Questions tagged [puzzle-identification]
This tag is for questions about the name or nature of a specific puzzle, given as much descriptive information about it as the asker possesses. For challenge questions where the asker knows the puzzle type and gives cryptic clues about it, use the [reverse-puzzling] tag instead.
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What's the name of the kind of puzzle where in-story solvers have more information than us, and how far they get is a clue?
It involves logical/mathematical puzzle(s), so no wishy washy different interpretations like in riddles.
The puzzle in question tells a story involving a puzzle, but some details about the puzzle in ...
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Six-piece mechanical puzzle with multiply-pointed pieces which fit into a concave polyhedron
I need help identifying this mechanical puzzle that consists of 6 pieces (see image) which I have to fit together into a sort of concave polyhedron.
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What is that colorful plate puzzle?
There was this colorful puzzle I remember playing with almost 8 years ago. It was consisted of a number of different colored plates (green, purple, blue), that, connected to each other by hinges, can ...
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Trying to find a 2020 puzzle hunt with a puzzle based on Among Us
I am trying to find a puzzle hunt that I believe was held in 2020. It contained a puzzle based on the game Among Us with 26 characters, and you had to decide who were the imposters. The imposters all ...
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Polyominoes piece puzzle, image was a storefront
When I was growing up, my family had a jigsaw puzzle of several store fronts, where you could see different people running, buying, and some kids. All the stores had letters and art. The pieces where ...
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Identifying a wooden puzzle box
In a flashback sequence in the film Tomb Raider (2018), Lara is seen trying to solve a wooden puzzle box:
It is reminiscent of the Karakuri group's "small box" puzzles, but I was not able ...
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What's that puzzle where multiple levers change the locks' states on one door?
I have seen this one a few times in videogames and elsewhere, but I don't remember where.
You have to open one door that has several locks on it. You have a bunch of levers that when moved change the ...
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What is this 3x3x1 Rubik's cube with colored circles with colored borders?
My son got this from a friend:
It seems to be some kind of 3x3x1 Rubik's cube. I am confused about the colours, however.
It can be solved for the coloured rings, but not for the dots - I think.
Does ...
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Puzzle to match up the shapes on inner edges
My daughter (pre-school) had to solve the following puzzle:
It consists of 9 square pieces and the goal is to fit them together in such a way that all inner (i.e. touching) sides show a valid, put-...
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Twisty puzzle composed of hexagonal prisms, with As and diamonds
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My friend let me have a go of his cube and neither of us know what its called or where to buy one.
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Name and solution of puzzle to rotate all arrows to same direction
In this puzzle, when you click an arrow, all arrows immediately next to it (diagonally included), as well as the arrow you clicked itself rotate 90 degrees. The goal is to get all the of arrows to ...
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Wooden puzzle/game - 16 dowels with five wooden balls with holes each
I acquired a wooden puzzle game from a local thrift store. They had no information about it. Here's a description:
In a wooden board base are mounted 16 dowels on each of the dowels are 5 wooden balls ...
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What type of puzzle is “Room to Grow”?
I saw this game on Steam. They have a demonstration of the game in video form here, and here's the GIF I generated from that video (that's lower in quality and shortened due to the maximum 2 MB ...
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Do minecart puzzles like this, with buttons that rotate track, exist?
This is the end result of me messing around with minecarts and moving floors.
When you press the red or green buttons, the neighboring platforms rotate counterclockwise. The yellow button switches ...
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Identifying the wooden puzzle-box featured in Tomb Raider
In the film Tomb Raider (2018) there is a wooden puzzle-box with rotating sections. Once the correct sequence of moves is performed, a drawer pops out. See here:
Upon seeing it she says:
Karakuri. ...
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What is this puzzle with identical wooden pieces?
I received a bag of wooden pieces, but cannot figure out what the puzzle is supposed to be. I've tried several burr options and several Alketruse puzzles, but cannot find the correct configuration. ...
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Identify a riddle about the moon or sun [closed]
I am searching for a riddle I once encountered during D&D. It goes along the lines of:
I rise twice a day but yet I only set once
This text is not the complete, and the answer is the moon or the ...
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How is a something like a something
This may be a bit weird, but I remember a type of riddle but I can't remember any of those riddles nor their name.
The riddle gives you 2 things and you need to find descriptions for both that are ...
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What is the name & solution for this 33-piece 3D wooden puzzle?
I purchased this 3D wooden puzzle and wasn't provided with the instructions to reassemble it. I can't seem to find any information about it other than the source I bought it from.
It has 33 pieces
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What is the name or author of this tangrams-like packing puzzle?
Does someone knows the name of this packing puzzle, or its inventor?
The goal is to repack the shapes into the square with the additional red square.
It is an easy puzzle but the construction is ...
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What is the Name of this Toggling Puzzle?
I came across an interesting toggling puzzle while looking through a code repository on GitHub. I want to find out more about it and see if there is any info on how to solve it, how to ensure ...
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What is the name of this hook-like puzzle?
I don't know the name of this puzzle but I'd like to be able to google it See the attached photo. (I've already search on G puzzle and Hook puzzle without any luck).
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Is this wire puzzle correctly assembled?
I was given this puzzle some years ago and have never found the solution. Recently I picked it up again and have been trying for days to solve it.
I presume that the goal is to remove the ring on the ...
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What type of puzzles are the statue puzzles in Super Lucky's Tale, and what method should be used for solving them?
This question is about a set of puzzles in the video game "Super Lucky's Tale" (as well as its Nintendo Switch remake "New Super Lucky's Tale"). They are known as statue puzzles as ...
