@JeremyDover, I've got one group for your connect-wall but am having trouble identifying the rest of the Also-Rans. Too many old white guys who pose the same and look the same in pictures :(
yeah, this is basically Statue Park, minus the white dots and with the constraint that all shapes must have a dot and all dots are part of different shapes
... come to think of it, that is quite a few differences
i normally see it but didn't realize that i could make that deduction there for whatever reason - i noted "ah yeah this can't be S" and then carried on my way without realizing "wait there's only one shape it can be"
to be clear, for "testing options to find contradictions" it's usually best to do that only in small places - the guideline i use is that if i can't do all the testing in my head, it's probably too far into a casebash to be intended
i feel like at a certain point i start doing sideways jumps in these that i shouldn't be doing and i should try and go back and justify them with logical intended puzzle-y steps, will work on that.
Lasers is a new type of puzzle I created. (Taken help from this example, The Lazy Laser Physicist: Part 2)
There will more ideas to come too, and they will be a bit simple yet different.
Rules :-
There will be lasers which are shaped like an arrow. The arrows pointing in the respective directio...
Here's a riddle I created for Puzzling:
Two guardians for a guideRadiant ladies on her side.Oh back, the first preside;Herb pac the second replied.Both have notorious great pride,For id luny was cast aside.Read the lines and please don't hideWhat the guiding guide guide.
HINT #1:
HINT #2:
Previous Level:- Lasers : Introduction (Level $1$)
So here is my lasers level $2$ continued, and I have something new, mirrors !
Rules :
There will be lasers which are shaped like an arrow. The arrows pointing in the respective direction shows where the laser goes and the colour shows the colour...
An entry in Fortnightly Topic Challenge #42: Wordless Connecting Walls
"Sequence, get in here! Your man's definitely up to something!"
The mood at Headquarters was tense. Sergeant Sequence obediently entered the Chief Investigator's office to find him staring at a map on his wall, tugging at his...
HackerRank general cognitive test has the following question that I cannot solve:
Please find the missing number:
6 8 6 2 4
2 9 7 8 9
9 8 ? 1 3
Can you help me understand the logic here?
I have an extremely wide variety of tics - basic hand shaking/flapping all the way to hitting myself on the head with books and to spinning around while clapping.
Nowadays mine are mostly limited to knuckle cracking, I used to do flapping and rocking pretty badly as a kid but I've learned to suppress it in adulthood.
my friends all have a joke about when I'm doing something stressful on Discord calls and they can hear me just incessantly popping my knuckles
To be fair, the doctors never figured out what was causing my tics. They're not even sure it's tics, that was just the most convenient diagnosis they could get, since I tested out of epilepsy.
i know the arm flapping thing is a common trait of autism/adhd - would be happy to talk more about that privately if you'd like. (also what sciborg said, i'm also here to talk if you ever need it)
I think my struggle on Statue Park so far is the active effort to not do intuitive shape thinking and think purely logically in steps, since that's where the actual puzzle lies.
I'm trying to apply Nurikabe logic to it, i like to imagine the black circles as being numbered regions given that I already know how big the regions need to be with the tetromino set.
makes sense! that type of logic is definitely useful. keep in mind that you can merge sets of black circles though (or create more shapes out of nowhere)