{"id":6832,"date":"2026-02-13T13:27:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-13T12:27:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ginclub.website\/home2\/gentsinnyon\/?page_id=6832"},"modified":"2026-02-13T13:27:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-13T12:27:09","slug":"why-did-we-start-this-puzzlers-group","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/ginclub.website\/home2\/gentsinnyon\/gin-club-home\/who-are-we\/puzzlers-group\/why-did-we-start-this-puzzlers-group\/","title":{"rendered":"Why did we start this puzzlers group?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The idea arose out of a puzzle involving 2 circles and a square that Nathan shared on a hike to Vermeilley December 2025, details are in the blog<\/a> but also replicated here. Given 2 touching circles of radius, r, find the area of the square EFGH.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Then Peter Taylor shared a set of Christmas puzzles that were great fun.
https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/mathematician-shares-10-festive-brain-teasers-that-anyone-can-try<\/a>
and here are the solutions although we don’t agree with all of them
https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/mathematician-shares-solutions-for-10-festive-brain-teasers?utm_source=news.sciencealert.com&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_campaign=today-s-top-science-news<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

After many emails between Nathan, Peter T and Mark 2Ts the puzzles were solved but we thought it would be a good idea to share and solve other problems, hence this puzzlers group.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Not a puzzle but certainly interesting was the fact Ross shared on the Creux du Van hike last June<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Essentially take any 4 digit number and rearrange the digits highest to lowest and lowest to highest. Subtract one of these from the other to give a new 4 digit number and repeat the procedure. This ultimately produces 6174.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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On an earlier walk, Mike Price also introduced a puzzle from the Guardian involving a circle. How to drop a perpendicular from any point onto a diameter without using any measuring device. No compasses, no marked ruler, just a pencil and an unmarked straight edge. This was posed by a Russian prime minister, \u00a0Mikhail Mishustin, on a visit to a school.
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Above seems to indicate there will be some interest in a puzzlers group. Also an initial note immediately returned the names of 10 members who are interested. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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