India, April 22 -- Nine to five is a sweet phrase and a great concept, but its accuracy is something I have often wondered about. In how many offices does work begin at 9am? And even if it does and ev... Read More
India, April 15 -- Your mathematics teacher at school will have told you that you can only solve a set of simultaneous equations if there are as many equations as there are variables, but that is beca... Read More
India, April 8 -- There are times when one must give in to temptation and eat one's words. Just a couple of weeks ago, I had asserted that there was no reason to make our puzzles topical. "Just becaus... Read More
India, April 1 -- As longtime readers of Problematics know, I frequently create puzzles of my own but also pick up existing ones and adapt them. Occasionally, some puzzles are so original that they ca... Read More
India, March 27 -- Earlier this month, the animal husbandry ministry banned the sale and breeding of 23 dog breeds, a decision taken in the wake of a number of dog attacks on humans across the country... Read More
India, March 25 -- There is no reason why our puzzles should be topical. For example, just because this is election season does not mean we should scratch our heads over an Einstein puzzle about which... Read More
India, March 18 -- Once upon a time, a thirsty crow came across a jar in which the water was too low for its beak to reach. You know what happens next, pebbles and all. In fact, you may also have seen... Read More
India, March 11 -- This is the week of the Academy Awards, which will be awarded on the very morning when this instalment of Problematics comes out. However, since we already a warm-up puzzle a couple... Read More
India, March 6 -- The timeline of how and when modern humans populated India is somewhat sketchy. While most Indians can trace their ancestry to more than one lineage, the origin of some of these anci... Read More
India, Feb. 26 -- If you look at old issues of this paper or previous online episodes of Problematics, you may notice a kind of hierarchy among mathematical, logic and word puzzles. When deciding whic... Read More