puzzles
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Gizmodo Puzzle: How to Solve a Diabolical Hat Trick
Can you solve this week’s puzzle?
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Gizmodo Monday Puzzle: Can You Detect the Counterfeit Coins?
Welcome to the first Gizmodo Monday Puzzle, a new series in which I will pose thought-provoking challenges at the beginning of every week to jumpstart your brain. I am a lifelong puzzle lover, sometime puzzle creator, and new Gizmodo puzzle writer. Many of the teasers posted here will be difficult — but they will be…
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Real-Life Monsters Created a Rubik’s Cube That Changes Colour as You Move It Around
If crawling out of bed, showering, and getting dressed every morning already provides you with a significant daily challenge, you’ll want to stay well clear of a new Japanese variant of the iconic Rubik’s Cube that makes lining up the coloured squares significantly harder as the squares constantly change colour.
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Scrambling This Nightmarish 4,800+ Piece Rubik’s-Like Puzzle Looks More Satisfying Than Solving It
One of the many niche-uses for a 3D printer is building on the work of fiendish puzzle maker Ernő Rubik. While Rubik’s 3x3x3 cube presented 54 coloured squares for puzzle solvers to sort by colour, this custom 19-layer creation features over 4,800 coloured panels that could take an entire lifetime to return to uniformity.