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What is the largest tile possible in 2048?
I can get to 4096 max. There are videos on youtube of guys making it to 8192. What is the theoretical maximum limit on this?
PS: if you haven't played this, here is the link to addiction.
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What's the Password, again?
War has broken out in the kingdom. The king's castle is guarded pretty heavily, by guards with instructions to kill anyone who can't produce the correct password.
Unbeknownst to the guards, the beggars near the main gate are in fact enemy spies.…
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Are there published Sudoku puzzles that require guessing?
I believe in a number of books I have read and solved myself, the introduction stated that guessing should never be necessary for any of the puzzles in the book. Instead, a handful of techniques could be used to solve the puzzle completely,…
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Decipher this message for instructions to decipher this message
NINTH UNDUE COMICAL BURGER CUTLETS SLITS TURTLE REGRESS SORTS PROPHET SQUATS PUPPY ANGINA DUDS SKUNK TIGHT ODD TERSE COLONEL DIVED SOON AREA DIARIST SKUNK DREAD HASH RENTER DOWDY MAMAS GURGLE PORPOISE UNTRUE MADAM YUCKY
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Labyrinth Puzzle
Part of the Fortnightly Topic Challenge #35: Restricted Title 1
Surprised no one went for this low hanging fruit yet
Get from MAZE to DONE
When you're DONE with the MAZE, apply the following the changes: -- You can probably game this puzzle by…
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I can't say more, I really can't
Under Sahara, delicious tuber
Greek cheese, asian sword way
Translucent dead, getting older
Communication device, outdoor shelter
Heawy iron block, Neeson's name
Shining coating, exists forever
Prime prime, standing infinity
Stack gone rong,…
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How can I convince my colour blind friend that his two balls have different colours?
This question is inspired by this one, inspired by another Stack Exchange network question.
How do I explain zero knowledge proof to my 7 year old cousin?
My colour-blind friend has two balls, one red and one green. However, he is convinced that…
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Can you open the bathroom door?
This happened to me in a rental apartment and I had to be creative to solve it.
The geniuses who designed the bathroom managed to fit a drawer about a centimeter behind the door, and eventually what had to go wrong went wrong: the drawer was full of…
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J, KK, LLL, what's next?
What comes next in each of these sequences?
$$\begin{array}{align*}\textbf{ 1
}&\text{J, KK, LLL, MZ, A, BO, ?}\\\textbf{ B
}&\text{HNAKXR, EERREA, LOGYND, INOPOO, ?}\\\textbf{ C
}&\text{NMLLARY, JBZALOY, KMMRA, DBJTML, ORMSLBL, ?}\\\textbf{ 4…
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What is the largest number you can create with 0000 by moving only two sticks?
Here's what I'm saying
Moving 2 sticks, what is the largest number that you can create?
bleh
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Help! I am infected with the puzzling bug!
Argh...I can't get this bug of puzzling off my head! It's really weird, and so annoying, you know...I can't help thinking about puzzles all the time. It's like... when I see a word, I think of anagrams...when I see tiled floors, I think of sudoku on…
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The Secret Club
Since I was a kid, nobody wanted me in their super-exclusive clubs... the "House in the Tree Club"... the "Girls Only Club"... the "Whatever you are NOT Club"... but now that I am a skilled (and a bit nerdy) guy, time has come to take my…
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Eccentric Millionaire Probability Paradox
The following is a probability paradox I've been thinking about. It involves Bayes' rule; if you're not familiar, a good starting example is a urn that has a 50% chance of containing one black ball and one white ball, and a 50% chance of having…
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What famous dialogue does this Java code represent?
The following is a text rebus in the form of Java code:
public class GetBoolean {
public static void main(String[] args) {
boolean i = getBoolean();
}
private static boolean getBoolean() {
throw new BOOLEAN();
}
…
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A clock correct three times a day
A stopped clock tells the right time twice a day. How fast must a
clock go for it to be right three times a day?
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