Problems & Puzzles: Puzzles

1.- The Gordon Lee puzzle 

2.- Prime strings solution.gif (285 bytes) 

3.- Magic Squares with consecutive primes 

4.- Prime - magical squares solution.gif (285 bytes)  

5.- Find Pn =prime >61 such that Pn divides Pn+1*Pn+2 + 1 solution.gif (285 bytes) 

6.- Ray Ballinger suggestion 

7.- Palindrome - Primes: 2 questions solution.gif (285 bytes) 

8.- Primes by Listing solution.gif (285 bytes) 

9.- p1 + p2 + … pk = n m , m => 2 

10.- Primes associated to Primorials and Factorials 

11.- Distinct, Increasing & Decreasing Gaps 

12.- Period Length of 1/p solution.gif (285 bytes) 

13.- Magical Pentagrams solution.gif (285 bytes)

14.- Pal-Primes and sum of powers solution.gif (285 bytes)

15.- Narcissistic pal-primes  solution.gif (285 bytes)

16.- Consecutive primes and ending-digit 

17.- Weakly primes 

18.- Some Special Sums of Consecutive Primes 

19.- Primes on a Clock solution.gif (285 bytes)

20.- Reversible Primes 

21.- Happy Primes solution.gif (285 bytes)

22.- Primes and Persistence  solution.gif (285 bytes)

23.- Pal-primes adding consecutive primes solution.gif (285 bytes)

24.- Primes in several bases solution.gif (285 bytes)

25.- Composed primes  solution.gif (285 bytes)

26.- Honaker & Jud. McCranie puzzle  

27.- Heinz Rectangles  solution.gif (285 bytes)

28.- Heinz Stair-case  

29.- Pi = P i-1&nxtprm(P i-1), Pi = prime for i => 1  solution.gif (285 bytes)

30.- Queen attacking primes in a Knight’s tour solution

31.- The Average Prime number, APN(k) = S(Pk)/k solution.gif (285 bytes)

32.- Find couples of numbers like this (1033, 8) such that:
1033 = 8^1+8^0+8^3+8^3
 

33.- Find numbers like this:15551(palprime)= Fifteen Thousand Five Hundred Fifty One = 383 (palprime) 

34.- Prime Triplets in arithmetic progression  solution.gif (285 bytes)

35.- 1999 and the perfect numbers  solution.gif (285 bytes)

36.- Sequences of “descriptive primes”  solution.gif (285 bytes)

37.- Set of even numbers { ai } such that every ai + aj + 1 is prime   solution.gif (285 bytes)

38.- Sloane’s sequences solution.gif (285 bytes)

39.- The Mirrorable Numbers (By Mike Keith) 

40. The Pi Prime Search Puzzle (by Patrick De Geest) 

41. Palindromic Carnival (dedicated to Patrick De Geest)

42.- This week puzzle is to create a puzzle analog to other one.

43.-Palprime1*Palprime2 = Palindrome

44.-Enoch Haga Puzzle about Consecutive Primes

45.- Prime Solitaire (a puzzle based on a game proposed by Enoch Haga)

46.- Primes expressible as sum of consecutive primes in K ways

47.- p4 = a4 + b4 + c4 + d4, {a, b, c, d}>0

48.- P3 = a3 + b3 + c3, {P, a, b, c} = primes

49.- “If you are given K numbers of each from 0 to 9, find the maximum quantity of primes that can be formed using those 10K numbers”.  

50.- “The best approximation to Pi with primes”

51.- Pi such that Pi is Palprime & i = palindrome

52.- Sum of K consecutive primes equal to the sum of their reversible ones.

53.- Sequences of consecutive economical numbers. 

54.- Pair of primes of the form {p, 4p^2+1}

55.- Primes by Generation (Patrick De Geest)

56.- The Honaker's Constant

57.-  8757193191, another little puzzle from Mike Keith

58.- A particular sequence of k consecutive primes (by Enoch Haga)

59.- Six and the nine digits primes (by Jud McCranie)

60.- Generalized Cunningham chain (By Felice Russo)

61.- M(a, p)  = a^p - a + 1 ( by Jean Brette)

62.- The qs-sequence, (by T.W.A. Baumann)

63.- Another (3rd) Mike Keith's little puzzle.

64.- The Strange Ruler (TWA Baumann)

65.- Multigrade Relations

66.- The SOPF sequences

67.- The P/M-SOPF sequences

68.- The largest prime magic squares at the end of this Millennium (a puzzle suggested by Jaime Ayala)  

69.- Primeful Heterosquares  

70.- Primes Double Tree (a puzzle suggested by Paul Leyland)  

71.- Consecutive primes and Cunningham chains  

72.- Persistent Palprimes  

73.- A Collatz-like sequence.  

