39th CHAMPIONSHIP, 2025: MATHEMATICAL AND LOGIC GAMES

FSJM Quarter final

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START FOR ALL PARTICIPANTS 5. LABYRINTH (coefficient 5)

1. TWO DATES (coefficient 1)

Matthew has these twelve cards. In

2025, the first date of the year that he
In this maze, the rooms are numbered
can form using two cards for the day,
from 0 to 15. When you go from one
two cards for the month and four for the
room to another through a door, an
year is January 13, 13 01 2025.
alarm goes off except:
What will be the last date of 2025
• if the number of the room you are
that he can form using eight of the
entering is equal to that of the room you
twelve cards?
are leaving plus 3;
• or if the number of the room you are
2. INTERSECTIONS (coefficient 2)
entering is equal to that of the room you
If we draw two circles and a line, we
are leaving minus 13.
obtain a maximum of 6 points of
You enter the maze through room no. 0
intersection.
and exit through room no. 1.
What is the maximum number of
How many rooms will you have gone
points of intersection that we would
through (including room 0 and room
obtain if we drew two circles and
1) if you have not triggered an
two lines?
alarm?
Note: We must count the intersections
between two lines, between two circles, END FOR CE PARTICIPANTS
and between a line and a circle.
6. FOUR FRIENDS (coefficient 6)
3. APPLE JUICE (coefficient 3) Annabelle, Bertram, Clarisse and
Damien are four friends.
Each of them is destined for a different
specific career: archaeologist,
A half-full bottle of apple juice weighs bookkeeper, cardiologist, and Bertram
exactly the same as four identical empty wants to become a dentist.
bottles. Only one of these people is destined for
If we place a full bottle of this apple the career that has the same initial as
juice on the right pan of a scale, how his/her first name, but it is not
many empty bottles would we need Annabelle. Besides, Annabelle would
to place on the left pan to balance especially not want to work in the
the scale? medical field.
What careers have Annabelle and
4. AQUARIUM (coefficient 4) Damien chosen?
In an aquarium live some octopus, which
each have eight arms, and some starfish
with five arms.
How many starfish are there in the
aquarium, knowing that the total
number of arms of all the animals is
equal to 41?
7. BOXING MATCH (coefficient 7) 10. SUM-SUM-PRODUCT INTEGERS
Place the numbers 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 7 in (coefficient 10)
the following boxes so that in any A sum-sum-product integer is equal to
three boxes placed side by side, one of the sum of the sum of its digits and the
the numbers is equal to the sum of the product of its digits. The number 59 is an
other two, and the first digit is less than example because (5+9) + (5 × 9) = 14
the last. + 45 = 59.
How many two-digit sum-sum-
product integers are there (counting
59)?
8. PLAY DATE (coefficient 8)
11. THREE SQUARES (coefficient 11)
Matthew drew three squares with sides
measuring whole numbers of
centimetres, two of which are identical.
In this cryptarithm, different letters The sum of the areas of the three
always replace different digits and the squares is equal to 2025 cm2.
same digit is always replaced by the What is the perimeter (in cm) of the
same letter. The first digit of a multi- smallest square, or of one of them if
digit number cannot be a 0. they are identical?
What is the value of LA?
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END FOR CM PARTICIPANTS
12. AVERAGES (coefficient 12)
Problems 9 to 18: beware! For a problem 25, A, B, 250, C, ...
to be completely solved, you must give In this sequence of numbers, each
both the number of solutions, AND give number starting from the second is the
the solution if there is only one, or give average of the two numbers that
any two correct solutions if there are surround it.
more than one. For all problems that What is the value of the number C?
may have more than one solution, there
is space for two answers on the answer 13. COMPETITION SCORES (coef. 13)
sheet (but there may still be just one In this competition, the name of which
solution). we will not mention, participants must
answer 18 questions numbered from 1
9. PLANET MATHS (coefficient 9) to 18, their answer to each question
On Planet Maths, a day does not last 24 being either correct or incorrect. Each
hours like it does on Planet Earth. On a person obtains a first score
Mathsian's clock face, all the hours are corresponding to the number of correct
arranged in a circle at equal intervals. answers, and a second score
The hour hand travels the same distance corresponding to the sum of the
between 1 o'clock and 9 o'clock as it numbers of the questions they answered
does between 10 o'clock and 2 o'clock. correctly. In the event of a tie on the first
How many hours are there in a day score, the participants are separated by
on this planet? the second score. It so happens that in
the last competition there was no tie
after taking into account the two scores.
How many competitors were there
in this competition, at most?
14. REACHING 2025 (coefficient 14) 16. CUBACIOUS (coefficient 16)
We can build a sequence of whole In the last century, an archaeologist
numbers by adding to each number found a 3,000-year-old cube. She was
twice the sum of the digits that compose able to determine that the cube had
it. For example, starting from 1000, we been made in the following way. With 27
obtain: small wooden cubes, a large cube was
• 1st step: 1002 = 1000 + 2(1+ 0 + 0 + made, then one face was painted Red,
0), one Blue, one Violet, one Navy, one
• 2nd step: 1008 = 1002 + 2(1+ 0 + 0 Maroon and one Orange. Then, the
+ 2), cubes were mixed again and another
• 3rd step: 1026 (= 1008 + 2(1+ 0 + 0 large cube was made with them, so that
+ 8), etc… only the painted faces of the small cubes
How many starting numbers strictly are visible. Unfortunately, this cube
less than 2025 allow us to arrive at disappeared in a fire shortly after its
the number 2025? discovery. Only three photos remain,
which unfortunately have lost some of
END FOR C2 PARTICIPANTS their colours over time. Today the
archaeologist's granddaughter is trying
15. URNS AND BALLS (coefficient 15) to reconstruct the original colours.
Each of the two players has a white urn
containing two black balls and a black
urn containing two white balls. In each
round, the first player takes a ball at
random from each of his urns and
exchanges them, while the second
Help her find them by completing
player takes a ball at random from his
the third photo.
white urn, puts it in his black urn, then
takes a ball at random from his black urn END FOR L1, GP PARTICIPANTS
and puts it in his white urn. The first
player to end up with the white balls in 17. RUSSIAN DOLLS (coefficient 17)
his white urn and the black balls in his Matilda sees a number of Russian dolls.
black urn wins. In the event of a tie, both She knows that there are 13 Russian
players have won. dolls in total, numbered from 1, the
What is the probability that the first smallest, to 13, the largest. She also
player wins? knows that all the dolls she does not see
Give the answer as an irreducible are nested inside the dolls she sees.
fraction. When one opens a doll, there is at most
one other doll visible inside, which itself
can contain another doll, etc. She
wonders how the dolls are nested and
realizes that there are 2025 possibilities.
What are the numbers of the dolls
she sees?
Give the numbers in descending order.
18. TICK-TACK-TOCK (coefficient 18)

Tick and Tack are a bit crazy. Tick

attaches the two ends of a rubber band
to the ends of the hands of a clock, the
hour hand measuring 2 cm and the
minute hand 3 cm. Tack draws a black
dot somewhere on the rubber band (but
not at the ends). When the time
advances, this black dot will move, the
ratio a/b remaining constant (see the
drawing). We see that the figure traced
by the black dot intersects itself. Tick
and Tack repeat the experiment and
realize that this time the drawn figure no
longer intersects itself.
What is the maximum a/b ratio
when the figure does not intersect
itself?
Write the answer as an irreducible
fraction.

END FOR L2, HC PARTICIPANTS