Can you solve the Blackwing 10001 puzzle?

Blackwing 10001 壱万壱

Arriving week of June 25, 2018

 

A tribute to puzzles and other creative ways

of teaching and learning  

STORY

• Honors Tetsuya Miyamoto, who invented the KenKen math puzzle in 2004
• KenKen is the only puzzle printed daily alongside the New York Times Crossword
• Puzzles like these inspire us to apply problem solving and logic in creative ways

DESIGN

• Designed in collaboration with Miyamoto Sensei
• Five-sided pencil shape (known as Gokaku in Japan)
• Red stained "adzuki" wood finish
• Gold imprint with kanji numerals
• Gold ferrule, black eraser, firm graphite

NUMBER

• Numeral palindrome (same backwards and forwards) in kanji and Arabic numerals
• 10001 is the solution to one of Miyamoto Sensei's favorite puzzle equations

Try a KenKen

Included in each Volume 10001 box is a KenKen Puzzle