Come not between the dragon and his wrath. Apparently this is a quote from Shakespeare, and I happened to have seen this on a dragon notebook I bought from Waterstones. I think this puzzle really is a system of simultaneous equations in disguise. So buckle up my friends, and give this a go! When you…

There are many ways one can solve this. It all boils down to what sort of techniques you are most comfortable with. Now grab a pen and paper, and give this a go, When you are ready, keep reading for the solution. Solution I am going to present this method of turning the insides of…

Happy Valentine’s Day everyone, I hope you are having a euphoric moment, but if not, you can try this algebra puzzle about maximizing the expression LUV + LU + UV + LV given L + U + V = 12. What’s your favorite song about romance? Mine is A Thousand Years by Christina Perri. I…

Apparently a version of this puzzle appeared in ‘Nouvelles Annales de Mathématiques’. So we want to arrange the nine digits so that the first two numbers will multiply together to make the third. In our examples above, we have 12 × 483 = 5,796 and 4 × 1,738 = 6,952. Now can you find all…

This math puzzle is about a pyramid made up of consecutive integers starting from 1. So on the first row, we have 1. On the second row, we have 2, 3 and 4. There are two more numbers in every subsequent row. And our goal is to find the number directly below the number 400.…

In school, we learn that a surd is an expression containing an irrational root, such as √11, √2, √5. They are used to irrational numbers exactly without rounding. And no irrational numbers are not unreasonable, they are simply numbers that can not be expressed as a ratio between two integers p and q in the…