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Problematics | How the crow flies between World Cup football fans

The football World Cup provides the ideal occasion to release a puzzle that I had so far been holding on to. It’s not about football, but involves fans of the game. And it’s not extremely difficult, but it’s fun when you figure out how to solve it.

Published on: Nov 28, 2022, 13:25:26 IST
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The football World Cup provides the ideal occasion to release a puzzle that I had so far been holding on to. It’s not about football, but involves fans of the game. And it’s not extremely difficult, but it’s fun when you figure out how to solve it.

Welcome to Problematics! (Shutterstock)
Welcome to Problematics! (Shutterstock)
Problematics Week 14.
Problematics Week 14.
#Puzzle 14.1.
#Puzzle 14.1.
#Puzzle 14.2.
#Puzzle 14.2.

Mailbox: Last week’s solvers:

Last week's solvers!
Last week's solvers!
Solved both puzzles: Shawn Jacob (Navi Mumbai), Sudhir Aggarwal (Gurgaon), Sanidhya Saumay (Mumbai), Aditya Bhadani (Navi Mumbai), Rahul Agarwal (Bay Area, California), Atharva Kulkarni (Mumbai), Karthik Shankar, Ajay Ashok (Mumbai), Gopal Menon (Mumbai), Paras Nahata (Delhi), Rina Kumari (Noida Extension), Nipun Bamania (Mumbai), Agrim Gupta (Delhi), Jagpreet Singh Arora, Vinod Mahajan (Delhi), Anil Kumar Goyal (Delhi), Prabhjot Singh (Delhi), Mudit Singhal, Musarrat Rai Handa (Faridabad), Asif Karmali, Himabh Gemini (Ghaziabad), Shivika Gupta (Delhi), Jasvinder Singh (Nabha), Dr Roona Poddar Gupta (Delhi), Amardeep Singh (Meerut), Md Aqueel Iqbal (Hansraj College, Delhi), Shishir Gupta (Indore), Jaikumar Indar Bhatia (Ulhasnagar, Thane), Sahil Vij (Bahadurgarh), Jasleen Kaur (Delhi) 
Solved #Puzzle 13.1: Tanish Sharma, Mahesh Mundra (Indirapuram), Aarti Pandey, Ajay Kochle (Mumbai), Madhuri Patwardhan (Thane)

Problematics will be back next week. Please send in your replies to problematucs@hindustantimes.com

  • Kabir Firaque
    ABOUT THE AUTHOR
    Kabir Firaque

    Puzzles Editor Kabir Firaque is the author of the weekly column Problematics. A journalist for three decades, he also writes about science and mathematics.

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