mscroggs.co.uk
mscroggs.co.uk

subscribe

Blog

 2021-12-04 

Christmas card 2021

Showing all comments about the post Christmas card 2021. To return to the blog post, click here.

Comments

Comments in green were written by me. Comments in blue were not written by me.
The only one I'm stuck on is #6. I thought I was doing it right but I'm getting a non-integer answer. I'm assuming the heptagon in question is aligned so one of its sides sits on the diameter of the semicircle, and the opposite vertex sits on the curved edge of the semicircle. Is this wrong?
Seth C
                 Reply
The version of the card on this page doesn't check if your answers are correct, so it will colour in any number you enter as long as it has the right number of digits.
Matthew
      ×1           Reply
Wonky solution for #9? On a blank start page, answering "16" gives you red and white puzzle completions, yet we _know_ that 16 is an incorrect answer. Strange?
Attika
                 Reply
@Matthew: Thanks, I figured they did but it was good to get confirmation.
Dan
                 Reply
@Dan: one digit numbers count
Matthew
   ×1              Reply
I think questions 11 and 12 could use some some clarification as to whether or not single-digit numbers should count.
Dan
                 Reply
@HJ: the smallest one does have 6, and Q4 is correct too. I bought the cards and had good fun solving it myself. I’m glad to find this here though to check my answers as when I did the shading it looked like the picture wasn’t quite right. Thanks for the cards Matthew, I look forward to next year’s - no pressure!
Alec
×2   ×3              Reply
Questions 3 and 4 seem incorrect. The answer I get for question 3 as written has 8 digits, but the accepted answer has only 6. Similarly for question 4.
HJ
      ×1           Reply
 Add a Comment 


I will only use your email address to reply to your comment (if a reply is needed).

Allowed HTML tags: <br> <a> <small> <b> <i> <s> <sup> <sub> <u> <spoiler> <ul> <ol> <li> <logo>
To prove you are not a spam bot, please type "rotcev" backwards in the box below (case sensitive):

Archive

Show me a random blog post
 2026 

May 2026

World Cup stickers 2026

Apr 2026

A new puzzle every day
Mixing Wordle with other games

Feb 2026

Christmas (2025) is over
 2025 

Dec 2025

Christmas card 2025

Nov 2025

Christmas (2025) is coming!

Sep 2025

The partridge puzzle

Aug 2025

TMiP 2025 puzzle hunt

Jun 2025

A nonogram alphabet

Mar 2025

How to write a crossnumber

Jan 2025

Christmas (2024) is over
Friendly squares
 2024 

Dec 2024

A regular expression Christmas puzzle
Christmas card 2024

Nov 2024

Christmas (2024) is coming!

Feb 2024

Zines, pt. 2

Jan 2024

Christmas (2023) is over
 2023 
▼ show ▼
 2022 
▼ show ▼
 2021 
▼ show ▼
 2020 
▼ show ▼
 2019 
▼ show ▼
 2018 
▼ show ▼
 2017 
▼ show ▼
 2016 
▼ show ▼
 2015 
▼ show ▼
 2014 
▼ show ▼
 2013 
▼ show ▼
 2012 
▼ show ▼

Tags

warwick european cup python partridge puzzle pokémon crosswords approximation folding paper realhats trigonometry binary convergence harriss spiral 24 hour maths oeis boundary element methods javascript nonograms menace countdown dinosaurs advent calendar martin gardner hyperbolic surfaces recursion games arithmetic databet pokémon wordle hexapawn weak imposition rust manchester science festival folding tube maps regular expressions ternary map projections matrix multiplication dataset coins electromagnetic field matrix of minors news captain scarlet polynomials cambridge correlation machine learning platonic solids golden ratio crochet chebyshev chess rugby game of life sobolev spaces squares dates inline code data visualisation gather town palindromes anscombe's quartet matrix of cofactors speed stickers error bars logs youtube go graphs world cup mean flexagons hannah fry light errors christmas card probability fence posts sorting finite element method data preconditioning estimation quadrilaterals zines guest posts interpolation the aperiodical raspberry pi plastic ratio pac-man runge's phenomenon matrices people maths gerry anderson final fantasy radio 4 tetris big internet math-off london arrangement puzzles alphabets exponential growth football geogebra numbers hats craft pi approximation day simultaneous equations books mathslogicbot kings royal institution triangles cross stitch edinburgh nine men's morris wordle reuleaux polygons mathsjam inverse matrices phd london underground tmip coventry programming logic logo bluesky determinants thirteen game show probability kenilworth turtles tennis mathsteroids signorini conditions a gamut of games geometry noughts and crosses friendly squares misleading statistics crossnumbers graph theory talking maths in public bots ucl christmas wave scattering chalkdust magazine sport frobel weather station national lottery braiding rhombicuboctahedron newcastle asteroids propositional calculus manchester dragon curves computational complexity stirling numbers php fractals pizza cutting pi accuracy curvature standard deviation statistics royal baby latex fonts bubble bobble finite group draughts datasaurus dozen wool video games pascal's triangle bodmas crossnumber sound live stream gaussian elimination pythagoras matt parker golden spiral puzzles numerical analysis bempp reddit

Archive

Show me a random blog post
▼ show ▼
© Matthew Scroggs 2012–2026