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Is there a policy on AI-assisted puzzle content creation?
Are we allowed to use ChatGPT and such to assist in puzzle creation?
I mean to use them to realize my ideas. For example, to create images or improve/suggest alternative wording.
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Best puzzles of 2025 Q3 (July - September)?
This question is part of the best-puzzle award series
What are your nominations for the best puzzles, here on Puzzling.SE, of the third quarter (July/August/September) 2025?
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Do we want room guidelines in The Sphinx's Lair?
Our local site chatroom, The Sphinx's Lair, has a thriving community, and one that readily welcomes new users. As Room Owners were recently notified, we now have the ability to set room guidelines. We ...
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Spoiler tags in comments
As a part of the Community Asks Sprint last month, we worked on a couple of improvements to spoilers which are outlined in this Meta Stack Exchange post. The biggest change for Puzzling is the ...
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Puzzling Advent Calendar - 2025
Previous years: 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024
There will be a Christmas-themed puzzle every day between the 1st and 24th of December, where the accepted answer will be rewarded with a bounty.
To make this ...
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Music in a puzzle
Would it be possible/allowed to include a piece of music in a question?
I have an idea for a puzzle which includes music, and I would like to add links to multiple snippets of music.
I have searched ...
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Spoiler tag harms its readability
TL:DR; The answer to my math-topic post has lots of spoiler tags, and it’s so difficult to read. Is spoilers really required in totally math-related answer?
5 months ago, I posted a math puzzle (or ...
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Another Big Project: Categorizing the Tags
Can we have some unique etiquette or policy to Puzzling SE?(@bobble and @Randal’Thor, two honorable mods, told me that I misunderstood the question, btw.)
My opinion is: Yes we can, and for the aspect ...
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Puzzling-specific etiquette of editing info from comments into puzzles
Almost everywhere on the SE network, the etiquette around editing a question to add information that was given by the OP in comments is simple: anyone can do it, and such edits are good, because ...
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Post-mortem on "The 'e' in apple"
I posted a puzzle, The "e" in apple. If I remember correctly, initially it received 11 upvotes and 0 downvotes. Then another user posted an answer that I accepted, and soon after I posted my ...
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Heads-up: I'm planning to convert old MathJax tables to Markdown
Nearly five years ago at this point, Stack Exchange added support for tables in Markdown. These are significantly more screen-reader friendly; MathJax to Markdown table conversion edits are a boon to ...
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What do specific OP title colors actually mean?
I did search and feel annoyed to not have figured out:
... why do some PSE titles show blue, some white, and some grey in the list?
I sincerely apologize for missing the ball...
Have a nice day, and ...
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How good is current AI at solving our puzzles?
First of all, I support the community guidelines on the use of AI.
I am wondering, out of curiosity, how good is current AI at solving our puzzles here at PSE? I guess the answer depends on the type ...
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May I improve a puzzle after answers have been posted (not invalidating any existing ones)
I posted a puzzle - specifically this: Discussing strategies reduces the winning chances of everyone. People posted answers, including one exactly matching my intention.
I then realized that my ...
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The USAMTS attracts a lot of cheating attempts
The USA Mathematical Talent Search, or USAMTS for short, is an annual mathematics competition for middle-school and high-school students in the USA. Its questions are posted on the internet and ...