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ACB

3:39 AM

@bobble puzzling.stackexchange.com/review/suggested-edits/57487 what about [cards]?

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bobble

5:10 AM

@ACB I don't know what you mean to ask

[poker] is a subset of [cards], but it's much more specific and people are likely to be interested in poker puzzles but not card puzzles in general. In addition, the tag already existed, I saw it in the tag page and thought it ought to have a description.

Does that answer your question? Again, I don't know what you wanted me to address "about" [cards]

ACB

5:41 AM

@bobble ok, I wanted to ask why there should be a [poker] tag while there is a [cards] tag. [Cards] tag info mentions poker as a sub category too.

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Sphinx

12:39 PM

Q: a11eN756e64657261747461636b

C:/TopSecret/vacant/alien_transmission.jpg: C:/TopSecret/vacant/unicode.bin: 0010000001 1101100010 0000001000 0000100000 0010000000 1000000010 0000001000 0001110110 0000101000 0010100010 1000001011 1100101001 0101110000 1000000010 1111001000 0000100011 0010000000 1000000010 0000001011 1100100000...

Sphinx

1:25 PM

Q: My friend’s university campus in Pixels

My friend who so happens to be doing a Bachelors degree in Digital Marketing sent me this picture of a pixelated version of a map of his university campus. He, being a bright guy told me that he saw something very familiar would be represented if he made it and for that he decided to make this an...

visual

Q: Number sequence puzzle from Numericore

i found puzzle from one test "Numericore". please check it out 2448, 32168, 48626, 12124832, ?

number-sequence

bobble

1:54 PM

@ACB compare that to the question "Why should there be a [sudoku] tag when we have [grid-deduction]?" or "Why should there be a [dots-and-boxes] tag when we have [pencil-and-paper-games]?" Subsets are allowed when the subcategory has interest to itself.

Sphinx

2:34 PM

Q: Explain answer to "Adventure beginning by way of hill. One in 10!"

The clue is: Adventure beginning by way of hill. One in 10! The answer, I believe, is "aviator" from the first sentence but I don’t understand the definition of "One in 10!"

cryptic-clues explanation

Q: Alpha-numerical reasoning puzzle

Quite enigmatically looking reasoning puzzle. Check it out. 494138, ΧΟΟ, 471079, ΟΧΟ, ?, ΟΟΧ, 3119.5

enigmatic-puzzle number-sequence

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bobble

4:29 PM

@bobble, enigmatic-puzzle means that you have to decide how the puzzle has to be solved. Right now, it is not possible to check if the answer you got is the right one, or maybe only a partial answer. — Lezzup 1 min ago

Is that right? I don't solve [enigmatic-puzzle] questions, since I don't have the brain for that, but I was under the impression that you don't need to have a clear question to answer.

Ankoganit

not at all, it's very common (and perhaps characteristic) for enigmatic-puzzles to come with no instructions

"Right now, it is not possible to check if the answer you got is the right one" the verification comes from the fact that you have understood and used all parts of the puzzle to reach the answer

the perfect example is probably this: puzzling.stackexchange.com/questions/31557/…

or even better, this: puzzling.stackexchange.com/questions/114735

Sphinx

5:36 PM

Q: Homemade number sequence puzzle

Quite homemade straightforward number sequence puzzle. The sequence is as follows 001, 1001, 00001, ?, 001001

number-sequence sequence

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Sphinx

7:31 PM

Q: Tiling a 16x16 square with 1x4 rectangles

Consider a 16x16 square subdivided by grid lines into unit squares. It is easy to completely tile (no overlaps, no gaps) this square with 64 1x4 rectangles. Each 1x4 rectangle in the tiling (no matter whether horizontally or vertically oriented), will be split into two non-empty regions by exac...