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Funny farm is a puzzle that consists of a network of words that are connected based on similarity or association. The puzzle is usually presented as an interactive puzzle, where solvers can input phrases into the grid to fill out the network. The name comes from Funny Farm, a puzzle game from the mid-2000s developed by abednego.
(Full article...)Did you know ...
- ...that Microsoft Puzzle Hunt first used gph-site to host their puzzlehunt in 2023?
- ...that Edric's DUAL Hunt has the largest number of puzzles of all hunts run on Edric's website so far?
- ...that Shardhunt is a direct follow-up to a smaller hunt hosted on a Discord server?
- ...that CCBC used to stand for Cipher & Code Bar Competition because of its association with Baidu Cipher Bar?
- ...that when only using 1s and 0s, the last five digits of an ASCII encoding of an English letter is identical to the same English letter written in binary?
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