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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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Oh no, my chocolate banana puzzles are not unique!
There is a hidden message (7, 2) inside the solutions of the nine puzzles. An answer will only be accepted if it correctly identifies said message.
Here are the Chocolate Banana puzzle rules. Each ...
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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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🐍 In the Loop 🐍
Follow the ouroboros down valleys and over mountains. Is it even going anywhere?
EDIT (7 days after initial posting): The grid and Penpa+ link have been updated to an easier version, with more numbers ...
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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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A 6x6 table with nothing filled out?
So as you might or might not know, I can be quite evil sometimes, especially with my Hidato puzzles that contain no numbers.
But, today, I decided to give you an enigmatic-puzzle! This means that you ...
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Double trouble - When slitherloops collide
This puzzle is part of the Monthly Topic Challenge #13: Variety Slitherlinks.
What happens when you're working on a couple of puzzles for the Monthly Topic Challenge and try to merge them?
Well, in ...
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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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Make these 30 animals look cool
Place the following 30 animals in the grid:
Albatross Alpaca Anaconda Ara Bear Bison Chicken Dog Eagle Elephant Emu Hummingbird Ibex Ibis Impala Kangaroo Lark ...
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Polybius cipher meets Grid Puzzle
Here is a puzzle I've been trying to solve for a week, but I've not made any real progress. Some of the things I've tried I will include as spoilers.
The puzzle is from a competition which has just ...
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This new puzzle type needs a name {OVERLAPPED EDITION}
This is my contribution to the 'This new puzzle type needs a name' series, started by @Stiv.
I believe I have invented a new type of puzzle...
What is its name?
Penpa+ link
A little advice..
Even ...
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Self-reflections
Copying is a form of praise (some say).
And I will be honest for a change; I am just a thief.
And as such:
I am lazy (yellow)
I (mis)interpret the rules whenever convenient.
(red)
Things got more ...
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Pseudo Roman Cipher
A while ago, I made this puzzle and gave it to my friend. But his comment was not so good. "This looks fine except it's not realistic", he said. I know he is smart but ... :( I don't want to ...
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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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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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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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