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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Honeycomb puzzle with hexagons
Can you place the numbers 1 through 9 in the honeycomb so that the sum of the numbers in the adjacent hexagons is a multiple of the number in the hexagons? This must be true in all hexagons.
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Pick cards from a table
2022 cards are arranged on the table in front of us. Each card shows a number that we can see.
For each of the numbers from 1 to 2022 inclusive, there is exactly one card that depicts it. We have the ...
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Is it Ελλάδα or is it Geometry
Here’s the riddle:
If taled is a triangle, ip looks like a table, and ix is ( I ) sideways, what is amoge?
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Feeding Time at the Zoo - It's Common Sense!
Azeez the Assistant Zookeeper shook his head - "I'll never remember this"
"Nonsense!" snorted Jeff. "It's common sense... no two animals eat exactly the same meals and for ...
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A barrel contains 10l of whiskey, another one contains 10l of coca-cola. If I do the following operation [duplicate]
A barrel contains 10l of whiskey, another one contains 10l of coca-cola. If I do the following operation in two steps:
1 step) with a glass I transfer 200ml of whiskey from the first barrel to the ...
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What size square grid can you tile?
A tiling of an n × n square grid is formed using 4 × 1 tiles. What are
the possible values of n?
A tiling has no gaps or overlaps, and no tile goes outside the region being tiled.
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Show there is always a pair at least 16 apart
The integers 1 to 4 are positioned in a 6 by 6 square grid as shown
and cannot be moved.
The integers 5 to 36 are now placed in the 32 empty squares. Prove
that no matter how this is done, the ...
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Letters in a Circle [closed]
Bob drew 6 letters into a circle. A, B, C, D, E, F. I don't have a graphic, but imagine those letters into a circle, with A at the top. Bob goes clockwise through the circle, writing every third ...
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Can I park here?
Help! I visit my mom tomorrow (Tuesday). This parking spot is right across from her house. But when the heck can I and can't I park there??
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8x8 Grid with no parallels
In the 8x8 grid graph shown below;
you can put points to the edge of grid as shown below (blue dots).
The example above has 4 points and you construct a line between two points as shown below;
so ...
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How to solve this Pentomino puzzle?
The following Pentomino board has exactly one solution:
The solution is known:
I'm trying to solve this board manually, but it is so difficult that I came to believe it is impossible.
I noticed ...
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Problem XXX (Squared) - Number Stile
Happy weekend folks,
The intersections of the three circles divide their interiors into seven "regions"
By complete non-coincidence, we have seven tiles
A "valid" placement is one ...
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You are left on a deserted island with 15 trolls
You are left on a deserted island with 15 trolls and you must identify who is who to leave.
A tells the truth (truthful)
B lies (liar)
C always says yes (yes taker)
D always says no (no taker)
E says ...
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Quite the Namesake
Me and a friend of mine named O were once trapped in a room with a
shapeshifter (long story). I had a gun (even longer story), which was
good because me and O needed to kill the shapeshifter (possibly ...
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Rong-rong (ring-ring variation)
I was thinking about ring-ring puzzle. Suddenly, the 'word' rong-rong came to my mind and made me laugh for no reason. So, I'm messing around with ring-ring rules that fit the rong-rong 'word'.
Rules:...
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N prisoners locked in cells
N prisoners are locked in N separate cells, numbered 1 to N. The warden visits each cell in order with a bowl. Each prisoner can decide whether to put a single coin in the bowl, depending on its ...
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Nights at the Round Table
And there you are, the famous Round Table, seeing it in all its glory makes you smile, even though you thought it was a lot bigger. Well, no matter, as soon as you arrive, you find a parchment on the ...
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Find the arrangement around the octagon
8 people (call them A, B, C, D, E, F, G, and H) are standing on the vertices
of the colored octagon below, looking toward the center.
E has at least one foot on a secondary color.
G is directly ...
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Attempt to turn all the switches on or off [duplicate]
Here is the puzzle for you. There are four boxes in front of you arranged in a circle. Inside each box is a switch that is on or off. You cannot see inside the boxes. Each turn you stick your hands ...
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Bunk-bed Brothers
When we were boys, our mother, because of a shortage of living space, built for me and my five brothers -- Nortie, Matthias, Jack, Kenneth, and Lloyd -- a big, beautiful, sextuple-decker bunk bed.
I ...
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Next step in this Slitherlink puzzle?
I am playing this Slitherlink app on Android, and get stuck on this puzzle at the following state:
I made a lot of progress on the right side, but after this I couldn't find anything that I can do, ...
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Prove that we cannot arrange the cards according to the given rules [duplicate]
There are ten pairs of cards with the numbers 0, 0, 1, 1...
8, 8, 9, 9 written on them. Prove that they cannot be laid in a row so that there are exactly n cards between any two cards with equal ...
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A streamer's diet
I'm in dire need of help.
I've been hired to take care of a certain streamer during a charity event, but the instructions they gave me for meals and games are just, way too confusing!
This one ...
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A Simple Loop with A Poetry?
Who is he really?
