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46 questions linked to/from What should the subjects of our fortnightly topic challenges be? (with updates!)
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Fortnightly Topic Challenges Rerun!
Let's do fortnightly topic challenges again!
What to Do:
If you have an idea for a tag or a theme of any kind to use as a topic challenge, post it as an answer below. (Do note, you can propose ...
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Fortnightly Topic Challenges Threrun: Topic Suggestions
Fortnightly Topic Challenges are currently on hold, due to the low activity that was unfortunately seen in the last few installments. They will be continued once enough popular suggestions are present ...
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Monthly Topic Challenges: Topic Suggestions
Fortnightly Topic Challenges are all water under the bridge now, so we will do something completely different.
What to Do:
If you have an idea for a tag or a theme of any kind to use as a topic ...
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Should we have weekly/fortnightly topic challenges?
A long time ago (five months) on a site far, far away (roughly two clicks), a great suggestion was made. Jon Ericson came up with the idea of weekly/fortnightly topic challenges. For those not willing ...
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Fortnightly Topic Challenge #19: Unconventional Tag Fusion
This is the nineteenth instalment of the Fortnightly Topic Challenge described here, with topics suggested and voted on here. This fortnight's topic is "Unconventional Tag Fusion" (suggested by ...
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What should we call "grid logic" challenges?
Currently, it looks like our next fortnightly topic challenge is going to be about puzzles that I have tentatively called "grid logic" puzzles. A more precise definition would be "abstract puzzles on ...
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Should we allow re-use of Fortnightly Topic Challenge tags?
Currently, the Fortnightly Topic Challenge solicits ideas for tags that will become the topic for the challenge for a two-week period. Once a tag has been a topic, the post suggesting it is deleted, ...
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Fortnightly Topic Challenge #16: Reverse Puzzling
This is the sixteenth installment of the Fortnightly Topic Challenge described here, with topics suggested and voted on here. This fortnight's topic is reverse-puzzling (suggested by hexomino), and ...
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Fortnightly Topic Challenge #14: History
This is the fourteenth installment of the Fortnightly Topic Challenge described here, with topics suggested and voted for here. This fortnight's topic is history (suggested by manshu), and will span ...
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Fortnightly Topic Challenge #8: Visual
Link to other Fortnightly Topics.
This is the eighth installment of the Fortnightly Topic Challenge described here, with topics suggested and voted for here. This fortnight's topic is visual (...
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Fortnightly Topic Challenge #32: Grid Deduction Hybrids
This is the thirty-first installment of the Fortnightly Topic Challenge described here, with topics suggested and voted on here. This fortnight's topic is hybrids of grid-deduction (suggested by ...
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Would puzzle-construction challenge questions be off-topic for this site?
I had the idea of encouraging more quality puzzles by asking a series of challenge questions that ask people to create a puzzle given certain constraints. Users could then vote on the various puzzles ...
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Fortnightly Topic Challenge #13: Sports, for the Rio Olympics!
This is the thirteenth installment of the Fortnightly Topic Challenge described here, with topics suggested and voted for here. This fortnight's topic is, in the theme of the Rio Olympics, sports (...
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Fortnightly Topic Challenge #22: Animals
This is the twenty-second instalment of the Fortnightly Topic Challenge described here, with topics suggested and voted on here. This fortnight's topic is animals(suggested by Gordon K), and will span ...
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Fortnightly Topic Challenge #15: Stories
This is the fifteenth installment of the Fortnightly Topic Challenge described here, with topics suggested and voted on here. This fortnight's topic is story (suggested by GentlePurpleRain), and will ...
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Fortnightly Topic Challenge #12: Mazes
Link to other Fortnightly Topics.
This is the twelth installment of the Fortnightly Topic Challenge described here, with topics suggested and voted for here. This fortnight's topic is mazes (...
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Fortnightly Topic Challenge #21: Geography
This is the twenty-first instalment of the Fortnightly Topic Challenge described here, with topics suggested and voted on here. This fortnight's topic is geography(suggested by David Starkey), and ...
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EXTENDED: Fortnightly Topic Challenge #30: Metapuzzles
This is the thirtieth installment of the Fortnightly Topic Challenge described here, with topics suggested and voted on here. This fortnight's topic is metapuzzles (suggested by paramesis), and will ...
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Fortnightly Topic Challenge #1: Movies
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This will be the first installment of the Fortnightly Topic Challenge described here with topics suggested and voted for here. This fortnight's topic is movies and ...
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Fortnightly Topic Challenge #18: Mechanical Puzzles
This is the eighteenth installment of the Fortnightly Topic Challenge described here, with topics suggested and voted on here. This fortnight's topic is mechanical-puzzles (suggested by Emrakul), and ...
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Fortnightly Topic Challenge #33: Surface Geometry Mazes
This is the thirty-third instalment of the Fortnightly Topic Challenge described here, with topics suggested and voted on here. This fortnight's topic is surface geometry mazes(suggested by Typhon), ...
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Fortnightly Topic Challenge #6: Music
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This is the sixth installment of the Fortnightly Topic Challenge described here with topics suggested and voted for here. This fortnight's topic is music (suggested ...
