Questions tagged [logical-deduction]
A puzzle that requires formal logical deduction to arrive at the solution. This suggests more than merely reasoning through clues to find an answer (you might want [situation] for that).
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Mario's Super Picross - Stage Mario 9-K
I'm playing through Mario's Super Picross currently and after nearly 200 puzzles this one finally has me stumped as to how it is intended to be solved. What is the next step to solving this?
Notes:
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Cartological Cats: A Snaky-Loop Grid Puzzle with Cat-Shaped Matchmaking Clues
This is written for calica for a Secret Santa puzzle exchange. The original version in a printable PDF format can be found here.
Dear calica,
Thank you so much for being an amazing person this year! ...
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How many coins did Raj get?
I found a bunch of coins: Quarters (25 cents), Dimes(10 cents) and Nickels(5 cents). The combined amount was a whole two digit number of dollars: that is, no fractional amount.
I divided the coins ...
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Prove the existence of a triangle such that all of its sides are of the same color [closed]
Seventeen points have been picked in a plane, and each pair of points has been connected by a line segment of one of three colors: red, yellow, or green. Prove that there are three points which are ...
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Is X-Sudoku easier to solve than classic Sudoku [closed]
X-Sudoku has extra rule for diagonals which give extra hints for diagonal cells. Does this implies that solving X-Sudoku puzzles are easier than classic Sudoku puzzles?
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Finding a Kakuro trick
The following screenshot is taken from the Android app Kakuro++ (level 9 riddle 12)
And I verified the current status within the app. I managed to solve the puzzle by guessing a 50/50-number and ...
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Need help with an ARG puzzle
I am attempting to solve a puzzle on angusnicneven.com It contains entering things into the url to move forward
https://angusnicneven.com/Terminal_230_psst I found a series of numbers on this page ...
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Snowcaps - A grid deduction puzzle
This winter-themed puzzle is basically an upside-down Aquarium, the idea being that instead of fish tanks being filled with water, the areas are mountains being covered with snow. The goal is to shade ...
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Missing rectangle
Of eight 2x4 rectangles, seven are shown below and one is missing. Which is the missing rectangle?
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PSE Advent Calendar 2021 (Day 24): The Witneys - Your Comfy Puzzles
This puzzle is part of the Puzzling StackExchange Advent Calendar 2021. The accepted answer to this question will be awarded a bounty worth 200 reputation.< Previous Door
Your great-grandmother ...
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PSE Advent Calendar 2021 (Day 20): Candy Cane Sudoku
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So I was ...
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PSE Advent Calendar 2021 (Day 19): Santa's Dilemma
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It was ...
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PSE Advent Calendar 2021 (Day 17): That's the way the cookie crumbles
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In our house,...
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Christmas tree LITSO
Inspired by PSE Advent Calendar 2021 (Day 13): A Christmas Hokuro, I challenged myself to create a Christmas tree-shaped puzzle. Unfortunately I had to edit the shape a little bit because... reasons. ...
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PSE Advent Calendar 2021 (Day 13): A Christmas Hokuro
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Hokuro is a ...
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Words created by permutations of a 7-letter word in a grid
Below is a 7x7 square grid. On the top row is a single word with seven letters. From the permutation of the letters of this word, one word has been created. Is it possible to create a solution with 15 ...
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Place digits from 1 to 7 into each row and each column of the grid once. Numbers in the circles give the product of the four surrounding digits
What is the way to resolve the following puzzle?
Link to source. It's from a taiwanese math olympiad held in 2005.
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The age of three ladies
Three ladies A, B and C have a discussion, where each lady says the truth twice and lies once.
A: B is two years older than me
B: C is 38 years old
C: A is older than me
B: The age difference between ...
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PSE Advent Calendar 2021 (Day 4): Decorating with Ingrid Deduction
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A rectangle cut into two pieces, which build a square
A rectangle with side length a and b are in ratio $a : b = (n+1)^2 : n^2$, where n is a
positive integer.
Is it possible to cut each such rectangle into two pieces, which
can be put together to build ...
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How many seats around the table?
This puzzle is very much inspired by a recent, excellent, one, posted here. If anyone, in particular the author of the other puzzle, prefers this one to disappear, I will immediately do so and I ...
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Find two integers based on their sum and a random number
Alice, Bob and Charlie play a game.
Alice writes down two positive integers on a blackboard visible to Bob and Charlie.
She says that one of them is of her own choice, the other number is the sum of ...
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10x10 Fillomino
Interactive solving website
For help/rules on solving, please look at the website's "help" section, which lists fillomino rules. Please use the website to solve the puzzle unless you are ...
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Colored trominoes touching corner-to-corner on a grid
Let's have an 8x8 GRID to be filled with L-trominoes of 3 different colors. 64 squares leave room for 21 trominoes, so there should be 7 trominoes of each color and one empty square. Trominoes of the ...
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How many consecutive integers to ensure one has digit sum divisible by 19?
How many consecutive positive integers are at least required, such that there is always a number in such a sequence whose sum of digits is divisible by 19?
