below with a digit from 0 to 9 so that the equation is correct? A letter must be replaced with the same digit every time it appears.
An oldie but a goodie
Monday, October 8th, 2007Your mileage may vary
Wednesday, September 26th, 2007My friend’s car just reached 100,001 miles. That’s a palindromic number — it reads the same both backwards and forwards. What is the next palindromic number he’ll reach?
New Math?
Wednesday, September 12th, 2007$ + # = &
% ! + @ $ = & %
^ @ ! + # & * = ???
What should take the place of the question marks?
Number Path
Tuesday, June 26th, 2007Can you trace a path from S to F so that the numbers you cross along the way total up to 25? Each number can only be used once — you can’t retrace your path.
