Unanswered Questions
24 questions with no upvoted or accepted answers
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How to solve this specific situation in 2048?
In trying to develop and perfect my strategies, I've been playing 2048-undo.
This is what I got myself into:
Since this is not an uncommon situation and I still don't know how to properly get out of ...
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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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Deadlock possible in Minefield?
A deadlock is a position in which neither player has won and neither player has a legal placement available. My question is, "Can you find a deadlock position in Minefield?" And, if you ...
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Circuissonne Diagrams
This puzzle is part of the Monthly Topic Challenge #7: Board games.
And also, this puzzle is also a parody of XKCD's 730.
We're starting a project on Explain XKCD (link currently not available) to ...
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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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Are there forced cycles in this game?
Players: Black and White.
A crosscut is a 2x2 subgrid with two white and two black stones, in which like-colored stones are diagonally adjacent (and opposite-colored stones are orthogonally adjacent)....