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This is a crossudoku
So, this is a crossudoku.
It is the same as a sudoku - same rules apply. However, you have been given crossword-like clues for part of the numbers on the grid.
Some of the clues may have multiple answers - so you may need to be solving the…
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Fun with numbers: solve A to E
A, B, C, D and E are five distinct non-negative integers no greater than 99. Can you figure out their values based on the following simple clues?
Not all of the five numbers have the same parity
A + E is even
B is A cubed
C is the least among the…
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It's good for puzzling
The images below can be connected by a single word.
What is the word and what are the connections?
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Curiouser and Curiouser
CHAPTER ONE
Alice was beginning to get very tired of sitting by her sister on the bank, and of having nothing to do: when she was overcome with the strangest sense of deja vu, and saw a 7x3 grid of letters in her mind's eye.
'Why', she declared, 'I…
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HAISU (Room Count): An original grid-logic challenge
HAISU is a portmanteau of three Japanese words - 'hairu', to enter, 'su', number, and 'hausu', an English borrow word meaning house, of course.
Together, we get a meaning of 'enter number house', which I have roughly translated to English as 'Room…
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Decode the message enciphered in these symbols: ◳◰ ◓◨ ◨◧◕ ◎◌ ◱◯◱◯ ◍◌○ ◉◉ ◇◔◓◕ ◐►◓◒ ◒◑ ◈◑ ◆◆◓ ◉◉◉
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Administrative details (not part of the puzzle):
The answer is a clue to The Security to the Party [12] (now with party soundtrack!)
For the benefit of anyone without a Unicode-capable browser, the…
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A Puzzle Like Deja Vu All Over Again
Part of the Community Metapuzzle. The word in the puzzle below is also the word needed here.
Deadline's tight, got worthless outworn pap.
Noxious ill-timed rot with dreary crap.
"Edit tonight!" Tensely, I repeat.
Verses still not tidy-…
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Introducing: FootChess!
Imagine if your chess pieces got bored of their little war games, and decided to play something a bit different. The rules are like Chess except as follows:
There is a Ball piece that starts in the center grid intersection, it is treated as being…
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Stargate escape
What a nightmare! When you awake in cold sweat you only remember
dazzling colours, flash-lights, dark shadows with far too many arms
and the sickening sensation of being dropped from a high place. You
spent a few seconds to gather your wits before…
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The Swedish king and the chessboard
The following puzzle is an old classic, due originally to the great puzzler Sam Loyd, who published the first three parts in 1859; the fourth and fifth parts are variations due to Brian Stewart and Friedrich Amelung respectively. I searched for this…
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What is a Perfect Word™?
This is in the spirit of the What is a Word/Phrase™ series started by JLee with a special brand of Phrase™ and Word™ puzzles.
If a word conforms to a special rule, I call it a Perfect Word™.
Use the following examples below to find the…
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A weird error message
A few moderators from Stack Exchange communities decided to go "old-school" and developed a desktop application for Stack Exchange. You, as an enthusiastic user, of course want to try it out. Everything worked fine for the most part, but suddenly an…
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Meatsacks, please help us decipher this code
Be greeted, meatsacks. We have been studying several of your species for some time now. One of the subjects, some meatsack related to saving Earth several times, seemed to know a lot of our operations and we believe we have found information that is…
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How do you solve a word puzzle when you have no idea where to start?
When you're looking at a logical word puzzle, what sorts of clues should you try to look for to solve them? There have been quite a few puzzles posted to this site so far that I spent a few minutes pondering, and I just had no idea where to start.…
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Red herring (Title must be at least 15 characters.)
The postwar confusion
by Avigrail, 2016
There's no one left but a group of 5
Two of the group in an ongoing strife
The rejoicing third taking all the pride
Dear stranger, will you pick your side?
One who's fallen, no chance of return
All burnt out…
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