Questions tagged [reference-request]
For questions seeking references, e.g. to literature about puzzling or to a specific puzzle.
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CiSRA Puzzle Hunt Backups?
I found this article describing what makes a good puzzle, and it references several puzzles which, as best as I can tell, were designed for something called the CiSRA Puzzle Hunt. However, the website ...
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Listing of New York Times celebrity crosswords?
The New York Times crossword for Friday May 12 was co-authored by Bill Clinton, as part of an ongoing series of celebrity crosswords. Actor Jesse Eisenberg did one too.
Is there a way to get a list ...
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How do you decrypt a keyword transposition cipher without keyword?
I have computed the keyword length using I.C. but I don't know how to derive the first keyword. This polyalphabetic cryptogram requires two keywords to break, but I am not sure how to get either of ...
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References - In what order should I start reading the books by Raymond Smullyan?
The books by Raymond Smullyan have caught my fancy because they seem to teach mathematical logic using puzzles. However since I am very weak at solving puzzles in general and logic puzzles in specific,...
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Where can I find diagramless fill-in puzzles?
From the answers that I got over here, I found out that the type of puzzle that I was looking for would be referred to as diagramless fill-in puzzle. (A cross of a diagramless crossword and a fill-in ...
