PuzzleBot

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About

PuzzleBot is an open-source project that posts a daily puzzle to Mastodon. This began as a tiny experiment to explore Mastodon as social media platform while trying to create a bot that posts something of intellectual value and encourages critical thinking.

PuzzleBot is entirely automated and the data set comes from a variety of sources. Those data sources and credits can be found here.

The Puzzles

Anagrams. An anagram is a word scramble. It takes word in jumbles up the letters. For this puzzle, you are given the scrambled set of letters and have to come up with the original word.

PuzzleBot does both 5- and 7-letter anagrams. The five letter puzzles are relatively easy and often have more than one solution. The seven letter version is a bit harder.

Cryptograms. A cryptogram is a puzzle that contains a phrase encrypted with a simple cipher. Your goal is to determine the original phrase.

PuzzleBot uses caesar and substitution ciphers (selected at random) with random keys. PuzzleBot does not alter spaces or punctuation.

Prime Factors. PuzzleBot's Prime Factors puzzle give you a number that was made by multiplying two prime numbers together. Your goal is to determine the prime numbers.

PuzzleBot only uses the first hundred primes (2 - 541). But this puzzle may be more suited to the computationally inclined.