Questions tagged [questions]
The questions tag should be used when you ask a question on meta that is referencing question(s) on the main site. For example, if you have a question about why questions on Puzzling Stack Exchange are of such low quality, you should include the questions tag.
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Is it okay to ask for help in a hard Google human verification puzzle?
It okay to ask for help to solve a hard Google human verification puzzle (Captcha)? Simple example:
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Is it on topic to ask for the creation of a puzzle with some specific parameters? [duplicate]
I would like to ask the following question:
I'm trying to make maths interesting for my six year old son.
Therefore I have bought a box, within which I can put prizes. I will
lock the box with a 4 ...
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Have picture based questions increased after ChatGPT?
I'm seeing too much increase of picture-based questions after ChatGPT. Is there any data available to prove this?
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Would we want to allow ... or spaces before question marks at the end of titles?
As a question-quality measure, Stack Exchange automatically rewrites question titles which end with punctuation, following a couple of rules:
Multiple ? collapsed into one
Multiple . collapsed into ...
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Are puzzles with the correct answer being "unknowable" allowed?
I once made a logical puzzle that deliberately had insufficient info to be answered directly. However, the insufficiency was sneaky and the puzzle misdirecting; that's what made it a clever puzzle in ...
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Can I ask for feedback about a new kind of puzzle for kids?
Background:
Puzzles for kids such as you see in children magazines always seem to belong to a small set of predefined categories. There are shadow matching puzzles, mazes, spot 7 differences, etc. ...
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Recurring posts about cryptic crosswords
I have a couple of books of cryptic crosswords from the Times (of London) that I've been working through. Unfortunately, I'm not terribly good at them, and I don't know a lot of UK-specific ...
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Would it be worth adding a matchstick framework?
Do you think it would be worth adding a matchstick framework so all matchstick puzzles look nice and the same? I had this idea when trying to put into puzzle my matchstick idea but could not find a ...
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Are outdated hints allowed?
The "Hint 5" on this problem is going to be outdated in three days already outdated.
Should I edit the hint when it gets outdated?
Are similar hints that highly depends on time allowed?
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What is the point of the “text version” of grid puzzles?
I noticed that people who post grid puzzles often include a “text version”.
For example, here: Nonorasu - A Nonogram-Kakurasu Hybrid
I have a few guesses as to why but none of them seems to be worth ...
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Puzzle changing edits, new suggestions and better analysis
Disclaimer:
I want to preface this post by saying that I am extremely frustrated right now, but I'm trying to make this a solution based post, and stop this from happening to myself or others on this ...
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Are you allowed to post a puzzle identical to another except in its solution criterion?
Are you allowed to post a puzzle identical to another except in its solution criterion?
I ask because of a 5-person puzzle I created where one person lies, one person tells the truth, one flips a coin ...
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Revisiting the "self-contained" policy
We have a long-standing policy about strongly preferring self-contained puzzles. This meta is to revisit that policy. It was inspired by a chat debate about an enigmatic puzzle by @Feryll. The puzzle ...
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Ongoing not-exactly-contests
We already have a policy on questions from ongoing competitions. This meta question is about them; its accepted answer proposes borrowing the policy used on math.SE, which basically says that if
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Why are mathematical question posted on Puzzling SE?
Why are mathematical question posted on Puzzling SE? Is Mathematics SE not good enough?
Here are some examples:
A circle touches two sides of a triangle and two of its medians
A geometric puzzle. ...
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My Puzzle has not received Attention after placing two bounties, what should I do about it? [duplicate]
This puzzle, My sister has gone Puzzled again, has not received enough attention after placing two consecutive bounties, both of which were wasted, and now it has got two downvotes. I have two ...
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Re-asking a question when an unintended answer is given
This question is (according to the OP) a rephrasing of this question. The reason a second question was asked is that Lukas Rotter gave an answer which worked with the initial phrasing, but was not the ...
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Are questions that are just entertainment-based accepted here? [closed]
I have seen many questions here that in my thought are just for entertainment, but they are receiving many up-votes. (questions on the first page of the site (Active ones) for example, are all being ...
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Duplicates of duplicates?
When browsing around old questions, I came across this one. It was marked as a duplicate of this one, which was in turn marked as a duplicate of this one. This is the first time I've come across ...
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Are full crosswords allowed here?
I am new here and came across this question. I felt it falls in the category of "too broad" of other sites. Am I right in this conclusion, or is it allowed here?
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Is it OK to use specific users as part of a puzzle mechanism?
I am currently working on a series of mini-puzzles I’ll be posting on the main site, and I have an idea for a mechanism that utilizes features of users all across the Stack Exchange network, ...
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Meta puzzles that don't state the puzzles they rely on - adding difficulty or just wasting time
I am currently posting some meta puzzles, and originally planned to not mention the previous puzzles. I would then allude to it being related to another puzzle in a clue. Is this just increasing the ...
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Minesweeper problems
It looks like the minesweeper tag has so many non-puzzle questions.
What shall I do with them?
Also, is this question fit for the "puzzling"site?
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Puzzles whose creators have asked them not to be shared
It happens quite frequently that someone posts a question that's taken from, say, an online IQ test. (The most recent example I've seen is from this one.)
Sometimes the question is posted without ...
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Math problems from a series of stories
I want to write a long story (one chapter per question) and some of the chapters may be just math problems.
