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My God, it's full of stars!
An entry in Fortnightly Topic Challenge #32: Grid Deduction Hybrids
My dear friend, unknown to us, may have relocated again. He sent me imagery and constellation maps indicating that a distant red ...
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My IQ will be so high if someone can solve this for me
This puzzle is part of the Monthly Topic Challenge #2: IQ Puzzle Parody
I'm stumped with the IQ test question below. Can anyone give me a hand so I can prove how smart I am? Which of the three ...
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This new puzzle type needs a name {3}
I believe I have invented** a new type of puzzle...
What is its name?
** Well, 'adapted' an existing one, really...
Colour-blind-friendly version available here. Those without colour-blindness ...
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This new puzzle type needs a name {6}
I believe I have invented** a new type of puzzle...
What is its name?
Begin by solving the Fillomino puzzle:
Rules of Fillomino (adapted from Nikoli)
Fill in all empty cells with numbers under the ...
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A genius Margonon!
To solve the puzzle below, the standard rules of a fill-a-pix (or mosaic) apply:
Paint the squares around each clue black so that the number of painted squares, including the square with the clue, ...
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Another pseudo-IQ question
This puzzle is part of the Monthly Topic Challenge #2: IQ Puzzle Parody
People keep asking me if there's anything between me and my good friend Ingrid Deduction... Well, it's... complicated... We go ...
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PSE Advent Calendar 2021 (Day 24): The Witneys - Your Comfy Puzzles
This puzzle is part of the Puzzling StackExchange Advent Calendar 2021. The accepted answer to this question will be awarded a bounty worth 200 reputation.< Previous Door
Your great-grandmother ...
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Oh no, my puzzles are corrupted! What should I do? :(
This morning, I made three small and easy puzzles to be posted today. However, when I come back from my lunch, all of my puzzles are corrupted! :(
The first one is a standard Curve Data puzzle. ...
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A Simple Loop with A Poetry?
Who is he really?
Please answer this question of mine
Starting from the top-leftmost white cell and then
You are still going clockwise by
Taking the letters where you are turning left but
Not, once ...
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Going around in circles
Solve the grid. Then solve the grid again.
The answer can be one or two letters long.
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An oddly coloured slitherlink
This puzzle is part of the Monthly Topic Challenge #13: Variety Slitherlinks.
I find something strangely satisfying about a well designed slitherlink puzzle, even one which is oddly coloured and ...
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Another type of Sudoku puzzle
I just found a weird-looking sudoku I left years ago in my basement:
I think there was a specific name for this type of puzzle, but I forgot to write it down and now I can't remember it!
The only ...
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Stop BorgBot before it's too late!
There was a deafening metallic thunk as the rogue AI locked the door of the PuzzlingCorp server room, trapping the engineers inside. A countdown appeared on the computer screen... and began counting ...
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Hey! Wake Up! Look At This Grid Puzzle!
The grid is divided into rooms, though some are wibbly-wobbly weird-shaped. Hey, aren't these normally supposed to be blocks? What should the title of this puzzle really be?
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