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If you are expecting another tale of me ending up triumphant like Coventry in February, I’m going to temper your expectations.

I travelled for my first tournament since I was a junior this weekend, to the Coventry Open.

This will be an ongoing page that I will update as I make more progress.

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Click here to go to the episode. #4 - Farthings, Fizz and Food Boards About This Episode The boys solve money, stare at bubbles and get a bit confused on a problem involving a Lazy Susan.

I want this article to be an extensive to one of the problems we analysed in Odds and Evenings episode 1.

As with last year, mscroggs is hosting an advent calender of maths puzzles with a new puzzle each day.

The first episode of my podcast is now out.

A student showed me this puzzle and I thought it was quite neat.

There has been a renovation of the square in front of the cathedral in my home town of Worcester with lots of new bars and restaurants.

The movie Blade Runner is based on a novel called Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

I went to the Crystal Maze experience in Manchester on a Stag/Hen Do with my university friends this weekend.

The chess tournament that we run at school is underway and I host the results on my website.

This is the twelfth Ernest Dudeney puzzle that I've written up on this website and if you want to read others you can get a collection of them here.

This is one of those projects that took far longer than I thought it would.

Looking at lists of unsolved problems in maths always provides a strange combination of things that seem very difficult (as well they should) to misleadingly trivial.

In a mock Oxbridge interview with a student, they claimed that the volume of a torus could be worked out by unwrapping it as a cylinder and simply treating it as a prism (the length of which you could work out by finding a circumference like below: This d…

Here’s a pleasing question from the UK Maths Challenge today.