This is part 2 of the puzzle series that started at Living the traveller's dream. Each part is solvable on its own.
Dear Puzzling,
Time really does fly when you are having fun. It seems like only yesterday that I left home and I'm already on the way to country number three. That said, I have t...
This is a Sudoku that is also a brainfuck program.
The standard rules of Sudoku apply. The same symbol can not appear twice in the same row, column, or 3x3 box.
The grid should also form a functioning brainfuck program. There are two requirements, the program must halt, and it must produce the c...
@Randal'Thor I've seen your meta-post and read the capture - looks like something delicious to read once I get 10k
And, feel free to dispute a closure! If you can make a good case for something not being open-ended, removing the tag and doing other clean-up may be the best option.
I came across this sign in a shop and thought it could make a nice puzzle. So you can buy items and get discounts depending on how many items you got. You can combine discounts and use as many as you need. I want to buy $n$ items. Is there a value for $n$, such that I need to use all three types ...
A humorous king pays his worker with one inch gold bar everyday. He had a $31$ inches gold bar and he paid the worker $31$ days of a month cutting it in just $4$ places. How is this possible?
Taken from the book Neurone Abaro Onuronon by Muhammad Zafar Iqbal.
That was my answer. As promised I'll wait for a while to see what other answers there may be and accept whatever gets the most votes. — chasly - supports MonicaAug 24 '15 at 21:13
it's a reference to the part of the question which refers to the tag
Hmmm.. I don't think it's open-ended per se, as there is an intended answer, but more of a "waiting to see if anyone has anything better" - maybe a weird practice, but I don't think a use case of the open-ended tag
Is a question with a provable main puzzle but a hilariously open-ended bonus (they're grading on "most interesting"??!?), overall open-ended and closable? puzzling.stackexchange.com/q/6301/69582
@bobble I'd say the bonus isn't important to the puzzle and could easily be removed ... but the main puzzle is itself pretty open-ended ("find the longest" usually is) ... but it actually has a provable answer namely that no solution exists.
If it was posted now, even without the bonus, it'd probably be closed before people realised there's a provable (non-)solution rather than being completely open-ended.
A humorous king pays his worker with one inch gold bar everyday. He had a $31$ inches gold bar and he paid the worker $31$ days of a month cutting it in just $4$ places. How is this possible?
Taken from the book Neurone Abaro Onuronon by Muhammad Zafar Iqbal.
