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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A Difficult Wacky Sudoku - SS#8
An entry in Fortnightly Topic Challenge #47: "Wacky Sudokus"
Other puzzles in this series
Welcome to the eighth puzzle in this series! For more information about the series, see the first ...
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1answer
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A Scrumptious Sudoku Sandwich - SS#7
An entry in Fortnightly Topic Challenge #47: "Wacky Sudokus"
Other puzzles in this series
Welcome to the seventh puzzle in this series! For more information about the series, see the first ...
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1answer
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Sudoku… with 10 digits? SS#6
An entry in Fortnightly Topic Challenge #47: "Wacky Sudokus"
Other puzzles in this series
Welcome to the sixth puzzle in this series! For more information about the series, see the first ...
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1answer
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Compoundoku wants REALLY BIG and WACKY!
This is an entry for Fortnightly Topic Challenge #47: Wacky Sudokus.
Rules of Compoundoku:
Solve both left and right Sudokus.
In addition, the board below them is the Compound Board of both Sudokus.
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1answer
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Nurikabe: The Twisty Corridors
This puzzle is a Nurikabe. It is a little tougher than my previous one, which was designed for newer solvers, and it has a particularly squiggly solution that I found pleasing enough to post - hence ...
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1answer
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A Mosaic Sudoku - SS#5
An entry in Fortnightly Topic Challenge #47: "Wacky Sudokus"
Other puzzles in this series
Welcome to the fifth puzzle in this series! For more information about the series, see the first ...
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1answer
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Stop BorgBot before it's too late!
There was a deafening metallic thunk as the rogue AI locked the door of the PuzzlingCorp server room, trapping the engineers inside. A countdown appeared on the computer screen... and began counting ...
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1answer
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Consecutive integers with digit sum divisible by 19
What is the smallest positive integer N, such that the digit sum of N and N+1 are both divisible by 19?
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1answer
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Sudoku + Nurikabe = Sudokabe
The following Sudoku has a nice little twist: after solving, use the numbers in the green squares as a basis for a Nurikabe puzzle. You can create a new grid for the Nurikabe (a 9x9 grid with the ...
13
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1answer
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This is an Odd Sudoku - SS#4
An entry in Fortnightly Topic Challenge #47: "Wacky Sudokus"
Other puzzles in this series
Welcome to the fourth puzzle in this series! For more information about the series, see the first ...
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1answer
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Greener Grasses: Nusi's Birthday
Here is another Greener Grasses puzzle.
Also, happy happy birthday to my fellow Indonesian puzzler, Nusi! I'm sorry that I realize the puzzle was broken in the last-minute checking so a single letter ...
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2answers
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How many children wear a yellow t-shirt?
The puzzle is as follows:
In a certain kindergarten there are 23 children. Some of them wear a
green t-shirt, others a yellow t-shirt and others blue t-shirt. A tv
reporter who was on the site doing ...
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1answer
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Shattered Webs - SS#3
An entry in Fortnightly Topic Challenge #47: "Wacky Sudokus"
Other puzzles in this series
Welcome to the third puzzle in this series! For more information about the series, see the first ...
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2answers
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1, 2, 3… Trinary!!! (SS#2)
An entry in Fortnightly Topic Challenge #47: "Wacky Sudokus"
Other puzzles in this series
Welcome to the second puzzle in this suduko series! For more information about the series, see the ...
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0answers
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Stupendous Sponge
General Notes
This puzzle takes the form a 9×9×9 level-one Menger sponge
whose surface is divided into 648 1×1 cells. The aim is to draw
a single non-crossing loop along its surface by connecting the
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How many children have two colored flags?
The puzzle is as follows:
A classroom in kindergarten has 35 children. Each of them carry a
flag of one, two or three colors. The number of only two-colored flags
is double that of the monochrome ...
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1answer
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The Blind Killer - a new series! SS#1
An entry in Fortnightly Topic Challenge #47: "Wacky Sudokus"
Other puzzles in this series
Welcome to a new sudoku series! This series will run for the duration of the current Fortnightly ...
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1answer
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How do you find the average score in an archery competition?
The problem is as follows:
In an archery contest the television host says the following:
The scores in this round of competition are from 0 to 20. Charles has
2 points less than Marina. Lewis has 2 ...
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2answers
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How old is Brenda?
Five friends (Adele, Brenda, Carol, Dana and Emily) were born peculiarly
in consecutive years.
It is known from their diaries that:
Carol was born 2 years before Dana and is not the oldest of them all....
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100 boxes, only 50 attempts [duplicate]
There are 100 boxes in the room. In every box there is a note with some number from 1 to 100 (no repetitions).Person A comes into the room and checks all the boxes and notes inside them. He can (doesn'...
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1answer
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2021 Unpainted Masyu
Paint some white circles to black such that the Masyu will be uniquely solvable and:
Exactly 2 of 11 white circles on the left forming '2' should be painted black.
Exactly 0 of 12 white circles on ...
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1answer
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Landings and stairs [closed]
Let's have two views of landings and stairs. We obtain the second VIEW B, by rotating the VIEW A 180 degrees clockwise. The distance between two landings is 8 feet, shown by the arrows. The stairs are ...
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1answer
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Shikakui Hebi: Similarities
Introduction puzzle: here
So, my first Shikakui Hebi puzzle didn't go well, so I'm trying again! Only this time, no more arrows. Instead, it's now a nonogram-like!
This is a Shikakui Hebi puzzle. ...
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1answer
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Sashi Park: an introduction
This is a Sashigane-Statue Park hybrid. The rules might look complicated, but they're just the two rulesets smushed together. Familiarity with both genres will help.