74.- SOD(26972593-1)  

75.- Prime numbers and the number 2000  

76.- z(n)=sigma(n) + phi(n) - 2n  

77.- Christmas Prime-Pine

78.- Primes by concatenating consecutive integers

79.- The Chebrakov's - by two months - Challenge  

80.- Twin primes - magic squares 

81.- Sophie Germain  primes - magic squares

82.- The Goldbach Comet

83.- The 6k+1 and 6k-1 boxes  

84.- Non-primes adding up to non-primes (by TWA)

85.- A puzzle about the Generalized Mills' theorem

86.- Disjoint sets A & B of consecutive numbers sharing the same set P of prime divisors

87.- Adding prime magic squares (a puzzle suggested by John E. Everett)

88.- A special set of odd primes

89.- The first palprime as a sum of consecutive composites

90.- The prime version of the taxicab problem

91.- Primes with the Smoothest Increasing Digits (SID primes)

92. A pile of prime-spheres

93.- Numbers such that the decimal and hexadecimal representation are the reverse of each other

94.  The Domino & the primes 

95. K consecutive primes p such that the decimal expansion of the reciprocal 1/p, for each p, has exactly a period of length (p-1)

96. The least K consecutive odd primes such that the sum of every two of them produces a distinct number

97. Consecutive numbers with the same "sum of prime factors" (SPF)

98. Curio 39  

99. Primes p such that R(p) is prime and p^2 = R(R(p)^2)  

100. Digital Prime k-tuplets

101. Digital Divisibility Tests  

102. Three squares a cube, all primes

103. N=a4+b4 = c4+d4

104. Numbers that are equal to the sum of cubes of its third parts (as strings)  

105. a^5 = b1^5+b2^5+...+bn^5

106. Prime-magic squares added up  to 2000

107. K Consecutive Smith numbers 

108. Methods for generating Smith numbers  

109. a1<a2<...<ak such that...

110. Dropping digits primes (by Patrick De Geest)

111. Spoof odd Perfect numbers  

112. Automorphic primes

113. Provable primes in Arithmetic progression

114. The Murad's generalization of the Collatz's sequences

115. Prime squares composed by no more than two digits

116. A=B+C, A*B*C is a primorial...

117. Certain p# +1 values

118. Primorial product numbers

119. Sophie-Germain & Twin, chains  

120. Primal Squares

121. THE  LEGEND  OF  YANG  HUI

122. Consecutive Twin primes

123. Two Frank Rubin's prime puzzles

124. Palindromic, Prime & Sophie-Germain pair of Magic Squares 

125. Primes through palindromes  

126. Some conspicuous probable primes

127.  Non adding prime sequences

128.  Sum of consecutive squared primes a square  

129.  Harshad Numbers

130.  The Hexagon of the 19 numbers

131.  Growing primes 

132.  Pascal Primes

133.  Pa - Qb = K  

134.  The 1379-Carrousel-Primes  

135.  Partitions into distinct primes with maximum product  

136.  Poor prime strings  

137.  Product of primes + 1, a square  

138.  Deletable primes  

139.  Sdf(x)=p  

140.  Primes Decades  

141.  Smarandache Prime Base representation of the natural numbers

142.  Optimal Assignation of Primes in several Patterns  

143.  The first and the last five primes  

144.  The Langford Prime Numbers

145.  The ISPP & SSPP functions 

146.  Solutions of A2 +X2 = Y2, A = odd 

147.  Twin & Reversible primes 

148.  Product of primes - 1, a square  

149.  Fermat 400 

150.  Primes type n+/- Fm, for m=0 to 4

151.  Euler-Rodríguez set of consecutive primes 

152.  The Prime Gears Cars Race  

153.  Espinosa's puzzle  

154.  Extension and Variation of the GC  

155.  Follow-up of the puzzle 151  

156.  One million doors  

157.  Zip primes  

158.  Sum of Cubes equal to Square of Sum

159.  A follow up to Puzzle 37

160.  s(n) and p(n) 

161. A Secret Code 

162. P2 + Q2 = p2 +q2  

163. P+SOD(P)

164. Sequences of Fermatian primes

165.  Bye Mr. Suzuki   

166. pn -1 =0 mod f(n)

