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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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A massive synonym
Please explain how to assemble the puzzle.
Yes, one is missing, but you can follow the >.
No computers.
Hint:
Hint 2:
Hint 3:
Text version:
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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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Confectionery Crime Conundrum
Yesterday I received one of the strangest cases of my career as an I.S. PI (Insightful Sleuths Private Investigator). I was reclining in my chair, working on the latest crossword puzzle when I ...
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Mysterious Deaths, or is it just a well known attack?
Last week you were promoted to the position of Sergeant Head Detective of Australia, which basically means the best detective in Australia. Its January 2019, and you wake up ready for your new job.
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A Somewhat Foolish Poem
Your task is to solve the Sudoku and complete the missing words in the following poem.
Classic Sudoku: Each row column and box contains the digits 1-9.
XV-rules: Digits separated by V must add to 5. ...
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Polly O'Mino's Hexcellent Adventure
An entry in Fortnightly Topic Challenge #52: Polyominoes.
I had heard that my good friend Ingrid Deduction was back in town, so I popped round to her apartment today, only to find she'd got herself a ...
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The Puzzling Free-to-Play Escape Room, naturally!
An entry in Fortnightly Topic Challenge #50: Escape Rooms
Without revealing too much, knowledge of geek culture and/or superb Google skills are required for this puzzle.
Coming from an anime ...
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Double Ducky (or Fu-two-shiki)
There are two* logical, discrete ways to solve this Futoshiki puzzle, each with its own unique solution. You can solve it using the letters given, or use the numbers 1-5, but if you map the letters to ...
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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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A true no-no-gram
This is a nonogram with the usual rules. That is, you must fill white squares in with black so that the numbers at the head of each row or column indicate, in order, the respective lengths of ...
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Shingoki: An Exploration of Unicode
An entry in Fortnightly Topic Challenge #42: Wordless Connecting Walls-- wait, what?
This is a Shingoki puzzle. The rules (paraphrased from puzzle-shingoki.com) are as follows:
The aim is to form a ...
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Not a sudoku, but still fun?
Context:
I was trying to solve some of the puzzles on this site, when it occurred to me to make a puzzle variant myself.
I immediately could construct one with my additional rule. Making an ...
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