Questions tagged [grid-deduction]
Puzzles such as Sudoku or Kakuro, where the final state of a pre-existing grid must be deduced logically through clues placed within and/or around the grid. For puzzles where you are given a list of clues which can be used to compose a grid to solve them logically, use the [logic-grid] tag instead.
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Norinori: QR-Code-ish
This is an entry for Fortnightly Topic Challenge #44: Introduce a new grid deduction genre to the community.
Here is a standard Norinori puzzle.
Rules of Norinori:
Shade exactly two cells in each ...
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Hexagonal Nurikabe
Nurikabe is a popular grid puzzle, usually played on a square grid. Here is my attempt to adapt it to a hexagonal grid.
To solve it, you must shade cells in the grid such that these conditions are met:...
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Tatamibari: an introduction
This is an entry for Fortnightly Topic Challenge #44: Introduce a new grid deduction genre to the community
This is a Tatamibari puzzle, where you divide the grid into rectangles and squares.
Rules ...
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Nurimisaki Puzzle: Introduction
This is an entry for Fortnightly Topic Challenge #44: Introduce a new grid deduction genre to the community
This is a Nurimisaki puzzle, an area-connection puzzle.
Rules of Nurimisaki (taken from ...
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A Sneaky Yin-Yang Puzzle
Here is a standard Yin-Yang puzzle.
Rules of Yin-Yang:
Fill each empty cell with either a black circle or a white circle.
All white circles should be orthogonally connected, so do all black circles.
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Social Distancing Colors - A New Type of Puzzle? [closed]
I think I just thought of a new type of puzzle:
Social Distancing Colors.
Each of the colors in the rainbow represents at least how much one has to distance by:
Red is 6m,
Orange is 5m,
Yellow is 4m,
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Another Straightforward 4-letters Crossword?
This is an entry for Fortnightly Topic Challenge #43: Variety Crossword Grids.
Across
4. "___ and on"
5. "La ___" light
6. Aside from it
8. Diagonal
10. Firefly
12. Clothes shop
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A monster slitherlink!
Does anyone want to have a stab at this monster slitherlink?
Source: https://mellowmelon.wordpress.com/2010/03/17/puzzle-217/
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Another Yin Yang puzzle! Part two
I am sure this puzzle has only one solution. Also the solver of this puzzle can put up a Yin Yang puzzle if they wish to start a series.
Rules of Yin-Yang:
Fill each empty cell with either a black ...
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Three-and-Two (Santoitchi variant): Confused Knights
Three-and-Two is a variant of Santoitchi, where the shaded cells ("monominoes") are replaced by shaded dominoes.
Rules:
Shade some cells. The shaded cells should form dominoes (contiguous ...
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Slitherlink - A0, B1, C2, D3
The standard Slitherlink rules apply. However, first replace $A_1$, $A_2$, $B_1$, $B_2$, $C_1$, $C_2$, $D_1$, and $D_2$; such that the Slitherlink is uniquely solvable.
Moreover, these equations must ...
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A slitherlink with only 3's
As we know, 3's seems to be very rare in slitherlinks. This is the slitherlink with only 3's.
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Animal Cross(word)ing
An entry in Fortnightly Topic Challenge #43: Variety Crossword Grids
Each of the 40 clues listed below (a mix of pop culture and science/nature) yields the name of an animal. Your task is to solve ...
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Lost in this Loopy puzzle
I got this Loopy (Cairo) puzzle, but got stuck here:
I have no idea how to proceed without guessing with backtracking. Are there any local deductions possible here?
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A Cryptic Hourglass
An entry in Fortnightly Topic Challenge #43: Variety Crossword Grids
The answers to ten cryptic clues need to be entered in the grid below. Words start in their numbered rectangles, and proceed down ...
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Another Yin-Yang puzzle
I saw someone post a ying-yang puzzle on here recently and I thought I might challenge people here with another one!
Rules of Yin-Yang:
Fill each empty cell with either a black circle or a white ...
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Self-contained math crossword with if-then-else clues
An entry in Fortnightly Topic Challenge #43: Variety Crossword Grids
Since I'm not good with with words and crosswords, here is a math crosswords: to know all the operands for the calculations you ...
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Yin-Yang: All-White
Here is a standard Yin-Yang puzzle.
Rules of Yin-Yang:
Fill each empty cell with either a black circle or a white circle.
All white circles should be orthogonally connected, so do all black circles.
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Hetero-F(our|ive)-Cells
This is a hybrid of Four Cells and Five Cells (uses pentominoes instead of tetrominoes), with a global no-repeated-piece rule.
Rules:
The grid is to be divided along the grid lines into areas ...
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An altered MineSweeper
I've been searching for an old project I did in college about a computer program to create and solve a special variation of the popular game MineSweeper where, instead of always one, you could have ...
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Four Cells: No Threes!
Four Cells is an area dividing puzzle. You may see an introduction to this puzzle here: Four Cells: An Introduction
Rules of Four Cells:
The grid is to be divided along the grid lines into areas ...
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A true no-no-gram
This is a nonogram with the usual rules. That is, you must fill white squares in with black so that the numbers at the head of each row or column indicate, in order, the respective lengths of ...
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Chain Puzzle: Tabletop Games #08 - Targui, or not Targui
This is the eighth Chain Puzzle in the Tabletop Games series, in which all puzzles are themed around board games, card games, tile games, and the like. The answer to this puzzle is a thematic word or ...
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Four Cells: An Introduction
This is a Four Cells puzzle, an area-dividing puzzle.
