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#1 2006-05-06 07:31:23

ryos
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Registered: 2005-08-04
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Nerd Search

I don't know how many of you read Foxtrot, but I just came across this little puzzle. I haven't actually tried to solve it yet.

Jason's Nerd Search

It's a numerical word search...


El que pega primero pega dos veces.

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#2 2006-05-06 12:13:43

MathsIsFun
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Re: Nerd Search

Cool!

Maybe I coulod adapt this game to suit: http://www.mathsisfun.com/games/word-search/


"The physicists defer only to mathematicians, and the mathematicians defer only to God ..."  - Leon M. Lederman

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#3 2006-05-06 14:18:29

justlookingforthemoment
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Registered: 2005-05-26
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Re: Nerd Search

Hey, that's awesome!

MathsIsFun wrote:

Maybe I coulod adapt this game to suit: http://www.mathsisfun.com/games/word-search/

Yes!

You could have separate nerdsearches using different types of clues to figure out the numbers - starting easy (subtraction, multiplication), and then getting harder (trigonometry, factorising/expanding, surds etc etc.)

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#4 2006-05-06 18:00:38

Jai Ganesh
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Re: Nerd Search

Good one, ryos!


It appears to me that if one wants to make progress in mathematics, one should study the masters and not the pupils. - Niels Henrik Abel.

Nothing is better than reading and gaining more and more knowledge - Stephen William Hawking.

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#5 2006-05-07 07:30:09

ryos
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Re: Nerd Search

Just solved it. I'm now (as though it wasn't obvious enough already) officially a Nerd.


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#6 2006-05-22 06:15:49

babygirl_9545
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Re: Nerd Search

hi how r u today?lol

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#7 2006-07-29 06:57:13

Devantè
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Registered: 2006-07-14
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Re: Nerd Search

This could be published in books - Nowadays they don't publish as many math puzzles in books as t hey used to! With the exception os Sudoku, of course.

Anyway, I can imagine it...Issue 17, NerdSearch. A nice image and a catchy slogan (optional) on the front and I think it would sell! Maybe MathsIsFun could publish a book with NerdSearch puzzles in it, and possibly some variations?

It's all a dream, but it does seem possible.

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