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Kominers’s Conundrums: A Puzzle That Spins Until It Sparks
Follow the faces – and chemicals – to a solution that will stay with you for days.
It should be pretty easy to identify the red herrings – even if it’s hard to name them at first.
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The second half of our end-of-summer remix is here, and just in time. This week, we’re combining our Conundrums on sequencing and famous face identification.
We’ve put together four sequences (mostly) comprised of faces; your goal is to figure out what comes next in each. But to make things a bit more challenging, we’ve also added two aspects of our pyramid puzzle: Each sequence has a single element that doesn’t belong. Plus, there’s one bizarre-looking sequence that’s made up entirely of chemicals.