Saturday 23 July 2016

reverse puzzling - The trunk of trivial trials


This puzzle is a knockoff of humn's The case of the world's easiest puzzles. (humn has encouraged spinoffs in a comment.)


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Hey be careful with that case! Even the slightest nudge, jostle, or jog, and poof, those puzzles are solved. And trust me, not even the most gullible mark, er...


Hello there! Step right up, sir or madam, and witness here in this portable display trunk more of the simplest puzzles known to man. Yes, we have here the most frivolous, the most fatuous, the most utterly uninspiring puzzles you've ever seen, and for a mere five dollars—yes, that's right, a mere five dollars each—I'll give you their rules and let you have at them.



Wait, what? You want to solve them without my identifying them for you? Fine, go ahead big shot... But I won't be impressed unless you can also tell me the name of each kind of puzzle...


(This simple puzzle asks you to identify puzzle types from near-limiting cases of those puzzle types. It is less open-ended and requires much less creativity than its predecessor, but maybe it will teach you about a new type of puzzle.)



Answer



(Except where noted, I found all of these without the comments - some may be wrong, though.)



A. maze
B. assembly puzzle
C. sokoban
D. kakuro
E. Bongard Problem Spot the Difference

F. numberlink (aka "Flow Free")
G. picross/nonogram
H. slitherlink
I. Witless (Jaap Scherphuis proposes peg solitaire, which sounds much more plausible)
J. Hashiwokakero
K. Stained Glass (thanks, Edderiofer!)



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