167.  Primes m + 2 j & m - 2 j   

168.  Primes such that SOD2 = POD  

169. The unit and the sum of three signed prime-cubes 

170. Pseudoprimemania  

171. Perfect & Carmichael  numbers  

172. Minimal Length, prime-complete-rules  

173. Ruth-Aaron Triplets  

174. Primes & consecutive divisors  

175. Integer average & sets of consecutive primes  

176. Primes in a circle 

177. Primes in a square 

178. Shallit Minimal Primes Set

179. Prime Alphametics

180. Primes as a sum of squares

181. (N+k)/k primes 

182. Primes with zeros replaced

183. Perhaps a very simple question

184. Gronau's prime triplets

185. Differences between consecutive n^n values

186. Squareful Fibonacci numbers 

187. Triangles and Triangular numbers

188. Dividing large numbers

189. Squares and primes in a row

190. A follow up for the puzzle 188

191. P(n)=n(n+1)(n+2)(n+3) - 1

192. Reversible & Digit Complementary Prime Pairs

193. The Andersen's theorem & primes

194. The Palinpoints

195. Primes such that their squares are free of the digit D.

196. Consecutive integers with the same quantity of prime factors

197. Always composite numbers?

198. 2^a - 3^b = c

199. The Prime-Vampire numbers

200.  Ones from 1 to p (*)

201. The arithmetic function A(n)

202.  The n-th Omega recurrence

203.  Perfect primes

204. An old empirical observation

205.  Primes is in CI

206.  (N-k)/k primes

207.  The inventory sequences and the self-inventoried numbers

208.  Happy new Year 2003!

209. Triangles of primes

210. Jeff's numbers

211.  A beauty limit on prime numbers

212.  Substring reversion

213.  Hailstone Champion Sequences

214. Trotter's Curio

215. The Ulam Numbers

216 Primes in a square array

217. n in pn

218. Rupinski primes

219. Polignac numbers

220. p - k! primes

221. What are the next?

222. Equations with consecutive primes

223. Consecutive primes and powers of 2

224 Eccentric prime diagonals 

225. VIP (Very Sparse Primes)

226. Rolling Primes

227. Research Problem 1.75 

228. Sum of twin primes, a square

229. Primes and Hypercubes

230. Primes and a tower of cubes

231. k-Persistent primes

232. Primes and Cubic polynomials

233. A little twist

234. 2003, again

235. Dropping digits primes

236. A Broken Face

237. Alien neighbors

238. The hidden prime

239. psp (2) & n2 -2 numbers  

240.  Consecutive  numbers and consecutive prime factors

241.  Highly imperfect primes

242.  Sum of distinct squared primes

243.  Primes and squares in a square array

244.  Null Conjunction

245.  As 13

246.  The worms

247.  Consecutive Smith numbers

248.  Find one composite solution

249.  From Rudolf  to Rodolfo (magic squares and pandigital numbers)

250.  Euler, one more time.

251.  Pointer primes

252.  Kurchan squares

253.  Eureka

254.  Z=P2 - Q2

255.  k*p+1

256.  Jack Brennen old records

257.  Primes and sibling numbers  

258.  Primes and sibling numbers-II

259.  Not dividing any pandigital

260.  Chains of twins

261.  Symmetric prime constellations

262.  Semiprimes in arithmetic progression

263.  MagicAntiMagic Squares

264.  Antimagic Prime Squares

265.  Primes embedded

266.  Magic rectangles

267.  Talisman Squares

268.  23 primes in A.P.

269.  13 primes in A.P.

270.  Euclidean questions

271.  Prime gap tug of war

272.  P(n) & n

273.  Consecutive 'good' primes

274.  Sierpinski triangles from prime numbers

275.  Highly composite polynomials

276.  Prime factors of (x^n+y^n)/(x+y)

277.  Pi again

278.  The Rupinski's question

279.  Faride Firoozbakht asks for the next term

280.  3893257

281.  A follow up to Puzzle 24

282.  f(p) = f(p')

283.  Harshad Left Truncatable numbers

284 A+B=C | A.B.C = pk#

285.  μ(2^k-1) mod k

286.  Get a simple proof of this

287.  Multimagic prime squares

288.  Magic squares of (prime) squares

289.  Palprimes inside the infinite primes concatenated

290.  Primes on Platonic solid faces

291.  Primes embedding a given sequence

292.  Zigzag Primes

293.  Balanced primes

294. How to prove this?

295. Another Alphametic puzzle

296. An intriguing sequence

297. Queens on magic squares

298. Mersene, Mq = (8x)^2 - (3qy)^2

299. Collatz-like sequence of primes

300. UFO message?

301. One million of prime prime residues

302. Primes inside the sequence of primes

303. I'm such a square...

304. A larger square embedded

305. A new version of Puzzle 209

306. Generalized LYM Puzzle

307. Record Smith Numbers

308. AxB = N =A'xB'

309. A property of the prime '5'

310. DPT's on a knight's tour.  

311. Sum to a cube

312. Sequence of primes such that...

313. Squares having only k distinct digits

314. (f(n))=prime(n)

