Richard Powers ★★★★★ 4/5 Science Fiction Superbly written—too many themes If you pick up Richard Powers’ Bewilderment, regardless of your literary inclinations, you will agree that it is a tender,
Logic; Difficulty: easy, medium Are you a savvy enough salesperson to close this deal? Puzzle worm Sandi Sandman sent me this interesting puzzle that took me multiple tries to get
Logic, Trigonometry ; Difficulty: Easy A Polarizing Puzzler from The Riddler This week’s Riddler Classic about polarized light is a math+physics puzzle. The question is reproduced below from the Riddler
Logic; Difficulty: easy The Riddler: The Auto Tune up I’m late to this week’s Riddler Classic but figured I’d post this anyway since the limiting case might be interesting. You
Nalini Singh ★★★★★ 1/5 Fiction; Murder Mystery Run…before you are tempted in any way to pick this book up I hate to trash a book since every creative act is
Probability ; Difficulty: medium A game sequence probability puzzle from The Riddler: The Fencing Relay This week’s Riddler Classic has an intuitive answer, tedious solution and highlights the value of
Amor Towles ★★★★★ 5/5 Fiction Mr. Towles cements his must-read status With A Gentleman in Moscow and The Rules of Civility, Amor Towles joined the club of writers whose new
Calculus, Trigonometry, Logic ; Difficulty: hard A Thanksgiving themed puzzle from The Riddler: The Projectile Turkey From this week’s Riddler Classic comes an interesting projectile motion question. Trig the turkey cannot
Logic; Difficulty: hard Yet another Prisoner–Warden–Hats conundrum This is from this week’s Riddler: a particularly tough variant of the Prisoner-Warden class of problems. Four people are trying to escape from
Probability, Logic: Medium The Genie’s magic stick This is from this week’s Riddler: One day you stumble across a magic genie, who says that if you play a simple game
Geometry, Probability, Calculus: Medium/Hard Geometry-Probability Problem This math question was sent to me by my friend and puzzle fiend Sandi Sandman who in turn got it from The Riddler: You
Probability: Easy Probability Puzzle This was featured last week on FiveThirtyEight’s Riddler Classic: apparently inspired by Netflix’s breakout hit The Squid Game. I am yet to see that show: undecided
