Questions that present some scenario, and asks you to provide a solution that satisfies some requirement (example "Win within X turns", or "9 Queens without check/checkmate", or "MTG, deal X damage this turn")
Questions tagged [puzzles]
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What is Ol' George's Nail Wail?
This has been sitting on the bookshelf in my parents' house since I was a kid, and to this day, I still have no idea what it is or how to play:
It was given to us by my grandma, and the best my dad can remember is that "it's a puzzle of some sort".…
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How to understand the given Preferans puzzle solution?
There is a Preferans problem:
South chose crosses as the trump.
How many tricks will get South?
Part of the solution the author of problem proposes and that I can't understand is:
You can take 7 tricks.
Usually the South want to put ace of…
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