News: One Hundred Factorial
One Hundred Factorial - the puzzle and the event
The weekly puzzle session that I run at the University of Adelaide is called One Hundred Factorial. In the middle of the night, I suddenly realised that I have never written about why it is called One Hundred Factorial, and so here is the story.
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Digit Disguises
This blog post is about a game I invented this week, and the game is AWESOME, if I do say myself.
Playing SET
Amie Albrecht recently posted a most wonderful blog post about SET, and it reminded me there were some SET-related things I should post too.
The second part of the Four Fours
The four fours is a rather famous little puzzle that requires some creativity and also gets people thinking about how the operations interact with each other. One thing I find both frustrating and fascinating is what happens when people come up with numbers that are very hard to produce with the standard basic operations of addition, subtraction, multiplication and division. People seem to be focused on producing the results in any way they can, rather than asking whether it's possible to produce the results. You also start getting solutions using All The Things, even though it's totally possible to get the answer for some of them just using the most basic of operations.
The Seven Sticks and what mathematics is
This week I provided games and puzzles at a welcome lunch for new students in the Mathematical Sciences degree programs. I had big logic puzzles and maths toys and also a list of some of my eight most favourite puzzles on tables with paper tablecloths to write on.
The Number Dress-Up Party
I created the Number Dress-Up Party puzzle way back in 2017 and every so often I stumble across it again when searching Twitter for other stuff. When I stumbled across it today, I decided it was time to write it up in a blog post.
Numbers and Letters
Since 2013, the MLC and Writing Centre have been doing a game called Letters and Numbers at Orientation Weeks and Open Days to create interaction with people. I tweeted a photo of one of our sessions during Open Day yesterday and it has attracted a lot of attention, so I thought I might record some details of the game for people to read if they're interested.
Fairy Bread
Fairy bread, in case you don't know, is an Australian children's party food.
Home in One Piece: a game of strategy using play dough
This post is about a game I invented called Home in One Piece.
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Bodyscale Prime Climb
Prime Climb is a wonderful game by Dan Finkel (aka @MathforLove), which you can find out more about here. The board is a path made of the numbers from 0 to 101, coloured by an ingenous and beautiful system.
