Questions tagged [reverse-puzzling]
This tag is for questions where the answerer must identify a puzzle type based on deliberately limited information about its nature, such as notes made in the course of solving it. For questions where the asker genuinely needs to know the puzzle type, use the [puzzle-identification] tag instead.
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They gave away the wordle when they shared the colors! What was it?
Wordle is a game in which you have to guess a 5-letter word. Here's a snip from the New York Times website:
Judging the letters is done from left to right. So here is an example that I think covers ...
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Reverse puzzling: What game is this? [duplicate]
"Hey, George!" I say. "Wanna play a game?"
"Always. What've you got?"
I take out a deck of cards, pull out the A, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, and 9 of spades, and place them on ...
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Seven similar 7x7 (pen-and-paper) logic puzzles
Oh no! I've just finished drafting some 7x7 logic puzzles, but I accidentally dropped all of them on the floor, and now they're all mixed up!
To make matters worse, I haven't gotten around to ...
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What's the puzzle to this answer?
This is the answer:
wgc
wc g
wc g
w gc
wg c
g wc
g wc
wgc
But what is the puzzle?
This requires some knowledge, but I'm pretty sure that most people on this site ...
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This new puzzle type needs a name {7}
This puzzle is part of the Monthly Topic Challenge #5: On-and-onograms - and also extends the 'This new puzzle type needs a name' series...
I believe I have invented a new type of puzzle...
What is ...
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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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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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The case of a piece that could go missing
What piece of hardware was after all unnecessary? And how?
These diagrams, though somewhat schematic, are meant to directly
represent everything pertinent.
Nothing has been omitted or added to ...
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Reverse Puzzling 8 - Another Chess One with an Allumwandlung
[Continued thematically from here]
George grinned at the sight of the chess board. "What have we here?"
"This was the first two-mover to show Allumwandlung using only this many pieces,&...
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U and Me (this is not a dating puzzle)
U and me together!
Me after: double!
U are three times greater than me!
U too will be removed!
What is the puzzle that is similar to the sentences given above?
Hint 1:
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Copy that solution
This copy machine program prints
the solution to a well-known puzzle.
Explanation of the syntax will follow.
What solution will be printed for which
well-known puzzle?
EXECUTION CODE
.--> ...
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Math puzzle: I know the answer, what is the equation? Use all digits 1-9
A few years ago, my child brought a puzzle home from their 6th-grade math teacher. The solution was to use all the numbers $1−9$ only once and make the equation true. Using a spreadsheet, I was able ...
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Spot that puzzle
This diagram solves an occasionally seen member
of a well-known family of optimization puzzles.
Spots ● generalize a component
that is represented variously in different statements of these puzzles.
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What are the rules to my Sudoku?
I made a Sudoku variant puzzle pictured here:
Your puzzle is to figure out what the rules for the puzzle I created are.
The puzzle has a single unique solution so if your rule-set allows more than ...
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Reverse Puzzling 7: I FED the CIRcus some DAM GAS
[Continued thematically from here (maybe - in all the excitement, I kinda lost count of it myself)]
I handed George the very famous puzzle and asked him if he knew how to solve it.
"Oh, yes, of ...
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