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The Mermaids' Rooms
You have been tasked with assigning rooms to some mermaids who have visited the hotel. There are 9 mermaids:
One is bald and bare-skinned
One has a layer of fur
One has a thick bark on their back
One ...
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42 lines on a chessboard with associated numbers
The 64 squares of a chessboard can be associated with 42 lines as follows:
the 8 rows
the 8 columns
13 diagonals from north-west to south-east
13 diagonals from north-east to south-west
Those ...
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Pokemon battle puzzle: Chansey vs Wobbuffet
This is a 1v1 battle between two pokemons: Chansey vs Wobbuffet.
Your task is to analyze the battle and predict its outcome.
Information about the battle:
The battle takes place in Generation III.
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The Golden Age of Sudoku
Rules:
Each cell contains one of the following symbols: A23456789TJQK. No two cells in the same row or column have the same symbol.
The grid is divided into 11 square regions of different sizes. A ...
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Am I able to mark mines with the bottom row of 3's?
Am I able to use the bottom row of 3's to know what some of the squares around it are?
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Building equilateral triangles by reflecting tokens
Three tokens are placed at the vertices of an equilateral triangle with side length 1.
A move is to reflect a token at any other token. After several moves the tokens build again an equilateral ...
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Two people buying gingerbread and gluehwein in an efficient way [closed]
Bud and Terence visit a Christmas Market.
Bud checks his money and notes that he could buy 8 gingerbread and 1 gluehwein and is left with 70 ct and cannot buy anything further.
Terence checks his ...
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Handbag question
One day, you are shopping in a town. You came across a handbag you wanted to buy. The handbag costs ? coins. It is said that solving a logic question could earn you enough coins to buy the handbag.
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Fractional part of integers within a specific interval
Three positive integers $a,b,c$ have the property that $b > 2a$ and $c > 2b$.
Is it always possible to find a real number $r$, such that each fractional part of the numbers $r\cdot a$, $r\cdot b$...
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Minimum number of questions?
This is an interesting puzzle which I've been racking my brain to solve for some time. I've found different variations of this puzzle but it does not seem like this one has been asked before. Here it ...
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Evaluation of points in a contest
In a contest there are 10 questions asked, which have to be marked as true (T) or false (F).
You get 1 point for a correct answer and 0 points for a wrong answer.
Joe, Jack, William, and Averell are ...
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Very close to solve the sudoku puzzle but yet not solved
I found an X-Wing pattern using 1's on r29c48 and eliminated the 1's on r1c8, r3c8, r7c8, and r3c4. Lots of elimination but that was not helpful for me to crack it.
I think I am very close to solving ...
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Find the missing letter (Alphabet puzzle)
What letter replaces '?' in the stack? How do you arrive at it?
Source: CSIR NET December 2018 QP
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how much does my bag weigh [closed]
I have a bag of money and I've offered to give you the bag if you can estimate its weight closer to the true weight than I can. In order to help us, I bring out 2 scales, both of which are inaccurate, ...
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Is there anywhere else I can go without guessing randomly?
I’ve been looking at this board for a little while, and can’t seem to find any places to go where I don’t have to guess. Is guessing the only thing I can do here, or are there strategies that I’m ...
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How do I know where the bombs are?
I’m not sure how I would know, because in the top right corner, where there is a 2, 3, 2, going down, the bottom two needs to touch two mines and so does the top. But if I did the immediate right ...
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Is there any sudoku logic on 6's?
I find this sudoku puzzle very difficult. I think there is some logic on 6's.
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Three missing digits in 42 factorial
When calculating $42!=42\cdot41\cdot...\cdot2\cdot1$ the result is
$42! = 140500611775287989854x14260624y511569936384z00000000$
However three digits have been replaced by $x$, $y$, and $z$.
Can you ...
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Which sudoku logic should I apply here?
I was able to eliminate 1 in r8c1(in short selected cell) using Finn X wing using 1's on r17c15 and Finn is on r7c3. But it seems like that logic is not enough to make it to half way of this sudoku.
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Missing logic in sudoku puzzle
I got stuck in the given sudoku puzzle. I can't find any logic to put a number in the empty block. I am playing classic sudoku Android puzzle app.
Maybe it's a XY wing or empty rectangle or any other ...
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Positive integers as sum or difference of consecutive square numbers
Is it possible to represent each positive integer n in the form
$n=\pm1^2\pm2^2\pm3^2...\pm m^2$ ?
Examples:
$1=+1^2$
$2=-1^2-2^2-3^2+4^2$
$3=-1^2+2^2$
$4=-1^2-2^2+3^2$
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The mule, the donkey and the zebra
Let's have thirteen stalls, equidistantly spaced. In each stall is a trough which contains four liters of water. In the first stall is a mule, in the second is a donkey and in the eleventh is a zebra. ...
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The Tree is Growing
I just found this new type of puzzle and I think the rule set is fun! So, I decided to create one.
Rules (taken from the original puzzle):
Create non-intersecting non-looping trees such that the ...
