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How to get the least number of flips to a plastic chips to get a certain figure?

The puzzle is as follows: (Transcription with grammar errors fixed) A game consists of the following: The challenge is to flip the chips in such a way so that they are as in state 2. You start in ...
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I am struggling with a complex version of the "lights out" puzzle

Hello my fellow puzzlers. I am new to this holy land so if my question is not the kind you people like to solve, I apologize. As some of you may know, there is a puzzle named: "lights out" based on a ...
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Turn on all squares

Take a square grid of size $a\times b$, with all squares being off. You can tap a square, to reverse the state of that square and all squares located in the same column and row as the tapped square. ...
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Counter Flipping

A counter flip game is played in the following way: In each move, you can flip an entire row or column Flipping a row or column inverts all the counters on that row or column from $X$ to $O$ or vice ...
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