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Jane Street announces a new puzzle challenging participants to reverse engineer an ASIC from its GDS layout, recover a netlist, infer the circuit's purpose, and find the final answer.

Introduces NOLLI, a procedurally generated English-Korean puzzle benchmark for diagnosing LLM performance gaps, with 15 puzzle types and calibrated difficulty, revealing that writing-system-intensive tasks show significant performance gaps.

Google Devs announces a new developer challenge focused on a tricky dependency version conflict scenario involving three packages sharing one dependency.

The Verge reviews House House's new co-op adventure game Big Walk, comparing it to Breath of the Wild and praising its communication-driven exploration and puzzle design.

Google AI Devs showcases a multi-agent system using Gemini 3.6 Flash and Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite to iteratively design and verify puzzle challenges in real time based on live player actions.

Hilo is a daily word puzzle that blends vocabulary with alphabetical reasoning, using hi/lo clues to narrow down each letter of a 7-letter word, emphasizing logic and deduction over obscure knowledge.

One More Letter is a word puzzle game where players add a single letter to transform words.

EXAPUNKS is a 2018 programming puzzle game by Zachtronics where players write viruses to hack networks. The page also offers physical zine sets and a custom puzzle creation tool.

The article describes the author's journey building a word game that requires pure deduction without guessing, and how information theory helped overcome the challenge of generating solvable puzzles.

This paper traces the origin and history of the Muddy Children Puzzle, a classic epistemic logic puzzle, through publications spanning two centuries, and presents a novel hats puzzle involving self-reference.

Putt.day is a daily mini golf game where players can play a new hole each day.

A crypto VC firm, Paradigm, purchased the answer to the CIA's Kryptos sculpture puzzle for nearly a million dollars, taking over the role of verifying solutions.

JS Crossword is a web-based crossword puzzle where each clue is the result of evaluating the JavaScript expression that is the answer. It uses obscure and cursed JS features, aimed at experienced JavaScript developers.

The author describes using the MiniZinc constraint solver to solve The New York Times Pips puzzle, demonstrating how to express constraints and find solutions efficiently.