Can you solve it? Puzzles for blockheads

Alex Bellos
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<span>Photograph: Pictorial Press Ltd/Alamy</span>
Photograph: Pictorial Press Ltd/Alamy

Today’s questions come from this year’s Mathigon puzzle advent calendar. One of the many reason to be cheerful (Pt. 3) at this time of year.

If you have a head for blocks, the first one is for you.

1. Hit me with your four cube stick

2. Timelines

3. Eight heavy adult females

4. Slice of orange

.5. Bucket list

All today’s puzzles were taken from the forthcoming Mathigon advent calendar, which presents a puzzle a day from Dec 1 to 24.

Mathigon is a beautiful, incredibly engaging and free interactive website for the maths-curious. If you haven’t visited it before, I recommend a browse. And if you have, it’s worth a checking out again since new features are always coming online.

PLEASE NO SPOILERS

I’ll be back at 5pm UK with the solutions.

I set a puzzle here every two weeks on a Monday. I’m always on the look-out for great puzzles. If you would like to suggest one, email me.

I give school talks about maths and puzzles (online and in person). If your school is interested please get in touch.

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