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A question about the creation and development of puzzles. Not to be used for requesting the creation of a puzzle.
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How to confirm the reader has the right answer without showing the answer?
Here are some options (roughly in order of my personal preference):
have a brilliant solution that must obviously be correct. Doing this consistently makes the solver expect it, and they will start t …
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Harder to find out which letters have to be taken away or which letters have to be added?
The problem with removing letters is that natural languages are very predictable,
that is, the amount of entropy in a single letter of English is surprisingly low.
Shannon estimated that nearly 50% …
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How to create a code ring for 2 separate encryptions?
A single code ring will work, but there will be a lot of annoying busywork, setting and resetting the ring to the various password letter values. (I'm going to assume here that you don't want to make …
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Requesting Feedback on Check Sum for Word Linking Puzzle Stage
The main problem is that there are too many degrees of freedom between the two given words; there's too much "play" in the three links between words, which makes the puzzle tedious to solve: anything …
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How can I avoid the "Riddle-maker's Dilemma?"
The dilemma definitely exists, and there are several ways to cope with it. These are my favourites:
Plan 1: "The checksum approach." Go abstract, make fun clues that can yield ambiguous results, but …
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Interlocking puzzle piece with rotational symmetry
So, you'll want to
start with a square (because of the grid shape requirement)
deform each edge in the same way (because of the rotation requirement)
preserve the point symmetry of each edge wrt the …
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Tips for making board game victory sequence puzzles
I'll try to list the essentials to consider. I used to moderate a go problems forum for several years, so most of this is based on go problems, but should be applicable to any strategy game puzzles, w …
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Trying to build a sudoku related puzzle box, struggling to ensure that there's only one solu...
Brute force away, it's much faster than you think.
Here are some back-of-the-envelope numbers:
First of all, given a band of 30 digits, there aren't going to be very many ways to choose a spot where …
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Looking for a Logical Puzzle with Scalability
How about pre-constructed Minesweeper positions?
As for the desired features:
1) + Pure logic
2) + Purely visual
3) + Arbitrarily scalable (consistency checking proven to be NP-complete)
As for the …
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How to choose the next board in the 8-puzzle?
I'm certain you cannot choose the best move without look-ahead from those metrics alone:
Let's say you are at a position where you have managed to permute the first row somehow, but the rest of the p …
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