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  2. Heyawake - Wikipedia

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    The remaining rules differentiate Heyawake from other "dynasty" puzzles: Rule 5 is the defining rule of the puzzle; black cells must be placed to prevent any (orthogonal) lines of white cells that cross two room borders ("spanners"). Numbered rooms typically provide solvers a starting place, among other deductions.

  3. Maze-solving algorithm - Wikipedia

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    Robot in a wooden maze. A maze-solving algorithm is an automated method for solving a maze.The random mouse, wall follower, Pledge, and Trémaux's algorithms are designed to be used inside the maze by a traveler with no prior knowledge of the maze, whereas the dead-end filling and shortest path algorithms are designed to be used by a person or computer program that can see the whole maze at once.

  4. Nine dots puzzle - Wikipedia

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    The "nine dots" puzzle. The puzzle asks to link all nine dots using four straight lines or fewer, without lifting the pen. The nine dots puzzle is a mathematical puzzle whose task is to connect nine squarely arranged points with a pen by four (or fewer) straight lines without lifting the pen or retracing any lines.

  5. Puzzle video game - Wikipedia

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    Puzzle video games make up a broad genre of video games that emphasize puzzle solving. The types of puzzles can test problem-solving skills, including logic, pattern recognition, sequence solving, spatial recognition, and word completion. Many puzzle games involve a real-time element and require quick thinking, such as Tetris (1985) and ...

  6. Puzzle - Wikipedia

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    The largest puzzle (40,320 pieces) is made by a German game company Ravensburger. [8] The smallest puzzle ever made was created at LaserZentrum Hannover. It is only five square millimeters, the size of a sand grain. The puzzles that were first documented are riddles. In Europe, Greek mythology produced riddles like the riddle of the Sphinx ...

  7. Nurikabe (puzzle) - Wikipedia

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    Solution to the previous puzzle. The binary determination puzzles LITS and Mochikoro, also published by Nikoli, are similar to Nurikabe and employ similar solution methods. The binary determination puzzle Atsumari is similar to Nurikabe but based upon a hexagonal tiling rather than a square tiling. Mochikoro is a variant of the Nurikabe puzzle:

  8. Sokoban - Wikipedia

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    Festival, utilizing its FESS algorithm, was the first automatic solver to complete all 90 puzzles in the widely used XSokoban test suite. [ 19 ] [ 20 ] However, even the best automated solvers cannot solve many of the more challenging puzzles that humans can solve with time and effort.

  9. List of impossible puzzles - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of puzzles that cannot be solved. An impossible puzzle is a puzzle that cannot be resolved, either due to lack of sufficient information, or any number of logical impossibilities. Kookrooster maken 23; 15 Puzzle – Slide fifteen numbered tiles into numerical order. It is impossible to solve in half of the starting positions.