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 2025-12-04 

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Will you be posting solutions? I have what is to me an acceptable answer but I think I might be missing a couple of squares
Ewan Leeming
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@Ahmad: Nothing missing, it's written correctly
Matthew
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Is there “three-digit” missing from Q6
Ahmad
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Thanks again for an advent full of brain teasers. Merry Christmas!
Gert-Jan
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@Matthew, small typo in todays example, bottom left string should be BBBA I feel.
Bob
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@Alec: Yes, it should say positive integers
Matthew
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Is there a word missing (positive?) from Q9? Surely any positive integer, n, can be written as the sum of the consecutive integers -(n-1),...,-1,0,1,...,n-1,n.
Alec
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