The Guardian - Life & Style • Jan. 18, 2026, 1:35 p.m.

Or will they have you in pieces? Today’s puzzles are all geometrical, and all from the mind of the UK’s most enduring and eloquent popular maths writer, Ian Stewart.

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The Guardian - Life & Style • Jan. 18, 2026, 1:35 p.m.

From Clarissa Strozzi and Charles V to Tom Parker and Walt Disney, test your knowledge with the Saturday quiz 1 What did LA plumber George Holliday videotape on 3 March 1991? 2 Named after a Greek god, what is Earth’s largest land biome?

3 Abigail, in November 2015, was the first what? 4 Which literary character says, “Come not, Lucifer!

I’ll burn my books!”? 5 Which Play School presenter sits in the House of Lords?

The Guardian - Life & Style • Jan. 18, 2026, 1:35 p.m.

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Click here to access the print version. Normal sudoku rules apply, except the numbers in the cells contained within dotted lines add up to the figures in the corner.

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The Guardian - Life & Style • Jan. 18, 2026, 1:35 p.m.

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The Guardian - Life & Style • Jan. 18, 2026, 1:35 p.m.

This was even though I had revoked my citizenship and now have dual British and German nationality I want to flag a discriminatory experience I’ve had with the Co-op’s will -writing service. I asked it to update a will it had drawn up for me in 2020, with my partner and our daughter as the beneficiaries.

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The Guardian - Life & Style • Jan. 18, 2026, 1:35 p.m.

From postcode pricing to falling wholesale costs, the price you pay at the pump depends less on petrol itself than on where – and when – you fill up Why do petrol prices vary so much between filling stations? On the same road I’ve seen a 5p-a-litre difference on what must be an identical product, while the same chains charge differently from town to town.

Weird, isn’t it? Of all the things we buy, the price of petrol is probably the most transparently disclosed before we enter the retailer’s premises, and yet this only serves to leave us wondering why how much we pay can come down to where we live, or even on which side of the road we are driving.

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The Guardian - Life & Style • Jan. 18, 2026, 1:35 p.m.

Cut out flying and you shred skiing’s carbon footprint. And opting for a high-altitude resort that needs less artificial snow makes it even greener.

Les Arcs in the French Alps ticks both boxes I’ve always wanted to try skiing, but it’s not a cheap holiday and I have always had a lingering suspicion that some resorts are like Las Vegas in the mountains, with artificial snow, damaging infrastructure, annihilated vegetation and air-freighted fine dining – in short, profoundly unsustainable. However, if there’s a way to have a green family ski holiday, then sign me – and my husband, Joe, two kids and my mum – up.

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The Guardian - Life & Style • Jan. 18, 2026, 1:35 p.m.

The multi-day trail between the Cumbria and North Yorkshire coasts is one of Britain’s most popular, and now upgrades, path repairs and trail officers aim to preserve it for future generations A soft breeze tickled the waters of Innominate Tarn, sending ripples dashing across the pool, bogbean and tussock grass dancing at its fringes. From my rocky perch atop Haystacks, I gazed down on Buttermere and Crummock Water glistening to the north, the round-shouldered hulks of Pillar and Great Gable looming to the south.

A pair of ravens cronked indignantly, protesting against the intrusion on their eyrie; otherwise, stillness reigned. Bless you, Alfred Wainwright, I murmured, picturing the hiking legend whose ashes are scattered around this lonely tarn.

And then, surprising myself: you too, Rishi Sunak. In very different ways, both had brought me to this most spectacular of Lakeland crags.

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