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New Scientist puzzle #59: Celebrate the differences

Can you complete the diagram so that each of the nine circles contains a different digit from 1 to 9? Plus the solution to puzzle #58. Set by David Bodycombe

13 May 2020

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#59 Celebrate the differences

Complete the diagram so that each of the nine circles contains a different digit from 1 to 9. Whenever two circles are connected by a straight line, the difference between the two numbers must be three or more (e.g. 5, 6, 8 and 9 can’t be connected to 7). The bottom-left square isn’t 1.

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#58 Lego lockdown

There are 89 ways of combining the bricks to make a row of length 10. The combinations for length n follow the Fibonacci sequence, in which each number in the sequence is the sum of…

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