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MoMath, Mo' Problems: On the Scene at a New York Puzzle Hunt

December 20, 2012

Last Sunday, I ventured through a pair of glass doors whose red handles formed the shape of the number pi. A numeral was on the loose, somewhere inside the newly opened Museum of Mathematics. By forming teams and solving a series of puzzles, we could compete to recover it.

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