Timeline for Is there a puzzle that is only solvable by assuming there is a unique solution?
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| S Sep 16, 2021 at 10:16 | history | bounty ended | justhalf | ||
| S Sep 16, 2021 at 10:16 | history | notice removed | justhalf | ||
| Sep 14, 2021 at 14:16 | answer | added | Florian F | timeline score: 0 | |
| S Sep 14, 2021 at 8:44 | history | bounty started | justhalf | ||
| S Sep 14, 2021 at 8:44 | history | notice added | justhalf | Reward existing answer | |
| Sep 13, 2021 at 10:27 | answer | added | user73917 | timeline score: 0 | |
| Nov 14, 2020 at 17:24 | answer | added | Hagen von Eitzen | timeline score: 2 | |
| Nov 13, 2020 at 17:05 | answer | added | Jeremy Dover | timeline score: 2 | |
| Nov 13, 2020 at 15:23 | vote | accept | Nathan Merrill | ||
| Nov 13, 2020 at 12:47 | comment | added | Strawberry | Yes. There is one such puzzle. | |
| Nov 12, 2020 at 20:20 | answer | added | Peter Fox | timeline score: 0 | |
| Nov 12, 2020 at 20:06 | comment | added | Robbie Goodwin | Yes, but I read it so long ago I remember only that it existed. I think this belongs not to Puzzling, as such, but to some of number theory. | |
| Nov 12, 2020 at 16:47 | answer | added | JJM Driessen | timeline score: 3 | |
| Nov 12, 2020 at 16:45 | answer | added | Marc-André Brochu | timeline score: 8 | |
| Nov 12, 2020 at 16:22 | answer | added | David Browne - Microsoft | timeline score: 3 | |
| Nov 12, 2020 at 2:21 | answer | added | Graylocke | timeline score: 7 | |
| Nov 12, 2020 at 1:01 | history | became hot network question | |||
| Nov 11, 2020 at 19:31 | comment | added | Bass | "The three cards in this stack alternate between aces and kings. Pick an ace." | |
| Nov 11, 2020 at 18:47 | vote | accept | Nathan Merrill | ||
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| Nov 11, 2020 at 18:11 | history | edited | Nathan Merrill | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Nov 11, 2020 at 18:07 | comment | added | Nathan Merrill | Essentially, I'm going for "Puzzle that can be solved logically without guessing". However, another assumption that I should have made clearer is that it doesn't have to be a perfect-knowledge puzzle. For example, minesweeper is a game that (if constructed properly) can be solved without guessing but also doesn't provide all information up front. I'll edit my question to make this clearer, but if you have better tags, that'd be great | |
| Nov 11, 2020 at 18:03 | comment | added | Deusovi♦ | Oh, what other types of puzzles are you talking about then? I think a sufficiently broad definition of [grid-deduction] would cover most cases that 'uniqueness' matters, and solvability through logical deduction is important. (If you're not talking about solvability as in "a deductive path from the puzzle to the solution", and you just mean "the ability to get to the solution", then it's an even easier 'no' answer: people can just intuit their way to the solution.) | |
| Nov 11, 2020 at 17:59 | comment | added | Nathan Merrill | Yeah, grid deduction isn't really what I'm going for. It's most often applied to those kinds of puzzles, but isn't specific to it. Maybe something like "logic-puzzles"? Dunno. | |
| Nov 11, 2020 at 17:40 | answer | added | Deusovi♦ | timeline score: 11 | |
| Nov 11, 2020 at 17:38 | comment | added | JKHA |
@Deusovi, maybe I'm wrong but I feel this question is more a question about meta on puzzles and does have little with grid-deduction tag.
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| Nov 11, 2020 at 17:37 | comment | added | Deusovi♦ | It seems like this question is meant to be about what we call [grid-deduction] puzzles, so I've edited that tag in -- if that's not accurate, feel free to edit it back out. | |
| Nov 11, 2020 at 17:36 | history | edited | Deusovi♦ |
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| Nov 11, 2020 at 17:35 | answer | added | SE - stop firing the good guys | timeline score: 25 | |
| Nov 11, 2020 at 17:31 | comment | added | JKHA | I find this question very interesting! Maybe this will help: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_impossible_puzzles | |
| Nov 11, 2020 at 16:57 | review | First posts | |||
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| Nov 11, 2020 at 16:56 | comment | added | Nathan Merrill | Related: puzzling.stackexchange.com/questions/49557/… | |
| Nov 11, 2020 at 16:55 | history | asked | Nathan Merrill | CC BY-SA 4.0 |