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Dr. Shapiro's Puzzle of the Day

Today's Puzzle

Monday, January 25


When you enter a query in Google Image Search, the results often come with a strip along the top suggesting refinements for your search. For example, searching for cake pulls up suggestions of "happy birthday", "chocolate", "wedding", etc.

What did I search for to get the suggestions at right? Each strip is from a separate search, and each search term was one word.

   


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Yesterday's Puzzle + Solution

I was recently reminded of the delicious animated short film in which these images appear. What snack is being made in this film?

Solution

Congratulations to yesterday's solvers Anna J., Kalpana, Maddy, Hazel, Charlie, Yana, and Jason. Thanks to everybody who made a guess!

About This Site

Though he now teaches mathematics, Dr. (né Mr.) Shapiro's first job in a K–12 school was as a lunch monitor in Davis, CA. It was there that he originated the Puzzle of the Day, even rewarding correct answers with tickets in denominations like "15 points" (though without a clear idea of how he'd ultimately redeem these). Dr. Shapiro's favorite puzzle from this pre-professional era was "Tell me the location of the beehive on this campus."

Ten years later, Dr. Shapiro revived Puzzle of the Day at Proof School, writing each day's puzzle on a name tag. After 600 puzzles or so, he was just starting to feel normal about students reading his chest all the time when campus closed and the puzzle, like the rest of our lives, moved online. New puzzles are posted daily on school days.

Want to catch up on old PotDs? There's an archive currently containing puzzles from March to December 2020.