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MathsIsFun

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New Puzzles 3

Another installment of  "Stephen Froggatt" puzzles:

The Holiday Headscratcher
As Easy As Pi
Five Card Trick
Mirror, Mirror
Sides Reversed Is
Sum-Things Missing
Extra Terrestrial
Overlapping Squares
The Dual Cabbage Way
Easter Eggs - Eggsactly
Two Rungs Make One Write
Crushed Dice

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anonimnystefy

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Re: New Puzzles 3

Hi MIF

In the Overlapping Squares puzzle, the second diagram in the problem differs from the second diagram in the solution.

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Re: New Puzzles 3

Hi MIF;

The ExtraTerrestrial is a nice one

Simplifies to:

Headers = 3
Leggers = 6

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MathsIsFun

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Re: New Puzzles 3

Thanks anonimnystefy, I will redo the illustrations. Do you think it best to number them from top-down (as in puzzle), or bottom-up (as you would lay them)?

Thanks, too, bobby. I will see about putting that in the solution.

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Re: New Puzzles 3

Hi MIF;

Thanks for the puzzles.

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Re: New Puzzles 3

hi MIF

Do you think it best to number them from top-down (as in puzzle), or bottom-up (as you would lay them)?

Top down did confuse me when I looked at this solution.  I think bottom up as you would lay them would be more logical.

Great new puzzles!   

Bob

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anonimnystefy

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Re: New Puzzles 3

I agree with Bob.

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The knowledge of some things as a function of age is a delta function.

MathsIsFun

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Re: New Puzzles 3

Thanks, updated now. Can you check it (use refresh): Overlapping Squares Solution

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anonimnystefy

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Re: New Puzzles 3

Hi MIF

Great! The puzzles are very nice.

I have one question about the MIF site. I found somewhere that Stephen Froggatt is the creator of MIF... I am not entirely sure if that is true...

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MathsIsFun

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Re: New Puzzles 3

He created mathsisfun.NET, that is how we got to know each other.

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anonimnystefy

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Re: New Puzzles 3

Uh-huh. I am asking because I found on a site of one guy that he is the creator of MathsIsFun website and had provided a link which led to your site which obviously had me confused.

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“Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.” ― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment
The knowledge of some things as a function of age is a delta function.