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What are these chatrooms with names like 'Codenames', 'Contact', and 'Spyfall'? What are they for?
They're for playing puzzley games in real time.
Each of them has a pinned message to explain the rules of the game. Anyone is welcome to take part, and the room owners tend to be people who are ...
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“Proper attribution” for non-original puzzles: a guide
Why do we care about attribution?
Very simply, we don’t want to host plagiarism on the site. Any puzzle which you yourself did not make must be properly attributed. (Attribution of “I made this puzzle”...
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What are these chatrooms with names like 'Codenames', 'Contact', and 'Spyfall'? What are they for?
Contact
Overview
Contact requires at least three people, one person to create a word and at least two people to guess it. The word creator thinks of a word and gives the guessers the first letter. ...
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What are these chatrooms with names like 'Codenames', 'Contact', and 'Spyfall'? What are they for?
Spyfall
Overview
Spyfall is best played with 4 or more players.
All players are in some location. This could be a circus tent, a space station, a theater, etc. Each player is also assigned a role ...
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What are these chatrooms with names like 'Codenames', 'Contact', and 'Spyfall'? What are they for?
Codenames
Overview
Codenames has an espionage setting, in which players in teams try to identify their own team's secret agents, based on their agents' code names. Codenames is a game of guessing ...
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What is PSE's policy on mathematical questions, and why, and what's the history behind it?
Policy
First of all, if all you want is our actual policy then
you can find it in this question:
Proposed policy on mathematical questions
The policy described there is, briefly:
A question is off-...
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Encoded comments
The point of encoded comments is to avoid spoilering the answer for someone who, say, accidentally scrolls down while looking at a puzzle. It's the same reason that we use spoiler markup in answers.
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Can I post a puzzle I found on the internet?
You can. That doesn't necessarily mean you should.
There's more to Puzzling.SE than puzzles posted as challenges for others to try to solve. While it's definitely true that these puzzle challenges ...
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