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What is this puzzle and what is this solving strategy? [duplicate]
This puzzle is a mini game in an app I recently downloaded. In the game it is referred to as a Mobius Puzzle(after some searching I found referenced as a TwoBik Puzzle). But I cant find any other ...
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Metal entanglement puzzle with an S-shaped piece, chain, and rings
I lost the instructions and I’ve spent hours trying to identify it on the internet with no luck. It’s 3 rings with a metal chain with one removable ring. I’m stumped.
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Intellectual numerical puzzle of different sizes
There is an intellectual puzzle 3x3, as in the photo:
You need to get an ordered set by moving the buttons through an empty area, like:
Question: Is a 4x4, 5x5, 6x6 game possible?
Sub-question: Does ...
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Wood puzzle of 6 equal parts
I got a wooden puzzle (I guess it is a puzzle) consisting of six equal and symmetric parts (four of them from different angles in the picture).
I have no manual and would like to know what its name ...
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What's the name of this kind of puzzle? [closed]
Link to a video of a the puzzle
What is this puzzle called, and if possible, what is the logic behind it?
Clicking a square inverts the state of the square and the ones directly adjacent to it, and ...
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What is the name of this game?
Around 15 years ago I remember playing on my computer with this game I loved. But it turns out I never knew its name and so, I can't find it anywhere now when I want to play it again.
So, I've had ...
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3-d word puzzle
I"m searching for a puzzle I saw in the Sunday NYT years ago. It was two 3x3 grids connected with "pipes"
Total of 18 letters connected with "pipes" and you could travel from letter to letter via the ...
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Looking for a kid's puzzle, cannot remember title
I'm looking for a kids' logical puzzle I saw in a Brazilian puzzle magazine several years ago. A farmer had a square farm with four houses and twelve trees and he wanted to divide it between his four ...
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What is the name of this puzzle with two overlapping circular tracks of smaller objects (spheres in this case)?
I have an old, poorly constructed puzzle:
I've seen a better version of this, but all the internet searches I've tried have yielded either artistic designs or metal puzzles of interlocking rings.
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A Twisty Puzzle my friend barely remembers
I was impressing various students at my school by showing them various twisty puzzles when one of them recalled a puzzle they owned. I thought I might have seen it somewhere, but I may have been ...
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What is the name for this meta magic-trick? [closed]
In his book Intuition Pumps and Other Tools for Thinking Daniel Dennett describes a system of layering magic tricks in the following way:
There are some effects—they can hardly be called tricks—...
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What is the 'Three Cube Problem' in the Mega Test?
The now defunct IQ Mega Test had a problem which was considered it's 'most difficult' called the Three Cube problem. Does anyone know what it is?
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What is the name of AB×B×A=BBB puzzles?
Some puzzles goes as follows: Solve AB×B×A=BBB, where different letters denote different numbers and A and B are not zero.
What is the name for these types of puzzles?
Edit. I fixed my mistake in ...
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How is that word-logi riddle called?
A few years ago, when I was a child, I really liked that one logic puzzle. I tried to google it but couldn't found a puzzle or name of the puzzle.
It uses a grid similar to a crossword grid, in which ...
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What does this group of symbols mean?
This is what the puzzle looks like.
Ꮒ̨̻̰̊̾ͥͦ͠Ꮛ̤̰̭̱̑̔̃̽̋ͬᏒ̡̼̯̳̺̳̺̙͖͈̠̂ ̗̗̗͔̮̀̾̉̃ͩ̿ͤᏁ̱̗͈̰̙̥̪́͊̅̎̅Ꮧ̵͚̥̼̫ͬ̒ͨ̏̅Ꮇ̥͉̂͛ͥ͛̽͐̕͟Ꮛ̨̫̭̋͛̆̋̾
What do they mean? It should be a name.
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Is there another name for this puzzle? (Kyudoku, Nine Find)
Is there another name for this type of puzzle? I can only find two examples of it online:
https://www.brainzilla.com/logic/kyudoku/
http://ninefind.com/
In the game you start with a 6x6 grid filled ...
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14 piece wooden cube puzzle
I bought this 14 piece wooden cube puzzle a while back, which I can’t remember the name of. I’ve been trying for a while now, and have also been searching the Internet for a solution. What type of ...
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Mechanical puzzle ID: Ring, barbell, and four-holed panel
Hello everybody,
Has anyone ever seen something like this? I don’t even know what I should do with the puzzle...
Any suggestion or help is welcome!
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What is this puzzle called? Have you seen it before?
The puzzle writer has named it “Twins and Triplets” but I believe that this might be an alias for the actual name of the puzzle. The premise behind it seems too simple for it not to already exist. I ...
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Unknown 5-pieces cube puzzle - help recognize
I have strange 5-pieces cube puzzle which I can't solve for a long time. I don't know name of the puzzle and can't google it. I'm not sure that there are all pieces. Can you help to recognize it?
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Six inch, clear plastic binary counting puzzle
About 30 years ago I remember playing with this puzzle. It was a device that was mainly a cylinder about 6 inches in diameter and perhaps 3 inches tall. The base was black plastic, and there were ...
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Identifying this cube
I have a MoYu cube that goes quite well, but I am unsure what model it is. I have looked everywhere, but to no avail. Pictures for the cube and its insides have been provided. Thanks in advance!
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What term is used for puzzles that involve finding the correct sequence of mathematical operators?
There's a class of puzzles that require the solver to arrange a set of numbers so that they result in a desired outcome by manipulating mathematical operators. Example:
Using the numbers [1,3,5,7,...
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Looking to find the name and objective of this puzzle
I'm playing an escape room game that requires me to play this game. It's my first time coming across this type of puzzle so I'm confused as to what I am suppose to do with it. If anyone can tell me ...
