mscroggs.co.uk

mscroggs.co.uk

blog puzzles academic talks contact subscribe ↓ ☰ ↓

Comment

Comments

Comments in green were written by me. Comments in blue were not written by me.

2016-12-07

I would love to see a game being played with this machine. Could you make a Youtube video of a game in progress, so we can see it in action? How long does a typical game last with a trained engine?

Steve Paget
on /blog/19

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

Jan 2024

Christmas (2023) is over

2023

2022

2021

2020

2019

2018

2017

2016

2015

2014

2013

2012

Tags

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

Archive

Show me a random blog post
▼ show ▼

© Matthew Scroggs 2012–2026