Questions tagged [network]
A puzzle which involves networks. Often, such puzzles are closely connected to mathematical graph-theory.
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Correct Pass - Hired!
It seems that I got offered a new (redacted text), so this is likely to be the last entry of my journal. My job will be (redacted text)!
The main building is just like the others. On my first day, I ...
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Correct Pass Required - Training Day
I was sent a purple pass, date and venue (after my previous super secret meeting at 'No-Such-Agency'). What a day.
At Reception I presented the purple pass they sent me onto Processing, but I needed a ...
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Correct pass required
I was sent to a training centre, for a super secret meeting at 'No-Such-Agency', and arrived in Reception with the orange pass only to be told I must first visit Clearance with the brown pass, and ...
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Get your correct clearance pass!
I was invited to some super secret meeting at the CIA, and got to the room with the wrong pass.
This shouldn't be too hard - but it's only fun if you feel like a Kafka-esque journey!
If the rules aren'...
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I Hate Traffic And So Do You
I need to travel through the city from my house to school, but the traffic is horrible right now.
I can only move along the city's grid with the following conditions:
• blocks with traffic (marked in ...
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Labyrinth of Teleporters
You find yourself in an empty room, with a few distinctly numbered elevated platforms on the floor; your only possession is a pebble that can easily be picked up and placed down. You step on one of ...
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Maze: Emoji Portals 3: Konchog's RE-Revenge
This puzzle is now revised, fixed, checked, and double-checked.
It is also the last (certainly for the time being) of this class of emoji-portal 'classic' mazes.
Portals are always in adjacent levels ...
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Maze: Emoji Portals 2: Konchog's revenge
Your Mission: get from START to EXIT.
There is only one route.
All portals, cells, and corridors are visited maximum once.
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Maze: Emoji Portals
This is a more classic style of maze that I've been working on.
Each emoji is twinned on the subsequent level, and appears in the same co-ordinate on that level.
Your Mission: get from START to EXIT.
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Maze: Pentagonal Florets
Start at C, and visit all the letters! No road is travelled twice, but some nodes might be (though, none which are labelled). Special prizes for low score routes!
This is going for fun rather than ...
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Maze Hex Loops and Traps 2: Progressive
Start at 1 (bottom left), and visit all the numbers in order, finishing at 9 (top right).
Give yourself a special prize if use 257 steps or less!
I'm still working on all methods... There's some more ...
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Maze Hex Loops and Traps
The image should be self-evident..
Start at the blob pointed to by the green arrow.
Finish at the blob at the base of the orange arrow.
And you can only go one way (in the direction of the arrow!) ...
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4-DominoBrane #002 "81"
Here is another domino puzzle.
This is considerably easier than puzzle set earlier this week, and definitely doesn’t need bifurcation.
This uses 4-Dominoes (all the normal dominoes, minus any with a 5 ...
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4-DominoBrane Exclusive
Here is a smaller puzzle from the set of domino puzzles, I call DominoBrane.
This uses 4-Dominoes (all the normal dominoes, minus any with a 5 or a 6).
Each domino ...
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How many different Paths exist in this journey?
Rules:
1. Start from point A reach back to point A.
2. Each path needs to be visited at least once and only once in each journey.
3. never turning off at crossroads.
to make it more understandable ...
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The town of Concentric
Here you see a water map of the town of Concentric. There are eight channels that run from the central boathouse of the city in a star shape.
There are three canals that lie concentric around the ...
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Circuit Diagram
An entry to Fortnightly Topic Challenge #35: Restricted Title 1 - based on the following xkcd.
Circuit diagrams can be quite difficult to understand, so here are some documents that will hopefully ...
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How many nodes in the network?
I don't actually have a solution in mind for these, but it seemed puzzly enough to bring to the table. Seems as though someone must have come up with this before, but if so, I couldn't find it when I ...
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Transport Networks - An Introduction
This is a new type of puzzle and I don't know yet, whether or not they are fun to solve. So what better to do with them, than throw them at the best puzzlers out there and see what happens? Feedback ...
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Missing, 'till the very end
You wake up in a stark corridor, with a fully illuminated ceiling, black walls and large square white tiles the width of the corridor tiling the floor. Looking around, you notice a small piece of ...
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Meeting a friend
A friend of mine has recently sent me a couple of strange post cards from his recent traveling, and I can honestly not make head or tail of it. I would really like to meet up with him in person, ...
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Help the prisoners
Given a 5×5×5 cube of identical cubical cells (total 125 cells). In each cell there is a prisoner. There are doors from each cell to the adjacent cells (not diagonally). Their task is to ...
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What is the largest, compact connected-network polyomino for these tiles?
This is a graphical arrangement puzzle. Consider the following 36 tiles:
Each tile has up to 8 connected directions and each tile has an initial up side. (The edge to whose centre the central ...
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Labeling wires in a *damaged* bundle
Variant of: Labeling wires in a bundle
At a remote location, you just finished trenching a data cable across a large plot of land. The cable has 64 individual wires that are not color-coded or ...
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Ernie and the Underground Network
I haven't seen Ernie for a few weeks - he's been on holiday in the People's Republic of Kzijekistan (PRK). But yesterday I got an e-mail and thought I would share it with you. It reads as follows:
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The needle in the network - find it!
We all know it can be difficult to find a needle in a haystack, but in this puzzle you have to
#Find the NEEDLE in the network!
A bit more detailed:
Somewhere in the network pictured above hides the ...
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Signal-network: Create a network that guides 2 signals
This is a different 'connect the dots' puzzle.
Your task is to connect the blue and yellow nodes in the map below with links such that the created network guides two signals emitted from the two ...
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Network connection: Create a network that guides the signal from start to goal
This is a different 'connect the dots' puzzle.
Your task is to connect the blue nodes in the map below with links such that the created network guides a signal emitted from the red triangle to the ...
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