Sounds like a cross word puzzle
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Need a break from spending time with the family this holiday season? The United Kingdom’s Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ) has a puzzle for you. This year, the British spy agency is sending its employees a wickedly complicated grid-shading puzzle inside its traditional holiday card.
The puzzle looks kind of like a crossword, only instead of figuring out which letter goes in each box the player has to figure out which boxes to shade based on long strings of numbers
Puzzle;In this type of grid-shading puzzle, each square is either black or white. Some of the black squares have already been filled in for you.
Each row or column is labeled with a string of numbers. The numbers indicate the length of all consecutive runs of black squares, and are displayed in the order that the runs appear in that line. For example, a label "2 1 6" indicates sets of two, one and six black squares, each of which will have at least one white square separating them.
But the puzzle is only the first step. According to GCHQ, filling in all the right boxes will create an image that will lead the player to the next puzzle in a series.
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Need a break from spending time with the family this holiday season? The United Kingdom’s Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ) has a puzzle for you. This year, the British spy agency is sending its employees a wickedly complicated grid-shading puzzle inside its traditional holiday card.
The puzzle looks kind of like a crossword, only instead of figuring out which letter goes in each box the player has to figure out which boxes to shade based on long strings of numbers
Puzzle;In this type of grid-shading puzzle, each square is either black or white. Some of the black squares have already been filled in for you.
Each row or column is labeled with a string of numbers. The numbers indicate the length of all consecutive runs of black squares, and are displayed in the order that the runs appear in that line. For example, a label "2 1 6" indicates sets of two, one and six black squares, each of which will have at least one white square separating them.
But the puzzle is only the first step. According to GCHQ, filling in all the right boxes will create an image that will lead the player to the next puzzle in a series.
pattern
asked 5 mins ago
PurplePurple
511112
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Need a break from spending time with the family this holiday season? The United Kingdom’s Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ) has a puzzle for you. This year, the British spy agency is sending its employees a wickedly complicated grid-shading puzzle inside its traditional holiday card.
The puzzle looks kind of like a crossword, only instead of figuring out which letter goes in each box the player has to figure out which boxes to shade based on long strings of numbers
Puzzle;In this type of grid-shading puzzle, each square is either black or white. Some of the black squares have already been filled in for you.
Each row or column is labeled with a string of numbers. The numbers indicate the length of all consecutive runs of black squares, and are displayed in the order that the runs appear in that line. For example, a label "2 1 6" indicates sets of two, one and six black squares, each of which will have at least one white square separating them.
But the puzzle is only the first step. According to GCHQ, filling in all the right boxes will create an image that will lead the player to the next puzzle in a series.
pattern
asked 5 mins ago
PurplePurple
511112
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Need a break from spending time with the family this holiday season? The United Kingdom’s Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ) has a puzzle for you. This year, the British spy agency is sending its employees a wickedly complicated grid-shading puzzle inside its traditional holiday card.
The puzzle looks kind of like a crossword, only instead of figuring out which letter goes in each box the player has to figure out which boxes to shade based on long strings of numbers
Puzzle;In this type of grid-shading puzzle, each square is either black or white. Some of the black squares have already been filled in for you.
Each row or column is labeled with a string of numbers. The numbers indicate the length of all consecutive runs of black squares, and are displayed in the order that the runs appear in that line. For example, a label "2 1 6" indicates sets of two, one and six black squares, each of which will have at least one white square separating them.
But the puzzle is only the first step. According to GCHQ, filling in all the right boxes will create an image that will lead the player to the next puzzle in a series.
pattern
pattern
asked 5 mins ago
PurplePurple
511112
asked 5 mins ago
PurplePurple
511112
asked 5 mins ago
PurplePurple
511112
asked 5 mins ago
PurplePurple
511112
asked 5 mins ago
PurplePurple
511112
511112
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