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.

2024-12-25

Another great calendar! Looking forward to the solution write-ups in the new year to see how all the puzzles I solved with Python were meant to be solved with pure mathematics :D

Aaron
on /blog/111

×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

Jan 2024

Christmas (2023) is over

2023

2022

2021

2020

2019

2018

2017

2016

2015

2014

2013

2012

Tags

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

Archive

Show me a random blog post
▼ show ▼

© Matthew Scroggs 2012–2026