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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Where to pitch the next tent?
I am stuck solving this "Trees and Tents" puzzle. How to sovle the rest of the puzzle?
For does who don't know the puzzle, these are the "Trees and Tents" rules:
A tent must be placed next to every ...
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Another puzzle for who has long boring days
The rules:
each row must have the digits from 0 to 9.
The sum of the digits in the column is shown at the bottom of the column.
The same number can appear more than once in a column.
Adjacent boxes ...
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Need help for a sto-stone puzzle [closed]
I need help for this puzzle. The name is Sto-Stone, a friend sent me for geocaching.
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humans, vampires and mirrors
Here is a room composed of $10 \times 10$ squared cells. Some cells contain a double-faced mirror ( / or \ ) that reflects the light with an angle of $90°$ on both sides.
The other cells can be empty (...
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The entrapment of Beastly Gerbil
Part 1: The disappearance of Beastly Gerbil
I've been trapped here for what feels like forever. This is all I've known. Darkness. The occasional flash of light, but then back to darkness, always, ...
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Akari: Another Light
Rules (taken from Nikoli):
Place light bulbs (circles) according to the following rules.
Light bulbs may be placed in any of the white squares, the number in the square shows how many light ...
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Mosaic by Albrecht Dürer
This is a visual puzzle (known as "mosaic" or "fill-a-pix") with the same rules as MineSweeper:
The grid is to be filled with colored and white tessera. Choose whatever color you like for the colored ...
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Let's Play Tetris!
Fill the whole grid with Tetrominos.
Every cell must be part of exactly one Tetromino.
Tetrominos can be rotated as necessary.
The colored clue cells must be part of the indicated type of ...
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Nurikabe minicubes: the Boondoggle, the Lollygag, the Dillydally
These are three-dimensional Nurikabe puzzles. In each case, the four squares represent the layers of a $4\times4\times4$ cube. The goal is to shade some cells in each layer so that the resulting space ...
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I know I should solve this Masyu… But… How should I make this puzzle more colorful?
I know I should solve this Nurikabe variant...
I know I should shade all Masyu circles...
I know I should not let $2 \times 2$ unshaded squares appeared...
I know I should solve this Masyu...
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A colorful metapuzzle (of a sort)
edit: realized two puzzles ended up being variants. Replaced subpuzzle 5 completely, and swapped subpuzzle 2 to the original version. Either version has the same solution.
edit 2: my apologies. this ...
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MASTERING Sudoku
Fill the grid with letters M, A, S, T, E, R, I, N and G.
Standard Sudoku rules apply.
Additionally, the words on the right-hand side must appear in the given orientation (across/down). Each word ...
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A Grid with some Green Cells
So a friend wanted me to try out the reverse-puzzling riddle he created. It consisted of a 4x4 grid with a digit in each cell and a single closed loop drawn along the edges of its cells. Also some of ...
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Akari: The Light
Rules (taken from Nikoli):
Place light bulbs (circles) according to the following rules.
Light bulbs may be placed in any of the white squares, the number in the square shows how many light ...
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Hamiltonian Puzzle Algorithm
I know how to create a Hamiltonian path or circuit for a given grid size (in which all nodes are free). However I just wonder how to create specific type of puzzles like the ones given below. I'm ...
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Puzzle needs a name
Inspired by @Stiv's This new puzzle type needs a name series, what is the name of the puzzle below?
Start by solving the (quite tough) Nonogram, then apply some grid-deduction-deduction and discover ...
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The disappearance of Beastly Gerbil
Part 2: The entrapment of Beastly Gerbil
This is an unusual call in. As a private detective you have been asked to investigate several odd cases, but this you're still convinced this one is taking ...
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Splitting a Grid in 4 Equal Portions [closed]
I was wondering if someone could provide a solution to this. Instructions are provided. Thank you.
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This new puzzle type needs a name {6}
I believe I have invented** a new type of puzzle...
What is its name?
Begin by solving the Fillomino puzzle:
Rules of Fillomino (taken from Nikoli)
Fill in all empty cells with numbers ...
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Pandiagonal Magic Takuzu
Here's a puzzle type I call Pandiagonal Magic Takuzu. It's inspired by @Stiv's series "This new puzzle type needs a name", except you get the name up front. Can you solve it?
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Optimal number of moves in “magnetism” puzzle? [duplicate]
Once, I saw a puzzle on Puzzlopia (now a Chinese website, just put a .com in the bold text). I call this "Magnetism", where the board and rules are:
Board:
(recreation)
Rules:
1) ...
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A King's Hamiltonian Tours
a) Place the numbers 1 to 25 in the cells of a 5 x 5 board in such a way that consecutive numbers occur in adjacent cells either vertically, horizontally, or diagonally, and so do cells with numbers 1 ...
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This new puzzle type needs a name {5}
I believe I have invented a new type of puzzle...
What is its name?
Colour-blind-friendly version available here.
Begin by solving the 9x9 sudoku; each of the 9 symbols ...
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Double Chocolate: Happy Valentine's Day!
