The day is finally here: issue 11 is out now! To help you celebrate launch day in style, we’ve set a puzzle hunt: throughout the day, we are posting a series of puzzles. The answers to these puzzles form clues to the four-digit code for the door to let you into the Chalkdust issue 11 secret backstage lounge.
There are five puzzles in the puzzle hunt. They are being posted every 2 hours: at 9am, 11am, 1pm, 3pm and 5pm.
Mapmatics
We review the third of this year’s nominees for Book of the Year
Everything is Predictable
We review the second of this year’s nominees for Book of the Year
Think Twice
We review the first of this year’s nominees for Book of the Year
Chalkdust Book of the Year 2024
We announce the shortlist of our favourite maths-themed books of last year
Read Issue 20 now!
Spirographs, complex triangles and a lot of ants feature in our AW24 issue! Plus all your favourite puzzles & columns.
Cryptic crossword, Issue 20
Can you solve it?
A mathematician’s guide to Edinburgh
Stranded in Scotland's capital? This guide will keep you busy
Dear Dirichlet, Issue 20
Cricket, coursework and karaoke are among the problems solved in this issue's Dear Dirichlet agony aunt column
Prize crossnumber, Issue 20
Can you solve it?
Top ten: top tens
The undisputed top ten top tens this season
An odd card trick
Michael Wendl dissects some variants of the magic separation, a self-working card trick.Prize crossnumber, Issue 11
£100 of MathsGear goodies to be won if you can solve it
What is the shape of you?
Are you a torus? A cone? Ed Spheran? Find out by answering a maximum of five easy questions
How to cheat at cards
Kevin Houston teaches us how to deal ourselves the best handDear Dirichlet, Issue 11
Grant applications, musical media and last-minute Olympics training are the topics readers have sent in to the professor's postbox this issueTop ten vote issue 11
Vote for your favourite maths-themed day out
Page 3 model: Cooking spaghetti
Some saucy modelling
How to make: Ecki the polytope
Make your own Ecki
What’s hot and what’s not, Issue 11
Fashion is fleeting, Chalkdust regulars are not.Top Ten: pictures of scorpions
The definitive chart of the best pictures of scorpions
More from Chalkdust
Mapmatics
We review the third of this year’s nominees for Book of the YearEverything is Predictable
We review the second of this year’s nominees for Book of the YearThink Twice
We review the first of this year’s nominees for Book of the YearChalkdust Book of the Year 2024
We announce the shortlist of our favourite maths-themed books of last yearRead Issue 20 now!
Spirographs, complex triangles and a lot of ants feature in our AW24 issue! Plus all your favourite puzzles & columns.Cryptic crossword, Issue 20
Can you solve it?