This is an entry for Fortnightly Topic Challenge #44: Introduce a new grid deduction genre to the community.
I've been dreaming up potential logic puzzles involving colours, and how they mix to form new colours. This logic puzzle uses the three primary colours (in the additive colour space, how l...
I had a much harder idea that revolved around reasoning with the O (instead of the I), but I scrapped it because I figured an easier one would be better for our resident baby bird
This puzzle is dedicated to Sciborg. Copying the dear gentleperson, some of the 4s are hiding in the corners.
Rules: (Nurikabe section shamelessly stolen from an earlier puzzle by @jafe)
Numbered cells are unshaded.
Unshaded cells are divided into regions, all of which contain exactly one numbe...
My two deductions were a) those two gray squares needed to be filled and could only be reached in specific ways, and b) the L placement needed to be there instead of the S because the latter would block the ocean. But I imagine Bubbler found the intended path
You may also enjoy working through my Tetromino Minesweepers. The first is much, much easier and the second requires some fun global deductions. More puzzles for a blanket & hot chocolate night.
my favorite part of the bonkers one is how there are two question marks that have 8 blank squares surrounding it, and you wonder "well, how can I figure out what goes in those squares?" and then you solve it and it's glorious
the puzz.link editor has image-producing powers!
I really don't want to reward Deepthinker!
(but I will if they get deductions out first, but grrrr)
This is an entry for Fortnightly Topic Challenge #44: Introduce a new grid deduction genre to the community.
Here is a standard Pentopia puzzle.
Rules of Pentopia:
Place some pentominoes into the grid (not necessarily all of them) so that they do not touch each other, not even diagonally.
Pento...
This is an entry for Fortnightly Topic Challenge #44: Introduce a new grid deduction genre to the community.
Here is a standard Pentopia puzzle.
Rules of Pentopia:
Place some pentominoes into the grid (not necessarily all of them) so that they do not touch each other, not even diagonally.
Pento...
I'm really embarrassed about how I behaved in chat here, I'm sorry. Deepthinker is really grating to me and I've been actively trying to avoid interacting with them for a while.
(also if you aren't sure what to flag something as because there are multiple options, any one is fine - if it's worth deleting, we'll delete the comment. the precise flag you use isn't that significant)
I flagged one comment as "unfriendly or unkind" for dragging another user into the conversation, it was removed, and then a different comment was edited to contain the same content. Should I flag again?
(re: an earlier comment: i find it helpful in shading puzzles to mark "only one of the two cells here can be shaded" on borders. my usual notation is a double slash on the border)
(it's great for tapa puzzles, especially ones with a lot of 1s in the clues)
This is continue of A&Q. Let's say there is a regular hexagon with center at point O.
Question. How many self-intersecting polygonal chains are there that connect n=7 points?
The self-intersecting polygonal chain passes through each point once
and chains should be non-isomorphic.
I came across some code and I'm trying to crack the case as to what it does:
for $0 \leq f \leq l < len(A)$, the function is
def foo(A, f, l):
if f == l:
return A[f]
m = (f+l) // 2
x = foo(A, f, m)
c = 0
i = f
while i <= l:
if A[i] == x:
c += 1
i += 1
if c > (l - f...
I heard this puzzle a while back and wasn't sure how to answer it:
You play a game whose cost to play goes up at every round, and there are 2 possible outcomes.
Winning and losing.
You win with 60% likelyhood and lose with 40% chance at all rounds.
Round 1 - Costs \$1 to play
On the first round, ...
This is an entry for Fortnightly Topic Challenge #44: Introduce a new grid deduction genre to the community.
This puzzle type is inspired by Kakuro, and it has similar rules.
Kakuro is short for 'kasan kurosu' (加算クロス) meaning 'addition cross'.
Using Google Translate, I get 'hōkō kurosu' (方向クロス) w...
I recently did those Skyrise City tests and one of the games caught my eye, the energy one. I couldn't really deduce a logic behind it, just a few clues (one of the generators always gives more energy than the others, for example). Is there one?
There has been a power cut. You must restore as mu...
The 16 words below may be partitioned into 4 groups of 4 connected words.
Additionally, each of the four groups can be represented by a single group-word.
Finally, the four group-words are connected by a single four-letter word.
+--------------+--------------+--------------+--------------+ ...
i found lentokonesuihkuturbiinimoottoriapumekaanikkoaliupseerioppilas which means "airplane jet turbine engine auxiliary mechanic non-commissioned officer student", apparently
> Supposedly the longest Finnish word (40 letters), which is not a compound word but created by adding suffixes and clitics in a way which might as well make sense. Nobody ever uses it really, and it translates into English roughly as: "even with his failure to have systematized".
it's common as an example, like it has understandable suffices in a legal order but you'd never use that in a sentence nor would people understand you if you did
In English, it's probably a chemical name, but only by scientists or pharmacy students. Normal people (ha!) would probably stop at inconspicuousness or something.
I found a reality TV show recently that I thought would make a fun puzzle. On the show are 10 men and 10 women that have been "match by experts" (ie. randomly paired). Their goal is to determine which men were paired with which women; either they get all 10 correct and everyone wins or everyone...
Afrikaans has Tweedehandsemotorverkoopsmannevakbondstakingsvergaderingsameroeperstoespraakskrywerspersverklaringuitreikingsmediakonferensieaankondiging
which means "issuable media conference's announcement at a press release regarding the convener's speech at a secondhand car dealership union's strike meeting"
A city's roadworks is laid out as a perfectly rectangular tiling. A commuter within this city has to travel to work a distance of $17$ blocks east and $7$ blocks north each day, and tries to take the same route one day as he does the next... with just a touch of novelty. He will choose at random ...
Less of a question than just...
I'm disappointed.
You state:
We understand that this is a change some may be disappointed by and that it may seem to indicate that we don't believe that younger members of our communities can be great moderators - over the years we have known many mods who started...
I'm pretty sure that at least two of this site's mods were under 18 when they started (as pro-tems).