GeekDad Puzzle of the Week Solution – Efficient Gardening
How did you do laying out the fixed size garden? Did you maximize the vegetable potential?
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Continue ReadingHow many “hidden” words could you find in this random word grid? Did you find the longest word?
Continue ReadingWere you able determine the best order to decarton eggs, without unnecessarily unbalancing the carton?
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Continue ReadingWere you able to calculate the combinations of scouts that allowed for a good night’s sleep at the museum?
Continue ReadingWere you able to complete the crossword puzzle with words that summed to 5, 13, 31, or multiples thereof?
Continue ReadingDid you find the 79 regular numbers under 10^8 are also palindromes in at least one base from 2 to 10?
Continue ReadingWere you able to classify each of my friends’ names appropriately? Which segment only had two names?
Continue ReadingWere you able to color the Lower 48 in just 4 colors? Could you do it with 12 US States in each color?
Continue ReadingWere you able to find the Fibonacci numbersthat have their position identified by the sum of their last few digits?
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Continue ReadingHow many words summing to 99 could you find? Were you able to solve the word grid for your chance at a fabulous prize?
Continue ReadingHow many root words that generate all English words when run through The Name Game did you “find-find-bo-bind”?
Continue ReadingWere you able to find the word chain that gets you from ALCHEMIST to MATERIAL — repeating the last four letters of each previous word along the way?
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Continue ReadingWere you able to find the runs numbers under ten million where the running count of observed 1s meets or exceeds the running count?
Continue ReadingWere you able to unravel these palindrome and anadrome clues and solve this week’s GeekDad Puzzle of the Week?
Continue ReadingThis past week’s puzzle, recounting our recent tropical excursion: As part of our recent jungle adventure (invented solely for the purposes of this puzzle), my wife Allison and our two children Max and Nora had to cross a river with our supplies to view a live volcano. From a local canoe rental firm, we were […]
Continue ReadingWhat are the longest runs and sequences of steps required to “disprove” consecutive Lychrel number candidates? Are there many repeated palindromes made?
Continue ReadingWere you able to determine how many times my Anniversary was on Easter or just after a Friday the 13th? Is the $50 ThinkGeek gift certificate in your name?
Continue ReadingDid you find the number of positive integers under 1,000,000 that cannot be written as the sum of exactly two Excessive Numbers?
Continue ReadingWere you able to circumnavigate with the fewest number of planes? If so, then the $50 ThinkGeek Gift Certificate may have your name on it!
Continue ReadingDid you determine if 8 queens could be put on a chess board simultaneously? If so, in how many ways? Did you win the $50 ThinkGeek gift certificate?
Continue ReadingWere you able to determine the number of counting numbers under 10 million without any squared factors?
Continue ReadingWere you able to determine the rivers’ names, given that their vowels were washed away?
Continue ReadingWere you able to decipher the Presidential quote?
Continue ReadingCan you find the largest and smallest value of the function listed with strips of digits pulled from the grid?
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