Rules of Four Cells:
The grid is to be divided along the grid lines into areas containing exactly four cells.
A number in a cell indicates how ...
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Sjudoku II - A greater challenge in the world where 9 is 7
This is more difficult instance of a puzzle posted here.
Rules similar to Sudoku applies:
In each disk, the numbers 1,2,...7 should appear exactly once.
No line may contain duplicate digits (note ...
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Tackling The Triptych
Normal Sudoku rules apply. Numbers on thermometers must increase, starting from the bulb end. Killer clues indicate the sum of three digits in a cage, which cannot include repeated digits. In columns ...
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Next step/strategies for an Area 51 (Slitherlink variant) puzzle
I've been doing quite a few Slitherlinks recently (and puzzles containing Slitherlink elements, such as Area 51). I'm familiar with all the patterns described in the Wiki article but I feel like there'...
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Shingoki: An Exploration of Unicode
An entry in Fortnightly Topic Challenge #42: Wordless Connecting Walls-- wait, what?
This is a Shingoki puzzle. The rules (paraphrased from puzzle-shingoki.com) are as follows:
The aim is to form a ...
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Santoitchi: Crowded?
Santoitchi is yet another genre involving trominoes. The name seems to mean Three-and-One in Japanese with a deliberate misspelling (ć¤ćć instead of the usual ć¤ć for "one").
Here is an ...
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Is there a puzzle that is only solvable by assuming there is a unique solution?
Is it possible to construct a puzzle that is:
Solvable if you assume there is a single unique solution
Not solvable if you do not make this assumption
My intuition says that the answer is "No&...
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A 5-out-of-9 shading Nurikabe
Rules of Nurikabe: (copied from here)
Numbered cells are unshaded.
Unshaded cells are divided into regions, all of which contain exactly one number. The number indicates how many unshaded cells there ...
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Sjudoku - in a world where 9 is replaced by 7
Sjudoku (sju = seven in Swedish).
Rules similar to Sudoku applies:
In each disk, the numbers 1,2,...7 should appear exactly once.
No line may contain duplicate digits (note that there are lines in 3
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A half-shading Nurikabe
Rules of Nurikabe: (copied from here)
Numbered cells are unshaded.
Unshaded cells are divided into regions, all of which contain exactly one number. The number indicates how many unshaded cells there ...
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Tetrikabe: Socially Distanced Fours
Pentomino Nurikabe is still elusive, but here is another Tetromino Nurikabe! I'm not sure if the 4s are actually socially distanced enough. (The ones on the right and bottom are doing better than the ...
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5x5 suko puzzle
Okay, an easy one. From 1 to 25, without repetition, fill the numbers into the grids.
Rules of Suko:
The four cells around each boxed number should add up to that number
Each set of colored cells ...
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A Chaotik-Evil Encrypted Doppelblock
This is a birthday gift for my friend: Ivan a.k.a. chaotic_iak! ^^
As noted, you may need this clue if you want to solve this logically (otherwise, challenge yourself like Ivan):
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An experimental sudoku
(Here is an experimental Sudoku created by me, however, the "box" constraint is not originally mine, but it'd be fun to try out this constraint.)
Rules:
Normal Sudoku rules apply.
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The physicist's puzzle
An unknown physic1st left behind this puzzle with his belongin9s and he can no longer Be found. Here is the puzzle he left with u5 before disappEaring.
Can you figure who this mysterious physicist was ...
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Lasers: Cross through the bridges (Level 3)
Previous Level:- Lasers: The Reflection (Level 2)
Rules :
There will be lasers which are shaped like an arrow. The arrows pointing in the respective direction shows where the laser goes and the ...
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How to solve this Loopy puzzle efficiently with little backtracking?
I would like to solve this Loopy (Cairo) puzzle:
But I would like to do so with as little backtracking as possible. By this I mean that I want to have at most one pending guess at a time; I do not ...
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Lasers: The Reflection (Level 2)
Previous Level:- Lasers : Introduction (Level $1$)
So here is my lasers level 2 continued, and I have something new, mirrors!
Rules:
There will be lasers which are shaped like an arrow. The arrows ...
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Tetromino Nurikabe: Five Fours
I enjoy combining polyominos with grid-deductions. My current plan is to create a Pentomino Nurikabe. But that sounds hard, so I made this Tetromino Nurikabe as practice first. I think it came out ...
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Connect Wall - Grid Puzzles Edition!
This is an entry for Fortnightly Topic Challenge #42: Wordless Connecting Walls.
Huge thanks to bobble and Deusovi for playtesting! ><
And hey, this one may also mark my 100-day puzzle here in ...
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Bridges of Carcass County
This is a Carcass Walking puzzle. The objective is to place the given cities into the grid, connect them with roads, draw one river across the grid, and find places for the given number of cloisters.
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Chain Puzzle: Tabletop Games #06 - So Sorry
This is the sixth Chain Puzzle in the Tabletop Games series, in which all puzzles are themed around board games, card games, tile games, and the like. The answer to this puzzle is a thematic word or ...
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Chain Puzzle: Tabletop Games #05 - It's Yahtzee, Jim, but not as we know it
This is the fifth Chain Puzzle in the Tabletop Games series, in which all puzzles are themed around board games, card games, tile games, and the like. The answer to this puzzle is a thematic word or ...
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Santoitchi: Introduction
Santoitchi is yet another genre involving trominoes. It appears to be invented by Inaba Naoki, and then picked up by Bram de Laat, who uses the name Sandwich (blame Google Translate for the possible ...
