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Results tagged with reverse-puzzling
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created 2016-09-19 - 2016-10-02
This tag is for questions where the answerer must identify a puzzle type based on deliberately limited information about its nature, such as notes made in the course of solving it. For questions where the asker genuinely needs to know the puzzle type, use the [puzzle-identification] tag instead.
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Jim is trying to prove he has solved the puzzle
This is an entry for the 16th Fortnightly Challenge.
Jim : Bob, I have solved the puzzle !!
Bob : I do not believe you, show me !
Jim : No, you have to solve it yourself.
After some discussion bet …
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A colleague's note
This is an entry for the 16th Fortnightly Challenge.
I found this note on my colleague's desk:
I am pretty sure he was solving a puzzle. Can anyone help me figure out what the puzzle was? I am p …
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A Modular History Lesson
Firstly, idea blatantly stolen from This great puzzle by Rand al'Thor
I was preparing Exams for my students last night, and my wife offered to make some fun riddles to use as Extra Credit. I had f …
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The outset of the edge of cipher
This is an entry into the 16th Fortnightly Challenge : reverse-puzzling
Person 1: Look at the paper.
Person 2: Yes, I see, I see, but I don't know what cipher this is.
Person 1: Okay, let me give yo …
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Hazing the new guy
Congratulations on your new job with us!
You will be working with Alice on writing down details about REDACTED, the show that has those puzzles.
Sincerely,
Mrs. Boss-Mann
On your fi …
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Reassemble the riddles!
I'd just finished writing four short 4-line riddles, painstakingly making sure each line was correct, when a wind caught the slips of paper I'd been using to write on and blew them all over the floor. …
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Five Closely Related Puzzles
Two friends, Stewart and Ian, sat down to discuss what they had been working on, recently, in preparation for the upcoming puzzling competition in their school. Today's discussion centred on five clos …
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What are Jim and Bob trying to solve?
Jim is so happy after finding three solutions to a problem, then he texts Bob this :
Bob, I have found 3 solutions for your problem. I do not know whether
these three are the only solutions or n …
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What are they trying to solve?
I was on the the train once, bored as hell (because trains in Romania are really slow) and at one point I hear 2 guys behind me, probably as bored as I was, talking about puzzles.
And I thought:
"Oh! …
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My colleague's search history
This is an entry into the 16th Fortnightly Challenge - reverse-puzzling
I was using a colleague's computer the other day, and he had some ... unusual terms in his search history.
No, not that way. Jus …
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The Mystery of the MathJax Lines
Observed from an old-timey spaceship1
and strewn across the Puzcle Plateau 2
lie 14 mysterious lines.
$
\rlap{\kern 0 pc\raise 0 pc\Rule{0.1pc}{3.1pc}{0pc}}
\rlap{\kern 1 pc\rai …
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Can you steal the show?
This is an entry into the 16th Fortnightly Challenge - reverse-puzzling
My friend just received a letter telling him he made it onto a really famous TV show, and he won't tell me which!
All he gave …
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What kind of puzzle is solved by these sequences of numbers?
Samantha had been fiddling with something at her desk for ages, and constantly scribbling notes on a piece of paper. When my curiosity eventually got the better of me, I wandered over to ask what she …
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My colleague got mad!
This is an entry for the 16th Fortnightly Challenge.
You won't believe what happened at work today! I was working on a new software when Robert,
the colleague I work with on this, got mad in a seco …
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The wrong solution?
Alice has been trying to solve a puzzle lately, and today she sent Bob this text message:
I finally found it! I've got the solution! It's pretty simple actually:
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