Monday Madness

that's where i'm making the mistake then, i'm reading it as the son died when he was half his fathers age at the time of his death and not as half of Diophantus total age when Diophantus finally died.

Replace the host of this game. send in easier puzzles/quiz's. and more often.

nope i like the harder ones, that's what they're for, to get the old brain box working.

His son only lived half as many years as he did…. half of 84 is 42. he was 80 when his son died and you are reading it as if he was twice as old as his son when the son died.

I don't mind the cryptic puzzles, I can multi-task with them, though anything mathematical, I have to turn off the right side of my brain to get the left side to work properly.

His son only lived half as many years as he did…. half of 84 is 42. he was 80 when his son died and you are reading it as if he was twice as old as his son when the son died.

yep.

just like me to get things wrong tho..

The more I look at this puzzle, the more I want to kick myself for using Google.

It's just so easy now.

Maybe Tomk will manufacture some of his own puzzles.

always easy when you know the answer… must admit tho my problem was i miss-understood this line "After attaining half the measure of his father's life chill fate took him" i took it to mean the son died when he reached half the fathers age(not life) so that made him die at 38 when Diophantus was 76(half his fathers life, with a big proviso of "so far") instead of him dying 4 years later at 42 when Diophantus was only 80, not half his life yet, but was eventually after 4 years of mourning.