mscroggs.co.uk
mscroggs.co.uk

subscribe

Blog

Christmas (2015) is coming!

 2015-11-24 
This year, the front page of mscroggs.co.uk will feature an advent calendar. Behind each door, there will be a puzzle with a three digit solution.
As you solve the puzzles, your answers will be stored in a cookie. Behind the door on Christmas Day, there will be a form allowing you to submit your answers. The first person to submit the correct answers will win this array of prizes:
The prizes include an mscroggs.co.uk t-shirt, a DVD of Full Frontal Nerdity and a beautiful mscroggs.co.uk 2015 winner's medal:
I will be adding to the pile of prizes throughout December.
The next nine people to submit the correct answers will win a winner's medal plus a smaller goody bag of prizes. If less than ten correct entries are submitted, prizes will be given to those with one incorrect answer, then those with two incorrect answers and so on.
Each day's puzzle (and the entry form on Christmas Day) will be available from 5:00am GMT.
To win a prize, you must submit your entry before the start of 2016. Only one entry will be accepted per person. Once ten correct entries have been submitted, I will add a note here and below the calendar. If you have any questions, ask them in the comments below or on Twitter.
So once December is here, get solving! Good luck and have a very merry Christmas!
Edit: The winners and answers can now be found here.
                        
(Click on one of these icons to react to this blog post)

You might also enjoy...

Comments

Comments in green were written by me. Comments in blue were not written by me.
@Anonymous2: Other winners and answers will be available from 1st January
Matthew
                 Reply
How many wrong answers do I have ? And when will you publish the solutions ?
Anonymous2
                 Reply
@Anonymous1: You are (now) correct and on the leaderboard. Well done!
Matthew
                 Reply
I've submitted my answer! On Christmas too! It's just that I sorta crammed all of the answers today :/

Are you allowed to tell me if I am correct?
Anonymous1
                 Reply
I'm so glad for OEIS.

hint hint
Anonymous
                 Reply
 Add a Comment 


I will only use your email address to reply to your comment (if a reply is needed).

Allowed HTML tags: <br> <a> <small> <b> <i> <s> <sup> <sub> <u> <spoiler> <ul> <ol> <li> <logo>
To prove you are not a spam bot, please type "sixa-y" backwards in the box below (case sensitive):

Archive

Show me a random blog post
 2024 

Feb 2024

Zines, pt. 2

Jan 2024

Christmas (2023) is over
 2023 
▼ show ▼
 2022 
▼ show ▼
 2021 
▼ show ▼
 2020 
▼ show ▼
 2019 
▼ show ▼
 2018 
▼ show ▼
 2017 
▼ show ▼
 2016 
▼ show ▼
 2015 
▼ show ▼
 2014 
▼ show ▼
 2013 
▼ show ▼
 2012 
▼ show ▼

Tags

countdown news ternary gather town martin gardner live stream newcastle ucl reddit plastic ratio simultaneous equations interpolation computational complexity people maths christmas card matrix of minors world cup hyperbolic surfaces anscombe's quartet the aperiodical tennis squares programming 24 hour maths london underground inline code london data visualisation graph theory draughts logic map projections correlation speed sorting royal institution video games wool dinosaurs turtles games curvature hexapawn numbers binary inverse matrices craft matt parker european cup wave scattering machine learning menace convergence statistics determinants fractals radio 4 hats edinburgh stickers light a gamut of games graphs flexagons big internet math-off tmip guest posts football pythagoras asteroids matrices logo youtube signorini conditions christmas cambridge final fantasy dates sound probability finite element method fence posts matrix of cofactors noughts and crosses platonic solids php accuracy national lottery chess folding paper geogebra puzzles standard deviation exponential growth preconditioning pizza cutting weak imposition raspberry pi mathsjam cross stitch bempp latex chebyshev braiding oeis numerical analysis errors advent calendar electromagnetic field gaussian elimination sobolev spaces arithmetic captain scarlet weather station logs mathslogicbot phd crochet zines talking maths in public propositional calculus palindromes hannah fry dataset gerry anderson javascript bubble bobble dragon curves reuleaux polygons matrix multiplication game show probability manchester science festival geometry golden ratio approximation go nine men's morris finite group harriss spiral folding tube maps estimation recursion rhombicuboctahedron frobel pi approximation day crossnumber stirling numbers fonts misleading statistics polynomials coins python datasaurus dozen rugby chalkdust magazine royal baby pascal's triangle books databet data pac-man mean trigonometry runge's phenomenon bodmas error bars golden spiral pi mathsteroids realhats triangles boundary element methods manchester quadrilaterals game of life sport

Archive

Show me a random blog post
▼ show ▼
© Matthew Scroggs 2012–2024