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Just felt like adding this because why not.

Labels under the Genres, Difficulties, and All Labels categories should be self-explanatory.

Puzzle Types:

  • Connection - Involves drawing lines to form a network. 
  • Instructionless - Involves deducing the rules of a puzzle, often with an example. 
  • Loop - Involves drawing lines to form a loop that may cross. 
  • Numbers - Involves filling a grid with numbers. 
  • Object Placement - Involves placing more abstract objects on a grid. 
  • Puzzle Hunt - A more open-ended puzzle genre; solvers often have to find the rules themselves. 
    • Example puzzle: MIT Mystery Hunt (will add a blog puzzle here when I add one of this type).
  • Region Division - Involves dividing a grid into areas. 
  • Shading - Involves filling cells of the grid with colors (generally black/white). 
  • Words - Involves words of some sort. 

Tags:

  • Author's Favorite - Puzzles that I really like.
  • Author's Original - Puzzles that I would consider to be the best ones I've set.
  • Competition - Discussion about a puzzle contest I participated in or contributed to.
  • Hybrid - A combination of two or more genres.
  • Information - A more informative post; generally doesn't contain puzzles.
  • Multiple - Generally for puzzles composed of multiple sections that can be solved individually.
  • Variant - Puzzles that deviate from standard rules in some way; generally by adding a constraint.

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