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Brainstorming ideas for a generic puzzle, riddle, illusion community (lemmy.ca)

submitted 4 weeks ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I remember seeing at least one other community related to this, which had regular math problems.

What I'm thinking is having a general community for any of the following:

joke style riddles
more complex riddles (ex. missing dollar riddle)
math problems (geometry, infinite doors, monty hall)
optical illusions
those physics 'what would happen' questions (ex. which bucket would fill first, which way would the balloon move)

Keeping it open would allow for more content, and it will also keep things fresh, since having the same type of question every day might get boring for users.

What should the community be called? Some ideas so far:

riddler: might be too specific to the character, or the concept or riddles
???: I thought this was fun, but it might cause issues with other fediverse platforms
what: Not as fun, but solves the issue above

What instance should the community be on?

Any best practices? We could have tags for the approximate difficulty of the question. [easy] for mobile game ad type questions, [average] for common riddles, and [advanced] for the complex math questions? + [meme] for joke posts

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 weeks ago

You could call it c/puzzlemethis, maybe. It'd sound like "riddle me this" so the purpose is pretty easy to figure out, but it also says that this isn't just riddles.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

Cool idea! And yeah we have already some similar communities:

[email protected] (bit quiet)

[email protected]

But not any for riddles specifically I think.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

That's the one, [email protected] is the one I was remembering. I'd love to see more of those

[email protected] is fun, and there is some overlap. I think it might be distinct enough to exist alongside an unstructured riddle/puzzle community

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 weeks ago

Agreed! And communities where people participate are really needed - new users are often met with "news communities" which can be depressing if your whole feed consists of bad news.