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I quite often see story associated with a puzzle appearing at the top of a question. If I were to create a series of puzzles that followed a story and within that story fall into meta-puzzles. What ...
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With the new custom badges feature, we've decided we want tag badges for askers. However, compared to the other custom badges, there are a few hurdles in implementing these: While answer tag badges ...
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I wanted to comment on For Aesthetic Reasons but then thought to perhaps create a meta post ... I really think the excellent PSE exchange could perhaps provide room for OP's posting own made puzzles ...
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Since my proposal for an "Advent Asker" badge has now received two answers that are suggesting name changes, I'm opening a separate meta question to discuss if we want to change the name of ...
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Puzzling is a very unique site with a lot of really devoted users. You also run Puzzling Advent, which is an awesome community-building event. The amount of effort you put into the site is incredible, ...
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Background Stack Exchange recently added a new feature: Community Badges. These are site-specific badges which can be manually awarded by moderators. In order to create a badge we need a meta post ...
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Happy New Year from your moderator team! We'd like to import a tradition from RPG SE: community-check-in posts. This is an opportunity for us to see how the community feels like things are going on ...
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It’s that time of the year again! As we bid farewell to the year that's concluded and welcome the new one, we have a tradition of sharing moderation stats for the preceding calendar year. As most of ...
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As first brought up in this recent answer, I propose that twisty-puzzles should be merged with mechanical-puzzles A brief look through the twisty-puzzles questions quickly shows how they are nearly ...
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Consider the question: Without using a calculator, find the value of n, given the value of n + (n+1)^2 + (n+2)^3 + ... + (n+63)^64 The comments on this answer say: It's not expected for solvers to ...
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This question is part of the best-puzzle award series What are your nominations for the best puzzles, here on Puzzling.SE, of the fourth quarter (October/November/December) 2025? Suggested ...
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Puzzling has various tag synonyms (e.g. 2048 is a synonym of 2048-game). No new questions can be made using a synonym; any attempts are auto-mapped to the parent. But some questions may be ...
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Making spoilers can be a pain sometimes. New lines are awkward, block elements like <hr> break the spoiler, things like lists are only supported with HTML, ...
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I have repeatedly seen comments, such as the following comment under my question: An arbitrary number of functions can pass through a given finite set of data points. Assuming that this isn't ...
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Currently people who post puzzles from ongoing contests such as USAMTS gets their questions closed like this: Closed. This question is off-topic. It is not currently accepting answers. This question ...
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