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BrainTwister #54: New year, new numbers

Can you solve this week’s logic puzzle? Plus our quick quiz and the answer to last week’s problem

By Katie Steckles

1 January 2025

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#54 New year, new numbers

Set by Katie Steckles

Using the numbers 2, 0, 2 and 5 exactly once each, and the operations of addition, subtraction, multiplication and division (and as many brackets as you need), find a way to make each of the totals 1-10.

If you are also allowed to raise one number to the power of another, join digits into two-digit numbers before calculation and use the factorial operator (n! is the product of all the numbers from 1 to n, and 0! is defined as 1), can you make all the numbers up to 30?

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