Six Sleek Snacks
(Published on 10. June 2025, 14:22 by ThePedallingPianist)
After the success of Nine Lives, I've been meaning to publish more of the 65 puzzles I got carried away setting in response to Scojo's "snackdoku" prompt. If I'm being honest with myself, the vast majority were rather silly, and I only set them to keep up with the incredible pace set by LMDemasi. I did find six that I felt contained interesting enough ideas to be worth publishing, though they are somewhat of a random assortment!
Individual links (estimated difficulty):
1. Venn Diagram (1.5/5)
2. Hop, Skip, Jump (1.5/5)
3. Counting Friends (1.5/5)
4. Rubber Doom (2/5)
5. Yo (2.5/5)
6. Kneading Doughnuts (3.5/5)
Solution code: The VALUES of the cells in row 1 of "5. Yo", left to right
Comments
on 11. June 2025, 21:27 by DiMono
Rated this based on the five that are required for the solution code. Number 6 looks like an outlier, so I don't think it's fair to judge the pack by the one puzzle that's not even required for the solution code.
on 11. June 2025, 01:45 by The Book Wyrm
5 really nice and smooth snacks with some cool logic, all which just took a few minutes to solve. And also a 6th puzzle.
on 11. June 2025, 01:42 by ThePedallingPianist
Typo
on 11. June 2025, 00:38 by ThePedallingPianist
Updated "6. Kneading Doughnuts", and changed the LMD page's solution code so that you don't have to solve it!
on 10. June 2025, 19:45 by ThePedallingPianist
Added individual links and difficulty estimates.
on 10. June 2025, 18:57 by aqjhs
The opener is strikingly beautiful
...but that last one! the way to my heart is through an elliptical involution <3
6/6 would recommend
on 10. June 2025, 18:15 by StefanSch
Sorry to disagree. Puzzle 6 has a much to complicated rule set for a "sleek snack". I "solved" the puzzle and had no real idea, how the copycat mechanic should work.
In puzzle 4 a more detailed explanation of the word "distance" would be nice. I had to quess where the counting starts.
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TPP: Thanks for the solve and comment! I certainly agree that I have a somewhat twisted idea of "snack" (believe me, some of the "snacks" I made for Scojo's prompt were far harder than any of these!) so that's definitely a fair point!
And yes that's a good point about puzzle 4, I think I copied and pasted the ruleset from another slingshot puzzle. I'm at work but I'll try and remember to fix the wording when I'm back :)
Thanks a lot! I like your improvements.
on 10. June 2025, 17:30 by wuc
Fun fun fun. In the last puzzle it was not clear to me at first that the center must be the same for all copycats. The puzzles are sorted in fun order. The last beeing the best. Great fun thx.
