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Wes Carroll's Puzzler

Wes Carroll

Easy to visualize but challenging to solve: that's the kind of math puzzle you get here, one per episode. (Do you love the Car Talk Puzzler too? Yeah, that's what I'm trying for here, only w...

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Listen to Wes Carroll's Puzzler, a Games & Hobbies podcast by Wes Carroll. Stream 24 episodes in English, follow new audio stories, and play episodes online on Radio and Podcast.

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24: Santa's big sleigh [****]

A parking lot has 16 spaces in a row. Twelve cars arrive, each of which requires one parking space, and their drivers choose their spaces at...

3:59Dec 25, 2016

23: Your prime choice [***]

What’s the largest 2-digit prime factor of “200 choose 100”? // Spiciness: *** out of ****

4:58Nov 6, 2016

22: Split the check [*]

Last week, two of my friends and I went to a restaurant and had a lovely meal. We decided to evenly split the check, so we asked the waiter...

2:41Oct 2, 2016

21: The faulty odometer [***]

A faulty car odometer proceeds from digit 3 to digit 5, always skipping the digit 4, regardless of position. For example, after traveling on...

2:40Sep 4, 2016

20: The middle digit [**]

How many three-digit numbers satisfy the property that the middle digit is the average of the first and the last digits? // Spiciness: ** ou...

2:51Aug 28, 2016

19: The token tax [**]

A game is played with tokens according to the following rule. In each round, the player with the most tokens gives one token to each of the...

2:44Aug 14, 2016

18: The circular track [***]

Brenda and Sally run in opposite directions on a circular track, starting at diametrically opposite points. They first meet after Brenda has...

6:34Jul 31, 2016

17: The red one [***]

My perpetually tricky friend told me that while she was walking through town she saw four particularly vibrant houses. There was an auburn o...

3:35Jul 24, 2016

16: In 80 days [*]

A friend of mine told me that she can walk a mile south, a mile east, a mile north and end up back home. I first thought she lived at the no...

4:27Jul 17, 2016

15: Coats of paint [***]

Working alone, I put two coats of paint on a wall, one before lunch and one after. Yesterday, I began at the usual time. Two hours before lu...

3:41Jul 3, 2016

14: O gnats, tango! [**]

Earlier this week I was rob...er...exploring tombs and I accidently triggered a trap that locked me in a room. With me are a pair of plates,...

3:31Jun 19, 2016

13: Order of operands [*]

Cindy was asked by her teacher to subtract 3 from a certain number and then divide the result by 9. Instead, she subtracted 9 and then divid...

8:10Jun 5, 2016

12: One light switch [****]

For years you were a lonely prisoner here. But earlier today, you were brought to a courtyard to join the others, where you are all addresse...

5:48May 29, 2016

11: The loopiest puzzler [***]

I have four lengths of rope. I hold them so that you can see all eight ends, but you can’t tell which end connects to which other end. You p...

3:00May 22, 2016

10: Eight's too many [**]

In the eight-term sequence "a, b, c, d, e, f, g, h", c represents 5, and the sum of any three consecutive terms is 30. What’s a+h? (Spicines...

6:14May 15, 2016

09: Coin flip winner [***]

We’re going to play a simple coin-flip game. We take turns flipping a fair coin. The first one to get “heads” wins. You go first. // What’s...

6:34May 8, 2016

08: Strawberry ice cream [***]

A friend of mine has pictures of his three daughters on his mantle. He took the pictures when each of the girls was a particularly adorable...

3:21May 1, 2016

07: Kiana's twin brothers [*]

Kiana has two older twin brothers. The product of their three ages is 128. What is the sum of their three ages? // Spiciness: * out of ****...

3:17Apr 24, 2016

06: That sounds accurate [***]

You have just tested positive for a condition known to affect 1% of the population. However, your doctor assures you that the test for this...

2:35Apr 17, 2016

05: Ted's three statements [**]

Ted has three numbered statement for us to consider, and he wants to know whether the third one is true. Here they are: // 1. There are thre...

2:04Apr 10, 2016

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