Hikouki (@flight_float) over on Twitter issued a challenge to make a Double Chocolate logic puzzle with a fixed grid pattern, and lots of logic puzzle makers responded to that challenge! Here's my ...
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On The Subject of Battleships
(This is part of a series of puzzles written for Timwi for a Secret Santa puzzle exchange, themed around various custom modules for the game Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes. No KTaNE knowledge is ...
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This new puzzle type needs a name {4}
I believe I have invented a new type of puzzle...
What is its name?
Begin by solving the 16x16 sudoku; each of the digits 1-16 must appear exactly once in each row, column and thick-bordered 4x4 ...
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This Nonogram seems a bit… off
Hmm...... Did I miss something? The hidden word has six unique letters anyway......
Hint 1:
Hint 2:
Hint 3:
Addendum: There is a (very) minor fix to ensure the puzzle "uniquely solvable", adding 1-...
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Another Rook's Tour
Place numbers 1 to 100 in the cells of this 10 x 10 board in such a way that consecutive numbers, and also numbers 1 and 100, occupy neighboring cells (either vertically or horizontally). Prime ...
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On The Subject of X-Rays
(This is part of a series of puzzles written for Timwi for a Secret Santa puzzle exchange, themed around various custom modules for the game Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes. No KTaNE knowledge is ...
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A rook's tour of the chessboard
Place numbers 1 to 64 in the cells of this 8 x 8 board in such a way that consecutive numbers, and also numbers 1 and 64, occupy neighboring cells (either vertically or horizontally). Shaded cells ...
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3D Slitherlink (Slithersurface)
Here is a 5 x 5 x 5 cube filled with numbers.
It's a 3D adaption of standard slitherlink puzzles.
You must create a solid 3D object such that the number in each sub-cube matches the number of adjacent ...
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Prime number snake (2)
This question is inspired by prime number snake. In the following grid,
you have to place a number snake of numbers 1 to 100. Consecutive numbers have to go into neighboring cells.
Numbers in grey ...
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Prime Number Snake
Place numbers 1 to 100 in the cells of the 10 x 10 board below in such a way that consecutive numbers occupy neighboring cells (either horizontally or vertically). Shaded cells should contain only ...
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Their mistake or mine?
I've found Pepper's Puzzles to be a very nice introduction to picross puzzles, with a cute anime girl to boot. While I've steadily improved in my deductive powers and the logic inherent to nonograms, ...
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This new puzzle type needs a name {3}
I believe I have invented** a new type of puzzle...
What is its name?
** Well, 'adapted' an existing one, really...
Colour-blind-friendly version available here. Those without colour-blindness ...
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Compoundoku wants BIG
Rules of Compoundoku:
Solve both left and right Sudokus.
In addition, the board below them is the Compound Board of both Sudokus.
Each number on the Compound Board should tell either: (1) ...
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Introducing: Compoundoku!
Rules of Compoundoku:
Solve both left and right Sudokus.
In addition, the board below them is the Compound Board of both Sudokus.
Each number on the Compound Board should tell either: (1) ...
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What is the smallest number of lies needed to solve a Dragon Joust puzzle?
I recently watched this video which presents a deduction "riddle" about dragon jousting. The rules for the puzzle (from the video) are as follows:
After centuries of war, the world’s kingdoms have ...
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Latin-Square Adjacent Puzzles
Here are two $5 \times 5$ Latin-Square Adjacent puzzles. For each cell, put a digit between $1$ and $5$ such that:
Each row and column contains one occurrence of each digit $1$ to $5$.
If two cells ...
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Another new puzzle type needs a name
For an example of how this type of puzzle works, see here...
I believe I have invented another new type of puzzle...
What is its name?
Colour-blind-friendly version available here.
Begin by ...
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Help with a sudoku puzzle
I would really appreciate some help because I spent more than hours finding another number. It is supposed to be a very hard one but I started well and according to the key, my numbers are correct. Do ...
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Captain Pun's favourite animals
My good friend Captain Pun's party was a truly excellent event. His new boat - the venue - was a beautiful thing to behold, decorated throughout with nonograms in frames (as anybody who knows him ...
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All That Remains Sudoku
. 2 . | . 7 . | . . 9
. 9 8 | . . . | . . .
3 . . | 9 . . | . . .
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2 . 7 | . . . | . . .
. 1 5 | 7 . . | . . .
. . . | 1 5 8 | . ...
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Whirlwind of the Square Sudoku Table
. . . | . . . | . . .
6 . . | . . 1 | . 2 .
. . . | . . . | . . .
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. . 7 | . . . | . . .
. . . | . . . | . . .
. . . | . . . | . ...
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This new puzzle type needs a name
I believe I have invented a new type of puzzle...
What is its name?
Colour-blind-friendly version available here.
Begin by solving the 16x16 sudoku; each of the digits 1-16 must appear exactly ...
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Pensive Nonogram - Two-Colour Puzzle
Fourth two-colour puzzle in the 32nd issue of Mega Pixel Puzzles by Puzzler.. I’ve made some progress, but I am stuck. Can you help me find my next move in it? (The puzzle is below)
