A square shape with a hole made up of three shapes that can be rotated or flipped to provide eight or twelve solutions (perahps with an l-shape swap). Here we will count a flipped piece as a new solution, even if the shape is the same. We can think of this as the pieces having separate colors on each side. About a month ago I was watching a YouTube video where YouTuber Drew Gooden was struggling with a “weird” puzzle:

The solutions do not have to create a valid date. There can be two month gaps, two day gaps as well as invalid dates such as February 31 st. To get on the leaderboard, fill in the form below with the passcode solved from the puzzle within 125 hours of the puzzle being released. We’re all missing the days when we used to be able to explore the portals of the world. Although it may still be a fair while until we are able to visit them in person again, we can still discover new places and learn a lot about them through the Intel map and Google Search.To solve this, I first encoded all the puzzle pieces, this is relatively easy to do because it’s just a 2D grid.

We are so excited to have “A-Puzzle-A-Day” available for you. This is one of the most fun and addicting puzzles we’ve ever offered. There is a different challenge for every single day of the year. That’s 365 puzzles for one low price, making “A-Puzzle-A-Day” one of the greatest values you’ll ever find. Most passcodes are more than likely fully redeemed already however the correct passcode will still work in the form below for this challenge. After that I just go through all possible piece/location combinations, placing the first puzzle piece in the top position and continuing down.

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Ranking is sorted first by number of puzzles solved then by lowest total solve time based on when the puzzle was released until the solution was submitted. An expanded form of that where, with a flip of the t-shape the c- and b-shapes can be swapped, providing another round of solutions, up to twelve in total;

It has 10 pieces that can be flipped/rotated and placed on a calendar. They claim there is a solution for each day/month/weekday combination. In the YouTube video Drew is struggling and says: Next I wrote the code to generate all the possible rotations of a certain puzzle piece (and eliminated duplicates). Some pieces have more rotations than others because some are the same after a 180 degree rotation, others are not. There are no prizes or awards available, only bragging rights and the fun of discovering new places.The below leaderboard updates every 10 minutes (manual refresh required). If you’re having issues, try a force refresh (shift+F5) Next we consider a flipped piece a new solution only if it has a new shape. Symmetrical pieces can then only be placed in 4 orientations and the asymmetrical pieces can still be placed in 8 orientations. There are almost 120 thousand ways the pieces fit in the frame, but finding the date you want can sometimes drive you crazy! (Some people decided it would be easier to change their birthdays instead!) A-Puzzle-A-Day makes a great gift for your friends, family, coworkers and yourself! Warning! This puzzle is highly addictive!