by MathPickle | Jul 13, 2019 |
Solving murder mysteries have police making connections between underworld characters. Strings are pinned up between existing suspects. New subjects are pinned up. It all looks like a big mess. But never fear! We are here to bring order to this chaos! Hopefully, our...
by MathPickle | Mar 20, 2019 |
If you have not seen the original jumping frogs puzzle you should watch the video below – paying special attention to the lazy toads. This exploration starts out with an exploration of lily pads linked together to form stars. These graphs are rotationally...
by MathPickle | May 1, 2017 |
McGuire the Gathering is one of my favourite puzzle games. It is among the first that I designed in 2005 – five years before MathPickle came into being. It is based on the card game: Magic the Gathering. Download a pdf of this slide show here. Foul winds are...
by MathPickle | Apr 16, 2017 |
After repeated defeats in races against Aesop’s tortoises, the hares band together to have intra-species races across rickety bridges. They come up with an algorithm to build a race track which guarantees that no hare will be able to make two equal jumps right...
by MathPickle | Apr 5, 2017 |
A Spectral Blaster Ring is what you see if you get hit with a spectral blast. What doesn’t kill you makes you stronger 😉 If you have not seen the slide show on Spectral Blasters you should see that before you continue. The same four rules apply to Spectral...