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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Heyacrazy: Careening
This is a Heyacrazy puzzle, designed at request of testsolvers of previous puzzles who wanted to see how longer diagonals would work.
Rules of Heyacrazy:
Shade some cells of the grid.
Shaded ...
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2answers
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Slitherlink Fillomino hybrid
This puzzle is a combination between a Slitherlink and a Fillomino.
You should put a number in each square and draw a single closed loop over the grid such that the following properties are satisfied:...
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2answers
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Earth rotation discrepancy
Some time ago, I discovered that planet earth's sidereal rotation period equals 23 hours, 56 minutes, and 4.1 seconds (see for example this Wikipedia article). The sidereal rotation is the rotation of ...
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2answers
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Heyacrazy: “LMI”
This is a Heyacrazy puzzle, originally constructed for a test for Logic Masters India.
Rules of Heyacrazy:
Shade some cells of the grid.
Shaded cells cannot be orthogonally adjacent; unshaded ...
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1answer
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Heyacrazy: Forks
This is a Heyacrazy puzzle.
Rules of Heyacrazy:
Shade some cells of the grid.
Shaded cells cannot be orthogonally adjacent; unshaded cells must be orthogonally connected.
When the puzzle is ...
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1answer
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Heyacrazy: Crosses
This is a Heyacrazy puzzle.
Heyacrazy is an original genre, inspired by the "two border" rule of Heyawake and Heyawacky.
Rules of Heyacrazy:
Shade some cells of the grid.
Shaded cells cannot ...
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Real Life Chaos Theory Puzzle [on hold]
I accidentally threw a red at my teammate during a Mario Kart Wii organized race, causing someone else to be banned from a MKW lounge for a week as a result. Try to figure out the missing steps.
If ...
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Heyawacky: Ace of Cups
This is a Heyawacky puzzle. The rules are the same as Heyawake, but non-rectangular regions are allowed.
Rules of Heyawake:
Shade some cells of the grid.
Shaded cells cannot be orthogonally ...
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0answers
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Dodgy Dies: The Puzzling Premiere
Inspired by the "Treasure Hunter Monolith" minigame from Danganronpa V3
Dodgy Dies Guide
Terminology
Block - a single die on the grid.
Cycle - a list of blocks
Value - the ...
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Heyawake: An Introductory Puzzle
This is a Heyawake ("divided rooms") puzzle.
Rules of Heyawake:
Shade some cells of the grid.
Shaded cells cannot be orthogonally adjacent; unshaded cells must be orthogonally connected.
...
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votes
1answer
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Missing Number in a Seven Segment Circle
What number should replace the question mark?
Please be helpful. If you have the answer, please reply to this post with the explanation and answer. If you don't have the answer, then don't comment. ...
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A riddle from Candy Cadet [closed]
I am Candy Cadet, come get your candy here. I have candy all day, everyday. Candy. Candy. Candy.
Now I will tell you a story about a young woman who was sealed in a small room. In the room was a ...
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Seed is to sprout as [closed]
I came across this question and couldn’t find an answer to it. The question goes like so:
Seed is to sprout as
A. Plant is to grow
B. Garden is to weed
C. Dawn is to morning
D. Teenager is to ...
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1answer
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Statue Park: Apollo 11
This is a Statue Park puzzle, made in honor of the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 mission.
Rules of Statue Park:
Shade some cells of the grid to form the given set of pieces. Pieces may be ...
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2answers
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The grades of the students in a class
You are a new Math 102 professor in a university class of 88 students and would like to learn their grades from previous semester to know your students better and put a note of it to get an idea how ...
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Help me, I hate squares!
There is $5$x$5$ equidistance matrix dot given as below;
You need to remove dots from the figure where it will be impossible to form a square by drawing lines between dots at the end.
So what is ...
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5answers
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Violations of the law
I live in A but work at B. The two are 45 minutes apart and I could commute back and forth either by driving or by taking the bus. Every day, before going from A to B in the morning and before going ...
