Holiday Puzzles 2025
| 1. WEIGHTY COIN PROBLEM
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According to the U.S. Mint, a penny weighs 2.5 grams, a nickel weighs 5 grams, and a dime weighs 2.268 grams. What are the 2 smallest different collections of these coins that are both worth the same amount and weigh exactly the same? |
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| 2. TRUE OR FALSE
| | For each of the 3 equations below, find a polygonal shape that can be cut into either the shapes on the left of the equation, or the shapes on the right.
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| 3. PANDIGITAL EQUATION
Find the only solution to ab/c + de = fg + h/i , where each letter is a different digit from 1 to 9.
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4. CLOSEST POINTS
Find a collection of 12 points in the plane so that half of them are closest to exactly 1 point, and the other half of them are closest to 4 other points.
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| 5. HIT PARADE
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In a game of backgammon, blue rolls first, white rolls and hits 3 checkers, blue rolls and hits 2 checkers, white rolls and hits 1 checker, and blue rolls and hits 3 checkers. What were the rolls, and how were they played?
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