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Wordle 376 answer for June 30: Today’s puzzle is as difficult as yesterday. Do not take it lightly. Use these Wordle hints, clues and solution to end the month on a high. Wordle 376 answer for June 30: Today's puzzle is no better than yesterday's and it appears that Wordle is trying to end the month with as many win-streaks broken as possible. And if you are not careful that can happen to you today. We have not seen back-to-back hard puzzles since more than a…

as the atoms of arithmetic, prime numbers have always occupied a special place on the number line. Now, Jared Duker Lichtman, a 26-year-old graduate student at the University of Oxford, has resolved a well-known conjecture, establishing another facet of what makes the primes special—and, in some sense, even optimal. “It gives you a larger context to see in what ways the primes are unique, and in what ways they relate to the larger universe of sets of numbers,” he said.The conjecture deals with primitive sets—sequences in…

The Blue Blur of the Wild Today, Sega and IGN premiered a big look at the gameplay of the next Sonic game, Sonic Frontiers. Across seven minutes it shows plenty of rolling around at the speed of sound, but also some strong influence from other open-world games. Sonic Frontiers is set to be the next big game for Sonic, and it’s tackling the open-world genre. In today’s footage, it’s easy to see some influence from games like The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild. Alongside the literal tower that Sonic starts the clip…

Quordle 128 answer for June 1, 2022: Today’s Quordle takes a break and lowers the difficulty but it also makes it trickier. So, check these Quordle hints and clues and reach the solutions efficiently Quordle 128 answer for June 1, 2022: The month of June is finally here and it looks like Quordle has stopped its barrage of extremely difficult puzzles that must have given nightmares to players in the last few days. With the new month coming in, the difficulty…

Monument Valley, the picturesque puzzle game series where players must navigate maps full of optical illusions, will no longer be exclusive to mobile devices. The complete Monument Valley Panoramic Collection is set to arrive on Steam on July 12th and gives players a broader point of view that isn’t limited by the vertical orientation of phones and tablets. Ustwo, the developer behind Monument Valley, says it had to make some adjustments to account for a wider perspective, as well as for the transition from touch to…

After their 2015 success, the researchers set out to use their flattening technique to address all finite polyhedra. This change made the problem far more complex. This is because with non-orthogonal polyhedra, faces might have the shape of triangles or trapezoids—and the same creasing strategy that works for a refrigerator box won’t work for a pyramidal prism.In particular, for non-orthogonal polyhedra, any finite number of creases always produces some creases that meet at the same vertex.“That messed up our gadgets,”…

The 45-year-old Voyager 1 deep space probe is showing its age as NASA engineers try to determine why it is sending back invalid telemetry data from its attitude control system as it hurtles through interstellar space, never to return.Launched in 1977, Voyager 1 is currently 14.5 billion miles (23.3 billion km) from Earth – a distance so great that a radio signal takes 20 hours and 33 minutes to reach it from Mission Control. Despite nearly half a century of service during which the robotic spacecraft visited Jupiter in…

Friends, it’s been exceedingly difficult to naturally produce enough feel good brain juice to function as a normal person. Even the things that I normally take so much joy in, like video games, are just not hitting like they used to for so many reasons. But after spending some time with Escape Academy by playing a little and talking to the developers, I think I have the serotonin delivery system I’ve sorely needed. Escape Academy by Coin Crew Games is a narrative puzzle game formatted to look and feel like real-life…

I am admittedly not the smartest guy, and as such, I really don’t like puzzles. If there’s a puzzle in a game, I’ll probably just look up how to solve it. They’re not my thing, and I gravitate more toward straightforward games as a result. So it may surprise you to hear that Lego Bricktales, which is entirely made up of physics puzzles, was one of my favorite games at PAX East 2022. I can’t make that make sense, but I’ll explain it to the best of my abilities. Piece by piece Lego Bricktales is, on the outside, a…

For years, designer Zach Gage has been enamored with the works of famed Japanese game publisher Nikoli. The company is best known for popularizing sudoku, and is renowned for its minimalist takes on puzzles like nonograms (which Nintendo fans might recognize as Picross). For Gage, creating that kind of clean, straightforward, and accessible puzzle was a long sought-after goal. He describes it as a “kind of obsession,” one that “feels like a really great design challenge because it’s so hard to do.” He tried plenty of…