Unanswered Questions
14 questions with no upvoted or accepted answers
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Is there another name for this puzzle? (Kyudoku, Nine Find)
Is there another name for this type of puzzle? I can only find two examples of it online:
https://www.brainzilla.com/logic/kyudoku/
http://ninefind.com/
In the game you start with a 6x6 grid filled ...
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Name and solution of puzzle to rotate all arrows to same direction
In this puzzle, when you click an arrow, all arrows immediately next to it (diagonally included), as well as the arrow you clicked itself rotate 90 degrees. The goal is to get all the of arrows to ...
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Trying to find a 2020 puzzle hunt with a puzzle based on Among Us
I am trying to find a puzzle hunt that I believe was held in 2020. It contained a puzzle based on the game Among Us with 26 characters, and you had to decide who were the imposters. The imposters all ...
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Looking for a kid's puzzle, cannot remember title
I'm looking for a kids' logical puzzle I saw in a Brazilian puzzle magazine several years ago. A farmer had a square farm with four houses and twelve trees and he wanted to divide it between his four ...
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Late 18th/early 19th century numbers grid
I was researching an historical figure on the Isle of Man, Capt George Quayle (b.1751 - d.1835), and in amongst the museum's papers was this numbers grid which was part of his effects. The museum ...
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Wooden puzzle with multiple balls on strings attached to a central hook, from which metal arms connect top and bottom
I bought this puzzle few years ago at a market. I couldn't solve it since. I started to think it was wrongly assembled, therefore can not be solved. Tried to find the solution on the internet/YouTube ...
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Is there a name for crosswords where the surface of the vertical clues resemble the solutions to the horizontal and vice versa?
Occasionally a crossword (often cryptic ones) would have a twist to them, such as being a 'nina':
A Nina is a special feature of the crossword grid: a word, words or phrase hidden within a pattern of ...
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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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What type of puzzles are the statue puzzles in Super Lucky's Tale, and what method should be used for solving them?
This question is about a set of puzzles in the video game "Super Lucky's Tale" (as well as its Nintendo Switch remake "New Super Lucky's Tale"). They are known as statue puzzles as ...
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Do puzzles like "write 120 using four 8" have a specific name?
Here on puzzling SE there is the category "calculation puzzle", but it's very broad. I'd like to know if somebody gave a specific name for such puzzles.
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What is the Name of this Toggling Puzzle?
I came across an interesting toggling puzzle while looking through a code repository on GitHub. I want to find out more about it and see if there is any info on how to solve it, how to ensure ...
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What is this number square puzzle called? (10x10 grid with numbers 1-100)
Does anyone happen to know a name for this traditional(?) number square puzzle/game?
The puzzle has a board of 10x10 squares that are initially empty. The player starts the game by entering the number ...
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What is the name of this puzzle game?
Person A formed 10 small balls of paper (plain white paper, all 10 looked the same). Then person A picked up all 10 paper balls and threw them on a table at the same time. Then you should be able to ...
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Possible number based cipher… but which one?
Here's a sequence of numbers:
133, 173, 30, 133, 176, 160, 171, 63, 137, 176, 160, 60, 177
I'm sure they are an important part of a puzzle I'm trying to solve which I found hidden in an image - ...
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