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A jigsaw puzzle is a tiling puzzle that requires the assembly of (often oddly shaped) interlocking and tessellating pieces.
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A puzzle on a discrete system where one has to decide whether a certain system state can be reached through a finite number of steps.
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A puzzle based on the folding of a piece of paper (also known as origami).
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A word ladder puzzle has a source word and a target word, and to solve the puzzle you must find a chain of words, differing by one letter at a time, to link the two.
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A puzzle whose solution is characteristically worked out using a pencil and paper. Common examples include connect-the-dots, hangman, dots-and-boxes, fill-in-the-blank, and SOS. Note that crossword, S…
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A word square is a square grid of letters in which every row and column forms a word. They can be clued just like normal crossword puzzles. Use with [crosswords] or [cryptic-crosswords] if the word sq…
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For puzzles based on the movements of a knight piece in chess.
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A puzzle pertaining to topics associated with space like astronomy, space travel, and cosmology.
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Any puzzle where a team of pursuers must capture a team of targets, with movement limited to some given space. The goal is to find a winning strategy either for the pursuers or for the evaders.
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For questions regarding how to get items or people across something obeying a set of rules.
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A limerick is a 5-line poem with a strict AABBA rhyme scheme, often with five-line anapestic meter, sometimes obscene with humorous intent.
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In a treasure hunt, one or more players try to find hidden articles or locations by using a series of clues.
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A puzzle in which the hidden pattern behind a given sequence of words is to be found. Use with [sequence]
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A puzzle about disentangling knots, folding paper, separating strings and wires, and understanding the connectivity properties of elastic figures. General topology questions are off-topic but can be a…
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A puzzle that includes emoji in the question. Often, the goal of the puzzle involves deciphering their meaning.
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Puzzles involving the manipulation of coins as physical objects inside a set of rules.
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A puzzle centred around kinship, family ties, ancestry, relatives, blood ties and other family bonds.
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A strategic puzzle centered around pouring liquids between containers of different capacities, with the goal of measuring exactly n liters.
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A puzzle in which a seemingly impossible situation is presented, or any sort of construction that results in a logical contradiction.
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A geometry puzzle centered around the triangle or the centers of a triangle.
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Masyu is a logic puzzle where the goal is to draw a single loop through every circle in a grid. A loop passing through a white circle must pass directly through it and make a turn on at least one side…
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A type of puzzle typically involving a grid of lights, in which the challenge is to get them all to the same state (on or off). The trick is that each light also affects a number of its neighbors, wi…
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A puzzle requiring the solver to uncover a hidden connection between several items in one or more lists or sets. For partition-style connecting wall puzzles (à la the BBC's Only Connect or the NYT's '…
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The history of puzzles and their creation, as well as any methodologies which have developed over time. For puzzles about history, use the [history] tag instead.
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Puzzles related to Nim, a strategy game in which players take turns to reduce the number of objects in some sets, the aim being either to remove the last object or not to do so.
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Puzzles centered around tic-tac-toe (a.k.a. noughts and crosses).
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Puzzles in the form of a haiku, a very short form of poetry, typically a three line observation on a certain topic.
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A puzzle which involves networks. Often, such puzzles are closely connected to mathematical graph-theory.
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A puzzle about flipping/tossing coins. Typical examples are about the probability that head or tail comes out.
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A puzzle involving a calculation from which some digits have been removed. Different from an [alphametic] in that it is not specified which digits are the same or different from each other.
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