Alex Bellos

Can you solve it? Chapeau! A smart new hat puzzle Logicians and their bonnets

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Can you solve it? The numbers all go to 11 Puzzles one louder than ten

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Can you solve it? Are you smarter than a soap bubble? The minimum you can do

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Can you solve it? Two dead at the drink-off – a brilliant new lateral thinking puzzle Who poisoned who?

A wonderful puzzle rescued from oblivion.
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Can you solve it? Ungoogleable and unhinged – ten hilarious visual teasers Riotous rebus riddles

Some light entertainment
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Can you solve it? The simple T-puzzle that fools everyone (at first!) staggeringly simple, toermentingly tough

An oldie but a goodie
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Can you solve it? Are you a genius at gerrymandering? A politically partisan puzzle

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Can you solve it? Are you a matcha for these tasty Japanese puzzles? Brain food from the land of rising sums

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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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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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Can you solve it? The world’s most fascinating number – revealed! It’s not what you expect

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Can you solve it? Is “yes” the answer to this question? Questions about questions

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Can you solve it? The most Guardian puzzle ever On brand mathematics

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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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Can you solve it? How to have fun with straws Riddles with long paper cylinders

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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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Can you solve it? Sexy maths The eternal appeal of prime numbers

Are you a Prime Target?

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Can you solve it? Logicians in a line A head-scratching hat puzzle

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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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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...

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My new book is ONLY A FIVER for today and to celebrate my publishers made me a Xmas JPEG

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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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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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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!

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