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    Plus Advent Calendar Door #2: Favourite puzzles

    2 December, 2011

    End of year weariness setting in? Revive your brain with some of our favourite puzzles, as chosen by our readers and the Plus team!

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    2011 in fours

    Bid farewell to 2011 with this puzzle from Plus reader, Paulo Ferro.


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    Prime birthday

    Plus reader Aziz Inan has a question for you: Which mathematician is in their prime?


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    Finding the nine...

    Think you know how to use the numbers 1 to 9? Our colleague James Grime puts your digits to the test.


    Sock sorting strategy

    Try your hand at a puzzle from the Hands-on risk and probability road show: How many socks do you need to grab to find a pair?


    Rabbit and string

    Buster the cosmic rabbit is playing ball with the Earth and very large piece of string... A slightly surreal take on a favourite puzzle with a very surprising answer!


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