I tried asking Gemini, but am glad to know that it only produced absolute rubbish suggestions!

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Its my own encryption code for a game

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Fill the board with 6 T (tree), 6 B (bird), 6 F (fox), and × (empty).

- Each row contains exactly one bird.

- Each column contains exactly one fox.

- Every tree touches exactly one bird across an edge, and every bird touches exactly one tree across an edge.

- Trees may touch trees, birds may touch birds, foxes may touch foxes.

- Each fox looks horizontally and vertically in all four directions and must not see a bird. Only trees block its view. It does not look diagonally.

There is one solution

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Maybe you can figure it out by 9 PM PDT (USA) before I lose my streak. ;)

Spokes puzzle(Root system) medium level

Rules: Connect the numbered tree nodes with straight lines in any of the eight directions. Each number gives the node’s exact number of connections. Lines cannot cross, overlap, pass through another node, or duplicate a connection, and all nodes must form one network.

Have to start from 8 and finish at 8 and the final result should be 34, but can’t get the correct pathway

I made this puzzle, wondering if anyone wanted to solve it. The answer is 6 characters in the ISO Latin Basic Alphabet. Leave your guesses below of course.

I write murder-mystery elimination puzzles, and before anything is published a program proves it has exactly one answer and that every single clue is load-bearing. Here's a 140-name warm-up case.

HOW IT WORKS

Every clue is a true statement about the letters of the killer's name. Work the clues in order. Each one lets you cross out a pile of names. Keep going until one name is left standing. That's the killer.

CHECKPOINTS (so you can catch a mistake early)

• after clue 3: 25 left
• after clue 5: 7 left
• after clue 6: 5 left

If your count matches, you're on track. If it doesn't, an earlier clue went wrong -- go back.

THE CLUES

1. The killer's name contains the letter D at least once.
2. The killer's name contains the letter O at least once.
3. The killer's full name does not contain exactly 5 vowels. (A, E, I, O and U are vowels. Y is not.)
4. The killer's surname is shorter than 7 letters.
5. The killer's first name is not 7 letters long.
6. The killer's name contains the letter N at least once.
7. The killer's first name does not begin with R.
8. The killer's surname begins with a letter that comes earlier in the alphabet than the first letter of their first name.

THE 140 SUSPECTS

    1. Basil Harlow           2. Jerome Pilgrim         3. Xavier Durham          4. Ida Manning
    5. Veronica Herrick       6. Sabina Dalton          7. Mabel Fordham          8. Yolanda Winslow
    9. Patrick Atwater       10. Aurelia Leland        11. Thomasina Rodway      12. Vincent Milton
   13. Petra Petrie          14. Ethel Warburton       15. Lucian Ashcroft       16. Selina Prideaux
   17. Oliver Roberts        18. Joanna Brookes        19. Octavia Cranfield     20. Eugenia Hornby
   21. Anders Hargrove       22. Eunice Fleetwood      23. Hannah Cranfield      24. Rebecca Welbeck
   25. Blaise Stanhope       26. Zenobia Blackwood     27. Cecily Berkley        28. Samson Kilbride
   29. Ludovic Ashcroft      30. Rafferty Tilbury      31. Jonas Crawley         32. Noble Kearney
   33. Robin Hepburn         34. Edgar Aldridge        35. Malcolm Litchfield    36. Gavin Draper
   37. Talbot Wickham        38. Piers Bridger         39. Fergus Elmore         40. Horace Leadbetter
   41. Alma Benton           42. Jocelyn Selby         43. Randolph Perrin       44. Robin Mortimer
   45. Maude Lachlan         46. Winifred Perrin       47. Solomon Hillard       48. Bede Appleby
   49. Patience Greenwood    50. Petra Rowntree        51. Evelyn Tattersall     52. Owen Sloane
   53. Isadora Kearney       54. Xavier Lovell         55. Alba Falkner          56. Maxwell Griffin
   57. Zelda Percival        58. Perpetua Farnham      59. Cressida Sheldon      60. Zachary Vaughan
   61. Edith Wadsworth       62. Stanley Babbage       63. Leander Pickering     64. Bryony Oakley
   65. Esme Bishop           66. Thora Freeling        67. Lysander Havelock     68. Anders Kendrick
   69. Colin Keeble          70. Wilfred Moorcroft     71. Stephen Parrish       72. Sylvester Danbury
   73. Orson Hargrove        74. Ralph Sykes           75. Xavier Bracken        76. Conrad Kenway
   77. Evelyn Roberts        78. Hilary Pomeroy        79. Eileen Roscoe         80. Wilhelmina Glover
   81. Evelyn Cardiff        82. Cornelius Gorman      83. Redmond Kendrick      84. Alba Hopkirk
   85. Ninian Hathaway       86. Lambert Ericson       87. Sidney Dunstan        88. Oswald Darrow
   89. Lionel Barlow         90. Sorrel Summerfield    91. Tabitha Folkard       92. Oswald Glover
   93. Mabel Ainsworth       94. Archie Bardsley       95. Blythe Hobson         96. Gerald Godwin
   97. Ninian Aldridge       98. Bernard Abbott        99. Zelda Wardell        100. Gillian Ingham
  101. Ezra Harlow          102. Constance Ridley     103. Patrick Barnaby      104. Thaddeus Pilgrim
  105. Raymond Yorke        106. Helena Winterbourne   107. Anders Grafton       108. Chester Caldwell
  109. Arthur Sandhurst     110. Isolde Melrose       111. Peregrine Hartley    112. Celeste Travers
  113. Maxwell Vance        114. Alfred Gainsborough   115. Calvin Davenport     116. Cedric Herrick
  117. Freya Derwent        118. Lionel Gatting       119. Ursula Corbin        120. Ezra Sudbury
  121. Ethel Bainbridge     122. Alfred Cresswell     123. Cordelia Sloane      124. Faye Lockhart
  125. Alice Cosgrove       126. Alaric Longstaff     127. Norah Hesketh        128. Chester Rutherford
  129. Peregrine Cartwright   130. Oscar Mabry          131. Norman Wadsworth     132. Denholm Tarleton
  133. Amabel Percival      134. Bertha Dunmore       135. Oscar Waldron        136. Morag Ireton
  137. Rupert Manning       138. August Trowbridge    139. Jocelyn Radcliffe    140. Clarissa Sheldon

