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For questions seeking references, e.g. to literature about puzzling or to a specific puzzle.

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I have two words of a certain length (e.g. LAWS and LUST) and wish to find words of the same length which occur in between them alphabetically.* For example, LEND would work (LAWS < LEND < LUST) ...
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There is a certain kind of puzzle story, where the story is seemingly "normal" and perfectly believable, if not for one detail that can't be true (i.e. anachronism, or subtle physical ...
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I'm trying to find a book I remember from my childhood, of various mazes with different gimmicks and themes. I would have first read it around the mid or late 90's, and it seemed pretty new at the ...
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I would like to find some words or short phrases that have the letter sequence E-I-E-I-O. For example: _ E _ I E ... I _ ... _ ... _ O _ _ _ _ Ans: GENIE IN A BOTTLE (ignore the ... dots) I have tried ...
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Was Exhibit 5 of the Chaocipher (published c.1991) ever solved, and if so, who solved it and when? Chaocipher is a cipher that was created by J.F. Byrne in 1918 as a machine-based cryptography system,...
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I am on the lookout for a software solution, whether free or premium, that is capable of transforming line drawing images into connect-the-dots puzzles. My interest lies in both vector and bitmap ...
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Recently, I asked for some assistance on word formation. The respondent provided me with the Qat website which was perfect. I have another question. I would like to generate a list of words where ...
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Where is a resource that lists words that can become another word with the addition of one letter while still maintaining the order of the letters? For example, adding an "I" to SLANDER ...
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Puzzle: In a game grid some cells are missing. Each line has only one colored cell with a label (a number greater than zero). This is an example grid and the number of columns/rows can be less than ...
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Not sure if this is the proper place to ask, but I sometimes come across garbled text (see example below). My suspicion is that the garbled text is due to a person temporarily placing their hands in ...
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I am a computer science student looking for unsolved sudoku games that are valid and available in a comma separated text file. Does such a prepared data set exist and where can I find such a data set? ...
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There is this puzzle and many variations of it, but it usually comes by as "Ages of Three Children puzzle" (Wikipedia article), the "Census puzzle" (mathsisfun.com, YouTube video), ...
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The following "Miracle Sudoku" puzzle contains only two starting numbers, plus some additional rules that end up revealing the whole board: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yKf9aUIxdb4 (or Sudoku ...
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This is a reference request: my apologies in advance if it's not entirely appropriate for this SE. I recently came across this little puzzle: There are 20 apples in a basket on the floor. Around the ...
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I'm making word games. Where can I find free word lists (English, French and German) that are free to use, even for commercial purposes?
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