Tag: puzzle

Leadership is a Research Project

This semester they’re letting me teach a course on leadership at UC Berkeley’s School of Information. I know, right? I’m pretty dern excited to be doing it, but I can tell you, putting this course together has been a daunting task. How does one distill so much availabl...

Why We Invested in SphereX: The Missing Piece Of The Puzzle

Fabric Venture’s fundamental belief in investing in SphereX is that building blocks are evolving for Web3 infrastructure in the same way we have seen for SaaS infrastructure and before that for iOS application infrastructure. Components of this include communications, CRM, user management and ...

Sorry Wordle, There’s A New Puzzle Keeping Me Up At Night

I’m writing this at 5:30 a.m. Why? Because my latest obsession woke me up an hour ago. In January 2022, I was one of the millions instantly smitten with Wordle, the word clue game. At the time it was the perfect level of complexity-accessible enough to solve, but challenging enough I f...

Puzzle Quest 3: Match 3 RPG Review (PS5)

I’m no stranger to Match 3 games. One of the first games I ever played on my iPhone 4 was Bejeweled. Later on, I upped the ante and played Candy Crush Saga for a while, but quickly realized I was much more of a fan of Soda Crush from a stylistic perspective. So, wha...

Iceland’s Volcanic Puzzle: Earthquakes and Magma But No Eruptions— Yet

Inrecent years, southwestern Iceland, land of geothermal wonders, has witnessed intermittent lava flows from various fissures, raising concerns about a potential eruption. Then, over 1,000 earthquakes were reported over 24 hours on October 25, 2023, on the Reykjanes Peninsula, prompting ques...

PUZZLE PIECES SIGNIFYING SOMETHING SINISTER and wrong IN JERUSALEM 2023

(MARY)THERE’S SOMETHING WRONG IN JERUSALEM, from YOUR ARMS TO SHORT TO BOX WITH GOD, a Broadway musical. Mary, as in mother of the Son of The Living God, Jesus the Christ is strongly advise to speak to Jesus’ Father. Then as now, I quite agree with this sage advice. As a theologian ( MA ...

Do You Know How To Solve This?

There are many ways we can solve a math problem, one way to try and substitute small or simple values into a given expression. This puzzle involves a functional equation and we have to find what f(2024) is  Here’s a hint: substitute x = 1 and y = 1 … I recommend ...

How to Solve This 5-Square Math Puzzle

So World of Engineering posted this puzzle online, and since there’s confusion in the comments, I thought I’d clear things up. The situation is simple: we have 5 squares of varying sizes, the smallest of which is 1 by 1 (the unit doesn’t matter here). They ar...

Another purportedly hard geometry puzzle

One can rotate Figure 1 anticlockwise by 90° and flip it horizontally without changing the radius of the smaller circle. The hope is that this will make the problem easier to solve. This is Figure 3 below. Figure 3: Rotated and flipped version of the problem Notice ...

Introduction to my Tiling Puzzle

Introductory. To begin with, I am presenting a mosaic made of a tiling puzzle instance. It is composed of sixteen lines. This rectangle is being detailed into several triangular piece-wise entities. For each triangle could be detailed further, and so on. Until sketching a new line ought to break ...

A Probability Puzzle: Finding 1000P

There are three outcomes to a chess game, winning, losing or a draw. And if you and I were playing against each other, me winning the game means you lose the game, vice versa. Today’s puzzle asks us to find the value of 1000P, where P is the probability that neither Rachel nor Steven is the...

The Rosetta Stone: the Key to Solving a Linguistic Puzzle

When it comes to archaeological discoveries, few can match the enduring significance and intrigue of the Rosetta Stone. This artefact came to light when Napoleon’s soldiers stumbled upon it more than 200 years ago. From its discovery, it soon became evident that it was no ordinary stone block....