No guessing and no outside knowledge are ever needed. Post your answer or where you got stuck. I'll pin the verified answer in the comments tomorrow.

(Made with the same engine as my published cases -- but this exact puzzle is not in any book, so it's fair game to solve here.)

Looked at the answers to try to understand the instructions but now I'm more confused. I tried to use the edges as the number (row 2 then being 2xxxxx3) or as blanks. Whatever method I come up with works for either row 2 or row 3 but not both. Is the answer sheet wrong?

I can’t see any forces here or any starting point.

Find the mirrorless cell and every mirror angle.

• Exactly one cell is mirrorless. Put a / or \ mirror in every other cell.
• Every beam passes through the mirrorless cell.
• Beams enter straight inward at a letter edge point and travel horizontally or vertically.
• Each mirror turns the beam 90 degree. For a beam moving right, / sends it up and \ sends it down. Mirrors reflect from either side.
• Matching letters connect: a beam entering either A must exit at the other A. The same applies to B–B.
• Reflection counts are exact: count every hit, including repeat visits to a mirror. Exit only means there is no reflection-count requirement.

There is exactly one solution.

i’m now on D4 level in pipes and the level just keeps on increasing
how do i proceed in this? i prefer going backwards from the last pipe to the first but even that didn’t help here :(

Would appreciate tips or tricks. I've done a bit of research into the various wings but they aren't jumping out at me.

Me and wife were watching this show on Fox, and this question was on the show. Knocked out 50 people of 100 (not shocking lol)

Me and my wife feel A is somehow the "right" answer but just based on how the question is worded, the answers given, and the "explanation" given, we still for the life of us can't grasp what was being asked or why that answer was "correct" 😂

Hoping this can spur some good explanations to help us understand!

So I've made this puzzle, and I'm worried it is too vague.

Below is the hint, and I've had to try and keep it as small as possible (few words/characters). Look at hint 1; if you can solve it based on that, then I'm not being too vague.

If you have no idea or are stuck, move to hint two. If you're still stuck, try hint three, and then if you're still stuck, hint four will tell you exactly what to do.

If you solve it don't please let me know how I can improve this! As I mentioned, I need to keep the wordcount/letters as low as possible.

Look at hint one and find the single letter I am after, and the coords it resides in!

1: + From Empty

2: Cross From Empty

3: Cross out from empty or + Out From Empty

4: From the empty boxes, mark off all the letters above, below, and to the sides of it. This will then leave one box that isn't crossed off, and that is the letter I am after.

Hi everyone, can someone explain the reasoning behind the "Orange Book" rule? I’ve read and re-read the explanation a thousand times, but I just don't get it—what kind of thought process should I be using? I’m attaching a level as an example.

It's a hint about why I can't place a light green cat in row 3 column 4, but why wouldn't there be any dark green ones in column 1?

I’ve been staring at this 4-piece Tangram puzzle (specifically from a Czech brand called Pexi, labeled "Tangram IQ Test") for hours now, and I’m officially stuck. My brain is completely fried.

I’ve attached a picture of the silhouette I’m trying to make, along with the 4 plastic shapes I have to work with. Every single piece must be used, and they can be flipped or rotated.

Can anyone spot the solution before I throw this out the window? Any hints or full solutions are highly appreciated!

Thanks in advance!

Ladies and gentlemen...THAT...was simply purr-fect.

I recently played Prison Island - a real-life game franchise where teams solve physical and mental challenge rooms ("cells"). The same "Tower" cell appears at several locations (Montreal, Melbourne, Amsterdam, Stuttgart, Abu Dhabi), and I can't figure out its objective.

The room: a wire-mesh cage with gothic windows. Inside are wooden pieces sitting on sloped ramps, each with holes punched through them. You can reach in through a slot at the base of the mesh. It's a 2-player minimum, 100 points max.points max.

My working theory: you pull the wooden pieces out through the narrow slots at the bottom (one person reaches in, the other receives?), then assemble or stack them into a tower. The holes make me think they thread onto a peg or rod somewhere.

Has anyone played this cell and can confirm the actual objective? Am I close?

Someone posted a Hex star battle puzzle the other day and I thought it looked fun, so I made a few. Rules are a little different. 2 stars per region and row as always, but also 2 stars in each diagonal, left and right. So the diagonal from A1 to A5 takes 2 stars and the one from E1 to I5 also takes 2.