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I'm celebrating the Winter Olympics by speed running the 1993 Sega Master System game Winter Olympics. Completed my first run in 12:01 (and accidentally came top of the medals table). This should put me in second place at www.speedrun.com/winter_olymp... www.youtube.com/watch?v=uVOK...

The sound of drones chasing after skiers is the vuvuzela of 2026

If you're in London tomorrow and don't have evening plans, come see me to a 15 minute bit about my favourite bit of maths in a kids TV show from the 60s (plus a load of other people doing hopefully equally niche bits)

⭐Matthew Scroggs⭐ We're delight that there's even more maths on the lineup, as mathematician, programmer and on of the editors of Chalkdust magazine, @mscroggs.co.uk joins the lineup for our January 26 show! 🎟️ fotsn.com/tickets

If you want to watch me chatting to @peterrowlett.net and @ayliean.bsky.social about how they solved the Advent calendar puzzles and how I expected them to solve them, head over to finitegroup.co.uk and join

I hear this show is going to have an excellent line up

Books I finished in 2025

Merry Christmas! I’ve enjoyed the @mscroggs.co.uk puzzle advent calendar - prizes to be won if you complete the puzzles this year www.mscroggs.co.uk Something else I’ve enjoyed being part of: the Mathematically extra-complicated Secret Santa 2025 — @tomvii.bsky.social’s video: youtu.be/4pG8_bWpmaE

I've just completed all the puzzles in the mscroggs.co.uk Advent calendar! My favourite puzzle was Day 8. #ITeachMath @mscroggs.co.uk

I've just completed all the puzzles in the mscroggs.co.uk Advent calendar! My favourite puzzle was 17. What looked like a very long counting exercise made much simpler with a little insight. Thank you @mscroggs.co.uk !

I've just completed all the puzzles in the mscroggs.co.uk Advent calendar! My favourite puzzle was day 21. Took some hard thinking. Once again @mscroggs.co.uk making me do combinatorics. And of all the puzzles how was day 12 the only one I got wrong first time around?

This year's Xmas Puzzles (that we played a small part in helping put together) are now available at thexmaspuzzles.com. Enter your solutions by 8pm on 18 January for a chance to win a donation to a charity of your choice. Happy puzzling!

Who's staying up to do some #MidnightMaths this year?

This is great fun, even though I am stuck on door 21. #MTBoS #maths

#NetflixChristmas Reviews 2025 #3: A Cinderella Christmas Ball. Dance instructor teaches Sir Prince King II to dance then finds love and her father or something. 🎄💃❤️😴🎄/5

#NetflixChristmas Reviews 2025 #2: Haul Out the Holly. Single woman returns to parents' huge house for Xmas. HOA insists she decorates the street. Instead of leaving, she falls for HOA president. Painful. Talent wasted on the script. Clearly summer. Is it a spoof? Took me 3 days to watch. ☀️⚪️🍿💅🚯/5

#NetflixChristmas Reviews 2025 #2: Haul out the Holly. A Hallmark Christmas film, but thankfully not one of the really cheap feeling ones. Has the other one from Mean Girls in it, who obviously goes to a small town to celebrate Christmas. 🎄🌨️📜🌨️🎄/5

#NetflixChristmas Reviews 2025 #1: Champagne Problems. Idk why but this reminded me of Emily in Paris even though main girl is competent at her job. Maybe it's because of the scenes where French people talk to each other in French. Anyway I liked it, nice Christmassy escapism. 🇫🇷🍾🥂🌲🎄❄️/5

#NetflixChristmas Reviews 2025 #1: Champagne Problems. Workaholic American goes to Paris; gets involved in a champagne business; falls for a Frenchman. It’s Emily in Paris + tinsel. Starts weak but side characters improve over time and I actually laughed at points. A strong start. 🇫🇷🥂🇩🇪🚄📚/5

Me, @pecnut.bsky.social and @aaclarke4.bsky.social are once again watching and reviewing a ton of #NetflixChristmas films this year. Check out docs.google.com/spreadsheets... if you want to play along.

Maths teachers: if you're looking for an end of term Christmas lesson, there's an A4 pdf of the Christmas card linked from mscroggs.co.uk/blog/121

The first 8 doors of the mscroggs.co.uk puzzle Advent calendar are open. Still plenty of time to catch up if you've not done them all yet. If one puzzle per day isn't enough, this year's @chalkdustmag.bsky.social Christmas card is now available at www.mscroggs.co.uk/blog/121 with 12 more puzzles.

