mscroggs.co.uk
mscroggs.co.uk
Click here to win prizes by solving the mscroggs.co.uk puzzle Advent calendar.
Click here to win prizes by solving the mscroggs.co.uk puzzle Advent calendar.

subscribe

Puzzles

8 December

What is the largest number of factors which a number less than a million has?

Show answer

Fill in the digits

Source: Chalkdust
Can you place the digits 1 to 9 in the boxes so that the three digit numbers formed in the top, middle and bottom rows are multiples of 17, 25 and 9 (respectively); and the three digit numbers in the left, middle and right columns are multiples of 11, 16 and 12 (respectively)?

Show answer & extension

N

Consider three-digit integers \(N\) such that:
(a) \(N\) is not exactly divisible by 2, 3 or 5.
(b) No digit of \(N\) is exactly divisible by 2, 3 or 5.
How many such integers \(N\) are there?

Show answer & extension

Archive

Show me a random puzzle
 Most recent collections 

Advent calendar 2023

Advent calendar 2022

Advent calendar 2021

Advent calendar 2020


List of all puzzles

Tags

multiples taxicab geometry square roots rugby chocolate quadratics gerrymandering surds balancing expansions calculus 2d shapes factorials advent products triangle numbers square numbers ave chess combinatorics bases crossnumber tangents algebra shapes integers median palindromes spheres irreducible numbers polynomials arrows albgebra floors remainders quadrilaterals percentages lines polygons odd numbers digital clocks addition elections geometry cryptic crossnumbers sequences averages geometric means dates sum to infinity star numbers sport shape dodecagons digits mean planes rectangles triangles binary cards tiling routes coins unit fractions tournaments games matrices decahedra area even numbers circles volume chalkdust crossnumber 3d shapes menace grids factors geometric mean money integration probabilty cube numbers parabolas complex numbers indices means perimeter speed symmetry multiplication colouring coordinates probability folding tube maps fractions logic axes squares division dice hexagons books consecutive numbers proportion sets numbers crosswords scales differentiation functions regular shapes cryptic clues doubling wordplay christmas pentagons range angles crossnumbers cubics graphs pascal's triangle perfect numbers people maths dominos ellipses sums the only crossnumber time trigonometry number clocks digital products partitions consecutive integers determinants prime numbers

Archive

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