Please answer this question of mine
Starting from the top-leftmost white cell and then
You are still going clockwise by
Taking the letters where you are turning left but
Not, once ...
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How to solve this North and South Sitting arrangement puzzle?
10 friends A,B,C,D,E,F,G,H,I,J are sitting in a row. Some of them are facing north while others are facing south. Not more than 2 persons facing the same direction sit together. They all have their ...
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Is the "rocket" pattern inversible?
The rocket pattern in slitherlink is when a 3 sees a 1 in a diagonal, with two crosses (the exhaust) on the opposite side.
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Thieves for questioning
The police got three thieves when they tried to rob a bank. But the officer wants to give them a chance to get free, so he asks them who is the main brain behind the robbery. The thieves were puzzle ...
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Probability that truth is spoken on Thursdays
A man speaks the truth on only two days a week. The days are the same for each week and they are in the TFT form (TFT = True False True. This means that the days on which he speaks the truth are ...
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How to prove Yin-Yang alternating 2 by 2 is not allowed
Yin-Yang is a puzzle where one needs to fill each cells with either black circle or white circle following these rules:
Each color's circles must be connected to one another according to four-way ...
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The Wrong Products
Rules:
Place each number from 1 to 12 exactly once such that every row and column contains exactly two numbers.
Clues outside the grid show the product of the two numbers in that row/column. However, ...
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Can every Sudoku puzzle be solved without brute force? [duplicate]
So I wrote up an algorithm for generating Sudoku boards, and it generated the following board:
I was trying to solve it on my own and got stuck, which prompted me to try putting it in this website. ...
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Two secret numbers [duplicate]
I have two identical pieces of paper. On each piece of paper I write down a number, either 1 or 2. I do not show or tell the numbers to anyone. My writing is always the same - if I write the same ...
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Summa Cum Laude - Tile and Error
For any set X, {X} denotes the sum of its elements. "I divide {A}" means all items in that set are divisors of the sum of A's elements.
Arrange the tiles so that four are in each set and the ...
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Puzzle 1.3 from Montague island mysteries
I'm on puzzle 1.3 "The Missing Painting" in the book Montague island mysteries
I'm really struggling to understand the part in Taylor's instructions that says
Keep in mind that a ...
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What is the next move on this minesweeper board?
Here is the board
I found an online minesweeper solver which can deduce what the next move is, so I know what the next move is and that it is logically obtainable. But it doesn't offer much help in ...
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SNES Super Picross - Mario SP-I
Currently stuck on Super Picross and looking for a hint for the next logical deduction on Mario stage SP-I.
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Mega Circles And Squares
Since recently Athin showed Circles And Squares, a genre which I invented and am very proud of, I thought "Hey, why not give another one!" But this time, I'm sharing one that I made for both ...
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Planar Investigator
Use logical deduction to place a different digit from 1 to 9 in each circle below so that 8 of the arrows form the primes 23, 31, 41, 53, 59, 79, 89, and 97. (We view an arrow starting at digit A and ...
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Circles and Squares - A Grid Puzzle
This relatively new grid puzzle genre is invented by Anonymus25.
Rules of Circles and Squares:
Shade some cells so that all shaded cells form one orthogonally connected area and each orthogonally ...
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What time is it? (High School Logic Question)
You need to find out what time it is.
The logic question allegedly asked of middle school children in Russia.
I think the question has more than one answer. So to clear my confusion, I will ask you to ...
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Ernie and the Disguised Donors
I was spending the morning helping Ernie dig up the potato patch when he got an emergency phone call from the Society for Absent-Minded Mathematics Professors – it appeared that they had “A bit of a ...
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Dark Ring III - The Combo City™
So uhm, it's a bit embarrassing, but I've spilled some coffee on my brand new Dark Ring III combo manual (Thank you all lots for the previous games!). I've been loving the game, I even bought it brand ...
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A mysterious letter in the mail
The other day I got a letter in the mail....
It was a weird one, one that obviously boasts a puzzle.
The Letter
It states the following
I like pigs, don't you? Won't you come and see the piggies with ...
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Dark Ring II - Scholar of the First Combo™
I need your help again people! After finishing Dark Ring I, thanks to you all, I went and bought the second game in the series. It's a lot more complicated, but I also learned a lot more from the ...
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Dark Ring I - Prepare to Combo Edition™
My friend showed me a game recently, it's a little indie game called Dark Ring I, it's honestly pretty good and... I should get to the matter at hand. I'm reaching the final boss, and I tried looking ...
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23 people wearing hats with a bell ringing [closed]
24 extremely intelligent people get invited to a really important party. Since it's really important after 9pm (the start time of the party) a guardian will guard the door to enter the party.
All of ...
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"The Batman" puzzle: rataalada.com
I just saw the movie and went home to check whether the website www.rataalada.com actually exists or not, and surprisingly, it does! Judging by the news articles I found while searching, it's been ...
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Identify someone as a truth-teller, liar or toggler with one yes/no question
You are visiting an island and need some information. The island has liars, truth-tellers, and togglers. Critically, togglers alternate truths and lies in their answers. When you meet someone, how can ...
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