Rules
Statue Park (adapted from ...
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1answer
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Books on a bookshelf
On a shelf the blue book is to the right of the red book, the yellow book is in
one end, the black book is just before the white and the green is
between blue and white. What is the order of the green ...
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1answer
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Password with capital letters
John created a password for a social network, thinking he could forget it, he left the information below in his agenda:
None of the syllables is in the word JUCOMAGO:
Two syllables are in the word ...
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2answers
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Nine neighbors in a hotel
Alessandra, Marta, Cristiane, Camila, Eduardo, Janice, Giulia, Mateus and Lucas are neighbors who live in a hotel.
On each floor there are three bedrooms: one on the left, one in the center and one ...
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1answer
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Tetrikabe: Parallelogram
Rules: (Nurikabe section shamelessly stolen from an earlier puzzle by @jafe)
Numbered cells are unshaded.
Unshaded cells are divided into regions, all of which contain exactly one number. The number ...
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0answers
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Hundred prisoners [duplicate]
I got a puzzle that I can't figure out.
A hundred prisoners are waiting to be executed. The warden comes to them with an offer. He will give each one of them a secret number, from 1 to 100, not all ...
5
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2answers
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A square in the plane with 4 vertices of the same color
Every point in the plane is colored either red or blue. Is it necessarily the case (i.e., is it true for all such colorings) that there exist some four points of the same color that are the vertices ...
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1answer
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Nurikabe: A Gentle Walk in the Hall of Giants
This puzzle is a Nurikabe that is designed to be a gentle introduction to the genre, with a learning curve of progressively harder deductions. It is encouraged for first-time solvers and those who ...
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3answers
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Who took Gwen's purse and jacket?
The puzzle is as follows:
Four sisters went to the movie theater. While leaving the venue each
one of them took by mistake the purse of another sister and the coat
of another different sister. Maria ...
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1answer
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Ohh, NSA Again? #2
This puzzle is the second part of story Ohh, NSA again?. Hope like this story. Here it is:
John got the target, it was Stack. Problem is, it can be Stack Overflow or Stack Exchange.
Another problem ...
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1answer
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Three doors, three locks [closed]
Can you help me with this puzzle?
A person is trapped in a room that has 3 locked doors and there are three colored keys: red, yellow, and green. He was provided the following information:
Each of ...
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1answer
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Einstein's Puzzle with 5 furniture customers
Einstein had made quite a good zebra puzzle tough enough to confuse many people's brains. Today I present even tougher one, will you be able to solve it?
There are 5 customers, who bought a different ...
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Shikakui Hebi: Introduction
Shikakui Hebi is a new grid deduction puzzle I invented. It translates from Japanese which means "Square Snake". It quite sounds like Slitherlink, but trust me, it isn't.
Rules of Shikakui ...
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Kyudoku :- Merry Christmas?
Previous Puzzle:- Kyudoku :- Introduction
There will be numbers in a grid. You just have to circle nine unique numbers (1 to 9) such that each row and column has sum of 9 or less. In some puzzles, one ...
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1answer
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Cheesemonger's puzzle
An entry in Fortnightly Topic Challenge #45: Flags
The cheesemonger wants to arrange the wheels of cheese on display. The display case has two shelves with space for three wheels of cheese on each. He ...
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2answers
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Kyudoku :- Introduction
This is a Kyudoku Puzzle. I have made the rules myself.
There will be numbers in a grid. You just have to circle nine unique numbers (1 to 9) such that each row and column has sum of 9 or less. In ...
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1answer
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An Artistic Bunch
Luke, Clive, Anton and Paul are four talented creative artists, one a dancer, one a painter, one a singer, and one a writer. (Though not necessarily respectively.)
Luke and Anton were in the audience ...
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1answer
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Embassy Park - A Grid Deduction Puzzle
An entry in Fortnightly Topic Challenge #45: Flags
This grid deduction puzzle is a variation on the OP's previous Office Park puzzle. You are given a set of seven buildings, which are tetracubes, 3-...
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2answers
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Sounds beautiful, doesn't it
So I found this puzzle from an old book of mine with very little instructions. I can't seem to remember the right approach to the solution BUT I do remember the final answer, which is 8 letters only.
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1answer
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Easy As LITS: Lots of “S”s
This is an Easy as LITS puzzle (LITS variation), where you shade cells to form tetrominoes
Rules taken from Grandmaster Puzzles:
Shade exactly four connected cells in each outlined region, to form an ...
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1answer
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1answer
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Did you go inside, or…?
The following underscores represent the letters in a sentence. There are extra spaces between some, indicating a word delimiter. Punctuation is included in the sentence.
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2answers
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A sudoku that's already filled in for you
The usual rules of sudoku apply: each row and column must have one of each digit; plus, if you divide the whole nine-by-nine grid into nine three-by-three subgrids, then each subgrid has one of each ...
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1answer
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Hokuro Puzzle 10x10
After introducing this new puzzle type, here is a slightly more challenging Hokuro puzzle.
Hokuro is a grid deduction puzzle inspired by Kakuro with the following rules:
Each cell contains one of the ...
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1answer
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A flag-packing problem
An entry in Fortnightly Topic Challenge #45: Flags
You are provided with a 9x9 grid of squares and 21 minimalistic flags (pictured below, all shown to scale).
TASK: Assign a colour (Black, Blue, ...
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1answer
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Sashigane: 5 arrows + 1 six
This is a Sashigane puzzle, where you divide the grid into L shapes.
Rules taken from Nikoli:
Divide the grid into L shaped blocks - one block wide. All blocks must be L shaped.
Cells with open ...
