Unanswered Questions
23 questions with no upvoted or accepted answers
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Seeking Software to Convert Line Drawings into Connect-the-Dots Puzzles
I am on the lookout for a software solution, whether free or premium, that is capable of transforming line drawing images into connect-the-dots puzzles. My interest lies in both vector and bitmap ...
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What is the church secret?
This is really a request to make a puzzle. I am sometimes made to go to church. On the wall will be a series of what I would to think are secret clues and I would love to make a puzzle from them. The ...
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How to create a big, but good Hidato puzzle?
The goal of Hidato is to fill the grid with a series of consecutive numbers adjacent to each other orthogonally or diagonally, and all tiles are required to be filled in.
So, as you may or may not ...
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Good cipher with a "password"?
I'm starting to create a puzzle, but I'm going to need a cipher that will be impossible (or at least very difficult) to crack, but can be easily decoded with a key. I first looked at the one-time pad ...
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Puppet 2 invalid configurations w.r.t. Rubik's Cubes
My MoYu Puppet 2 has had a few small cubes disassembled and I've put them back more or less randomly. Specifically, I merely made sure that the resulting configuration remains solvable as if it was a ...
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Rubik's Cube PLL Series Challenge
Assumed Knowledge:
To complete this puzzle, you must have a basic understanding of the 3x3x3 Rubik's cube, and the CFOP method of solving one. You need not have the algorithms memorized or be able to ...
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Strange configuration for last layer
I am trying to solve my Rubik's cube but last layer has got strange configuration which I am not able to solve. I'm following algorithm shown on this page.
Here is the layout:
As you can see green ...
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Solving the puppet cube without preserving the shape
I'm looking for a simple way of solving the MoYu Puppet cube (version 2 to be precise). It's a shapemod of a 3x3 Rubik's cube on which 7 of 8 corners have additional parts which form a bigger 2x2 cube ...
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Creating accessible crosswords
Often, crosswords* posted to Puzzling have at least one of the grid or clues in an image. For visually impaired, blind, and/or screen-reader using people, or those who can't see images for some other ...
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Do minecart puzzles like this, with buttons that rotate track, exist?
This is the end result of me messing around with minecarts and moving floors.
The buttons change the orientation of either their nearest or their same-color track. Now I'm not asking you to solve the ...
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Designing a new type of twisty puzzle
Recently, I was fiddling with my Rubik's cube and tried scrambling it only using R and U moves. I then tried to solve it using only R and U moves. I didn't use any cube rotations.
It was an ...
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How many items are there in the lab?
I am looking for how to complete the following question so that it gives a unique solution. Maybe somebody can give a visual solution.
A lab contains experimental equipment. 24 items are ready to use ...
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Ideas on spatial puzzles for a city walk
Background.
With the relaxation of covid-related restrictions, there was a need for intelligent city walks. Walk here is a moving between city objects by a certain (deterministic/stochastic) route.
I ...
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Is it possible to create a knot that is locked only when the rope is stretched?
Is it possible to create a knot that is stable/locked when the rope is stretched?
When the tension is relived the knot should open.
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What are the specific algorithms Feliks Zemdegs uses to solve a 3x3x3 Rubik's cube?
I apologise if this is not the right site to post this kind of question, but out of all SE sites this one yielded the most question concerning specific cubing algorithms (namely this, this, this, this ...
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