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.
www.theguardian.com/science/2024...
23.12.2024 08:14 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
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 π 0 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0
Can you solve it? That Sally Rooney hat puzzle
Literary logic
Was reading the new Sally Rooney when up popped a puzzle...
www.theguardian.com/science/2024...
09.12.2024 08:47 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
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.
www.theguardian.com/science/2024...
25.11.2024 07:23 β π 3 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
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 π 4 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0
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