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Maths Jam is an opportunity for self-confessed maths enthusiasts to meet in a pub & share puzzles, games, and other cool maths stuff. Find your local at mathsjam.com

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MathsJam @mathsjam.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Manchester: at our usual table! We didn't bring a chessboard, but are now discussing whether a drawing of a chessboard is itself a chessboard. And what other objects have the property that a drawing of one on a piece of paper serves the same function as the object itself?
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MathsJam @mathsjam.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
King's Lynn MathsJam is at table 2. MATHS!
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MathsJam @mathsjam.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
London UK: we are on table 6 come find us we have puzzles
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MathsJam @mathsjam.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Exeter: it's semiprime time! Setting up at table 15, through the front door just behind the first pillar.
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MathsJam @mathsjam.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
It's MathsJam day! For anyone joining in at home, here's this month's MathsJam Shout with some puzzles and games to keep you busy (no spoilers please!) mathsjam.com/shout/MJShout.pdf
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MathsJam @mathsjam.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Tomorrow is MathsJam, happening online and in pubs all over the world! Find your nearest and join some recreational maths friends by visiting mathsjam.com .
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MathsJam @mathsjam.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
One week to go until MathsJam - an opportunity to meet other maths fans, and have fun in the sum(s), in a pub or virtual pub. Find out more and join in at mathsjam.com
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MathsJam @mathsjam.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
MathsJam is a monthly opportunity for like-minded self-confessed maths enthusiasts to get together in a pub and share stuff they like. Puzzles, games, problems, or just anything they think is cool or interesting. Get involved at mathsjam.com !
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MathsJam @mathsjam.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Manchester: lots of polyhedra chat, including about the maximal polyhedron with n vertices inscribed in a sphere (see oeis.org/A339260 etc) and how to make an icosidodecahedron
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MathsJam @mathsjam.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
King's Lynn: we're jamming at table 99
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MathsJam @mathsjam.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Manchester: we have come up with a much less impressive version of the card trick on the Shout, which involves forgetting to ask your volunteer to add 5
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MathsJam @mathsjam.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Exeter is on 13 right as you come in the front!
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MathsJam @mathsjam.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Manchester: in the usual spot, under the stairs opposite the bar
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MathsJam @mathsjam.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
London UK: we are on table 1, come find us we have puzzles
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MathsJam @mathsjam.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
It's MathsJam day! For anyone who wants to join in, here's this month's MathsJam Shout with some puzzles and games for you to enjoy (no spoilers please!) mathsjam.com/shout/MJShout.pdf
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MathsJam @mathsjam.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Tomorrow evening is MathsJam, happening online and in pubs around the world! Find your local and join some recreational maths friends by visiting mathsjam.com .
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MathsJam @mathsjam.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Only one week until MathsJam - an opportunity to meet other maths fans, and solve puzzles, in a pub or virtual pub. Find out more and join in at mathsjam.com
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MathsJam @mathsjam.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Don’t forget that as well as being a monthly evening event, MathsJam also has annual gatherings! The UK one is 14-15 November in Kents Hill and online - details at mathsjam.com/gathering/uk
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MathsJam @mathsjam.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
As well as our monthly pub hangouts, there are also larger annual MathsJam gatherings - one in the UK in about November, and one in Oceania (New Zealand) - for details visit mathsjam.com/gathering
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MathsJam @mathsjam.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
MathsJam is a monthly opportunity for like-minded self-confessed maths enthusiasts to get together in a pub and share stuff they like. Puzzles, games, problems, or just anything they think is cool or interesting. See how to join in at mathsjam.com !
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MathsJam @mathsjam.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
London UK: we are on tables 7 and 14, coke find us we have puzzles
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MathsJam @mathsjam.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Exeter is starting at table 14, near the front. Games, games and more games!
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MathsJam @mathsjam.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
MathsJam is today! For anyone who wants to join in, here's this month's MathsJam Shout with some puzzles and games for you to enjoy (no spoilers please!) mathsjam.com/shout/MJShout.pdf
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MathsJam @mathsjam.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
For tomorrow's MathsJam, we've put together a pair of origami footballs printed with the design of this year's World Cup Ball (the Trionda) which you can print and fold! Thanks to Ottawa MathJam for the idea, and to Alice Zhang for putting the design together: mathsjam.com/assets/...
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MathsJam @mathsjam.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
Tomorrow night is MathsJam, happening online and in pubs all over the world! Find your nearest and join some fellow maths fans by visiting mathsjam.com .
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MathsJam @mathsjam.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Only one week until MathsJam - an opportunity to meet other maths fans, and do maths, in a pub or virtual pub. Find out more and join in at mathsjam.com
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MathsJam @mathsjam.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
MathsJam is a monthly opportunity for like-minded self-confessed maths enthusiasts to get together in a pub and share stuff they like. Puzzles, games, problems, or just anything they think is cool or interesting. Get involved at mathsjam.com !
