I think we should have 2 topic challanges.
Meta-puzzle Topic Challenge.
Meta-puzzles are good puzzles, it's good to encourage members here to keep creating Meta-puzzles, but its hard to create,
so we need long duration for this, I suggest 1 to 2 months is ideal for this,
so in a year there wil...
I don't think this would give any extra encouragement. FTCs work because there is a time limit, and the topic changes periodically. Birthday parties are fun, but having one everyday isn't.
We do this , but won't have a clue we did it ,
Sometimes it leads to fantasy , sometimes just nothing ,
Sometimes long , sometimes short ,
It is most useless thing humans are doing from generations ,
What is this useless thing ..?
Note: This is a Guide not a Puzzle
ciphers are quite common now on puzzling, and at first can seem quite confusing. But ciphers are bigger than this site, used worldwide by companies and secret services to encrypt data.
But what is a cipher? What types are there and how can I make or solve one?
Found a way to add community wikis on mobile, so I'll just do it. Feel free to add to it though, I'm sure there are some less well known but fascinating ciphers out there.
@BeastlyGerbil it might also be worth making a separate answer for different ciphers. You get more rep ;), and you can expand more, explaining more clearly and with more/better examples.
Four coins lie on a table and form a square. Now you are allowed to jump with a coin over another one, in any direction, i.e. also diagonally or however. You always have to jump all the way to the other side, so that the distance between 'jumper coin' and 'jumped over coin' is the same before an...
I'm many a game piece, many a stain,
Oh... I'm actually a word quite full of pain.
I'm many an ocean, I'm a good student's marks!
Oh... I'm actually quite small, and found in gardens and parks.
I'm many a trashcan, I'm many a part.
Oh... I'm actually partial, and unfair at he...
Ah, alright. Interestingly, though, I think you can remove the 7/4 deduction while keeping a unique solution in the top right.... if you're feeling particularly evil.
A key discovery in my creation path was that the triangles on either side of the 5 must be connected to the 5's, which would have led to your breakthrough
E3 : 2 brothers in dispute have had the following recommendation of their dad, you will be to have your inheritance only when you reconcile. How is it possible ?
7 months ago, I released a collection of variations of an original puzzle called Trapezoids, but never mentioned that the cover itself is also a puzzle that resolves to a unique solution if a final rule can be discovered.
Cover
Rules
Shade some cells such that they form edge-connected clust...
@TheGreatEscaper This was intended as a one-off bonus puzzle. I hadn't really anticipated multiple valid solutions. I'll make a larger set next time I watercolor a puzzle.
(slightly off topic: in hindsight, I should have changed the order of the stanzas in my riddle. Doesn't look like most people noticed a subtlety of the words that took me the longest time to make work)
I've had sooooo much pesky life business to worry about I've hardly had time to check in with PSE. Glad to see all the familiar friendly faces still about :)
"What a beautiful day!" I think to myself, contemplating that last round of golf with Oscar.
Checking into the hotel, Oscar confided in me, "Mike, there are some strange things happening. Whenever I make a phone call, I always hear an echo. This place is not safe..."
November is a crazy time t...
I'm thinking have a main answer (including intro, index with links, and cryptanalysis), and then have separate answers for monoalphabetic, polygraphic, polyalphabetic
I think we should have 2 topic challanges.
Meta-puzzle Topic Challenge.
Meta-puzzles are good puzzles, it's good to encourage members here to keep creating Meta-puzzles, but its hard to create,
so we need long duration for this, I suggest 1 to 2 months is ideal for this,
so in a year there wil...
We do this , but won't have a clue we did it ,
Sometimes it leads to fantasy , sometimes just nothing ,
Sometimes long , sometimes short ,
It is most useless thing humans are doing from generations ,
What is this useless thing ..?
Note: This is a Guide not a Puzzle
ciphers are quite common now on puzzling, and at first can seem quite confusing. But ciphers are bigger than this site, used worldwide by companies and secret services to encrypt data.
But what is a cipher? What types are there and how can I make or solve one?
The images below can be connected by a single word.
What is the word and what are the connections?
The images below can be connected by a single word.
What is the word and what are the connections?
What's the common theme with these pictures ?
I'm many a game piece, many a stain,
Oh... I'm actually a word quite full of pain.
I'm many an ocean, I'm a good student's marks!
Oh... I'm actually quite small, and found in gardens and parks.
I'm many a trashcan, I'm many a part.
Oh... I'm actually partial, and unfair at he...
7 months ago, I released a collection of variations of an original puzzle called Trapezoids, but never mentioned that the cover itself is also a puzzle that resolves to a unique solution if a final rule can be discovered.
Cover
Rules
Shade some cells such that they form edge-connected clust...
"What a beautiful day!" I think to myself, contemplating that last round of golf with Oscar.
Checking into the hotel, Oscar confided in me, "Mike, there are some strange things happening. Whenever I make a phone call, I always hear an echo. This place is not safe..."
November is a crazy time t...
