Matthew Scroggs

@mscroggs.co.uk

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A photo of the wall chart
A photo of the wall non-chart
A photo of the wall chart
A photo of the wall chart
A photo of the wall chart
A photo of the wall chart
A photo of the wall chart
A photo of the wall chart
A photo of the wall chart
A photo of the wall chart
Picture of the wall chart
A photo of the wall chart
Photo of wall chart
A picture of the wall chart
A picture of the wall chart
A picture of the wall chart
The cover of Chalkdust issue 23. It features 9 pieces: one tetromino (the T block from Tetris), five pentominoes and three hexominoes. The art is done to look like a retro video game.
The Winter Olympics leaderboard at speedrun.com, with user MatthewScroggs in first place
Red Country by Joe Abercrombie The Mystery of Locked Rooms by Lindsay Currie The Fellowship of Puzzlemakers by Samuel Burr Clown Town by Mick Herron Cider with Rosie by Laurie Lee The Satsuma Complex by Bob Mortimer The Great When by Alan Moore Y: The Last Man (#1-#10) by Brian K Vaughan and others The Arrival by Shaun Tan
Two people standing in front of a Christmas tree.
Still from the film Haul out the Holly.
The poster for the film Champagne Problems.
Advert poster for the CDT open day on 24 November. EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Collaborative Computational Modelling at the Interface Open Day 3:30 – 5:30pm, 24 November 2025 Ground Floor Collaboration Space, UCL Bidborough House 38-50 Bidborough St, London, WC1H 9BT Interested in a fully funded 4 year PhD position in London working at the interface of computational modelling, data science and research software engineering? The CCMI CDT is a collaboration between University College London (UCL) and Imperial. Our students join world-class research groups across UCL and Imperial, covering a wide range of application areas, including numerical methods, fusion energy, the life sciences and machine learning. All places on the CDT are fully funded for home students, including generous stipends to cover living costs. A limited number of fully funded places for overseas students are also available. Come to our open day on 24 November to find out more. To receive updates on when applications open for our 2026 cohort, visit our website at ccmi-cdt.org
Three triangles puzzle: Nine of the points above are the vertices of three non-intersecting triangles. Each of the grey lines intersects the number of triangles that the line is labelled with. No point is part of more than one triangle and one point is not used. Draw the three triangles
Photo of final fantasy 12. On screen it says "Yiazmat vanquished"
A comma butterfly chrysalis
A comma caterpillar
A comma caterpillar moving towards the leaf on a hop plant in my garden.
Wall chart for the Euros on my wall
A very wide nonogram puzzle
A visual proof of Pythagoras's theorem
The 304 matchboxes that make up MENACE on a table
Noughts and Crosses game in an advert at Manchester Piccadilly station
Ophex 1 solved
Me holding four tickets that say "Coach * No specific seat reserved"
Me holding 12 train tickets and 1 receipt
A cube folding up from a net
An over-zealous copy editor has ‘corrected’ this crossnumber. In the original puzzle, every clue was of the form a † bA or a†bD, where a and b are positive integers, and † is +, –, ÷, or × (and A and D stand for across or down); the copy editor then took every clue, calculated a † b, and replaced a † b with the result. For example, if a clue now reads ‘6A’, then the actual clue could be: 0 + 6A, 3 + 3A, 12 – 6A, 1 × 6A, 2 × 3A, 6 ÷ 1A, 120 ÷ 20A, or many other things…
A point on a circle tracing out a sine curve.
A parody Springer Greaduate Test: When All The Arrows Mean It's Obvious (second edition) by Sandy McLane?
Screenshot of Google image search for Springer graduate texts. All the books are yellow with a white bit at the top.
The word Wikipedia set to music
Wikipedia's example screenplay
A shot from the film "Meet Me Next Christmas" where the Pentatonix are saying "No, I know. We've been on Team Lames [Layla & James] when we could have been on Team Tayla [Teddy & James]."
A photo of the puzzles page in New Scientist, featuring a puzzle by Matthew Scroggs and TD Dang
A girl in a red hat and scarf with snow on her saying "She lives on in your heart."
A shot from the film of the two main characters looking at each other.
Two of the characters playing chess. One is moving the white queen into a non-check position, while saying "check."