Part 1 - Numbered Clues a protein filament that grows from skin follicles (4) Batman's Batcave, for example (4) MVP's M (4) better than amateurs and paid more (4) Greek region containing Olympia (4) a set period a person serves in an elected office (4) draw, scuffle, or hand, for example (3) Karl Benz made the first (3) left(right("smarty",4),3) (Excel formula) (3) what a husband and wife become (Bible) (3) palindrome meaning "to get with great difficulty" (3) the time immediately before an event (3) riddle, mathematics, or logical-deduction, for example (4) liquids susceptible to rancidity ..read more

I'm making a crossword puzzle to honor someone specific whose name contains 16 characters, obviously too many for a standard 15x15 grid and also an even number which can't go in the middle row of a larger grid. Any ideas on how to create a good grid ..read more

It's been a long time since I've posted an origami puzzle! An origami puzzle is solved with some thickness $x$ iff it can be folded into a rectangle (possibly a square) with thickness $x$ everywhere. Identify a puzzle in the official ORIGAMI PUZZLES that can be solved with some thickness $t'$ that is a non-trivial factor of its labeled thickness $t$ (that is, $t'|t$ and $t'\ne t$) and solve it as such. Although solutions are not required to be applicable in real life, using an actual sheet of paper is a great visualization tool. A puzzle for this type of orgami puzzle game made by Ωmega_3301 ..read more

The image below is a puzzle from the FlowFree app: The image below is my solution to the above puzzle: The rules stated in the app are: Drag to connect matching colors with pipe, creating a flow. Pair all colors, and cover the entire board with pipe to solve each puzzle. But watch out, pipes will break if they cross or overlap! For the example puzzle, there are two colored circles on the edge of the grid (a blue circle and a red circle on the bottom edge). My question is: Does there exist a grid (not necessarily square) with a set of colored pairs of circles in the grid such that there are n ..read more

Solve on Penpa+ Across 1. Wyoming national park managed only wee slot (11) 9. Florida public housing clerk in Springfield mart (3) 10. California city cops regularly dropped somewhere in Southeast Asia (4) 12. New Mexico inhabitant's article describing love for Christmas song (4) 13. South Dakota mountain area in poverty – hotel drowning in bills (5,5) 14. South Carolina region – endless terror! (5) 17. Colorado wants what starts seven geographical answers here, and that is disturbing (3) 18. California coastal area's mountains guarded by old nobleman east of Monterey (6,6) 21. West Virginia ..read more

Below is a small sequence, showing every element, except the first. What is the image it all started with? text version: , ,r,r,r, , , ,g,g,g, , ,r, , , ,r, ,g,r,r,r,g, , ,g,g,g, , ,r, , , ,r, ,g,r,r, ,g, , ,g,g, ,r, , , , , , , ,r, , , , , ,g,r,r,r,g, , , , , , , , ,g,g,g, , ,r, , , ,r, ,g,r,r,r,g, , ,g,g,g, , , ,r,r,r, , , , , , , , , ,g,g,g,r, ,r, , , ,g, , , , , ,r, ,g,r,r,r,g, , ,g,g,g, , , , , , ,r, , , , , ,g, , ,r,r,r, , , ,g,g,g, , , ,r,r,r,r, ,r,g,g,g, , ,g, , , ,g, , ,r,r,r, , , ,g,g,g,r, ,r, , , , , , , , , , ,g, ,r, ,g, , , , , ,r, , , , , ,g, , , , , , , ,r, ,g, ,r, ,g, ,r, ,g ..read more

Not every question has to be as hard as possible, here is an easy one. I joined my kids playing with duplo, and found out that the duplo 9 and 6 look exactly the same if you turn one of them 180 degrees. So I decided to build the structure below. Of course I didn't use any glue or tape. Could you reason which of the following digits is the 9 and which is the 6 ..read more

Here is my third retrograde puzzle - I hope you guys will enjoy it :) For this construction, I took some inspiration from shoopi's excellent puzzle series from a while back. It should also be a bit more approachable than my previous ones: Is it possible to reach this position in such a way that White can still castle? Please provide your reasoning in your answer ..read more

The puzzle is this string of text: TDHOCNHKSGHOCLEUTYUEDYRYNPQYWORUNHUYTCTVQAYHWYNGYELATJHCGACWMFLYMUMOVNYQZPAYLYCQIEWG VVVADIINCIIWAZHIZCJAFJCJPIJAFJELXSUIFMTYWPVSQUUAJYCDFZSNJXRGGUDAMCGTGMRYKLVRALSFZARS ZRTOVKDBDVVCLRYGIJIOFZODTSLRURUCGIJSMTWMMXYYXGCC-JLPOMGLPZEUYYUTGOXFOTGDFVZVSGSEKJVV RDEZBBQEUSRZCKSYZWPEYHSOZDHSUZYSMPNLIHEMBKWWHCZEXNYFEFYRHJAWOLWOAYNMQXYYNWYSMDJXHMDY above the string, there was a list of numbers: [2] [3] [5] [6] [13] [57] [58] [60] [85] [98] [107] [158] [175] [179] [188] [198] [202] [212] [259] [276] [293] [294] [323] The letters D, Q, R, and Y were highlighted in this ..read more

I have solved 2 layers. On 3rd layer while making cross, I am following the algorithm but out of 4 pieces I'm able to make 3 only. 4th piece is always having invert colours. I was able to solve whole cube several times but 1 one day I was trying to solve via another method available on youtube and stopped in between. That day onwards facing problem with cross of 4th piece for 3rd layer ..read more