mscroggs.co.uk
mscroggs.co.uk

subscribe

Comment

Comments

Comments in green were written by me. Comments in blue were not written by me.
Idle pondering (and something you may have covered elsewhere): what's the evolution as MENACE plays against itself? (Assuming MENACE can play both sides.)
Colin
on /blog/71
               
@Colin: You can set MENACE playing against MENACE2 (MENACE that plays second) on the interactive MENACE. MENACE2's starting numbers of beads and incentives may need some tweaking to give it a chance though; I've been meaning to look into this in more detail at some point...
Matthew
on /blog/71
               

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

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

Archive

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