I am a mollusc
Remove my first, and I'll make you quite fast
Now remove my second, and you won't feel best
Now remove my third, and you'll get a square seven
Now remove my fourth, and it's lost
What am I?
You are given a 5x5 grid with some cells filled with either "X" or "O". Your goal is to fill the remaining cells with "X" or "O" following these rules:
Each row and column must contain exactly three "X"s and two "O"s.
No adjacent cells (horizontally or vertically) can have the same symbol
Puzzle attribution: Me
Goal of Hidato:
Fill in a grid with a series of consecutive numbers that connect each other orthogonally or diagonally
To get the green checkmark $\color{green}✓$:
Solve the puzzle (showing solution process is optional) or show that no solution exists/the solution is n...
This is a word division puzzle which uses cryptic clues. If you're unfamiliar with either or both of those, you can click the associated link.
In order to solve the alphametic, you'll first need to fill in the dividend, divisor, and quotient by solving the cryptic clues. I've left the enumeratio...
All twelve pentominoes can be obtained by attaching a single unit square (edge to edge) to one of the squares that make up one (or more) of the following four tetrominos:
a) What is the least number of pentominoes required so that all 35 hexomionos can be obtained by attaching (edge to edge) ...
Redrum is a Dutch pirate and when he set foot on an unhabited island he lost his treasure. Or as the Dutch call it his "Schat". Can you figure out what his treasure/"schat" is?
@Stiv it was well deserved. I happened to come across it the other day (yesterday?) and saw that the answer had very few points especially considering the (IMO) unusual difficulty of the question. So I decided it deserved some more points
This is a puzzle about (7, 8, 8), or ERIC for short. Can you decode them?
IM[K]N, OPQFR
ABNP, AC
V R[K]T, U R[K]T
HIJK L, HIJK
JPFH, SFH
NPFJ L, NP[J]F
V D, EF GF
ERIC = ??P??[K] [J]?GFP ?[N]??[K]R
@Jafe is this quad def for LIKE HELL? that can mean hardly (like hell I will), terrible (it stinks like hell), hard (I worked like hell) or torturous (the literal meaning)