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The questions tagged "puzzle" are essentially programming questions, that are as good as solving puzzles. These can be contrasted to the real-life problems, which are comparatively easy to solve.

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How to get Nth Power of any number

I faced an interview. where I was asked the following question Write a function in any of programming language that computes the nth power of a number w/o using + * or ^ or declaring a new variable inside the function or using any library function…
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solving 8-puzzle with BFS algorithm using Python

I want to solve 8-puzzle problem with bfs algorithm and using Python this is my code, I don't get what exactly is the problem with my code. But it keeps running and doesn't stop and does not solve the problem. list =…
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How to generate puzzles to 'crack the code'?

In a puzzle book I found the following puzzle: The caption is in Dutch, but I can shortly describe it: There is a sequence of numbers in the range 0...6, which is not given There are 6 mathematical statements (listed below) that are true By using…
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[Puzzle Game]Finding Combination of squares in a 2D Grid

I am making a game like Lumines Remastered (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8aJqNGjLtaY&t=358s) and I was pretty much successful in it. But, I got stuck in one place in clearing the pieces. I have a 2d Array grid of 16x10 and each individual pieces…
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Puzzle on looping statement

Possible Duplicate: Not able to solve the puzzle regarding this code… The following is a piece of C code, whose intention was to print a minus sign 20 times. But you can notice that, it doesn't work. #include int main() { …
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Reducing the weight of this Function by means of Code

Consider the Following Function taking into account addition costs you 4 Operations assignment costs 1 Operations Comparision costs 1 Operations Calculation of the above function will cost 14 Operations int function1(int a,int b,int c, int d, int…
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I need help getting my simple 2D puzzle to work

The idea is that the permutation puzzle is in the surface of a torus. I set it so that you move the pieces by pressing Q, W, E, D. The problem I have is that when you combine horizontal and vertical moves the numbers (representing colors) overlap.…
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JQuery: Why is my puzzle not working on mobiles?

I'm new here and try to get arround the forum a bit. I've just finish a programming class (webforce3) and test all I can to review my classes. My first question is about a little program/game that seems not to work on mobile devices. Can anyone give…
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Finding unique solution puzzle python

x = np.array([[0,1,11],[0,2,11],[0,3,10],[0,4,10],[0,5,9],[0,6,9],[1,7,9], [1,5,11],[1,6,11],[2,7,11],[2,8,10]]) I'm pretty new to this so i'm gonna call things like this [element1,element2,element3] i have an array as shown above,…
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output of code snippet

What should be the value of final_answer in this Js code snippet and why? function weird(x) { var tmp = 3; return function(y) { return x + y + ++tmp; } } var funny = weird(2); var final_answer = funny(10); I think value of…
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How To Scramble Image in Java

I found this source code from http://zetcode.com/tutorials/javagamestutorial/puzzle/ And I wanted to play around with it. It's a picture puzzle game, however when I run the program, it doesn't show up scrambled and I was wondering how will I go…
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Binary Tree Puzzle

Recently I came across this interview puzzle. Can Someone Explain me what this puzzle means.. You are given a binary tree. A light source is placed on the right of the tree. Print the list of all the nodes over which the light is falling…
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Python algorithm to solve triomines puzzle with backtracking

Let's say I have a board like this . . x . . . . . . . . . . . x . . x x is used box and '.' are free. I need to put triomines to fill all the area, so there will be no free cells. Triomines are L-shaped, and I mark same triomino with the same…
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How to solve a puzzle using breadth first search?

I took a class on this a few semesters ago, but I didn't learn much at the time. I watched a lecture by MIT on Breadth First Search. I learned quite a bit from it, however it only taught me that BFS is a good algorithm for searching a graph,…
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Jigsaw Puzzle Solver

Ok, so I have a 3 x 3 jig saw puzzle game that I am writing and I am stuck on the solution method. public Piece[][] solve(int r, int c) { if (isSolved()) return board; board[r][c] = null; for (Piece p : pieces) { if…
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