Test yourself against the readers of New Scientist magazine
Pubs are for drinking, socialising – and doing puzzles. Or so claims Headscratchers, a new compendium of puzzles from New Scientist magazine, from which today’s cranium-ticklers are taken.
The first is a classic pub puzzle. (An inn-igma? a bam-booze-ler? A conun-dram?) Which is to say, it is a mathematical challenge that lends itself to being tackled in a group, and may lead to heated debate!
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