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Are closing hash marks ever necessary in headers?
When posting a question, the following help is available:
Use hash marks for multiple levels of headers
# Header 1 #
## Header 2 ##
### Header 3 ###
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Are challenges that have objective criteria but may not have a best answer allowed?
I have a chess variant-related question in mind, that I'm not sure if it's on topic because it has too many potential answers and it's not really a practical question about puzzle making (but arguably ...
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Spoiler blocks do not function in inbox notification
It is very easy to get spoiled on an answer via the inbox. Example (don't click if you don't want to be spoiled on this question)
As you can see in the spoilered image, all the words after "...
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Idea for a Puzzle Challenge Theme
Not sure if there is a set place/question I should relay this, but I have an idea for a puzzle challenge theme:
Red Herring-Centered Puzzles
All puzzles submitted must include at least one red herring,...
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Applying a consistent standard to mathematical puzzles
Recently I posted a question about tiling dominoes in a 3x10 area. The community arbitrarily decided my puzzle is off-topic because it's "too mathy". Yet, questions like
Keys and Locks ...
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10th Anniversary of Puzzling SE!
This week Puzzling SE turned 10 years old. Congratulations on asking, answering, voting, and building this community for a whole decade!
Whenever a Stack Exchange site turns 10 we like to celebrate by ...
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Are there problems with the 2nd question’s image?
A few weeks ago I posted the following question:
A simple cross-number puzzle
This question had a 3x3 grid which I represented by an image I uploaded.
Today I posted a similar question:
A simple cross-...
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What mistake did I make?
I made this puzzle.
Everything went relatively smoothly at first, but then I got pointed out that I needed to use mathematics with geometry. Also, my puzzle got a lot more downvotes than usual. Is it ...
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Best puzzles of 2024 Q1 (January - March)?
This question is part of the best-puzzle award series
What are your nominations for the best puzzles, here on Puzzling.SE, of the first quarter (January/February/March) 2024?
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Mathematical aspects of ciphers: Ask on here or on Math.SE?
Crossposted on Math.SE Meta. As of posting, it is at [+1/-0] and has 12 views and 0 answers after 1 hour.
I have a question about a cipher called the "Prime Multiplication Cipher" which is a ...
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Where to go to get feedback on questions before posting
I would like to get feedback on the questions I post here before posting them, so that I can tweak the difficulty and make the questions more fun to solve.
What is the best way to go about this?
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What's the etiquette on remaking old puzzles?
So recently I posted this puzzle, which was a puzzle meant to give the intended solution to my first puzzle, which I had posted just over 5 months ago.
Currently, not counting my first puzzlenote 1 or ...
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Best puzzles of 2023 Q4 (October - December)?
This question is part of the best-puzzle award series
What are your nominations for the best puzzles, here on Puzzling.SE, of the fourth quarter (October/November/December) 2023?
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Answers to underspecified [formation-of-numbers] puzzles
Puzzles of the form "Make X using the digits [list of digits] and the operators [list of operators]" are on-topic (and unpopular among some). They fall under the tag formation-of-numbers. ...
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Searching for my comments with score 5 or more
I recently received the PUNDIT badge (Leave 10 comments with score of 5 or more.) Is there a way I can use the PSE search facility to find these comments?
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