Wes Carroll's Puzzler
Easy to visualize but challenging to solve: that's the kind of math puzzle you get here, one per episode. (Do you love the Car Talk Puzzler too? Yeah, that's what I'm trying for here, only with even more of a math bent.)
- Update frequency
- every 9 days
- Average duration
- 4 minutes
- Episodes
- 24
- Years Active
- 2016
04: Many stuffie lines [*]
You have four stuffed animals. You line up three of them at a time, always single file. How many distinct lineups are possible?
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Bonus points if you also tell me the number of distinct ways you …
00:07:41 |
Sun 03 Apr 2016
03: Two square dice [***]
(Errata alert! This episode was re-uploaded with a correction on Monday March 28 at 10am PST. The corrected version is 6m04s long; the old one is 6m02s. Visit http://www.buzzsprout.com/56982 if your…
00:06:04 |
Mon 28 Mar 2016
02: Glass half full? [*]
I have two cylindrical glasses that, when full, hold the same amount of water. The short glass has a radius that is half again as large as the tall one’s. Last night, I filled the short one completel…
00:02:53 |
Mon 21 Mar 2016
01: Peyton's great score [*]
Welcome to the podcast! Here are the rules, and the first puzzle.
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Mr. Patrick teaches math to 15 students. He was grading tests and found that when he graded everyone's test except Payton's, the …
00:02:16 |
Mon 14 Mar 2016
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