Isn’t all of this mini games?it should be in the mini games thread
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It’s part of this group, and why would we suddenly start putting these puzzles (not games in my opinion) in a different thread if we already have this thread for it?
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I’m not sure if it is exactly “mini games” because it is modeled after things of a different style.
Think Project Euler but not necessarily so mathy. Think online puzzle games but not as big or sophisticated (yet 
). It is in spirit supposed to be as accessible as possible to a general audience.
Whether it should have the “General Chat” tag or the “Forum Games” tag is somewhat debatable; however, this is of a different origin than the current trend of games.
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Perhaps they simply didn’t want to pay the luggage fees?
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I guess the only countries that fit this clue are Botswana, Kyrgystan, Switzerland? All of which are landlocked.
I have no idea how to determine this, or even say who went where, except to speculate based on their background.
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Intended for @yebellz, spoiler for everyone else, I guess.
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Some level of speculation is acceptable, as long as it makes sense. It is OK if you’re able to say “Well, presumably, they probably were doing x, y and z.”
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Some level of speculation…
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Kevin went to Switzerland to visit the family of his fiance Steve. Although he came from a family with traditional, conservative views, he is happy and loved since his parents have wholeheartedly accepted him and his partner. He enjoyed adding the Swiss-dialects of French and German into his growing language repertoire. This trip mostly confined Kevin to the urban landscape of Geneva, where Steve’s family all live, but he hopes that in future trips, he will get to experience more of the beautiful Swiss countryside, which would fondly remind him so much of his rural roots.
Ben took a job in the financial sector and quickly rose through the ranks in a private equity firm. He went to Kyrgystan for business to negotiate with a forestry company located there. While this career path seems at odds with his conservationist and social activist background, he views it as a means to an end, both in terms of making as much money as possible in order to donate to causes that he cares about, and to shape the business practices of the companies that he works with toward more environmentally friendly directions.
Sam went to medical school after college and has trained to become a doctor. Although she emerged as a promising candidate, giving her the ability to choose among career paths at various high-paying and prestigious medical institutions, she has not focused on pursuing money, and anyways already comes from a very wealthy family. In between periods of residency at a teaching hospital that humbly serves a needy part of her home city of New York, she volunteers with Médecins Sans Frontières, and spent last summer in Botswana addressing the public health emergency caused by a tropical disease epidemic. As she dedicates her life to helping those most in need, her past X-Games glory fades as a distant memory of a more hedonistic youth.
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You got me, man! You know I love a good story.
Of course, (spoiler)
I had them do much more touristy things,but this be canon now.
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I like how their continued backstories effectively are forms of “although this is their background, they are now doing something different”
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Obviously, if someone does not guess exactly the solution that I wrote down, they must have gotten the logic puzzle wrong.
Of course, that was fully intentional, and I just wanted to take the speculation to the extreme by picking paths that would not have been suggested.
These characters were very loosely based, in various parts and pieces, on people that I have known from high school and college. Although, people may have a particular background, where they go in life can be incredibly surprising.
However, I messed up a bit with contradicting that Ben “works a local vegetarian bakery”. Let’s pretend that is just a passion project that he does on the side, or what we he did back during his college days as side income while studying.
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A trivia question who is the best Brawl stars player that is a SDK .
Level :brutal
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What are the rules for filing the colors? Can not similar color stones be far apart? how similar is a similar color or different?
It’s a puzzle, that’s for you to find out 
Does it means I can make anything up?
No, it has a unique solution, since it’s a puzzle.
But, as stated, @yebellz’ puzzle is different from my puzzle.
It looks like some sort of multi-color Go, each different color players have to play one color and then the next. And looks like different colors cannot touch each other.
The puzzle from @yebellz is more confusing since it doesn’t seem to have an atari rule, or it would need to be applied after the board is filled? Or it’s a point system, different location has a different value?
Here are a series of hints the progressively spoil more information about the puzzle that I posted yesterday.
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@Vsotvep correctly answered my puzzle. My puzzle has a distinct set of rules that are clearly inconsistent with the pattern of his puzzle.
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Despite the aesthetics, my puzzle has nothing to do with Go. Leaving some stones without liberties was intentional in order to show that regular Go mechanics do not apply.
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The solution of my puzzle requires filling the entire board with colored stones.
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My puzzle might be considered a bit contrived, since it really does not provide enough information (by itself) to explain how to fill up the board, but instead requires one to recall and apply the rules of another very well-known class of puzzles.
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My specific puzzle is just one specific instance out of a very large class of puzzles. With knowledge of the rules, this particular instance is relatively easy, but still takes maybe at least a few minutes to work out.
Huge Spoiler Hint Nearly Revealing the Crux to the Puzzle
Maybe one might call this Godoku
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Some hints for my puzzle
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Like yebellz puzzle, all intersections should be filled
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The number of stones for each colour in the solution to yebellz’ puzzle is the same as in my puzzle.
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No solution of a puzzle of yebellz’ kind can ever be a solution to a puzzle of my kind.
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G7 can impossibly be Green, because of the location of the other Green stones
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F8 must be Black
Similarly Huge Spoiler Hint Revealing the Crux to the Puzzle
Maybe one might call this Gonomino.
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