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This new puzzle type needs a name {7}
This puzzle is part of the Monthly Topic Challenge #5: On-and-onograms - and also extends the 'This new puzzle type needs a name' series...
I believe I have invented a new type of puzzle...
What is its name?
Begin by solving the 32x36 nonogram…
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Guess the Famous Painting
A famous art critic has recently been writing amazing essays on various paintings. The public loves these essays so much that each time the next essay is published, its painting skyrockets in fame, which leads to dramatically increased revenue for…
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Two mystical trees
Behold, the mystical Tree of B:
Notice that every path from trunk to canopy forms a word. You should see 16 words (from left to right: BLOOM, BLOOD, BLOWN, BLOWS, BLAND, BLANK, BLASÉ, BLAST, BROOK, BROOM, BROWN, BROWS, BRAID, BRAIN, BRASH,…
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Checkmate 30 kings with rooks
Using only kings, and as few rooks as possible, set up a position where 30 of black's kings are checkmated.
Checkmate:
The king is in check
The king has no moves out of check
Black only has kings, exactly 30 of them. White has rooks and kings, and…
SE - stop firing the good guys
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An Ambiguous Text from the Oracle
Oscar: Hey bra, let's go to the pub and tie one on.
Peter: Naw bra, don't you know Mercury's in retrograde?
Oscar: Hmm, let's consult the Oracle.
Oscar texted the Oracle and the Oracle immediately replied:
Peter: See, I told you we shouldn't…
caPNCApn
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Robot ants that stay forever on a rod
You can place any positive number of robot ants on a long rod and set each of them to move left or right starting at time $0$. You can set any positive speed for each ant. When 2 or more ants meet, they turn around. When an ant reaches the end it…
Eric
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The new drink machine
At work today, they installed a new machine, it has a keyboard instead of the usual buttons to select my drink of choice. This morning, I went to take a coffee, so I typed in "coffee", and the machine displayed an error! So I kept going, this time…
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How do I solve this cube?
I’m trying to learn the cube but I'm stuck. How can I solve this in the least number of moves?
The answer is a phrase. Since it’s a secret phrase, an abbreviation will do.
caPNCApn
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How many fingers do the inhabitants of this planet have?
Actual Puzzle
After crash-landing your spaceship on an uncharted planet, you run across the following drawing:
$\begin{matrix}
⊙ & × & × & ⊓ & ⊓ & ⊙ & & \\
⊙ & ∿ & × & ⊓ & × & ⊳ & & \\\hline
∿ & ⊓ & ⊓ & ⊳ & ⊙ & × & × & \\
\end{matrix}$
How many…
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Longest word with adjacent letters on a keyboard
What is the longest English word you can type using only letters that are adjacent on a QWERTY keyboard?
You can start anywhere and then either repeat the previous letter or move to an adjacent one.
For convenience of those who don't have a QWERTY…
GOTO 0
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What is a Chess Number™?
This is in the spirit of the What is a Word/Phrase™ series started by JLee with Number version puzzles.
If a number conforms to a special rule, I call it a Chess Number™.
Use the following examples below to find the rule.
Chess Numbers™
Not…
PiGuy314
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Sussing it out
Context: This metapuzzle consists of remixes of puzzles created by my friend sus for a weekly puzzle challenge called One Day One Puzl (1D1P for short). Knowledge of those puzzles is not required to solve this puzzle.
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Slitherlink: Around the W0rld
Rules of Slitherlink:
Connect adjacent dots with vertical or horizontal lines to make a single loop.
The numbers indicate how many lines surround it, while empty cells may be surrounded by any number of lines.
The loop never crosses itself and…
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