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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This new puzzle type needs a name
I believe I have invented a new type of puzzle...
What is its name?
Colour-blind-friendly version available here.
Begin by solving the 16x16 sudoku; each of the digits 1-16 must appear exactly ...
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My God, it's full of stars!
An entry in Fortnightly Topic Challenge #32: Grid Deduction Hybrids
My dear friend, unknown to us, may have relocated again. He sent me imagery and constellation maps indicating that a distant red ...
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Desert Irrigation Project
An entry in Fortnightly Topic Challenge #32: Grid Deduction Hybrids
My dear friend researches and designs canal irrigation systems in a remote desert. He's been missing for two weeks. Members of ...
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Reverse Puzzling
George is a great puzzler, so I was extremely surprised when he didn't immediately know the answer to a really famous puzzle. It's a puzzle that you probably did years ago, and have heard so often ...
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I am an island (ysaujdiolkiun)
An entry in Fortnightly Topic Challenge #32: Grid Deduction Hybrids
I received an envelope containing two drawings and no return address. I would recognize that handwriting anywhere - my dear friend ...
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Reassemble the riddles!
I'd just finished writing four short 4-line riddles, painstakingly making sure each line was correct, when a wind caught the slips of paper I'd been using to write on and blew them all over the floor. ...
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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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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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Reverse Puzzling 2
This puzzle was inspired by Dr Xorile's first reverse puzzle! Kudos to him for coming up with such a fun format.
Intrigued, I gave George yet another famous puzzle to ponder over. Once again, I was ...
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Reverse puzzling. What game is this?
I saw my friend working on making a computer game version of an old game (not traditionally a computer game) and his notepad has these strange series of numbers. What game is he working on?
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Cheating is efficient, but only until you get caught!
This is an entry into the 16th Fortnightly Challenge - reverse-puzzling
The Puzzleland Inc. is recruiting some fresh blood, and after some brain-bending tests, the candidates have been shortlisted to ...
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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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What is this magic trick with 6 cards featuring numbers between 1 and 60?
I hope this is on topic. I have a set of kids' magic tricks but I have lost the instructions! I was hoping this might be a good place to get some help.
Here is the first one.
What is the trick and ...
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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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