Did you solve it? Do you have the brain of an engineer?
Photograph: Andrew Soundarajan/AlamyView image in fullscreen Photograph: Andrew Soundarajan/AlamyAlex Bellos's Monday puzzleMathematicsDid you solve it? Do you have the brain of an engineer?The answers to today’s puzzlesAlex BellosMon 14 Sep 2026 11.56 EDTLast modified on Mon 14 Sep 2026 12.04 EDTSharePrefer the Guardian on GoogleEarlier today I set four engineering puzzles. Here they are again with solutions. (Do check out the hundreds of great comments posted below the line in the original story.)The cranberriesIn a cranberry sorting facility, thousands of cranberries are dropped every minute onto a board.
- ▪Photograph: Andrew Soundarajan/AlamyView image in fullscreen Photograph: Andrew Soundarajan/AlamyAlex Bellos's Monday puzzleMathematicsDid you solve it?
- ▪Do you have the brain of an engineer?The answers to today’s puzzlesAlex BellosMon 14 Sep 2026 11.56 EDTLast modified on Mon 14 Sep 2026 12.04 EDTSharePrefer the Guardian on GoogleEarlier today I set four engineering puzzles.
- ▪Here they are again with solutions. (Do check out the hundreds of great comments posted below the line in the original story.)The cranberriesIn a cranberry sorting facility, thousands of cranberries are dropped every minute onto a board.
2 outlets in our directory ran this story, first to last over 10 hours. All of the coverage we found sits in one bucket: lean left. That one-sidedness is itself worth noticing.
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| Publication time | Mon, 14 Sep 2026 15:56:16 GMT |
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Photograph: Andrew Soundarajan/AlamyView image in fullscreen Photograph: Andrew Soundarajan/AlamyAlex Bellos's Monday puzzleMathematicsDid you solve it? Do you have the brain of an engineer?The answers to today’s puzzlesAlex BellosMon 14 Sep 2026 11.56 EDTLast modified on Mon 14 Sep 2026 12.04 EDTSharePrefer the Guardian on GoogleEarlier today I set four engineering puzzles. Here they are again with solutions. (Do check out the hundreds of great comments posted below the line in the original story.)The cranberriesIn a cranberry sorting facility, thousands of cranberries are dropped every minute onto a board.
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