mscroggs.co.uk
mscroggs.co.uk

subscribe

Comment

Comments

Comments in green were written by me. Comments in blue were not written by me.
A bit harsh that we can’t tell exactly which answers are wrong! I won’t have time to revisit every puzzle - and its kind of less fun redoing something that is already correct... :-(
Dean
on /blog/86
               
@Dean: you can also go through each answer one at a time and change a digit; if the number of wrong answers goes up then your answer for that question was correct
×1   ×1            
@A: Aha, I should have thought of this! Puzzles completed :-)
(anonymous)
on /blog/86
×1               
@Dean: Yes, I'm planning to change how that bit works. Check back tomorrow or the next day for a more fun finish!
Matthew
on /blog/86
   ×1            

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

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

Archive

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