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| x Rubik's Sudoku |
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Rubik's Sudoku is a take on the popular puzzle Sudoku. Unlike typical Sudoku puzzles, normally done on paper, this version can be played with the components and then reset with a new puzzle, removing the need for pen and paper. In addition, the...
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Yes | Number Logic Puzzle | KenKen |
Sudoku (数独, sūdoku, listen (help·info)) (English pronunciation: /suːˈdoʊkuː/) is a logic-based, combinatorial number-placement puzzle. The objective is to fill a 9×9 grid with digits so that each column, each row, and each of the nine 3×3 sub-grids...
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Yes | Cryptic crossword |
A crossword is a word puzzle that normally takes the form of a square or rectangular grid of black and white squares. The goal is to fill the white squares with letters, forming words or phrases, by solving clues which lead to the answers. In...
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| x Cryptic crossword |
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Yes | Crossword |
Cryptic crosswords are crossword puzzles of a special type: one in which each clue is a word puzzle in and of itself. Cryptic crosswords are particularly popular in the United Kingdom, where they originated, Ireland and in several Commonwealth...
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| x Combination puzzles |
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Professor's Cube |
A combination puzzle, also known as a sequential move puzzle, is a puzzle which consists of a set of pieces which can be manipulated into different combinations by a group of operations. The puzzle is solved by achieving a particular combination...
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| x Professor's Cube |
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Combination puzzles |
The Professor's Cube is a mechanical puzzle, a 5×5×5 version of the Rubik's Cube. It has qualities in common with both the original 3×3×3 Rubik's Cube and the 4×4×4 Rubik's Revenge, and knowing the solution to either can help when working on the 5×5...
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| x Chess problem | Yes | Chess puzzle |
A chess problem, also called a chess composition, is a puzzle set by somebody using chess pieces on a chess board, that presents the solver with a particular task to be achieved. For instance, a position might be given with the instruction that...
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| x Paint by numbers |
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Yes | Picture Logic Puzzle |
Nonograms, also known as Paint by Numbers or Griddlers are picture logic puzzles in which cells in a grid have to be colored or left blank according to numbers given at the side of the grid to reveal a hidden picture. In this puzzle type, the...
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| x Sliding puzzle |
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Mechanical puzzle |
A sliding puzzle, sliding block puzzle, or sliding tile puzzle challenges a player to slide usually flat pieces along certain routes (usually on a board) to establish a certain end-configuration.
The fifteen puzzle is a the oldest type of sliding...
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| x Construction puzzle |
In a construction puzzle you have to build (assemble) a technical contraption. This may be a static object (such as a bridge) or a mechanical object (like a machine).
In a wider sense a construction puzzle is any puzzle where you have to assemble a...
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| x Mechanical puzzle |
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Sliding puzzle |
A mechanical puzzle is a puzzle presented as a set of mechanically interlinked pieces.
The oldest known mechanical puzzle comes from Greece and appeared in the 3rd century BC. The game consists of a square divided into 14 parts, and the aim was to...
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| x Disentanglement puzzle |
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A disentanglement puzzle is a type of mechanical puzzle that involves disentangling one piece or set of pieces from another piece or set of pieces. The reverse problem of reassembling the puzzle can be as hard as—or even harder than—disentanglement....
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| x Chess puzzle |
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Chess problem |
A chess puzzle is a puzzle in which knowledge of the pieces and rules of chess is used to solve logically a chess-related problem. The longstanding popularity of chess has paved the way for a rich tradition of such chess-related puzzles and composed...
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| x Battleship |
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Number Logic Puzzle |
The Battleship puzzle (sometimes called Bimaru, Solitaire Battleships. or Battleship Solitaire) is a logic puzzle based on the Battleship guessing game. It and its variants have appeared in several puzzle contests, including the World Puzzle...
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| x Logic puzzle |
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Picture Logic Puzzle |
A logic puzzle is a puzzle deriving from the mathematics field of deduction.
This branch was produced by Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, who is better known under his pseudonym Lewis Carroll, the author of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. In his book The...
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| x Hashiwokakero |
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Number Logic Puzzle |
Hashiwokakero (橋をかけろ Hashi o kakero; lit. "build bridges!") is a type of logic puzzle published by Nikoli. It has also been published in English under the name Bridges or Chopsticks. It has also appeared in The Times under the name Hashi. In France,...
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| x Hitori |
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Number Logic Puzzle |
Hitori (alone or one person) (ひとりにしてくれ Hitori ni shite kure; literally "leave me alone") is a type of logic puzzle published by Nikoli.
Hitori is played with a grid of squares or cells, and each cell contains a number. The object is to eliminate...
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| x Cross Sums |
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Number Logic Puzzle |
Kakuro or Kakkuro (Japanese: カックロ) is a kind of logic puzzle that is often referred to as a mathematical transliteration of the crossword. Kakuro puzzles are regular features in most, if not all, math-and-logic puzzle publications in the United...
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| x Logic maze | Number Logic Puzzle |
Logic mazes, sometimes called 'mazes with rules', are logic puzzles with all the aspects of a tour puzzle that fall outside of the scope of a typical maze. These mazes have special rules, sometimes including multiple states of the maze or navigator....
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| x KenKen | Sudoku |
KenKen or KenDoku (unlicensed versions are sometimes called Mathdoku or Calcudoku) is a style of arithmetic and logical puzzle invented in 2004 by the Japanese math teacher Tetsuya Miyamoto, an innovator who says he practices "the art of teaching...
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| x Slither Link |
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Number Logic Puzzle |
Slitherlink (also known as Fences, Takegaki, Loop the Loop, Loopy, Ouroboros, Suriza and Dotty Dilemma) is a logic puzzle developed by publisher Nikoli.
Slitherlink is played on a rectangular lattice of dots. Some of the squares formed by the dots...
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| x Connect the dots |
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Dot-a-Pix |
Connect the dots, also known as dot to dot or join the dots is a puzzle containing a sequence of numbered dots. When a line is drawn connecting the dots the outline of an object is revealed. The puzzles often contain simple line art to enhance the...
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| x Transport puzzle |
Transport puzzles are logistical puzzles, which often represent real-life transport problems.
In transport puzzles you move yourself and/or tokens through a given landscape.
As in rearrangement puzzles, no piece is ever lost or added to the board....
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