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GeekDad Puzzle of the Week – Excessive Sums

April 9, 2014December 16, 2017Judd Schorr

How many positive integers less than 1,000,000 cannot be written as the sum of exactly two Excessive Numbers?

GeekDad Puzzle of the Week – Eight Queens

March 25, 2014December 16, 2017Judd Schorr

How distinct ways can 8 queens be put on a chessboard without any being able to take another? Can it even be done? Will the $50 ThinkGeek gift certificate be yours?

GeekDad Puzzle of the Week – Squared Roots

March 18, 2014December 16, 2017Judd Schorr

This week’s GeekDad Puzzle of the Week: How many numbers under 10 million do not have “squared roots?”

GeekDad Puzzle of the Week – I Scream, You Scream

March 10, 2014December 16, 2017Judd Schorr

Given some simple rules around flavors (i.e., no mixing fruit flavors!) just how many distinct cones could be made by our local ice creamery?

GeekDad Puzzle of the Week – Abbreviated Rivers

February 25, 2014December 16, 2017Judd Schorr

Can you determine which famous rivers have been disemvoweled? If so, a ThinKGeek gift certificate could be yours!

GeekDad Puzzle of the Week Solution – Student Dropoff

February 18, 2014December 16, 2017Judd Schorr1

Did you find a set of triplets that let me and 14 other parents park in three parking spots over 7 days, and have no one meet the same parent twice?

GeekDad Puzzle of the Week – Presidents’ Day 2014

February 17, 2014December 16, 2017Judd Schorr

Encoded in this set of Presidential Portraits is a quote from a relatively recent past President. Can you decipher it and find its source?

GeekDad Puzzle of the Week – Student Dropoff

February 12, 2014December 16, 2017Judd Schorr2

Is it possible for me and 14 other parents to park in three parking spots over 7 days, and have no one meet the same parent twice? How so? If not, why not?

GeekDad Puzzle of the Week – Functional Numeric Wordsearch

February 5, 2014December 16, 2017Judd Schorr

Can you find the largest and smallest value of the function listed with strips of digits pulled from the grid?

GeekDad Puzzle of the Week Solution – Capacitor Combinatorics

February 3, 2014Judd Schorr

Did you calculate the number of distinct capacitance values that can be created using up to 10 identical 60 µF capacitors?

GeekDad Puzzle of the Week – Capacitor Combinatorics

January 28, 2014Judd Schorr

How many distinct capacitance values can you configure with 10 identical 60µF capacitors?

GeekDad Puzzle of the Week – State of the States

January 15, 2014December 16, 2017Judd Schorr2

Can you solve the State based cypher? Look at each State flag and determine where they rank along various continuum, and decode my favorite state to win!

GeekDad Puzzle of the Week Solution – Disemvoweled Bacon

January 15, 2014Judd Schorr

Were you able to put the Bacon-related movie titles and co-star names back together?

GeekDad Puzzle of the Week – Disemvoweled Bacon

January 7, 2014Judd Schorr

Can you reconstitute the vowels in these Bacon-related movies and co-stars? If so, then this week’s $50 ThinkGeek Gift Certificate may be yours!

GeekDad Puzzle of the Week – Stick Stac Toe

November 13, 2013December 16, 2017Judd Schorr

What is the benefit of going first in a random tic-tac-toe game? Does it change if you can “aim” and increase your odds for the center square?

GeekDad Puzzle of the Week – Another CrossNumber Solution

October 28, 2013December 16, 2017Judd Schorr

This past puzzle as previously posted: Crossword puzzles are fun, but they can be found in most any newspaper. CrossNumber puzzles are not only more fun, but are found almost exclusively here on GeekDad! Clues: Across 0. Bond 2. length of Marianas (km) 4. 1Z (Base 36) 6. Cr 8. PMs in Oman or Yemen […]

GeekDad Puzzle of the Week – Another CrossNumber Puzzle

October 15, 2013December 16, 2017Judd Schorr

Do you have the geek culture, math, pop culture, and history chops to solve our latest CrossNumber puzzle?

GeekDad Puzzle of the Week – Prime Pair Permutations

October 8, 2013December 16, 2017Judd Schorr

How many sets of four primes are there with 3 or fewer digits that can be selected pairwise in any combination to be stuck together in either order and always make a new prime?

GeekDad Puzzle of the Week – Fair Logic Puzzle

October 1, 2013December 16, 2017Judd Schorr

From the clues given, can you determine which favorites each child had at the State Fair?

GeekDad Puzzle of the Week – Pirate Booty

September 19, 2013December 16, 2017Judd Schorr

Can ye determine how much the found pirate booty was fetchin’, and how much each buccaneer hauled home?

GeekDad Puzzle of the Week Solution – That Time of Year

September 18, 2013December 16, 2017Judd Schorr

Were you able to correctly combine the bigrams and trigrams to create words and names relevant to the season?

GeekDad Puzzle of the Week – That Time of Year

September 10, 2013December 16, 2017Judd Schorr

Can you concatenate these two-letter and three-letter combinations to create terms related to a very recent annual event?

GeekDad Puzzle of the Week – Backsplash Backlash

September 4, 2013December 16, 2017Judd Schorr

How many distinct ways can we grid off our 12″ x 120″ backsplash? As always, please feel free round to the nearest quadrillion…

GeekDad Puzzle of the Week – Wacky Right Integer String Triangles

August 19, 2013Judd Schorr

How many distinct right triangles can you make on a mostly complete grid of 21 x 16 nails with integer lengths of string?

GeekDad Puzzle of the Week – Palindromic Products

August 12, 2013Judd Schorr

What are the largest palindromic products of the appropriate set of digit-sizes for each of three, four, and five-digit numbers?

GeekDad Puzzle of the Week Solution – Euler’s Prime Polynomials

July 21, 2013Judd Schorr

Did your entry for the most prime-producing polynomial produce? Check here to see if the $50 ThinkGeek gift certificate is yours!

GeekDad Puzzle of the Week – Euler’s Prime Polynomials

July 15, 2013Judd Schorr

Which polynomial of the form an^2 + bn + c with a=1 produces the most primes over the early natural numbers? Send in your answer for a shot at this week’s $50 ThinkGeek Gift Certificate!