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1answer
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Yajisan-Kazusan: Diagonal Arrows
This is a Yajisan-Kazusan puzzle.
Rules of Yajisan-Kazusan:
Several numbered arrows are given in the grid. Shade some cells so that:
no two shaded cells are adjacent
unshaded cells form ...
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3answers
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Black to play and win (Teeko)
$$\def\S#1{\phantom{\Space{18px}{22px}{0px}}\llap{#1}}
\begin{array}{|c|c|c|c|c|}\hline
\S{}&\S{}&\S{}&\S{}&\S{}\\\hline
\S{}&&&&\\\hline
\S{}&&X&O&X\\\...
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1answer
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Masyu-making game
Two players are playing a game on a $4\times4$ board. The players take turns adding either a white circle or a black circle into any empty square, so that the board makes a solvable masyu puzzle (with ...
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2answers
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5 Precommitting Pirates Puzzle
Another variant of the Pirate Puzzle, inspired by this variant and a bit more complex.
Scenario:
Five pirates of different ages obtain 100 gold pieces in total, and want to decide how to split them.
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we are five we have three thousand four hundred fifty who are we? [closed]
we are five we three thousand four hundred fifty, who are we ?. Its a riddle like question but stranded with getting the answer for this question , am very sure the answer will make me slap my head ...
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3D Nonogram - Spinoff of the Reboot
This puzzle is inspired by recent 3D nonogram puzzles by Jafe and Omega Krypton. Check those out if you want, but they are not required to understand this puzzle.
This 3D nonogram has clues with two ...
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1answer
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5 Negotiating Pirates Puzzle
5 pirates of different ages have a treasure of 100 gold coins.
On their ship, they decide to split the coins using this scheme:
The oldest pirate proposes how to share the coins, and ALL pirates (...
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2answers
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Nono-cube - Ultimate Puzzle Giant
Prologue - Instructions
Shamelessly copied and pasted the following from @jafe's puzzle :P
This is a three-dimensional nonogram. The first square gives the enumerations for the Z-axis, top to ...
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Minimize sum of guesses to win lottery
Ten boxes are given with $a_1,a_2,a_3,a_4,a_5 ......a_{10}$ number of balls in them respectively .These boxes are randomly ordered but $a_1,a_2 .....a_{10}$ is told.We can arbitrary select a box and ...
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0answers
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1answer
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The chariot race
In a chariot race only 4 cars came to the finish: the blue, the green, the red and the white one.
Titus, who is in bed with a cold, inquires to Quintus about the outcome of the race, because he ...
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1answer
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Oops! Mixed up Multiplication - Needs to be Fixed
$Given$:
$U$, $V$, $C$ are distinct digits, varying from 1 to 9.
$U$ > $V$ > $C$
$UVC$, $VCU$, $CUV$ are concatenated Numbers
$(UVC)*(VCU)*(CUV)$ = $234235286$
The digits on the right hand side ...
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1answer
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pattern recognition riddle
does anybody see in this pattern recognition riddle a reasonable solution?
source: https://www.physicsforums.com/threads/visual-pattern-recognition-test.921583/
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1answer
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The three greedy pirates
Her eyes lit up as the pirates Sparrow, Barbossa and Turner opened the treasure chest and saw the mountain gold coins.
After pirate's tradition, Sparrow first took a coin, then Barbossa two, ...
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The joke office
Alice and Bob are supposed to get form A at the joke office.
Forms A, B, C, D and E are each at exactly one of the following five terminals. At one Terminal is only one form.
Terminal 1:
Here ...
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IX-NAY on the IX-SAY
Will this sequence ever have a 6 in it?
9, 1, 1, 1, 10, 3, 1, 1, 10, 5, 1, 1, 10, 1, 5, 2, 1, 1, 10, 1, 1, 1, 5, 4, 1, 1, 10, 3, 1, 1, 5, 1, 1, 1, 5, 2, 1, 1, 10, 5, 1, 1, 5, 3, 1, 1, 5, 4, 1, ...
