mscroggs.co.uk
mscroggs.co.uk

subscribe

Comment

Comments

Comments in green were written by me. Comments in blue were not written by me.
@Melli: there's a way to solve it with no 4 in the first row...
Matthew
on /blog/58
               
@Matthew: But if the second digit has to be even and the numbers 1-9 only have 3,4 or 5 letters, the second digit HAS to be a 4... (i double checked the english spellings)
Melli
on /blog/58
               
@Melli: the second digit doesn't need to be even, only the final digit of the second column must be even (the column contains a three digit even number). I'm going to add a clarification to make this clearer.
Matthew
on /blog/58
               
@Matthew: Oooh ...
Melli
on /blog/58
               

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

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

Archive

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