Oct 28, 2025 · I too am not speaking on behalf of the mod team, but my opinion is much the same as bobble's; it's not clear to me that an official classification of tags would have very much value.

$\begingroup$@boboquack Yes, i do agree there should be a riley tag, and maybe also a classifation tad for "what is a xxx". then bongard can be replaced by visual/ pattern + classification, though that …

Jul 31, 2025 · @GentlePurpleRain Not sure that saying a grid is somehow involved would be a useful classification. That connects things from IQ tests to Sudoku to peg solitare to chess to crosswords.

Maybe something like word-categories or word-categorization? Or possibly word-sorting, though that might give the impression that the goal is classification of new words rather than finding the pattern. …

It was pointed out to me in a comment that there was a discussion here on meta which ruled that hints were not the way to avoid a "too broad" classification. Adding the hints hurt the puzzle, in my opinion, …

Jun 19, 2016 · This is great recipe for getting a "too broad" classification. How do you let the reader know how cool the answer is supposed to be? There is the "negative" approach. Any series of N …

Alternatively, if you really want to hide it from the post instead of using spoiler tag, you can use **HTML comment tag**. The readers need to read the source of the post by clicking "edit" on the post to see …

Jan 12, 2015 · We have had several discussions on puzzle-series and common names in titles, the most recent one here. Now, I would like to propose that we introduce series-xxx tags for puzzle series. …

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