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Q: Contiguous shifts in a 10-digit number

Dmitry KamenetskyYou are given a 10-digit number: 3388766112. In each move, you can select a contiguous group of digits and increase/decrease them all by the same integer, provided that each resulting digit stays between 0 and 9 inclusive. For example, you can select the group 8766 and decrease them all by 3, res...

 
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Q: 9x9 Sudoku Slitherlink Hybrid

venusI previously created a combined slitherlink and sukoku puzzle, but I was unsatisfied because the grid was smaller then a regular sudoku. So I made another, larger one. Below is a 9 by 9 grid. This is filled in with numbers based on the usual rules of sudoku. All of the numbers from 1 to 9 must ap...

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Q: Cost of mystery

KRITANTJuggie loves food his favorite foods of all were pizzas and chocolates. There was one food he did not like and that was carrots. Juggie's mother told him that he could buy as many pizzas as he liked. But he must buy twice the number of chocolates and more carrots than chocolates and pizza put tog...

 
 
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Sid
3:38 AM
CCCC : Extra letter is acceptable (4)
 
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Q: Inhomogeneous circle packing

loopy waltIn the figure, what is the diameter of the smallest circle assuming the two parallel lines are one unit apart? Attribution: Mine, but wouldn't be too shocked if I only reinvented it.

 
I was trying to make OKAY work as extra=O (somehow?) + K (letter) homophone, until I realized that there's no homophone indicator
 
kay is the name of the letter, no? i think letter -> KAY works
 
well, then how can I make extra=O?
 
hmm not sure
 
4:45 AM
Asok is an extra in Dilbert, and it's A'S OK, but I doubt that's the solution.
 
4:59 AM
plausible imo
 
 
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Q: Silver chain of jack swallow

KritantThe notorious pirate Captain Jack Swallow was on the run. He came to a dock and found a tall, old sailor willing to sail him to the nearby island, which was a week away by the sea. Captain Jack realizes that he has no cash to give the sailor, so he offers him his silver chain instead. The silver ...

 
 
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9:36 AM
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Q: Reducing $\pi$ to zero

Dmitry KamenetskyYou are given the first 20 digits of $\pi$: 31415926535897932384. In each move, you can select a contiguous group of digits and increase/decrease them all by the same integer, provided that each resulting digit stays between 0 and 9 inclusive. For example you can increase the first 5 digits by 2,...

 
 
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4:12 PM
@Jafe then I may as well ping @Sid
 
Sid
4:34 PM
@msh210 yes?
@msh210 oh. No. This is not the intended solution
 

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