GeekDad Puzzle of the Week Solution – Progressive Triplets
Did you get the right count of non-unique, two-digit cumulative differences between the squares of descending triplets of arithmetic sequences?
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GeekMom Puzzle of the Week #50 – Solution and Winner
Our Puzzle of The Week winner was selected at random from all the correct entries!
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GeekDad Puzzle of the Week Solution – Roundtable Elimination
Were you able to determine in which seat our hero should sit, knowing that “eeny meany miney moe” eliminations were coming?
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GeekMom Puzzle of the Week #49 – Solution and Winner
As usual on Saturdays I get to announce our Puzzle of The Week winner who was selected at random from all the correct entries.
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GeekDad Puzzle of the Week Solution – Smmr Blckbstrs
The solution to last week’s puzzler, and the announcement of the $50 ThinkGeek gift certificate winner!
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GeekMom Puzzle of the Week #48 – Solution and Winner
As usual on Saturdays I get to announce our Puzzle of The Week winner who was selected at random from all the correct entries.
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GeekDad Puzzle of the Week Solution – Bayesian Orthodontics
The solution to last week’s puzzler, and the announcement of the $50 ThinkGeek gift certificate winner!
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GeekDad Puzzle of the Week Solution – Dash Dot Dash
Reading through the past week’s puzzle submissions, I once again heard a tapping sound… of course, this time, I recognized it as my dog Monty’s wagging tail rap-tapping the door as he was pleading with me to go for a walk. After our walk in the neighborhood, I was able to address the puzzle and review […]
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GeekMom Puzzle of the Week #47 – Solution and Winner
As usual on Saturdays I get to announce our Puzzle of The Week winner who was selected at random from all the correct entries.
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GeekMom Puzzle of the Week #46 – Solution and Winner
As usual on Saturdays I get to announce our Puzzle of the Week winner who was selected at random from all the correct entries.
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GeekDad Puzzle of the Week Solution – The Bright Clock
The puzzle, as previously presented: After getting a new alarm clock for our master bedroom, I determined that the clock is entirely too bright. It kept me awake for most of the night, as every minute it changed the time and burned a new pattern in to my retinas. As I laid there, unable to […]
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GeekMom Puzzle of the Week #45 – Solution and Winner
As usual on Saturdays I get to announce our Puzzle of The Week winner who was selected at random from all the correct entries.
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GeekMom Puzzle of the Week #44 – Solution and Winner
As usual on Saturdays I get to announce our Puzzle of the Week winner who was selected at random from all the correct entries.
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GeekDad Puzzle of the Week Solution – Easter Cryptogram
Catching up on our puzzle solutions!
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GeekMom Puzzle of the Week #43 – Solution and Winner
As usual on Saturdays I get to announce our Puzzle of The Week winner who was selected at random from all the correct entries.
Continue ReadingGeekDad Puzzle of the Week Answer: Rock Climb Like Brooke Raboutou
It’s not too late to livestream Brooke Raboutou this weekend at the American Bouldering Series Youth National Championships! This week’s puzzle asked you to help Brooke get to the top of an indoor wall — like a maze. Refer to …
Continue ReadingGeekDad Puzzle of the Week Answer: How to Bullseye a Womp Rat
First Luke had to survive the surface run. Then he had to survive long enough in the trench with Vader on his tail to get off a clean shot. Then he had to pull the trigger within the very short …
Continue ReadingGeekDad Puzzle of the Week Answer: Guinea Pig, Labrador, Kale
By far the best solution to this week’s puzzle was to let the Labradors eat the guinea pig bedding and Templeton (said guinea pig) eat the kale, and then simply buy new kale or admit that kale is something purchased …
Continue ReadingGeekDad Puzzle of the Week Solution: Ping Pong Probability
Ping pong (or table tennis) is a game of both odds and luck. Most games I have seen have been rather one sided — it is really rare that two players are really at the same level. Pretty much every …
Continue ReadingGeekDad Puzzle of the Week Solution: Classic 12-Day Countdown
This week’s puzzle was either much harder than originally scoped or ill-defined; there were very few responses, and even fewer that were correct. Many thanks to everyone that hazarded a guess, from the close and reasonable (from which this week’s …
Continue ReadingGeekDad Puzzle of the Week Solution: Alternate Goldbach Conjecture
One of Goldbach’s earlier conjectures was that every odd composite integer could be expressed as twice a perfect square plus a prime. For example, 9 = 2(12)+7, and 15 = 2(22)+7. This week’s GeekDad Puzzle of the Week is simple: …
Continue ReadingGeekDad Puzzle of the Week Solution: Almost Perfect Number Pairs
Perfect numbers are numbers that equal the sum of their divisors. For example, the number 6 can be divided evenly by 1, 2, and 3, and 6 = 1 + 2 + 3. Almost perfect number pairs are pairs …
Continue ReadingGeekDad Puzzle of the Week Solution: Palindromic Sums of Squares
(NOTE: For purposes of this puzzle, please consider only sums of sets of squares of positive integers.)
Hopefully, a lot of people remembered that the sum of numbers from 1^2 + 2^2 + … n^2 = n(n+1)(2n+1)/6. …
Continue ReadingGeekDad Puzzle of the Week Solution: Anagramatic Products
Last week’s puzzle, as presented: There are some numbers that, when multiplied by a second number, become anagrams of themselves. For example, 1035 x 3 = 3105 and 1782 x 4 = 7128. There are fewer numbers that …
Continue ReadingGeekDad Puzzle of the Week Solution: Previously Valedictory Vowels
Last week’s puzzle as presented, with the answers in-line: The word “facetious” is one of my favorite words. It contains all of the vowels, in alphabetic order. If you make it an adverb (“facetiously”) then you get the sometimes-vowel …
Continue ReadingGeekDad Puzzle of the Week Solution: Extreme Products
This past week’s puzzle of the week had the most interest (as measured by solutions submitted) in all of the time that I have been posting puzzles. Thank you! Here is the puzzle as presented:
Below is a set of 2400 …
GeekDad Puzzle of the Week Solution: Contiguous Consonants
Here’s last week’s puzzle as presented: Over the past few weeks, my wife Allison and I have done our annual summer trip up north with the kids to visit family in northernmost New York and southern Ontario, Canada. During the …
Continue ReadingGeekMom Puzzle of the Week #12 – Solution and Winner
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Continue ReadingGeekDad Puzzle of the Week Solution: Planetary Paths
This past week’s puzzle was an interesting study in math and human nature. While we did not have nearly as many solutions offered as we do most weeks, *all* of the solutions offered were correct! Here is the …
Continue ReadingGeekDad Puzzle of the Week Answer: Potato Hamster at Large
The solution to the past week’s GeekDad Puzzle of the Week.
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