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Can you solve it? Ambigrams – you won’t believe these flipping words! A pun, a puzzle and a work of art

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04.08.2025 06:18 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 5    πŸ“Œ 2
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Ken you solve it? Are you a match for the world’s greatest TV quizzer? Jeopardy’s Jennings is the king of ken

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21.07.2025 06:27 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Can you solve it? The world’s most fascinating number – revealed! It’s not what you expect

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07.07.2025 06:12 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Can you solve it? Is β€œyes” the answer to this question? Questions about questions

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23.06.2025 06:48 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Can you solve it? The most Guardian puzzle ever On brand mathematics

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26.05.2025 06:28 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Can you solve it? Are you craftier than a cat burglar? Don’t run out of rope!

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12.05.2025 06:33 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Can you solve it? How to have fun with straws Riddles with long paper cylinders

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28.04.2025 07:52 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Can you solve it? The simple geometry question that fools almost everyone A triangle and a rectangle walked into a pub

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17.02.2025 14:06 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1
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Can you solve it? Sexy maths The eternal appeal of prime numbers

Are you a Prime Target?

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03.02.2025 12:38 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Can you solve it? Logicians in a line A head-scratching hat puzzle

Quizzers in a queue www.theguardian.com/science/2025...

20.01.2025 09:13 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Can you solve it? All you need to know about 2025 Five fives alive!

We have been waiting for more than half a millenium for this numerical felicity.

2025 will be the first year since 1520 that is in the five times table.

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23.12.2024 08:14 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Think Twice: Solve the Simple Puzzles (Almost) Everyone Gets Wrong a book by Alex Bellos. 'Brilliant' G.T. Karber, author of MURDLE'A lot of fun especially if shared' ***** Amazon reader review'We had great fun as a family trying to puzzle these out' ***** Amazon reader reviewEveryone else...

It is also available at your local bookshop:

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17.12.2024 08:03 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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My new book is ONLY A FIVER for today and to celebrate my publishers made me a Xmas JPEG

You can get it here: amzn.to/4gk4Ra8

17.12.2024 08:03 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Can you solve it? That Sally Rooney hat puzzle Literary logic

Was reading the new Sally Rooney when up popped a puzzle...

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09.12.2024 08:47 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Can you solve it? Brain-training for Martians Do you have alien intelligence?

The hardest part about writing a puzzle column in a newspaper format is having to write a catchy headline, and finding a picture from the Guardian archive that somehow fits.

But it does allow opportunities for humour, I guess.

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25.11.2024 07:23 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Hello - wow it's nice to be on here. Apols for beginning with some self promotion but my new book THINK TWICE is 99p on Kindle for one day today.

Don't think twice!

amzn.to/3YQ6iWo

16.11.2024 08:59 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

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