by MathPickle | Jul 28, 2016 |
Armenian rugs cover the floor – sometimes laying atop each other. A whole lot of puzzles arise from trying to find the shape and placement of these rugs. PS. The photo is of the oldest pile rug to be discovered – 2500 years old. It is Armenian, but was...
by MathPickle | Jul 5, 2016 |
Smothering Ninja Bed Bugs is important to stop itchy nocturnal sleeps on you King Size bed. Here is an infestation of your king size bed. It looks nasty. Your job is to smother all those Ninja Bed Bugs by covering them with rectangles. The Ninja Bed Bug Score...
by MathPickle | Jun 22, 2016 |
Solidarity – Poland, 1981 This game is a blend of strategy and deception. You start the game by being randomly dealt one of five cards (Communists, Nobility, Farmers, Clergy, Workers.) You secretly draw the Clergy. You want the Clergy to win. For...
by MathPickle | Jun 21, 2016 |
Richard Smalley was awarded the Nobel prize in Chemistry for the discovery that he could make a very very small soccer ball out of Carbon atoms. In 2005 he suddenly began to shrink. He ended up so small that he could bounce on the little trampolines that make...
by MathPickle | Jun 7, 2016 |
Picasso’s cuboid puzzle uses volume in an unequal battle between a Greedy and Generous Cuboid. 20 can be written as the sum of the volumes of two cuboids… a Greedy one and a Generous one… All three dimensions of the Greedy Cuboid {3,3,2} are at least as...
