Questions tagged [computer-puzzle]
A tag for puzzles dependent upon some degree of computer literacy - for instance, requiring basic familiarity with operating system usage, encryption or programming.
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Sudoku Variant Puzzle
Some background first. The gimmick for this puzzle was inspired by a recent puzzle in a mathematics discord. As part of solving that problem I learned how to use a SAT Solver to generate cases.
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I need to name this class
I was digging though this grim looking code base from like thousands of years ago. I came across this class function, but the class's name was obfuscated. What should this class be named?
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Sliding block puzzle: Get square to bottom centre
Consider these 10 blocks here, each with a different colour. One block has 4 squares, five have 2 squares and four have 1 square (the white area is unoccupied, and is not a block):
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Fewest cages for unique Killer Kropki-less Sudoku
Inspired by Why are these 5s and 1/9 forced in by this Killer Sudoku cage under Full Kropki rules?
What is the fewest number of cages needed for a Killer Krpoki Sudoku to have a unique solution?
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Regular decagons and tilings of the plane
My uncle, Prof. Tenrows, recently showed me his latest jigsaw puzzle creation, which he's particularly proud of. It uses only three types of tiles, all derived from regular ten-sided polygons — nomen ...
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Peaceful Weighted Sudoku Chess Grid
To illustrate a valid solution, here is a first non-optimized at all solution of value 79
Let us fill a Peaceful Weighted Sudoku Grid with the maximum value with Chess pieces with the following rules:...
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What does this encrypted message say? '21', 'W', '2W', '33', '34', '2T', ...
'21', 'W', '2W', '33', '34', '2T', 'W', '3D', '33', '39', 'W', '2W', '2P', '2S', 'W', '2U', '39', '32', 'W', '2P', '32', '2S', 'W', '30', '2T', '2P', '36', '32', '2T', '2S', 'W', '37', '33', '31', '2T'...
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Decrypting this binary message
Try decrypting the following message:
0100010001011100101110010011000110000110100000111000100000110010001100000011100110110001000001101000110110100000
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Word Search - Find the hidden words
There are 2 hidden words here, except the given words below:
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ACETIC
ACTOR
CRUDE
ERODE
ERUPT
KNOWLEDGE
PEANUT
PITCHY
QUEEN
RACIAL
URBAN
And here’s the code for second hidden word:
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The Flying Brit
Here's my final modification of these past puzzles (unless someone wants to see a multidimensional brit).
You live in a 2 x 4 x 4 world. You can only move orthogonally without walking the same segment ...
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A greedy and a generous Brit
Very much inspired by @FishDrowned recent A Poundless Brit
You live in a 4 × 4 grid world. You can only move via horizontal or vertical segment between two adjacent points, without walking the same ...
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Rubik's cube with restricted moves
Suppose you have some modified Rubik's Cube such that the face rotations are blocked unless a special edge (let's take the UR edge w.l.o.g.) unlocks the two faces where the edge is currently in.
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Edge round trip on 3x3x3 supercube
A 3x3x3 supercube is a Rubik's Cube with the centers marked in such a way that you can also see the orientations of the centers. Since there are 6 centers with 4 possible orientations each there are ...
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Alphabet hides number! (3)
Back again with table!
Key sentence(till the end of this post):
The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.
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