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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The unsolvable cryptic clue
My friend was reading a newspaper and I caught a glimpse of a rather mystifying cryptic clue on one of the pages. I've been unable to solve it ever since and it's driving me crazy! Here's my "...
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Rows has more than Columns
Friend: Hey! want to see what I'm solving?
Me: Yeah sure.
Friend: showing an image
Me: Oh, come on, why do I wanna do reverse puzzling again!?
Friend: Oh, just put it on a Q and A website then.
This ...
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Chain Puzzle: Tabletop Games #08 - Targui, or not Targui
This is the eighth Chain Puzzle in the Tabletop Games series, in which all puzzles are themed around board games, card games, tile games, and the like. The answer to this puzzle is a thematic word or ...
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Re-Venn-ge of the Connecting Wall
An entry in Fortnightly Topic Challenge #42: Wordless Connecting Walls
Today I created a connect-wall puzzle (for which a solver would need to partition 16 items into 4 connected groups of 4, and ...
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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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This new puzzle type needs a name {EXTREME EDITION}
A companion puzzle to the 'This new puzzle type needs a name' series, and inspired in part by @JeremyDover's answer to a recent question.
Usually, puzzles in this series comprise a mash-up of two ...
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What was Matt's matchstick puzzle?
Something rather funny happened at our Puzzlers' meet the other day.
"Oh hey buddy, can you hand me exactly 18 matchsticks? I wanna show you this new matchstick puzzle I came up with." Matt ...
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Reverse puzzling 6
(Continuing thematically from here and here)
"Well, George, I've got a tricky one for you today. Lots of people struggle to get into it. They think it's about real human behavior but it's set up for ...
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Solution without words
Here comes a series of snapshots in the life of a worksheet
that might come into play when solving a variation of
a fairly well-known numerical logic puzzle.
Parameters of the progenitor puzzle have ...
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A Grid with some Green Cells
So a friend wanted me to try out the reverse-puzzling riddle he created. It consisted of a 4x4 grid with a digit in each cell and a single closed loop drawn along the edges of its cells. Also some of ...
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This new puzzle type needs a name {6}
I believe I have invented** a new type of puzzle...
What is its name?
Begin by solving the Fillomino puzzle:
Rules of Fillomino (adapted from Nikoli)
Fill in all empty cells with numbers under the ...
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This new puzzle type needs a name {5}
I believe I have invented a new type of puzzle...
What is its name?
Colour-blind-friendly version available here.
Begin by solving the 9x9 sudoku; each of the 9 symbols ...
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This new puzzle type needs a name {4}
I believe I have invented a new type of puzzle...
What is its name?
Begin by solving the 16x16 sudoku; each of the digits 1-16 must appear exactly once in each row, column and thick-bordered 4x4 ...
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This new puzzle type needs a name {3}
I believe I have invented** a new type of puzzle...
What is its name?
** Well, 'adapted' an existing one, really...
Colour-blind-friendly version available here. Those without colour-blindness ...
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Another new puzzle type needs a name
For an example of how this type of puzzle works, see here...
I believe I have invented another new type of puzzle...
What is its name?
Colour-blind-friendly version available here.
Begin by ...
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