Hi everyone!
I'm planning to start a community-driven puzzle project focused on logical reasoning, creative problem-solving, and exploring different approaches to solving puzzles, including the capabilities and limitations of AI models.
The idea is to periodically publish collections of original puzzles that people can solve, discuss, and contribute to.
How Will It Work?
- Puzzle sets: Depending on my available time and community interest, new sets may be published weekly, monthly, or once every few months. There won't be a strict schedule.
- Solutions: Official solutions and explanations will be published approximately one month after each set is released.
- Discussion: Everyone is encouraged to discuss their reasoning, alternative solutions, interesting observations, and approaches to individual problems.
- No IQ testing: We won't collect IQ scores or other IQ-related personal data. This project is about exploring reasoning and enjoying puzzles, not measuring or ranking people's intelligence.
AI Participation and Benchmarking
AI-assisted solving is explicitly allowed and encouraged!
I'm also interested in using these puzzles to investigate how different AI models perform on novel reasoning problems.
We can compare:
- Which problems different models can and cannot solve.
- How long they take to arrive at correct solutions.
- How performance changes with reasoning effort, thinking settings, and other configurations.
- Whether different prompts, hints, or approaches improve their performance.
- Common failure patterns and the types of reasoning that models struggle with.
For meaningful comparisons, it would be helpful if participants shared the model name and version, reasoning settings, prompts used, approximate solving time, and whether hints or multiple attempts were necessary.
Human and AI-assisted solutions are both welcome. The goal is to understand the reasoning process rather than simply collect correct answers.
Community Contributions
Any type of contribution is greatly appreciated!
You can help by solving puzzles, identifying ambiguities, suggesting improvements, or even creating original puzzles for future sets.
If you'd like to submit a puzzle, please email it to [lunarysumeei@gmail.com](mailto:lunarysumeei@gmail.com).
Please include the puzzle, its intended solution and explanation, any relevant diagrams, and your preferred name or username for attribution.
Puzzle submissions are welcome at any time! There are no submission deadlines. You can send your puzzles whenever they're ready, regardless of when the next set is scheduled. Accepted puzzles may be included in the next set or a later release, depending on the available material and publication schedule.
Contributors whose puzzles are accepted will receive proper credit in the published sets and solutions.
Requirements for Puzzle Submissions
If you would like to contribute an original puzzle, please follow these guidelines:
1. Strict logical solution
Every puzzle must have a logically defensible, well-defined solution. The intended answer should follow from the information provided, without relying on arbitrary assumptions or subjective interpretations. Avoid unintended alternative solutions.
2. Carefully planted hints
A good puzzle should contain thoughtfully placed clues that guide attentive solvers toward the intended logic. The goal is to reward observation and reasoning rather than force people to guess what the author had in mind.
3. Some degree of novelty
Try to introduce an original idea, a creative logical mechanism, or an interesting variation on an existing concept. Complete originality isn't necessary, but puzzles should offer something beyond a straightforward reproduction of familiar problems.
4. Clear and accessible explanations
Provide a solution that explains the underlying reasoning as simply and clearly as possible. Avoid unnecessary complexity.
For visual puzzles, include a diagram illustrating the relevant relationships or steps in the solution.
5. Vector graphics for visual puzzles
Visual puzzles must be submitted in an editable vector format, such as SVG, rather than raster-only PNG or JPG files.
You can use tools such as Inkscape or Affinity Designer to prepare your puzzles. This helps preserve image quality, consistency, and editability.
6. Attention to detail
Check your puzzles carefully before submitting them. Visual alignment, spacing, shape consistency, wording, and other seemingly minor details can affect how a puzzle is interpreted.
Make sure every intentional clue is represented accurately and that accidental details do not introduce ambiguity.
Submissions will be reviewed for logical consistency, originality, clarity, and presentation quality. Revisions may be suggested before acceptance.
What Is the Goal?
I'd like this to become a collaborative collection of well-designed reasoning puzzles, accompanied by rigorous but accessible solutions and interesting discussions.
I'm particularly interested in seeing how different people approach the same problem and comparing human reasoning strategies with those of modern AI systems.
The project is intended to be open, collaborative, and recreational, without the pressure of standardized testing or IQ comparisons.
You don't need to be an experienced puzzle designer or particularly skilled solver to participate. Curiosity and a willingness to think critically are enough.
