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What kind of puzzle is this?
Hello, I found this puzzle in an old puzzle book, it's fun. Does anyone know if this kind of puzzle has a name, I want to find more, and maybe try making some. Thanks very much!
Here is the cover of ...
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Why were the Middle Ages called the Dark Ages?
You find yourself trapped in a room, with only one door to escape, and an important question to answer. You are standing on the tile marked with yellow:
How to get to the door is the main problem. ...
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Chain Puzzle: Video Games #02 - Fish Is You
This is the second Chain Puzzle in the Video Games series, in which all puzzles are themed around video games of all genres. The answer to this puzzle is a thematic word or phrase. The solver whose ...
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Finding the hidden path (new grid puzzle concept?)
I was toying around with grid-based puzzles, and I can up with a format that I'm not sure exists yet, and from my testing leaves only one solution. (If it exists or is broken, please let me know so I ...
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Holiday Madness: Draw a line through all the gifts
Can you collect all the gifts?
The rules:
Start from the star
At each intersection are arrows. You can only move through the intersection in accordance with the direction of the arrow. (e.g If you ...
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Magic Maze Puzzle
Inspired by the board game, Magic Maze
Set-up:
Cut out each 4x4 tile, and the four small tokens (orange, yellow, green and purple), from the provided image below. Place tile 1 on a flat surface with ...
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Double feature: Unpopular
This puzzle is part 9 of the Double feature series (first part here). The series will continue in "Double feature: Health shakes".
Across
2. A victory is found in path leading to hardship (...
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A letter from Mr. Pirate, Mr. Roller, and Mr. Knight
Though I don't think it will help, you may check with the beginning of my story concerning Red Herring Puzzle Club.
It seems like it's been a long time since I tried to enter the R.H.P.C. As you may ...
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3D Crossword, Cryptic, Statue View & Maze
The following image depicts the layers of a $5\times5\times5$ cube. Using 3-dimensional thinking, can you find the way out of the cube?
Empty version with no crossword numbers
Empty version ...
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Oriental HAISU - An unoriginal grid-deduction challenge
TheGreatEscaper comes up with several inventive (and original) grid-deduction genres, so I thought I'd try my hand at combining two of them.
HAISU
The rules are simple - draw a path from the O to ...
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Shortest way from B to A
Spent most of my life out at sea
I've crossed a shark or two – or three
Stayed calm – a skipper brave and tough
Yet one of them did call my bluff
Gorged on my leg with glee
Not yet ...
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The Ludicrous Loop: over a thousand cells of circular logic!
Flavourtext is for flavour only.
Ladies and Gentlemen, are you feeling ludicrous today? A little loopy, perhaps? Then come one, come all, for I have just the thing for you.
Lampreys and Jellyfish, ...
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Every Fourth Wormhole
An entry in Fortnightly Topic Challenge #33: Surface Geometry Mazes
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Oriental House: An original grid-deduction challenge
A different approach to an old concept of mine, Oriental House is a new grid-deduction puzzle based once again off exits and entries.
The rules are as follows: Draw a path from S to F, passing ...
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Curiouser and Curiouser
CHAPTER ONE
Alice was beginning to get very tired of sitting by her sister on the bank, and of having nothing to do: when she was overcome with the strangest sense of deja vu, and saw a 7x3 grid of ...
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Haisu: Pink Rose
HAISU is a portmanteau of three Japanese words - 'hairu', to enter, 'su', number, and 'hausu', an English borrow word meaning house, of course.
Together, we get a meaning of 'enter number house', ...
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Haisu: Pixel Perfect
HAISU is a portmanteau of three Japanese words - 'hairu', to enter, 'su', number, and 'hausu', an English borrow word meaning house, of course.
Together, we get a meaning of 'enter number house', ...
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Haisu: MathGrant
HAISU is a portmanteau of three Japanese words - 'hairu', to enter, 'su', number, and 'hausu', an English borrow word meaning house, of course.
Together, we get a meaning of 'enter number house', ...
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HAISU: Nought and Crosses
HAISU is a portmanteau of three Japanese words - 'hairu', to enter, 'su', number, and 'hausu', an English borrow word meaning house, of course.
Together, we get a meaning of 'enter number house', ...