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MathsJam @mathsjam.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
If you like attending your local monthly MathsJam, and you're based in the UK, you may also like the MathsJam UK Gathering - this year, it's on 13-14 November in Milton Keynes, and you can find out more and sign up here: mathsjam.com/gathering/uk
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MathsJam @mathsjam.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
New MathsJam alert! From this month, we'll have a regular monthly maths chat in Pune, India! Do you know anyone local to the area who might want a social night out with other maths fans? Find out more at mathsjam.com/cities/pune
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MathsJam @mathsjam.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
Exeter has not only summoned Maxwell's demon but also a Markov chain demon from the football puzzle from Jane Street
Summoning a Markov chain demonMarkov chain puzzle from Jane Street describing average number of moves to return to the start on a random walk on a football
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MathsJam @mathsjam.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
Manchester have found a terrifying knife/compass and it's being put to good use making an Apollonian gasket
photo of a cutting mat (on a table in a pub) on which a paper circle has two large circles cut out of it, then two of the next largest circles that will fit cut out, and a next set is in progress using a pair of plastic compasses on which the pencil is replaced with a tiny blade
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MathsJam @mathsjam.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
Nottingham are considering Clan Decline and we have two answers to a quadratic equation, only one of which makes sense and we’re trying to logic away the other one.
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MathsJam @mathsjam.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
King's Lynn jam is at table 89
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MathsJam @mathsjam.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
London UK: we have table 5, round table and picked a pub with no TV screens we might get lucky and it'll empty out
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MathsJam @mathsjam.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
Manchester are having a look at this football puzzle, just to get in the spirit: puzzling.stackexchange.com/question…
puzzling.stackexchange.com
World Cup Group M puzzle
Consider a typical 4-team football world cup group. Each team plays the other 3 teams. 6 matches in total, 3 points for a win, 1 for a draw, and 0 for a loss. At the end of all the group games, if ...
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MathsJam @mathsjam.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
Exeter will be starting on table 15 (opposite the first bar) in five minutes, and running there until it gets rowdy as predicted, at which point another place will be suggested if available!
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MathsJam @mathsjam.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
For anyone wondering whether to join us at Manchester MathsJam tonight, a) they are showing the football but only upstairs, so we'll have the downstairs of the pub to ourselves and b) the pub is aggressively air conditioned and it's lovely in here
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MathsJam @mathsjam.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
Tonight's the night! For anyone joining in at home, here's this month's MathsJam Shout with some puzzles and games to keep you busy (no spoilers please!) mathsjam.com/shout/MJShout.pdf
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MathsJam @mathsjam.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
As well as our monthly pub hangouts, there are also larger annual MathsJam gatherings - one in the UK around November, and one in Oceania (New Zealand) - for details visit mathsjam.com/gathering
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MathsJam @mathsjam.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
MathsJam is a monthly opportunity for like-minded self-confessed maths enthusiasts to get together in a pub and share stuff they like. Puzzles, games, problems, or just anything they think is cool or interesting. See how to join in at mathsjam.com !
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MathsJam @mathsjam.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
Manchester: oops
Photograph of a bar chart drawn on a piece of paper. There is a single bar labeled "Time we spent remembering to do stuff on the Shout". The axes are modified so that the top of the bar is level with zero. The bar has an arrow pointing to it which says "Can't win here!"
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MathsJam @mathsjam.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
Manchester: currently 4 people and debating which maths terms also just sound like a word that means "drunk"; current frontrunners are "factorised", "diagonalised" and "non-orientable"
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MathsJam @mathsjam.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
King's Lynn Jam is at table 2
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MathsJam @mathsjam.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
UK London: we are on table 9, or is it 6? No it's 9 come find us we have puzzles, this month is election themed go and look at the shout
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MathsJam @mathsjam.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
Exeter is powering on at table 16 near the entrance of The Imperial
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MathsJam @mathsjam.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
MathsJam is today! For anyone joining in at home, here's this month's MathsJam Shout with some puzzles and games for you to enjoy (no spoilers please!) mathsjam.com/shout/MJShout.pdf
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MathsJam @mathsjam.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
Tomorrow night is MathsJam, happening online and in pubs around the world! Find your nearest and join some people doing maths for fun by visiting mathsjam.com .
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MathsJam @mathsjam.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
Only one week until MathsJam - an opportunity to meet other people who enjoy maths, and solve puzzles, in a pub or virtual pub. Find out more and join in at mathsjam.com
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MathsJam @mathsjam.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
MathsJam is a monthly opportunity for like-minded self-confessed maths enthusiasts to get together in a pub and share stuff they like. Puzzles, games, problems, or just anything they think is cool or interesting. Find your nearest at mathsjam.com !
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MathsJam @mathsjam.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
Manchester have been having fun with the Take Sides game from the Shout (and we're considering rule variants, like different sizes of dice, or whoever's solution is voted nicest gets to pick a restriction for the next round, like "no addition")
photo of some paper on a table, where a game using the numbers 6,6,1,1,1 has been won by the solution "6^1^1^1 = 6"
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