• Puzzle contests are popular competitions in which the objective is to solve a puzzle within a given time limit, and to obtain the best possible score among...
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  • Maze: Solve the World's Most Challenging Puzzle (1985, Henry Holt and Company) is a puzzle book written and illustrated by Christopher Manson. The book...
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  • puzzle. There are different genres of puzzles, such as crossword puzzles, word-search puzzles, number puzzles, relational puzzles, and logic puzzles....
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    and its variants have appeared in several puzzle contests, including the World Puzzle Championship, and puzzle magazines, such as Games magazine. Solitaire...
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  • Games World of Puzzles is an American games and puzzle magazine. Originally the merger of two other puzzle magazines spun off from its parent publication...
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    crossword puzzle contest at The Ann Arbor News and soon became interested in puzzle construction after attending the American Crossword Puzzle Tournament...
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    Sudoku (category Puzzles)
    16×16 grid. The world's first live TV Sudoku show, Sudoku Live, was a puzzle contest first broadcast on July 1, 2005, on the British pay-television channel...
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    Crossword (redirect from Crossword puzzle)
    A crossword (or crossword puzzle) is a word game consisting of a grid of black and white squares, into which solvers enter words or phrases ("entries")...
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  • MIT Mystery Hunt (category Puzzle hunts)
    annual puzzle hunt competition at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, Massachusetts. It is one of the oldest and most complex puzzle hunts...
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  • 1984 contest video directed by David Hemmings and written by Gregory Ross. The video was a contest containing the clues necessary to solve a puzzle. The...
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  • periodical for children Treasure: In Search of the Golden Horse, a 1984 puzzle/contest book by Dr. Crypton (Paul Hoffman) The Treasure (New Testament apocrypha)...
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    wasn't. I was just directing The A-Team." Hemmings also directed the puzzle-contest video Money Hunt: The Mystery of the Missing Link (1984). He directed...
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    created a weekly crossword puzzle contest (MGWCC), and since September 21, 2011, he has created a daily crossword puzzle (MGDC). On October 11, 2013...
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  • The -gry puzzle is a popular word puzzle that asks for the third English word that ends with the letters -gry other than angry and hungry. Specific wording...
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  • is a treasure hunting puzzle published in 1984 by the Intravision production company. It was conceived as a story-based contest by filmmaker Sheldon Renan...
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    puzzles are logic puzzles, which are examples of multi-agent reasoning, where the solution evolves along with the principle of induction. A puzzle's scenario...
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  • Masquerade (book) (category Puzzle hunts)
    correct solution to the puzzle, meaning that Thompson had won the contest. It was later found that Thompson had not solved the puzzle and had guessed the...
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    The World Jigsaw Puzzle Championship is an annual event organized by the World Jigsaw Puzzle Federation, supported by multiple national associations such...
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    ). Also, by offering only small algorithmic puzzles with relatively short solutions, programming contests like ICPC and IOI do not necessarily teach good...
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    Association of Montclair, New Jersey. Julia donated $987.50, while a puzzle contest at the end of 1886 raised another $1,000. The fund had raised only $10...
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    Adventure online D&D coloring album (WotC web site) Gen Con Time Warp puzzle contest (Gen Con 2003) Goblin Fey Hunter (TGM web site) April Fool's Day Maps...
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  • 3 (May-June 1992), via Scribd; retrieved February 25, 2017 WordWit Puzzle Contest, by Stanley Newman, at StanXWords.com; published September 3, 2007;...
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    encyclopedia Wikipedia depicts a white, incomplete globe-shaped jigsaw puzzle, each jigsaw piece inscribed with a glyph from a different writing system...
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    various sudoku and puzzle activities in India. There are three main contest types: Sudoku Mahabharat, Puzzle Ramayan and Daily Puzzle Test. Each year, the...
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  • Project Euler (category Puzzles)
    Project Euler (named after Leonhard Euler) is a website dedicated to a series of computational problems intended to be solved with computer programs. The...
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    in the American Crossword Puzzle Tournament in 1979, its second year, and placed third. He submitted a puzzle to the contest starting in 1980, and later...
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  • National Puzzle Day. The contest entries are a completed puzzle and posting it on the student union's social media by noon on Puzzle Day. In 2023, White Castle...
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  • Publius Enigma (category Puzzle hunts)
    unclear if the enigma involves a genuinely solvable puzzle as part of an early Internet-based contest or was a convoluted hoax. During the 1994 Division...
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  • February 20, 1961 (1961-02-20) A Bear Pair (YB): Boo Boo enters a mail-in puzzle contest and wins a trip for two to Paris; he takes Yogi along, who causes havoc...
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  • day, while Ralphie's father struggles with his entry in a crossword puzzle contest ("Genius On Cleveland Street"), Ralphie accidentally blurts out what...
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