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Alex Bellos's Monday puzzle

Can you solve it? Alex has been setting a puzzle here every two weeks since 2015

19 August 2024

  • FILE PHOTO: Boxes of OXO stock cubes are seen on the shelf of a supermarket in Manchester<br>FILE PHOTO: FILE PHOTO: Boxes of OXO stock cubes are seen on the shelf of a supermarket in Manchester, Britain March 30, 2016. REUTERS/Phil Noble/File Photo

    Did you solve it? Naughty noughts and crosses

  • oxo<br>Boxes of Oxo cubes Beef, Chicken and Lamb stock cubes, cooking ingredient

    Can you solve it? Naughty noughts and crosses

5 August 2024

  • RICHARD SUART (MAJOR-GENERAL) IN "PIRATES OF PENZANCE" @ COLISEUM (OPENING 4-12-04) TRISTRAM KENTON 12/04 (3 RAVELEY STREET, LONDON NW5 2HX TEL 0207 267 5550 Mob 07973 617 355)email: tristram@tristramkenton.com

    Did you solve it? Are you smarter than an English major?

  • Andrew Shore (Major-General Stanley) in The Pirates Of Penzance by Gilbert and Sullivan @ London Coliseum. An English National Opera Production. (Opening 09-05-15) Tristram Kenton 05/15 (3 Raveley Street, LONDON NW5 2HX TEL 0207 267 5550 Mob 07973 617 355)email: tristram@tristramkenton.com

    Can you solve it? Are you smarter than an English major?

22 July 2024

  • Uluru / Ayer's Rock at sunset with Iconic Kangaroo Sign. Image shot 2008. Exact date unknown.<br>AY05FM Uluru / Ayer's Rock at sunset with Iconic Kangaroo Sign. Image shot 2008. Exact date unknown.

    Did you solve it? Can you outwit the wizards of Oz?

  • Dave Gray Archive<br>SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA - FEBRUARY 17: An aerial view of the central business district (CBD) and Sydney Opera House on February 17, 2023 in Sydney, Australia. (Photo by David Gray/Getty Images)

    Can you solve it? Can you outwit the wizards of Oz?

8 July 2024

  • A proud mother duck leads her ducklings across a blue lake in Springtime.<br>P12NEY A proud mother duck leads her ducklings across a blue lake in Springtime.

    Did you solve it? Simple puzzles almost everybody gets wrong

  • Posed by model Young handsome man over isolated background surprised with hand on head for mistake, remember error. Forgot, bad memory concept.

    Can you solve it? Simple puzzles almost everybody gets wrong

24 June 2024

  • Observer Tech Monthly OTM gift guide Christmas Xmas November 2015. Tetris lights.

    Did you solve it? Try this triple Tetris teaser

  • Tetris 1984

    Can you solve it? Try this triple Tetris teaser

10 June 2024

  • Close,Up,Of,Unrecognizable,Kids,Busy,Making,Diy,Robot,By<br>Close up of unrecognizable Kids busy making DIY robot by looking from digital tablet at home concept of Children robotic Experiment, togetherness, childhood learning and development; Shutterstock ID 2093624032; purchase_order: -; job: -; client: -; other: -

    Did you solve it? Do you think like an engineer?

  • Pythagoras of Samos around 570 BC - 510 BC according to Metaponto in the Basilicata. Image shot 2012. Exact date unknown.<br>CW1WFW Pythagoras of Samos around 570 BC - 510 BC according to Metaponto in the Basilicata. Image shot 2012. Exact date unknown.

    Can you solve it? Do you think like an engineer?

27 May 2024

  • Stock images at a Coles supermarket. Fruit. Green apples. Melbourne. Australia. generic. oz stock. Groceries.

    Did you solve it? How do you like them apples?

  • Matt Damon in Good Will Hunting (1997)

    Can you solve it? How do you like them apples?

13 May 2024

  • 1997, THE FULL MONTY<br>DANCE SCENE Film 'THE FULL MONTY' (1997) Directed By PETER CATTANEO 13 August 1997 CTF17258 Allstar/20TH CENTURY FOX You can keep your hat on soundtrack (UK/USA 1997) **WARNING** This Photograph is for editorial use only and is the copyright of 20TH CENTURY FOX and/or the Photographer assigned by the Film or Production Company &amp; can only be reproduced by publications in conjunction with the promotion of the above Film. A Mandatory Credit To 20TH CENTURY FOX is required. The Photographer should also be credited when known. No commercial use can be granted without written authority from the Film Company.

    Did you solve it? Gems from the vault of the National Puzzlers’ League

  • Viggo Mortensen as Aragorn in The Lord Of The Rings: The Two Towers; The Lord Of The Rings (2002)

    Can you solve it? Gems from the vault of the National Puzzlers’ League

29 April 2024

15 April 2024

  • Shakespeare. Portrait painting of William Shakespeare known as the Cobbe Portrait, done from life in 1610.<br>D1GRNK Shakespeare. Portrait painting of William Shakespeare known as the Cobbe Portrait, done from life in 1610.

    Did you solve it? Art thou smarter than Shakespeare?

  • Joseph Fiennes

    Can you solve it? Art thou smarter than Shakespeare?

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