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What tags should these puzzles have?
The following posts in the Puzzles proposal have no tags other than the proposal tag. If we launch the community, those posts would be untagged. Can we get some tags for them?
They're probably untagged because we're all guessing about what tags would be helpful. Some tags already in use are grid-puzzles, tiling, calculation-puzzle, mathematics, riddle, logic-deduction, and geometry. Are these the right tags? Are there missing tags? How should the following questions be tagged?
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Starting with 2014 "+" signs and 2015 "-" signs, you delete signs until one remains. What's left?
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Packing a 3-dimensional object with 3-dimensional L-shaped pieces
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Connect the dots, red to red, green to green and blue to blue
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Fill the circles so that consecutive numbers are not adjacent
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Subdividing a circle into 2 halves with equal numbers of letters A, B and C in each half
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Place numbers around a circle to make all length 3 binary strings
If some of these posts should get any of our existing tags, let's go ahead and edit them. (I just did that for one.) Discussion here can then focus on adding or changing the tags we have, like the answers posted already do.
Drop `-puzzle[s]` suffixes In an incubator shared by many proposals, sometimes tags need cross-community disambiguation …
8h ago
Make grid-puzzles singular For consistency with the other tags, we should rename the tag "grid-puzzles" to "grid-puzzle …
11h ago
A hidden-item tag We could have a tag "hidden-item" for the following puzzles: - There is an intruder in our cat party! …
11h ago
A layout or visual tag? The following puzzles are about visual layouts but not grids: - Place an X into seven of the s …
8h ago
hidden-message? Letter shifting is a cipher. Are there other kinds of ciphers that we might have puzzles about? A com …
7h ago
A 3d tag We could have a tag "3d" for the following puzzles: - Packing a 3-dimensional object with 3-dimensional L-shap …
11h ago
A chess tag We could have a tag "chess" for the following puzzles: - What is the maximum number of Amazons that can be …
11h ago
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A 3d tag
We could have a tag "3d" for the following puzzles:
- Packing a 3-dimensional object with 3-dimensional L-shaped pieces
- Construct a cube and a pyramid
- Walking 3 kilometres on a planet like Earth
Should we have a 3d tag? Are these puzzles suitable for that tag?
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Drop -puzzle[s] suffixes
In an incubator shared by many proposals, sometimes tags need cross-community disambiguation. I assume that's how we ended up with these tags. After launch, we could drop the -puzzle and puzzles suffixes from the tags that have them.
A hidden-item tag
We could have a tag "hidden-item" for the following puzzles:
Should we have a hidden-item tag? Are these puzzles suitable for that tag?
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Make grid-puzzles singular
For consistency with the other tags, we should rename the tag "grid-puzzles" to "grid-puzzle".
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hidden-message?
Letter shifting is a cipher. Are there other kinds of ciphers that we might have puzzles about?
A comment suggests hidden-message, which is more general than cipher.
A chess tag
We could have a tag "chess" for the following puzzles:
- What is the maximum number of Amazons that can be placed on a 5x5 chessboard so that no piece attacks another?
- A knight's sightseeing tour
Should we have a chess tag? Are these puzzles suitable for that tag?
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A layout or visual tag?
The following puzzles are about visual layouts but not grids:
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Connect the dots, red to red, green to green and blue to blue (note that Connect the dots, A to A, B to B, C to C, and D to D is similar but on a grid; should these two puzzles "clump" together?)
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Fill the circles so that consecutive numbers are not adjacent
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Subdividing a circle into 2 halves with equal numbers of letters A, B and C in each half
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Place numbers around a circle to make all length 3 binary strings
If we have a tag for this, should grid-puzzle and the proposed 3d tags be children?
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