Do you enjoy doing puzzles? And would you like the atmosphere of a pub quiz, and with extra help at times with a difficult answer? Mathematicians and puzzle fans Katie Steckles and Ben Sparks bring you a night of brain-teasing puzzles and problems to solve, with no prizes but plenty of hints and clues in case you get stuck. For instance …

If a book has 24 pages, how many digits are used in printing all the page numbers? And if a book uses 183 digits in printing all the page numbers, how many pages does it contain?

Dr Katie Steckles edits the magazine New Scientist’s weekly BrainTwister puzzle column. Mathematician and musician Ben Sparks appears regularly on the Numberphile YouTube channel where his videos have been watched over 16 million times.

This is part of a package of events made possible by the kind support of the International Centre for Mathematical Sciences in Edinburgh.