There is a joy in exploring ideas and puzzles which can all
be solved, if you tackle them the right way. Quite a lot of this blog is about
puzzles and numbers, so it’s mostly logic, mathematics and computing.
Here is some easy stuff to get you working
Can
you match this?
Here are some very
old puzzles that use match sticks to do mathematics with Roman numerals. As we can
see, an Italian mathematician called Fibonacci did not think using Roman
numerals was a good idea, but I think he would have solved these challenges,
anyhow.
You need to have
some skill in both mathematics and
Roman numerals. Remember, as always, that there has to be a solution (or maybe
more than one solution). You can move one, and one match only to make a true
equation. The first question has at least three solutions:
A puzzle in Roman
numerals.
Here are some answers:
For the rest of these puzzles in this entry, though, there are no answers given, until you turn to the next blog entry. In each case, you have to make a correct sum.
Puzzles 2 and 3.
Puzzle 4 This calls for a close approximation, and that’s a hint! Puzzle 5 is more mathematical: convert this to a value of one by moving one match.It’s all about thinking logically, and that’s where we go in this blog.
You can find the answers to the puzzles here, but try your hardest first.
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