315. pn => pn-i + pi

316. Divide a square of primes.

317. Two dimensional constellation of primes

318. 31 = sigma(16) = sigma(25)

319. Approximations to π(n)

320. Dealing with primorials

321. Primes type n^4+4

322. Primeval primes as sum of primeval primes

323. Primes in a Sudoku solution

324. Self-descriptive numbers

325. Zeisel numbers

326. One more Firoozbakht curio sequence

327. Giuga numbers

328. Is this the largest?  

329. Odd abundant numbers not divided by 2 or 3.

330. σ(φ(σ(p)))=φ(σ(φ(p)))

331. The prime Russian mountain

332. Odd abundance

333. 'Magic squares' and primes

334. Faride & the 2004 year.

335. Prime values for σ(n).

336. sigma(n)<prime(n)

337. p inside p2.

338. Domino-Prime-Pyramid

339. Primes & persistence.

340. Resta's approach to Puzzle 337

341. Multiplicative persistence, Erdos style.

342. Primes on a dice.

343. One more Faride's question

344. Primes in Nature

345. Magic square of cubic primes

346. Happy 2006 

347.  Properties of numbers that have a Mersenne Number as a factor

348. 414347 prime string

349. 2d(n) = n + E

350. Primes & primorials

351. E796

352. φ(n!)

353. The first n2 primes in a matrix

354. Another prime game

355. Puzzle 232 in 4th order

356. A minimal set of K primes

357. Consecutive reversible primes

358. Ruth-Aaron pairs revisited

359. First N primes in a circle

360. Complementary divisors to make a prime

361. Multiply, or delete zeros

362. A sequence of primes.

363. A magnanimous company

364. P2 = Q*R  

365. P*Q = R*S

366. Three questions about the PGP

367. Two dice to produce prime numbers

368. Attained by invalid arithmetic

369. Approximations to unit adding prime reciprocals.

370. The first 13 numbers

371. A052215

372. Ask Dr. Matrix, prime version

373. Self primes

374. Self numbers

375. Powers which are the sum of initial primes

376. n=p*2^x

377. Add 2 to any digit  

378. Sequences embedded in decimal periods of fractions

379. SG primes and its prime average

380. A follow up to Puzzle 42

381. A sequence related to a special case of the Goldbach Conjecture

382. KL(29207), Prime or Composite?

383. Brougnard sequences

384. Prime Reverse Keith numbers

385 Follow up to Puzzle 104

386. CabTaxi, prime version

387. Prime curios in the Pascal's triangle rows?

388. Primes on a dice, again

389. Joe Crump and the search for solutions to 2nmod n=c 

390. 493009335

391. 9 dots, 8 lines

392. σ(x) = x+φ(x)

393. A follow up to Puzzle 128

394. No shared digits between composites and its prime factors

395. (2^n+3^n+4^n+5^n+6^n)/2 – 10

396. X*R=Y

397. 15984784979

398. 369293

399. Some more terms

400. 39883

401. Magnanimous primes

402. 1263560563

403. 833021343

404. Σ(x^x), for x=1 to n

405. R(38)

406. 1123

407. Prime Multidimensional Arithmetic Progressions

408. First primes embedded in the smallest number

409. Consecutive primes triplets

410. The largest magic square & primes...

411. Magic squares M & p(M)

412. Semimagic square of cubes

413. DPS in AP

414. Prime lucky number triplets

415. Sets of consecutive primes such that...

416. Prime numbers less than 2^18

417. M(e) reversed primes.

418. Honaker's ratio

419. Four SOPF questions

420. Another sequence of primes

421. Staircase of consecutive primes

422. 3N consecutive prime

423. K Consecutive even numbers such that...

424. Empty intervals between consecutive perfect powers

425. Consecutive numbers, increasing quantity of prime factors  

426. q = p +rad(p+1)  

427. Runs of consecutive numbers such that... (I)

428. Runs of consecutive numbers such that... (II)

429. Consecutive primes & biprimes

430. Grimm's conjecture

431. p = (q/r)3 + (s/t)3 

432. A nice pattern with 6 consecutive primes  

433. Three consecutive integers

434. σ(σ(x)) = σ(x)+x

435. φ(x) + σ(x) = k.x

436. 43 =4^2+3^3  

437. A special set of binary numbers

438. 1024383257

439. Fibonacci Primes Puzzle

440. σ(n)=2n-1

441. σ(n)+π(n)=k.n

442. Primes ending in 9

443. Sum of cubes of consecutive primes 

444. Pseudo twin primes new.gif (224 bytes)


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