Where should I post those chapters? Or, may I make some changes to those math problems so ...
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What do we do when a question relies on an image that's no longer available?
This question was just bumped to the homepage by a user asking if the image, which was hosted externally and is no longer accessible, could be fixed. This raises an interesting dilemma in that we now ...
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Google Earth Challenges - Should we keep them?
Background
Welp, @Conifers has come up with a great idea: Google Earth Challenge.
It received pretty good feedback, and therefore the OP went on to post more of them.
@athin went on to post a ...
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Why do questions sometimes not appear immediately on the site after asking?
I saw that sometimes when I ask a new question it does not appear on the site immediately. It takes sometimes at least 2-3 minutes before appearing but still got a view. I keep on refreshing the ...
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Posting a mini-puzzle for a hint for another puzzle
I created a $Word^{TM}$ kind of puzzle, and while trying to create a hint, I ended up with a mini-puzzle.
Is it ok if I post it as a new question, to make it available not just for the people ...
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Chess game viewer in PSE like Chess SE [duplicate]
I know that not all puzzles on the PSE are that of chess, but I feel that a chess board viewer, such as that on the Chess Stack Exchange, should be put in for the benefit of us here that do do chess ...
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Are "Quizzes" allowed?
Recently, I found a lot of questions that the asker already knew the answer,
which are called "Quiz". Example. Another example. Third example.
Fourth example. Fifth example.
Obviously, the creator of ...
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Continuously updating a puzzle
I have a number sequence puzzle in mind and I'm so far unsure how many numbers to post. I'll figure something out, but I had also considered just letting my Raspberry Pi update the question every hour ...
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How do I check the Captcha?
I'm sorry, but I'm a little bad at English.
I want to ask a question on Puzzling SE,
but they always asks me to check the Captcha.
How do I check the Captcha?
There's nowhere to input the Captcha ...
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Why subjective riddles are a bad idea
An overly broad riddle is no fun because it is too easy to answer, or has a dumb answer. A poorly written riddle leads to short, snarky answers that are no fun for anybody.
But what is wrong with ...
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What to do if OP doesn't accept answer and give any kind of feedback?
So, I answered the 2 posts made by @HEWhoDoesn'tKnow and gave answers to all the questions he asked :
Riddle Time. I bet this is an easy one
Riddle Again, Riddle Again, What am I? (On Hold)
I ...
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Why is there a minimum when editing other users' posts?
I've been wondering for a while why there is a minimum (6 letters I believe?) when I need to edit someone else's post. Most of the time I don't have any problems with this but in cases where the OP ...
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What to do when question can't be repaired with edits?
Due to a bug, all "zero width non-breaking space" characters were removed from my puzzle when I edited the tag. I tried to edit them back in, but the page keeps deleting them. Since that completely ...
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Is there an appropriate way to advertise a puzzle question from MathSE here?
Suppose there's a question over on MathSE under the tag [puzzle] that, among all questions tagged puzzle, I think would especially be of interest to the users here on PuzzlingSE. Also, it's a ...
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# of Questions per day?
I'd like to know how many questions a person is allowed to post per day. Please include a link to the pertinent answer. I searched the site in vain for the answer.
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The etiquette on necro-ing
Points:
+ it is my own post with no solving attempts
+ it is a little over a month old; certainly not too much of a necro, but I believe it will age further.
+ I'm unsure when I will put a bounty on ...
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Are Identification Puzzles on Topic?
Are puzzles where you give hints that lead to a song, a movie, or a book on topic? For example, if there was a puzzle for Harry Potter, it would look like this:
Once there was a little boy,
Who was ...
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I got question-banned after asking a +7 positive score question
First, I wasn't question-banned. Next, I asked a question. The "Ask Question" page had no warning on it. My question had a score of 7 (9 upvotes and 2 downvotes). Last, I tried to ask another question....
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How do we deal with lightspeed self-answering?
As seen in this question, the OP answered instantly (the timestamps are the same) to his question. I left a (barely mean) comment and I downvoted the answer, but what is the appropriate behavior with ...
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How to upload image to imgur without showing it?
I mean, can I use it to hide an answer from my question or a hidden hint? Of course without showing it on the post.
There're people use this method. I've been looking for this but got nothing.
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Desktop vs mobile formating
I recently asked a question:
Ruin, has come to our family
In this the answer depended on seeing the words formated in a certain way so they looked like steps and occurred n number of words into ...
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If a puzzle appears to be too broad, should one change it if answers are already posted?
Recently, I noticed a question that although was very good and a really nice puzzle, was just a little too broad in that there were multiple answers that made sense for the clues given in the puzzle. ...
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What is the logic behind the number of views of the puzzles?
After about a year on SE, I have noticed that the number of views for any puzzle range dramatically from less than 100 to 5K or more. I assume a puzzle is considered viewed when a reader clicks on it? ...
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Questions from homework/assigments [duplicate]
This question: Encrypted message (unknown algorithm or plaintext) raised, or rather, revived a doubt in my mind.
We do have a clear policy on the questions from on-going contests but what about ...
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What do we do about 'classic' riddles?
I have seen a couple of these posted recently. They don't really seem to do the community any good.
We don't really seem to have a policy on 'classic' riddles. These are riddles which
are usually ...
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