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1answer
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What is the Last Digit in the Result of the given Expression? [closed]
$Given$:
$ASC$ is a concatenated number with distinct digits.
$S$ is square of $A$, $C$ is cube of $A$
Deduce the last digit of the following Expression through Deductive Reasoning only:
$$\begin{...
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Pan Digital Split among Two Powers
$Given$:
$AB$, $DBCE$,$AGFPQR$ are three concatenated numbers with all distinct digits varying from zero to nine.
$AB^C$ = $DBCE$
$AB^F$ = $AGFPQR$
Deduce all the digits through logical reasoning ...
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IQ test question help [duplicate]
Can you help me with the solution of the matrix? It has been asked before here 2 but a valid and well explained answer was not provided.
Source without answer: here
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Red and White Squares
There are two grid boards with the dimension of 9x9 and 14x14, consist of all white squares. You are supposed to color some squares with a red color on the conditions below:
In a board, if two square ...
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Fibonacci again..Distinct Digits..Detail all your Deductive Steps [closed]
$ABB$
$CDE$
$GFB$
$DPGB$
$QPFR$
$RDFD$
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Explain how 'Sharing the burden' puzzle from Professor Layton and the Miracle Mask should be solved
Two porters have to carry six pieces of luggage of unknown weight. Each piece weighs a different amount, and they are labeled in order of weight from A to F, with A being the lightest and F the ...
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1answer
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Deduce Distinct Digits of the Given Fibonacci Sequence- Detail all Steps
$DEPUS$
$SRST$
$UDQD$
$CTQU$
$DTPR$
$PQR$
$SDE$
$VRR$
$CVV$
$DUU$
$QP$
$TT$
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1answer
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Valiant Knight is back..but he is in grave danger from the Evil Queen
King has placed a bounty on Valiant Knight and enlisted his evil queen’s help.
Queen knows knight’s regular stops of his journey and knows he goes through all odd prime cells.
She strategically ...
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1answer
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How do you make Prime “COMPUTERS”?
$Given$:
$COMPUTERS$ is the smallest Pan Digital containing all the digits 1 to 9 occurring only once.
$COMPUTERSV$ is a Prime only when one of the correct digit ($V$)is added at the end.
Also,
$...
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The alcoholic village festival
The villages Arriba and Abajo together have 2019 inhabitants.
At the annual festival are
more than 2000 villagers this year.
When they form a huge circle for dancing, everyone calls
happy: ...
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Listen to my Story…Let us find the Unique Invisible Pan Digital Pair
I was an avid reader of Popular Science magazine. In the last page or so, they usually had visual clues without words to make useful stuff.
I always wanted to create a mathematical puzzle like that ...
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All Aboard..Hop onto the Power Train to reach Destination Unity
Your goal is to reach the destination unity.
starting from $3462$ with three intermediate stops.
You are allowed to use only 2 mathematical operations..multiplication and Exponentiation.
All the ...
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Robots in a spaceship
Xerxes has 6, 7 and 8-arm robots in his spaceship. Unfortunately, the 7-arm robots are misprogrammed and everything they say is a lie. The other robots are fine, they always speak the truth.
Once ...
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Simple logic puzzle
We think of an island inhabited by rogues and knights.
Rogues are always lying,
knights always speak the truth.
One day 12 islanders come together
among which is at least one knight and at ...
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1answer
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Primes from the Pan Digital
Pan Digital Number is the smallest with all the digits 1 to 9 with no repeats.
When looking forwards or backwards, eleven Primes can be extracted from that number preserving the same sequence.
Among ...
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When is the truth spoken?
A thief speaks truth two days a week alternatively ( T F T ). The days are the same for each week. The thief gives these statements on 3 consecutive days :
D1 : I lie on Monday and Tuesday.
D2 : It'...
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1answer
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The strange forest
In the forest of change there are strange creatures:
17 puzzs, 55 lings and 6 stacs.
If one species meets the other, then they become the third.
For example: If a puzz meets a stac, then they ...