I ordered some A4 paper so that I could print off my copy of Puzzlebug #1 from @mscroggs.co.uk in the proper format. A fun set of puzzles just right for a holiday stocking. www.mscroggs.co.uk/puzzlebug/

Text from my 13 year old daughter this morning as she is stuck home recovering from major knee/leg surgery. "what's the website with the math advent calendar so I can start?" sent her the link to one of our favourite December traditions. Thanks @mscroggs.co.uk www.mscroggs.co.uk

It's December so apart from #AdventOfCode it's also time for @mscroggs.co.uk maths puzzle advent calendar. Day 1 and already I'm forced to do some combinatorics. It's starting early this year! www.mscroggs.co.uk

If you like #Maths and puzzles... why not try the #Scroggs-Advent-Calendar... it's always fun to do... and there's a ravelry group... where we discuss tricky questions... and help each other our... www.ravelry.com/discuss/wool... www.mscroggs.co.uk

“It's nearly Christmas and something terrible has happened…” Time for the famous @mscroggs.co.uk www.mscroggs.co.uk advent calendar! Good fun — but am I too busy, or will I keep it going this year? Only time will tell!

@mscroggs.co.uk found your solutions to the partridge puzzle #mathsjam zenodo.org/records/1705... ...do you need my handler to help refactor your code?

my 13 year old daughter was just talking about this the other day, she's excited to work on again... I think this will be year 4 doing it and year 3 doing it together.

It's nearly Christmas and something terrible has happened... www.mscroggs.co.uk/blog/120

I've just put this year's @chalkdustmag.bsky.social puzzle Christmas cards on sale at ko-fi.com/mscroggs/shop.

NEW CROSSNUMBER ALERT!

If you're interested in doing a PhD in maths or science with a medium to strong software focus, the CDT that I'm involved in running is having an open day on 24 November. Sign up to attend at www.eventbrite.com/e/collaborat....

Our spring shows are now open for booking! - 5th March BATH Forum - 10th March BRADFORD St George's Hall - 23rd March READING Hexagon Theatre Speakers include @sparksmaths.bsky.social, Aoife Hunt, @mscroggs.co.uk , Jen Rogers and in Reading - Matt Parker! Show details here mathsinspiration.com

I'm looking forward to Inside Maths again! Maths enrichment day, 9 Feb 2026, for year 5 and their teachers, at the Ri, London. Featuring @robeastaway.bsky.social and Fran Watson, hands-on activity and puzzles. Feedback from last year: insidemaths.co.uk/feedback Book here: insidemaths.co.uk/booking

Tomorrow, I'm showing off MENACE at the Association for Science and Discovery Centres' Members' Forum. Tickets are free and looks like they're still available. www.sciencecentres.org.uk/events/octob...

Amazing: due to github.com/python/cpyth..., once you've updated to Python 3.14, you can use the command πthon to run your code

Python 3.14 is released today. Happy πthon Day everyone!

I'm home from #TMiP25. Was great to catch up with a lot of old faces and meet many new faces. I'm very very tired, but not the most tired I've ever been after working on an event with @steckl.es (see 24hourmaths.com)

In the last few weeks, I made the first issue of my new puzzle zine, Puzzlebug. You can buy a printable PDF from ko-fi.com/s/9f1f1875c4 if you like puzzles.

MathsJam (UK) Gathering aka Big MathsJam is always an excellent event and well worth coming to if you've not been before.

If you're coming to TMiP, do this session then do the puzzle hunt that I've written quickly afterwards and you should just about get back in time for lunch

Printed this puzzle to do at #mathsjam yesterday. It's a great puzzle mathstodon.xyz/@OscarCunnin...

Having a clear out of some old computer equipment that's been cluttering up my place for a couple of decades. It's absolutely SPARCtastic. All free to a good home. r/vintagecomputing are all over it, but if any of my friends here want something then just ask.

I'm very glad that the Switch version of Final Fantasy 12 has a 4× speed mode

Happy π Approximation Day!

We are finally ready to announce that EMF 2026 will happen on July 16-19, 2026, at Eastnor Castle Deer Park, Herefordshire. Expect more updates soon as we start spinning up the organisation again.