Puzzles
 
  Sep 2nd 2024 6:32pm
 
 
When you think about puzzles, you might think of jigsaws, crosswords, Sudokus, or lists of sentences like "everyone who lives in a green house has a name starting with a vowel". Those are all fair game for this battle. But puzzles can take many forms and present many challenges -- logical deduction, interpreting wordplay, following complex rules, spotting hidden messages or patterns, navigating mazes, cracking codes, assembling pieces into a whole, tracking down obscure trivia, or finding what seemingly disparate things have in common. There's a lot of room for creativity there!

So for the purposes of this battle, a puzzle is any document (or image, or anything you can put in a PDF file) which has a solution, and which contains information a reader can use to find that solution.

(Entrants should also be prepared to give hints in the comments of their puzzle if requested.)

Format: PDF
(and, if multiple formats are allowed, TIC-80)

Categories:

mystery
logic
elegance
a-ha moments
smarty pants

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For an eclectic sampling of puzzles and related resources, see also here
-- these puzzles are all of the "puzzlehunt" style, meaning each answer is an English word or phrase.

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Crossword made with Crosserville
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47
16
0
11
16
 


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196554
Level 23 Chipist
Prestune
 
 
 
post #196554 :: 2024.09.02 6:42pm
  
  Lasertooth liēkd this
Yesss I love this!!
 
 
196555
Level 23 Chipist
Prestune
 
 
 
post #196555 :: 2024.09.02 6:44pm
  
  kleeder and Lasertooth liēkd this
omg and the crossword is actually solveable
 
 
196556
Level 23 Chipist
Prestune
 
 
 
post #196556 :: 2024.09.02 6:45pm :: edit 2024.09.02 6:46pm
  
  kleeder and Lasertooth liēkd this
I will spend the next 30 minutes solving it
 
 
196557
Level 17 Chipist
ItsDuv
 
 
 
post #196557 :: 2024.09.02 7:16pm
  
  Lasertooth liēkd this
This would be so sick
 
 
196560
Level 16 Chipist
Hexer
 
 
post #196560 :: 2024.09.02 7:27pm
  
  Lasertooth liēkd this
i think this is an amazing idea o_o
 
 
196602
Level 9 Mixist
Mrperson987
 
 
post #196602 :: 2024.09.03 9:38am :: edit 2024.09.03 9:39am
  
  Lasertooth liēkd this
I really like this idea! The rule of the solution having to be on the document prevents a submission from being a full-blown ARG lol, which is nice

(an ARG battle would also be pretty cool, though)
 
 
196642
Level 25 XHBist
roz
 
 
 
post #196642 :: 2024.09.03 3:21pm
  
  Lasertooth liēkd this
such an incredible idea, most creative use i've seen so far for the pdf format.
 
 
196668
Level 24 Chipist
Collidy
 
 
 
post #196668 :: 2024.09.04 3:48am
  
  Lasertooth liēkd this
y'know the fact it reminded me when I had a fun time doing wiki cross (a crossword with wikipedia articles) I definetely appreciate this

(also I like how @prestune made triple post here)
 
 
196804
Level 23 Chipist
Prestune
 
 
 
post #196804 :: 2024.09.05 7:22pm
  
  Collidy and Lasertooth liēkd this
haha the triple post was sort of accidental because botb was loading weird and sent one of my comments twice

also I solved it btw :D
 
 
197516
Level 27 Mixist
petet
 
 
 
post #197516 :: 2024.09.15 4:34pm
  
  Lasertooth liēkd this
how the heck did you fit so many botb references in such a small grid
 
 
197564
Level 31 Chipist
kleeder
 
 
 
post #197564 :: 2024.09.16 1:23am
  
  Lasertooth liēkd this
this is the most lasertooth entry I've seen so far
 
 

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