This is a Haisu puzzle. Draw a path from S to G passing through all cells exactly once by connecting the centres of adjacent cells, such that when the path passes over a number N, it is on its Nth entry to the region which contains it.
Enjoy! There is a logical path through the puzzle, so in t...
Depends who you ask. I still generally try to avoid that kind of thing, but it's not nearly as clear-cut as the prototypical indirect anagrams -- more setters and publishers are fine with your example there.
(Though when it is used, IME it's still very sparingly. I haven't seen it very often in the puzzles I solve at all -- once every few puzzles, maybe.)
The following "Miracle Sudoku" puzzle contains only two starting numbers, plus some additional rules that end up revealing the whole board:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yKf9aUIxdb4
(or Sudoku variation: Using various chess moves, solve the grid from just two numbers for the same thing on this...
Here are some random tasks that I quite can't wrap my head around. Instructions: There are two rule-based categories in each of these 5 puzzles, marked with either black or grey dots. To which category do the uncategorized (white-dotted) items belong and why?
My problem with task 1 is for insta...
I have a question about the solution of this pattern recognation task:
I know that the correct answer is E. The "argument" is: Vertical lines represent $1$ integer; horizontal lines represent $5$. The product of the number of lines on each end equals the sum the sum of lines in the middle. But...
A certain website uses the following mapping to encode their integer ID to an alphanumeric string. Can you figure out what the mapping is?
6918 6918a
9414 9414a
13009 3010b
13628 3629b
14058 4059b
16226 6227b
18870 8871b
20740 0742c
22496 2...
After performing some actions on a PSE post a message pops up suggesting to do something else with the same post. Here are two examples:
after downvoting a post the suggestion is to add a comment to explain why you downvoted.
after upvoting an answer on your own question the suggestion is to ac...
@Randal'Thor Do you know who the really large spikes belong to? I remember the user DemonicBirdFlu used to post really long murder mysteries, although their reputation seems too high for these peaks
@hexomino No, you just need to figure it out by counting down from the top or from multiples of 10k. Which means it's easy for the top so-many users and then everyone starts to merge together.
What's the algorithm for this PLL case? In order words how can I swap the edges (or corners) in a cyclical way (like A or U perm, but with all edges or corners)?
(The two characters I was dissatisfied with in the C4 are the "'s" near the start. So far as I can see they don't correspond to anything that actually happens in the wordplay; they ought to make it PUNDISTRY or something.)
A classroom has dimensions 9m x 7m x 2.5m.
Details:
Each pupil uses up a personal sphere with diameter 1m. (Which they are free to contaminate! ;-))
The distance between personal spheres must be 2m. (The government said so)
The personal sphere must fit within the boundaries. (E.g. nobody can ...
This is a Haisu puzzle. Draw a path from S to G passing through all cells exactly once by connecting the centres of adjacent cells, such that when the path passes over a number N, it is on its Nth entry to the region which contains it.
Enjoy! There is a logical path through the puzzle, so in t...
Here are some random tasks that I quite can't wrap my head around. Instructions: There are two rule-based categories in each of these 5 puzzles, marked with either black or grey dots. To which category do the uncategorized (white-dotted) items belong and why?
My problem with task 1 is for insta...
I have a question about the solution of this pattern recognation task:
I know that the correct answer is E. The "argument" is: Vertical lines represent $1$ integer; horizontal lines represent $5$. The product of the number of lines on each end equals the sum the sum of lines in the middle. But...
A certain website uses the following mapping to encode their integer ID to an alphanumeric string. Can you figure out what the mapping is?
6918 6918a
9414 9414a
13009 3010b
13628 3629b
14058 4059b
16226 6227b
18870 8871b
20740 0742c
22496 2...
After performing some actions on a PSE post a message pops up suggesting to do something else with the same post. Here are two examples:
after downvoting a post the suggestion is to add a comment to explain why you downvoted.
after upvoting an answer on your own question the suggestion is to ac...
What's the algorithm for this PLL case? In order words how can I swap the edges (or corners) in a cyclical way (like A or U perm, but with all edges or corners)?
A classroom has dimensions 9m x 7m x 2.5m.
Details:
Each pupil uses up a personal sphere with diameter 1m. (Which they are free to contaminate! ;-))
The distance between personal spheres must be 2m. (The government said so)
The personal sphere must fit within the boundaries. (E.g. nobody can ...
