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PSE Advent Calendar 2022 (Day 1): A festive Sudoku
The finished grid:
Getting started:
Moving on:
Let's look at the thermos more carefully:
The middle row:
The arrow at left:
Finishing up:
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Chain Puzzle: Video Games #02 - Fish Is You
To win this game, you follow this path:
To solve the puzzle,
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A logician's Bingo
To start off with:
Then,
The next step is a bit harder.
Now we get some easier deductions:
Last steps:
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Around the World in Many Days
Here is the solved killer sudoku:
The solution path can be seen below.
The puzzle in the background is a
This means that Gladys must have started out her journey in
Full solution path for the ...
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PSE Advent Calendar 2022 (Day 2): Santa’s Magic Knapsack
The solution is the following:
Reasoning:
Santa's knapsack can finally be filled with presents for all the good puzzlers of the world. A happy ending, if I do say so myself. : )
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Chain Puzzle: Video Games #02 - Fish Is You
Deusovi's answer is surely correct, but this puzzle has multiple solutions - at least if all the normal Baba is You rules are in play.
Here is a qualitatively different solution, which ends in a ...
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A logician's Bingo
Note: Please don't upvote this answer post. Instead, upvote Lolgast's answer post, which has the same final answer as this one but with (a) a more coherent exposition and (b) no mistakes (unlike mine, ...
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Self-reflections
Final Grid:
Rules:
With the following exceptions:
My only problem (and potentially a mistake/something I'm missing):
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Around the World in Many Days
Partial Answer:
Completed Grid:
Letter values are as follows:
Unfortunately I'm not sure where to go from here with the background puzzle...
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0hn0: is this correct deduction?
This is not in the rules, but it has to be.
Because if a solution exists where the dot is blue, then the same position but with a red dot is equally valid. That means there would be multiple solutions....
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0hn0: is this correct deduction?
This is what's called a "uniqueness deduction": using the fact "the puzzle has exactly one solution" as a logical premise to conclude things from.
As long as that statement is true ...
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0hn0: is this correct deduction?
@Florian F's point aside, there's an important rule in the site's 0hn0 script source code:
Blue dots can see others in their own row and column
It doesn't say only the numbered dots can see others. ...
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Filling a 5x5 grid with {0,1,2} such that each diagonal contains the same elements typewise
Unless there is something in the rules for the matrix that has to be constructed that I completely misunderstand, I think this question is unanswerable.
This can be seen by looking at a solution for ...
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