Monthly Archives: March 2017

What’s next?


What comes next?****/*****

1,000, 1,000,000,000, 20, 100, 1, 4, 8, 3, ?

You can check your solutions here

New puzzles are published at least twice a month on Friday. Solutions are published after one or more weeks. You are welcome to remark on the difficulty level of the puzzles, discuss alternate solutions, and so on. Puzzles are rated on a scale of 1 to 5 stars.

This puzzle is a free translation of an AIVD (Dutch sister of NSA) puzzle in 2012.

Cryptarithm: days


Days – 1**/*****
cryptarithm-2016-11-26-days-exercise-1

Days – 2****/*****
cryptarithm-2016-11-26-days-exercise-2

You can check your solutions here and here

New puzzles are published at least twice a month on Friday. Solutions are published after one or more weeks. You are welcome to remark on the difficulty level of the puzzles, discuss alternate solutions, and so on. Puzzles are rated on a scale of 1 to 5 stars.

Matchstick – triangles


Surface***/*****
These 6 matches enclose an area with size 2 (2 standard triangles).
Rearrange them so that:
a) they enclose an area of exactly 4 triangles
b) they enclose an area of exactly 6 triangles

matchstick-triangles-2-2016-12-14-nr-1-exercise

You can check your solutions here.

New puzzles are published at least twice a month on Friday. Solutions are published after one or more weeks. You are welcome to remark on the difficulty level of the puzzles, discuss alternate solutions, and so on. Puzzles are rated on a scale of 1 to 5 stars.