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Fortnightly Topic Challenge #35: Restricted Title 1
List of all questions published as part of the Fortnightly Topic Challenge #35:
I Am Not Good with Boomerangs by noedne
Candy Button Paper by Riley
Consecutive Vowels by stacksfiller
Stingray Nebula ...
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Should we allow re-use of Fortnightly Topic Challenge tags?
Yes, of course we should "allow" reuse of topic ideas.
And i don't think we need to impose any restrictions (i.e. minimum gap between repeats). If people want three chess fortnights in a row, they'll ...
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Fortnightly Topic Challenges Rerun!
INSPIRED BY @someone's PUZZLE
Create a puzzle that is inspired by other puzzles that have been published in Puzzling. But it should provide a "twist" on the existing puzzle (not just same style with ...
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Fortnightly Topic Challenge #19: Unconventional Tag Fusion
List of questions published as part of the Fortnightly Topic Challenge #19:
A weird and spooky clock by Lukas Rotter (cipher + geometry)
A crossword so simple, it practically solves itself by Alconja ...
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Fortnightly Topic Challenge #16: Reverse Puzzling
List of all questions published as part of the Fortnightly Topic Challenge #16:
Cheating is efficient, but only until you get caught! by Ankoganit
Reverse puzzling by Maria Deleva
Highlighter traces ...
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Fortnightly Topic Challenge #42: Wordless Connecting Walls
List of all questions published as part of the Fortnightly Topic Challenge #42:
Connecting Sixteen Shades by Stiv
Visual Connect Wall: Heads up! by Sciborg
Connect Wall of Flags: Don't Embarrass ...
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Fortnightly Topic Challenge #47: Wacky Sudokus
List of all questions published as part of the Fortnightly Topic Challenge #47:
Beastly Gerbil's Sudoku Series: Blind Killer, Trinary, Shattered Web, Odd Ones, Parquet Square, 0-9, Sandwiched, Min ...
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Fortnightly Topic Challenge #36: Twisted Classics 1
List of all questions published as part of the Fortnightly Topic Challenge #36:
Just a Regular Word Search by Riley
Word Ladders go to the movies by David Starkey
Twisted Connections by Sid
I don'...
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Fortnightly Topic Challenge #39: Deep Down in the Dungeon 1
List of all questions published as part of the Fortnightly Topic Challenge #39:
The Map to Radiance by Kendra
The Thirteen Doors of Aj Noc'la by Alconja
Lau's Labyrinth by PerpetualJ
Find the ...
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Fortnightly Topic Challenge #41: Short and Sweet
List of all questions published as part of the Fortnightly Topic Challenge #41:
Unusual letter combinations by GentlePurpleRain
Riley 008 by KrOmega by Krypton Omega
Where do I want to go next? ...
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Fortnightly Topic Challenge #43: Variety Crossword Grids
List of all questions published as part of the Fortnightly Topic Challenge #43:
Gladys's Gapped Cryptic by jafe
Self-contained math crossword with if-then-else clues by melfnt
3D cryptic brain ...
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Fortnightly Topic Challenge #44: Introduce a new grid deduction genre to the community
List of all questions published as part of the Fortnightly Topic Challenge #44:
Nurimisaki Puzzle: Introduction by Alaiko
Tatamibari: an introduction by bobble
Norinori: QR-Code-ish by athin
Office ...
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Should we extend the [metapuzzles] topic challenge?
Yes
This topic has been bringing out a several puzzles that exemplify what this site is about, and many users have been introduced to a new genre of puzzles that they haven't heard about.
However, I ...
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Monthly Topic Challenge #1: Restricted Title: xkcd 1xxx
List of all questions published as part of the Monthly Topic Challenge #1:
Puzzle
Creator
Never Seen Star Wars
Lukas Rotter
United States Map
Amoz
Basketball Earth
Stiv
Words for Small Sets
...
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Fortnightly Topic Challenge #14: History
Is no-one interested in history?
List of all questions published as part of the Fortnightly Topic Challenge #14:
5 Quotes 1 Figure by dcfyj
A mysterious email from the Historical Society by rand ...
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Fortnightly Topic Challenges Rerun!
reverse-puzzling
This is a genre of puzzle that has been rather underused. The last topic challenge on this one led to some wonderful puzzles and great participation from users. Maybe, it's time to ...
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Fortnightly Topic Challenge #38: Reusing Information 1
List of all questions published as part of the Fortnightly Topic Challenge #38:
Making transmitting data safe - double reading by JonMark Perry
A Periodic Puzzle by boboquack
Understanding the Rookie&...
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Fortnightly Topic Challenges Threrun: Topic Suggestions
- Current Topic -
Polyominoes
polyomino often goes with other tags, such as
tiling, as in Tiling with T-tetrominos in gravity
combinatorics (which is also often combined with tiling), as in L-...
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What should the subjects of our fortnightly topic challenges be? (with updates!)
odd-one-out
This tag has very few question (7 as of posting, 2 of which are closed). I think there is a lot of potential to make some great puzzles for this tag.
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What should the subjects of our fortnightly topic challenges be? (with updates!)
non-rectangular grid-deduction
There are so many shapes, not only rectangle !
Let's be creative with non-rectangular grid-deduction
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What should the subjects of our fortnightly topic challenges be? (with updates!)
Rabbit-Hole
Many puzzles lately have been quite deep in terms of how far you have to worm your way into the puzzle, and giving just enough information. I personally would like to see more puzzles of ...
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Fortnightly Topic Challenge #15: Stories
List of all questions published as part of the Fortnightly Topic Challenge #15:
The princess arrived safely at the castle by M D
The Sorns are Demanding Ransom: Can You Help? by RedstoneGeek
Vizzini ...
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Fortnightly Topic Challenges Rerun!
Hidden Puzzles
I often like puzzles where the puzzle itself is hidden in the text of the question. The puzzle is not directly given, and it is up to the reader to figure out all of the hints to solve ...
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Fortnightly Topic Challenges Rerun!
Restricted Title #2
Rerun of the Restricted Title topic challenge, originally suggested by Sp3000 (text mostly taken from their suggestion post, but with a new title list).
Usually the title is ...
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Fortnightly Topic Challenge #40: Retrograde Analysis
List of all questions published as part of the Fortnightly Topic Challenge #40:
A poorly-designed chess problem by boboquack
Retrograde Go Problem (Some Assembly Required) by Bass
Murder in the Royal ...
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Fortnightly Topic Challenges Threrun: Topic Suggestions
On-and-onograms
Create a puzzle where the first step is a nonogram whose solution reveals further steps that must be taken. Crucially, the full puzzle is entirely self-contained within the nonogram ...
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Fortnightly Topic Challenges Threrun: Topic Suggestions
Cellular Automata
Here's a regular tag that doesn't seem to get much love: cellular-automata
This can involve puzzles about a well-known cellular automaton, like for example Conway's Game of Life, or ...
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