The best thing about maths competitions (other than the puzzles aha) are the team names… Since you’ve got to be a certain type of person to do these puzzles for fun, we share a very similar sense of humour, which comprises of geeky jokes and PUNS! 😎
Although this year has been super hectic, one of the things that I refused to give up was team maths competitions. Clearly, you can’t get much nerdier than me…
The competitions my team entered include:
- The Alan Turing Cryptography Competition 2015 (and also previous years)
- National Cipher Challenge 2015
- Mathsbombe 2016
We actually did pretty well in these, and even won some (money!) prizes! So if you need an incentive (other than the fun problems) to enter, there you go 😛
Here is a selection of the best team names. Don’t worry if you don’t understand some of them, it means you’re normal 😉
- Cryptopedia (one of my team’s names, so of course it’s first: my other team name was Oligarchs, which isn’t very punny so doesn’t feature here)
- CosYNot
- Drink and Derive
- Kiss My Axis
- A Fraction Ahead
- The Turing Point
- i Get Real
- Squadrilateral/Squadratics
- Oh My Cosh
- Squircles
- Root to Success
- Integreat
- Pi Me To The Moon
- Irrational Logic
- Pi Are Squared
- Deadly Sines
- Free Mathsketeers
- Read the Sines
- Mathletes
- Mathmagicians
- Chinese Postmen
- PiOneers
- Oopsilon
- Divide and Conquer
Hope you enjoyed some of these, it was so much fun ‘researching’ these!
What am I doing with my life 😂let me know which one was your favourite so I know I’m not just wasting my life!
Some recent additions:
- Pi-rates
- Lnatics
- Infinity War(riors)
- X-ecutors
- Pi Hard
- The Tri-Hards
Daring To Jess 
Pretty cool. I was a jock and also a good student. Within myself I found this kind of thing very entertaining. In fact the greatest stand-up comedy ever I have never shared with anybody 😅 I really don’t want to. Maybe in a few years I will sell a bit more of the B grade material.
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Haha shame nobody knew about your secret sense of humour! Maybe if you’d share it, you’ll find someone with the same sense of humour as you…? 😉
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A few people get it. Not often though
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But it’s great when you find them 😀
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You got that right. Long long day.
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This is INCREDIBLE. I don’t want to have to pick a favourite seeing as they’re all terrific but Oopsilon. Oopsilon! XD
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Hehehe I’m so glad you liked it! Oopsilon is one of my faves too 😀
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As a math student, this post has just made my day. i Get Real is probably my favourite.
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Aww thank you ahaha I’m so glad you enjoyed it!
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My maths quiz team loves your suggestions jess you seem like such a cool gal would love to take you out some time. XD
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Lol thanks I’m glad you guys like them!
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Hilarious names, and the references were so funny😂. Who knows, they may come in handy at some point? Since I’m a trigonometry geek, I think the “Deadly Sines” and the “Read the Sines” ones are hilarious. “Irrational logic” and “Pi me to the moon” ones are my personal favourites. What are yours?
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Hahaha I’m so glad you enjoyed them!! I’m a real nerd too, and my favourites are “Kiss My Axis” and “Oopsilon” – one’s cheeky, the other one is wholesome xD
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Now those are hilarious😂
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