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The encounters in the Book of Challenges include straightforward traps (such as a domed room with a hinged floor that serves as the hidden lair for a beholder).It also includes challenging logic puzzles, riddles and even role-playing encounters where combat or mechanics skills play a secondary role.
The term lateral thinking was coined by Edward de Bono to denote a creative problem-solving style that involves looking at the given situation from unexpected angles, and is typically necessary to the solution of situation puzzles. The term "lateral-thinking puzzle" was popularised by Paul Sloane in his 1992 book Lateral Thinking Puzzlers. [1]
Follow the instructions on which shapes you need to make. Look at the screenshots for the solutions to all 5 matchstick puzzles. The yellow arrows are the pieces that need to be moved and the ...
The first puzzle started on January 4, 2012, [1] on 4chan [2] and ran for nearly a month. A second round of puzzles began one year later on January 4, 2013, and then a third round following the confirmation of a fresh clue posted on Twitter on January 4, 2014. [3] [4] The third puzzle remains unsolved. The stated intent was to recruit ...
An Easter egg is a message, image, or feature hidden in software, a video game, a film, or another—usually electronic—medium. The term used in this manner was coined around 1979 by Steve Wright, the then-Director of Software Development in the Atari Consumer Division, to describe a hidden message in the Atari video game Adventure , in ...
The Book of Lairs contains a series of one- and two-page adventures centered around various Advanced Dungeons & Dragons game monsters. [5] There are more than sixty short scenarios, indexed by type of monster and terrain, designed to added to campaigns or other adventures.
A 15x15 lattice-style grid is common for cryptic crosswords. A cryptic crossword is a crossword puzzle in which each clue is a word puzzle. Cryptic crosswords are particularly popular in the United Kingdom, where they originated, [1] as well as Ireland, the Netherlands, and in several Commonwealth nations, including Australia, Canada, India, Kenya, Malta, New Zealand, and South Africa.
For example, considering a row of ten cells with boxes in the fourth and ninth cell and with clues of 3 and 1, the block bound to the clue 3 will spread through the fourth cell and clue 1 will be at the ninth cell. First, the clue 1 is complete and there will be a space at each side of the bound block. Second, the clue 3 can only spread ...