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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Stuck on a minesweeper supposedly solvable through pure deduction
I'm playing minesweeper on a website that says you can win using pure deduction without guessing, and I am currently stuck in the top left corner of the map. It's a 30x16 grid with 170 mines and the ...
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Hokuro Puzzle: Introduction
This is an entry for Fortnightly Topic Challenge #44: Introduce a new grid deduction genre to the community.
This puzzle type is inspired by Kakuro, and it has similar rules.
Kakuro is short for '...
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Pentopia: One-way Crossing
This is an entry for Fortnightly Topic Challenge #44: Introduce a new grid deduction genre to the community.
Here is a standard Pentopia puzzle.
Rules of Pentopia:
Place some pentominoes into the ...
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Tetrikabe: Hiding in the Corners
This puzzle is dedicated to Sciborg. Copying the dear gentleperson, some of the 4s are hiding in the corners.
Rules: (Nurikabe section shamelessly stolen from an earlier puzzle by @jafe)
Numbered ...
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Palette: A Multicoloured Grid Deduction Puzzle
This is an entry for Fortnightly Topic Challenge #44: Introduce a new grid deduction genre to the community.
I've been dreaming up potential logic puzzles involving colours, and how they mix to form ...
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Dosun-Fuwari: an introduction
This is an entry for Fortnightly Topic Challenge #44: Introduce a new grid deduction genre to the community.
I'm pleased to introduce you to the Dosun-Fuwari puzzle. Rules to fill the grid (translated ...
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Office Park: A Grid Deduction Puzzle
This is an entry for Fortnightly Topic Challenge #44: Introduce a new grid deduction genre to the community
I had an idea for what I think is a new grid deduction puzzle which has some aspects of ...
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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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4 Talking Clams, and treasure
After going to the depths of the ocean, you have finally reached it: the ultimate treasure of the world. However, when you go inside the sacred treasure room, you are presented with the Four Clams. ...
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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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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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The blind one who sees all
A blind prisoner is offered a deal by a king. 3 monks will be sent to his cell over a period of three days,only one monk will be sent to the prisoner's cell on any day. The king may decide to send one ...
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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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Who dances what musical genre and with whom?
The puzzle is as follows:
4 couples attended a magazine opening celebration party. These couples
danced among themselves, all at the same time, to a disco suite, a pop
ballad, a jazz tune and a waltz....
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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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My two button microwave
Long ago, I encountered a microwave with a display in the "HH:MM:SS" format. But instead of a number pad, you entered the desired time through two buttons:
An "up" button, which ...
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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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The children of the sultan
An old challenge from an old Portuguese book I have:
Abdul Al-Kwaritz-Amuhmahd was a Arabic sultan who became very famous by the size of his harem and the number of children he had fathered. More so ...
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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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How do you deduce complete list of the five beers you can drink, in this LSAT question?
I don't know if this is a real LSAT question, or if the author made it up, but my head already aches from looking at it! Does it have a valid solution?
M Kimes. Ivy Briefs: True Tales of a Neurotic ...
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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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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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How do you find the sum of the digits contiguous to one which is situated in a three by three table?
The problem is as follows:
I am placing the numbers from 1 to 9 in the squares of a 3 x 3 board. I start by placing the numbers 1, 2, 3 and 4 as shown in the figure.
For the number 5, the sum of the ...
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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 ...
