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Before you accuse me of clickbait, hear me out. If you scroll the same corners of social media that I do, then you’re sick of seeing meme puzzle accounts abuse the caption “Only 1% of people can solve!” over some lightweight teasers. Are we really supp...

Gizmodo Monday Puzzle: Only 1% of People Can Solve These ... Recently updated !

This entry was posted in Uncategorized on April 29, 2024 by Jack Murtagh

Before you accuse me of clickbait, hear me out. If you scroll the same corners of social media that I do, then you’re sick of seeing meme puzzle accounts abuse the caption “Only 1% of people can solve!” over some lightweight teasers. Are we really supp...

Gizmodo Monday Puzzle: Only 1% of People Can Solve These ... Recently updated !

This entry was posted in Uncategorized on April 29, 2024 by Jack Murtagh

Here’s a classic brainteaser that I don’t like. What’s the next number in this sequence: 1, 11, 21, 1211, 111221, …? The answer is 312211, because each number describes the digits in the number that precedes it. We open with 1, an arbitrary choice, but...

Gizmodo Monday Puzzle: The Only Number That Describes Itself

This entry was posted in Uncategorized on April 22, 2024 by Jack Murtagh

Merry Tax Day, fellow law-abiding citizens. As national observances go, Tax Day could use a rebrand. Some traditions to make it more fun for the kids. We’ll adorn our tax-mas trees with 1040s and W-2s. Children will hang their stock portfolios from the...

Gizmodo Monday Puzzle: Tax Evasion for Kids

This entry was posted in Uncategorized on April 15, 2024 by Jack Murtagh

If you could see your opponent’s cards in poker, could you always clear them out? Game theorists draw a distinction between games with perfect information and games with imperfect information. Poker is a classic example of the latter category because p...

Gizmodo Monday Puzzle: How to Always Win at Poker

This entry was posted in Uncategorized on April 8, 2024 by Jack Murtagh

In the very first Gizmodo Monday Puzzle, I made you a promise: I swore that the puzzles I post here will not be gimmicky, that what they seem to be asking really is what they’re asking. In 35 installments, I think I’ve upheld the promise, but in honor ...

Gizmodo Monday Puzzle: Can You Outsmart These April Fools’ Pranks?

This entry was posted in Uncategorized on April 1, 2024 by Jack Murtagh

Name the ultimate puzzler from fiction. If you didn’t say Sherlock Holmes, then I need to read what you’re reading. In many depictions, Holmes seems to care about nothing other than the puzzles his cases pose. Beyond the twisty plots and endearing char...

Gizmodo Monday Puzzle: Help Sherlock Solve These Whodunits

This entry was posted in Uncategorized on March 25, 2024 by Jack Murtagh

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Gizmodo Monday Puzzle: Expose Willy Wonka’s Scam

This entry was posted in Square on March 18, 2024 by Jack Murtagh

This Thursday is Pi Day, the one day of the year devoted to a mathematical constant (it also happens to be Einstein’s birthday). We all learned as kids about how special pi is and have since accepted its cultural status as a geeky totem and a number wo...

Gizmodo Monday Puzzle: Can You Solve These Pi-Themed Brain Teasers?

This entry was posted in Uncategorized on March 11, 2024 by Jack Murtagh

This week’s puzzle is difficult. Not because it has an exceedingly complicated solution, but because the idea that underlies it is deep and ingenious. I only know of one method to solve it, but I’m curious whether alternative approaches exist. Feel fre...

Gizmodo Monday Puzzle: This Devilishly Hard Logic Puzzle Will Save ...

This entry was posted in Uncategorized on March 4, 2024 by Jack Murtagh