Quanta’s new puzzle column asks you to believe the seemingly impossible — that you can win at a number guessing game with absolutely no information. Greetings, Quanta readers! It’s a privilege to ...

Puzzle enthusiasts need to guess the next number in the given series only through mental calculations. Are you up for the challenge? Are you spending your Sunday afternoon soaking up the sun and ...

The p-beauty contest is a multi-player number guessing game that is widely used to study strategic behavior. Using new data from a speciallydesigned web experiment, we examine the evidence in favor of ...