Alex Bellos
@alexbellos.bsky.social
Popular science author currently writing a book on randomness.
A wonderful puzzle rescued from oblivion.
www.theguardian.com/science/2025...
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Can you solve it? Two dead at the drink-off – a brilliant new lateral thinking puzzle
Who poisoned who?
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November 10, 2025 at 7:19 AM
A wonderful puzzle rescued from oblivion.
www.theguardian.com/science/2025...
www.theguardian.com/science/2025...
Some light entertainment
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www.theguardian.com/science/2025...
Can you solve it? Ungoogleable and unhinged – ten hilarious visual teasers
Riotous rebus riddles
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September 29, 2025 at 6:45 AM
Some light entertainment
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An oldie but a goodie
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Can you solve it? The simple T-puzzle that fools everyone (at first!)
staggeringly simple, toermentingly tough
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September 15, 2025 at 6:15 AM
An oldie but a goodie
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Can you solve it? Sexy maths
The eternal appeal of prime numbers
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February 3, 2025 at 12:38 PM
Quizzers in a queue www.theguardian.com/science/2025...
Can you solve it? Logicians in a line
A head-scratching hat puzzle
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January 20, 2025 at 9:13 AM
Quizzers in a queue www.theguardian.com/science/2025...
We have been waiting for more than half a millenium for this numerical felicity.
2025 will be the first year since 1520 that is in the five times table.
www.theguardian.com/science/2024...
2025 will be the first year since 1520 that is in the five times table.
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Can you solve it? All you need to know about 2025
Five fives alive!
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December 23, 2024 at 8:14 AM
We have been waiting for more than half a millenium for this numerical felicity.
2025 will be the first year since 1520 that is in the five times table.
www.theguardian.com/science/2024...
2025 will be the first year since 1520 that is in the five times table.
www.theguardian.com/science/2024...
My new book is ONLY A FIVER for today and to celebrate my publishers made me a Xmas JPEG
You can get it here: amzn.to/4gk4Ra8
You can get it here: amzn.to/4gk4Ra8
December 17, 2024 at 8:03 AM
My new book is ONLY A FIVER for today and to celebrate my publishers made me a Xmas JPEG
You can get it here: amzn.to/4gk4Ra8
You can get it here: amzn.to/4gk4Ra8
Can you solve it? That Sally Rooney hat puzzle
Literary logic
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December 9, 2024 at 8:47 AM
The hardest part about writing a puzzle column in a newspaper format is having to write a catchy headline, and finding a picture from the Guardian archive that somehow fits.
But it does allow opportunities for humour, I guess.
www.theguardian.com/science/2024...
But it does allow opportunities for humour, I guess.
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Can you solve it? Brain-training for Martians
Do you have alien intelligence?
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November 25, 2024 at 7:23 AM
The hardest part about writing a puzzle column in a newspaper format is having to write a catchy headline, and finding a picture from the Guardian archive that somehow fits.
But it does allow opportunities for humour, I guess.
www.theguardian.com/science/2024...
But it does allow opportunities for humour, I guess.
www.theguardian.com/science/2024...
Hello - wow it's nice to be on here. Apols for beginning with some self promotion but my new book THINK TWICE is 99p on Kindle for one day today.
Don't think twice!
amzn.to/3YQ6iWo
Don't think twice!
amzn.to/3YQ6iWo
November 16, 2024 at 9:00 AM
Hello - wow it's nice to be on here. Apols for beginning with some self promotion but my new book THINK TWICE is 99p on Kindle for one day today.
Don't think twice!
amzn.to/3YQ6iWo
Don't think twice!
amzn.to/3YQ6iWo