mscroggs.co.uk
mscroggs.co.uk

subscribe

Comment

Comments

Comments in green were written by me. Comments in blue were not written by me.
You usually post a list of successful entries - will you be doing so this year (or can I just not find it). I have gotten a number of my students into doing this each year and I am keen to see if any are still doing it.
Artie
on /blog/120
               
@Artie: Yes, I will be. A cold wiped out the bit of the year between new year and going back to work so it's later than usual but it will be done soon.
Matthew
on /blog/120
×1   ×2            

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

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

Archive

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