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Fortnightly Topic Challenge #25: Wordplay
This is the twenty-fifth instalment of the Fortnightly Topic Challenge described here, with topics suggested and voted on here. This fortnight's topic is wordplay(suggested by Beastly Gerbil), and ...
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Fortnightly Topic Challenge #23: Seasonal
This is the twenty-third instalment of the Fortnightly Topic Challenge described here, with topics suggested and voted on here. This fortnight's topic is seasonal(suggested by A E), and will span from ...
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Fortnightly Topic Challenge #20: Pattern
This is the twentieth instalment of the Fortnightly Topic Challenge described here, with topics suggested and voted on here. This fortnight's topic is pattern (suggested by BmyGuest), and will span ...
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Fortnightly Topic Challenge #17: Board Games
This is the seventeenth installment of the Fortnightly Topic Challenge described here, with topics suggested and voted on here. This fortnight's topic is board-games (suggested by Emrakul), and will ...
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Fortnightly Topic Challenge #24: Grid-Deduction
This is the twenty-fourth instalment of the Fortnightly Topic Challenge described here, with topics suggested and voted on here. This fortnight's topic is grid-deduction(suggested by Deusovi), and ...
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Fortnightly Topic Challenge #9: Language
Link to other Fortnightly Topics.
This is the ninth installment of the Fortnightly Topic Challenge described here, with topics suggested and voted for here. This fortnight's topic is language (...
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Fortnightly Topic Challenge #7: Chess
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This is the seventh installment of the Fortnightly Topic Challenge described here with topics suggested and voted for here. This fortnight's topic is chess (...
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How do we want to use our meta FAQ?
As far as I know, this isn't something that's ever really been talked about. We've got a potentially extremely useful resource on Puzzling Meta: the faq tag. But I'm not sure how we should use it. ...
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Fortnightly Topic Challenge #4: Halloween!
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This is the fourth installment of the Fortnightly Topic Challenge described here with topics suggested and voted for here. This fortnight's topic is Halloween (using ...
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Fortnightly Topic Challenge #28: Liars
This is not the twenty-eighth instalment of the Fortnightly Topic Challenge not described here, with topics neither suggested nor voted on here. This fortnight's topic is not liars (not suggested by ...
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Fortnightly Topic Challenge #3: Video Games
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This is the third installment of the Fortnightly Topic Challenge described here with topics suggested and voted for here. This fortnight's topic is video-games and ...
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Fortnightly Topic Challenge #29: Retrograde Analysis
This is the twenty-ninth instalment of the Fortnightly Topic Challenge described here, with topics suggested and voted on here. This fortnight's topic is retrograde-analysis (suggested by user24580), ...
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Fortnightly Topic Challenge #26: Rebus
This is the twenty-sixth instalment of the Fortnightly Topic Challenge described here, with topics suggested and voted on here. This fortnight's topic is rebus(suggested by Mithrandir), and will span ...
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Fortnightly Topic Challenge #2: Outer Space
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This is the second installment of the Fortnightly Topic Challenge described here with topics suggested and voted for here. This fortnight's topic is outer-space and ...
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Fortnightly Topic Challenge #5: Literature
Link to other Fortnightly Topics.
This is the fifth installment of the Fortnightly Topic Challenge described here with topics suggested and voted for here. This fortnight's topic is literature (...
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Fortnightly Topic Challenge #10: Science
Link to other Fortnightly Topics.
This is the tenth installment of the Fortnightly Topic Challenge described here, with topics suggested and voted for here. This fortnight's topic is science (...
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What happened to Fortnightly Topic Challenges?
We haven't had a Fortnightly Topic Challenge since the Short and Sweet one, and I enjoy reading those puzzles. What happened?
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Fortnightly Topic Challenge #31: Steganography (round 2)
This is the thirty-first installment of the Fortnightly Topic Challenge described here, with topics suggested and voted on here. This fortnight's topic is steganography (suggested by Mithrandir), and ...
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Fortnightly Topic Challenge #27: Treasure-Hunt
This is the twenty-seventh instalment of the Fortnightly Topic Challenge described here, with topics suggested and voted on here. This fortnight's topic is treasure-hunt (suggested by user14478), and ...
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Fortnightly Topic Challenge #11: Steganography
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This is the eleventh installment of the Fortnightly Topic Challenge described here, with topics suggested and voted for here. This fortnight's topic is steganography ...
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Can I "raise a bounty" for a contest?
I would like to ask a contest-style problem on puzzling SE and I came up ith an interesting idea. Could I start a contest in a post and offer all reputation that I recieve as upvotes on that question ...
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What is the current fortnightly topic challenge?
Sorry if I'm being a bit ignorant, but what is the current fortnightly topic challenge? According to the topic discussion, the metapuzzle thing ends on May 3rd. In fact, this also suggests that the ...
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Fortnightly Topic Challenge #34: Safes and Locks
This is the thirty-fourth instalment of the Fortnightly Topic Challenge described here, with topics suggested and voted on here. This fortnight's topic is safes and locks(suggested by BmyGuest), and ...
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Page not found puzzle
Is the image below a puzzle? It's to hard for me in that case!
If it is not; I think it should be. And I think it should be a community contest to create a visually as interesting piece which is at ...
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