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What are your nominations for the best puzzles, here on Puzzling.SE, of the first quarter ( January / February / March ) 2019?
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Nominate each individual puzzle in a separate answer, so they can be...
@MOehm That's the one (though I intended the def to be just "dry", with <word play> to <def>). And yes completely = well as in "add the milk to the flour and mix well/completely".
I was wondering if anyone had any examples of Chaos Theory in John Conway's Game of Life, i.e. a position which is stable, but change just one cell and the population becomes extinct.
It's explicitly posed as a reference request, so it should be a question about puzzles rather than a puzzle itself. But Conway's Game of Life isn't inherently a puzzle-related topic.
That's fair, though the "reference-request" tag's description doesn't make it perfectly clear that it's intended for questions about puzzles. (Perhaps because it dates back to the old days when everything on PSE was intended to be questions about puzzles, rather than actual puzzles.)
I hope I am in the right place to be asking a question like this!
That being said, I am experimentalist in need of a 'good' logical puzzle. There are aspects of the puzzle I would like and other aspects I am trying to avoid due to too many potential confounding factors. Below is a list of these ...
A groundhog has made an infinite number of holes one metre apart in a straight line in both directions on an infinite plane. Every day it travels a fixed number of holes in one direction. A farmer would like to catch the groundhog by shining a torch into one of the holes at midnight when it is as...
My infix has been removed.
My suffix is this.
If you can read this, you're on my prefix.
If you read this in the morning, you might guess me sooner - what am I?
The usual. Please have an explanation for each line and the title.
Here’s a fun one! I call it Pawninos because the pawns, like dominos, all fall into a cycle!
Start with an 8x8 chess board. Give black his king on h4 and no other material. Give white all of his 8 pawns and his king, and nothing else. Put all available white pieces on their original squares. Thi...
It’s been a while since my last post since school, work, and family have kept me incredibly busy. I have another puzzle though and as always I wish you the best of luck.
Sarah called me today and explained that she had counted to infinity. I shrugged and said it was impossible. She said that ...