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PSA: rot13.com is down
TL;DR: Sometime between March 28 and April 1st of 2025, https://rot13.com/ became inaccessible due to bad redirects.
As it's been a week, and it's unclear when the site will be back up, I thought it ...
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Best puzzles of 2025 Q1 (January - March)?
This question is part of the best-puzzle award series
What are your nominations for the best puzzles, here on Puzzling.SE, of the first quarter (January/February/March) 2025?
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Enabling updates to punctuation in Question titles
Update on March 20, 2025
These changes have now been made.
There is a standing request for customization of punctuation in Question titles on Puzzling SE. Partial customization is possible with the ...
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Is it okay to make a riddle with this site’s post?
I had some ideas to make a riddle, but I’m not sure if this is okay or not.
I wanted to make the solvers find some clues of the specific puzzling post, and is it under this site’s guidelines?
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The image I posted wouldn't load on my computer
The image I posted here wouldn't load. It just became regular URL.
The image showed up after I clicked "Edit", but was gone again after I clicked "Save".
The image was gone again ...
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Want to upvote an answer that has been deleted by its author
I found a question that had what I considered to be a good answer. I wanted to upvote the answer but it had been deleted by the person that posted the answer.
Is there any issue with me temporarily ...
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2024: a year in moderation
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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Puzzle lifted from Math Stack´Exchange
I found this great math problem on Math Stack Exchange. In fact it was worded as a puzzle, with flavor and all. Thus I would tend to call it a mathematical puzzle
The puzzleproblem had some partial ...
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Best Practice for posting different puzzles of the same kind
I'm experimenting with a certain kind of puzzle and want to post a few variations/challenges to the community, but this repeated posting isn't really in line with typical SE Q&A usage, so ...
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Best puzzles of 2024 Q4 (October - December)?
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) 2024?
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Is it bad etiquette to post a puzzle (or series of puzzles) that is hosted entirely offsite? [duplicate]
I'd like to share an original puzzle series -- in fact, a novel comprising ninety puzzles that must be solved in order -- that is too long to post here in its entirety.
Would a post with a link to the ...
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Remove ► from our site-specific line about spoilers in "How to Format"
The "How to Format" box previously used ► characters to imitate list formatting. So when we got a site-specific line about spoiler markup in 2016, it had ...
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Can we notify / warn answerers of ongoing contest questions
This puzzle https://puzzling.stackexchange.com/questions/128822/specific-triangle-sides-in-a-grid is from the current USAMTS Round 2 https://www.usamts.org/contest/problems/ , deadline December 2, ...
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How can I gain large amounts of XP?
What is the best way to get large amounts of XP?
Is is better to create difficult questions?
Is it worth combing the the loads of unanswered questions from years back or is it best to focus on current ...
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When is brute force acceptable?
I was wondering if a question does not specify. "No Brute force" or have the "No Computers" Tag, is there a easy what of know whether it is acceptable to use brute force or not.