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This new puzzle type needs a name {6}
First, the Fillomino should be solved:
Then,
And finally:
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My God, it's full of stars!
Armed with Thomas Blue's star-finding work, we may solve the 4 logic grids as follows:
The rules of the puzzle
Step by step solution:
Grid 1
Grid 2
Grid 3
Big grid
Here begins speculation
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This new puzzle type needs a name {EXTREME EDITION}
Heyawake
Nurimaze
Nonogram
Slitherlink
A new instruction!
And another instruction:
Yet another instruction...
The Next Puzzle
And finally...
Somehow I don't think this puzzle genre will ...
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What kind of puzzle is solved by these sequences of numbers?
It's a...
The board is originally in the state
The sequence of numbers
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My God, it's full of stars!
Transmission from the moon radio-station
After a long time in space I started to forget what N and E stand for on Earth. Well, now it's clear to me: East and North are directions. The first time I ...
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This new puzzle type needs a name
Wrap-up: The Making Of This new puzzle type needs a name
This is not a solution to the puzzle, but provides notes from its poser. This type of answer has been approved by the community.
Caution: This ...
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Cheating is efficient, but only until you get caught!
This is something to do with
Specifically (with thanks to @GentlePurpleRain for help coming up with this):
This fits with most of what your rival is saying, as follows (with help from the OP for one ...
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Re-Venn-ge of the Connecting Wall
The groups are
The answer fitting all categories is
Filled-out Venn diagram:
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Desert Irrigation Project
I have noticed that in the first image,
Solving picture 2 using the rules of the game yin-yang (suggested by @edderiofer) gives the unique solution
Now, adding shapes to the second image using the ...
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Another new puzzle type needs a name
The name of this puzzle is
I solved the Sudoku, then learned from the other answers here, that the next step is to solve a Yajilin, a puzzle type I haven't heard of before. As these both steps are ...
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My colleague's search history
He was trying to answer:
total number of dead people
extra ear mutation
average number of cloudy days
exorcist scene rotating
child slavery laws
mt everest erosion
howitzer firing rate
pigeon ...
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Three for the price of one
If we assume that one of the puzzles is a sudoku, we are left with only four possible grid constructions because the last two pieces can not be next to each other and have to form the diagonal. I ...
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Chain Puzzle: Tabletop Games #08 - Targui, or not Targui
From the facts about the first grid
My first guess of the genre was
Naturally, the next step would be
It is not very hard, if we focus on the number 5:
Therefore,
Now to the second grid. With ...
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A line in Connect Four
I think the argument was over the question
You may have said
While your friend would have argued that there are indeed
And won the argument by drawing something akin to the following line
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Reverse Puzzling 4
This is Andrea Gilbert's first handmade
The rules are simple:
How it relates to the diagram:
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My colleague got mad!
rand al'thor points out that
and since
the numbers are
but after the square marked 16, Robert's got this (image courtesy of OP)
and we can now see why Robert is distressed:
... which is a ...
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I am an island (ysaujdiolkiun)
Your friend is in:
Grid deduction
Handdrawn solutions (originals for reference, click on the links to see):
Prettified solutions, image by @TheGreatEscaper:
My initial set of rules:
That was close....
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Procedurally generated riddles
Starting over after hint #3. This is based on the old riddle...
The catch is that since this is an AI generating riddles...
Full list:
The missing one is the original riddle, whose answer is...
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Highlighter traces on a sheet of paper
It looks like a
both from the patterns of the lines
and from the fact that they were using a highlighter.
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Desert Irrigation Project
Let me try a different approach.
There is one red square in each row and column (fact). That provides us with a free pairwise collocation on rows and columns, or: on the letters written one the up ...
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This new puzzle type needs a name {5}
First...
Next...
Finally...
The new puzzle type's name is...
Great construction, Stiv!
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