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Addicting Puzzle – It’s not Sudoku, it’s STRIMKO! Very addicting…
Strimko is a brand new logic puzzle with numbers, just like Suduko. It is based on Latin squares described by Leonhard Euler in the 18th century. The rules are simple: each row and column of an n x n...
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Petals Around the Rose – Dice Game
Play the game here: The number petals around the rose is: Instructions: Press the “Roll dice!” button to start....
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Checkmate! Tough Dice Game
The impossible (yet so simple) dice game. Play the game: The number of moves until checkmate is: Instructions:...
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The net has a great amount of interactive cool maths games. Below are a few sites worth taking a look at. Most of the math games are fun for all ages and they are all absolutely free. 1....
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Cool game – 20 questions – and how it works
Twenty Questions is a popular game which encourages deductive reasoning. Usually, one person is chosen to be the answerer. That person chooses a subject but does not reveal this to the others. All...
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How to play STRIMKO
I thought it would be fun to create a video on “How to play strimko.” It’s just like Sudoku but more fun!! Hopefully the creators over at strimko.com don’t mind me posting it on Youtube ^_^ You can...
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World of Warcraft – Negative gold problem
There is a flaw in World of Warcrafts statistics for “Total gold acquired”. A couple years ago, players discovered that the most a character can hold is 2^31 (or 2147483648) copper pieces of currency....
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Tower Stack game strategy (aka tower bricks, tower blocks)
Hey guys, there is this game called “Tower Stack” or “Tower Bricks” or “Tower Blocks” (among other names) and you can play it on Facebook, or MindJolt Games, or Brothersoft Games (etc). Here is a...
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How to solve the sudokube
The Sudoku Cube is a ripoff of the Rubik’s Cube, where each face has the numbers 1-9 instead of colours. The goal: put the numbers 1-9 on each side with no repetition It was created in 2006 by some guy...
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Eyeball math game
Apparently I’m pretty bad at using my eyes. You can try out this game at http://woodgears.ca/eyeball/index.html
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Physics Games
Need to waste some time? This site www.physicsgames.net has a crapload of games that involve concepts like gravity, projectiles, constructions, “destructions”, etc. So far, I’ve played Splitter,...
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Guess 2/3 of the average
The game is… you compete against some other people each of you guess one number from [0, 100] compute 2/3rd’s of the average of the guessed numbers the winner is whoever is closest For example, if the...
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Math games by an Oxford math prof
This Reuters article talks about Oxford professor Marcus du Sautoy and how he is an advisor for the mathy webgame website: www.mangahigh.com It’s called Manga High and illustrated in the style of a...
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Four color game
http://www.kongregate.com/games/Onefifth/flood-fill In this game the goal is to fill in the pieces with at most 4 colors. Two pieces that touch can’t share the same color. The game is mathematically...
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Math drinking games?
Saw this on Terry Tao’s blog, it’s a drinking game suggested by Mark Schnitzius that can promote mathematical thinking. Mark says: “I was watching a travel show a while back — they were in Korea, and a...
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Conway’s game of life (in html 5)
Check out the site sixfoottallrabbit.co.uk/gameoflife where you can play Conway’s Game of Life (in html5). I was curious what the number 42 would produce, you know, since it’s the answer to life and...
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Self-Referential Aptitude Test
Jim Propp’s self-referential aptitude test is quite interesting. It’s a difficult puzzle but here are some hints/spoilers: Q1 states that Q1-5 must have at least one B. Q3 states that the number of Qs...
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Icosien (game)
This is a neat game – it’s called Icosien. If you know graph theory then essentially the goal of the game is to draw a Eulerian path (a path that visits each edge exactly once) in the given graph.
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Scoring in Robot Unicorn Attack
How to get a high score in Robot Unicorn Attack (RUA)! I’m sure most of you have heard of this game before (it has 32,000,000 plays on the adultswim website). In case not, try it out: Link to heavy...
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The game of Munch
See if you can figure out the optimal strategy in this neat game. The rules are simple, whoever eats the poisoned apple (red one) loses. It was created by Philip Brocoum. Click below to go to the game:...
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