India, April 6 -- Fiction is flexible when it comes to the ages of evergreen characters. James Bond has always been fortyish from the 1960s to 2010s, remaining the same age during the Cold War era and... Read More
India, March 30 -- It is always interesting to see veteran puzzlers referring to one another in their writings. Among the writings of David Wells I came across a puzzle whose solution is credited to G... Read More
India, March 16 -- David Wells, a British puzzler and popular mathematics writer, may not be as well-known as Henry Ernest Dudeney, but he has played a significant role in popularising puzzles neverth... Read More
India, March 9 -- One of last week's mathematical puzzles proved tougher than I had thought, with a couple of veteran Problematics solvers stumbling on it. The crossword of Indian states, on the other... Read More
India, Feb. 16 -- When describing puzzles related to dice, it is always necessary to mention the configuration at the cost of repetition. If the die is standard, the 6 is always opposite the 1, the 5 ... Read More
India, Feb. 9 -- A number of puzzles that have appeared in Problematics over the last three-and-a-half years have involved a magician playing tricks on a gullible audience, sometimes with cards, somet... Read More