mscroggs.co.uk
mscroggs.co.uk

subscribe

Comment

Comments

Comments in green were written by me. Comments in blue were not written by me.
@RM: It would slightly reduce the expected cost I think, but I need to do some calculations to make sure.

I'm not certain whether they guarantee that there are no duplicates in a pack or just it's very unlikely... Follow up post looking into this coming soon
Matthew
on /blog/50
               

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

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

Archive

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