Ian Gent's Blog

SPOILER ALERT.   This post contains the solution to this week's   Car Talk puzzler . The puzzle is construct the number 55 using th...

I flew on British Airways to Lisbon and back this last week.     In a vestigial remnant of providing us with food service, they gave us sand...

Rang up Sky to cancel the sports package, since the cricket season is over.    The voice asked me to enter my phone number "including S...

Hubert Gent married Margaret Luke on July 5th, 1948, the very day the NHS was started.  Though I believe there were no calamities on the da...

I suppose that makes three things now .   The third one is that the displayed MPG calculation is always an overestimate.   It seems to be s...

Well how about that?   I got out a fresh game so this one will count.   This game that comes out is number 0210843428856. I'm going to...

I got Knave's Dial out, another ghastly patience and the tenth most rarely solved game in Solsuite.   Like I did with Class Day ...