The One with the "Puzzle Mania"

Going In Circles 

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Frogs of the Blobland, each occupying a leaf in their auspicious pond, have to arrange themselves for an holy ceremony. Full of mischief, rather than jumping directly to their correct positions, they start playing a game. They fix a frog and then the six frogs encircling it, will jump to their in-circle-neighbour’s leaf in an anticlockwise fashion (count as 1 move). Then they will choose a new frog at random, and repeat till they are arranged.The frog being chosen as the center must have exactly six neighbors encircling him.  Can you be a good instructor, and help them finish the game in least possible moves?
(How to answer? If  it takes a total of 123 moves then answer it as 0123 )

Collapsing Towers

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A township, owned by Kushal resembles a 10 X 10 grid with each block containing towers, which need to be collapsed. His civil engineer, Yogesh has developed a device which when placed in any of the blocks, and triggered, collapses all the towers in the horizontal and vertical direction, but its effect cannot pass through the barriers marked in the grid. It must be ensured that it doesn’t destroy
another device, already placed in the grid.

Numbered barriers indicate the quantity of devices that could be placed in the horizontally or vertically adjacent blocks. For a crossed barrier, you can put any number of devices beside it. The devices can also be placed in a block that is not adjacent to a barrier.

Question 1:
Vinay has created 34 devices, for the plot-1.
How may these devices will not come in use?

Question 2:

To use the remaining devices, they have contracted with  another builder, Dhruv 0wning plot-2. Please help them place the devices on that grid. (Represent the position of device by shading that particular square in the particular square.)

Starry Nights

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One summer night, little Vishal was lying on the roof waiting for sleep. He suddenly captures a group of 25 stars which were arranged in a 5*5 grid, which sounds weird, but that’s how it was, at least as per what he remembers.

With a close observation, he found that there were five brightness levels (1-5) of the stars and that no 2 stars of the same row or the same column had the same brightness level.

He was much more amazed to recognise 5 special constellations in the group, each containing 5 stars, one of each brightness level. Each star belongs to only one of these 5 constellation.

Next morning, he wanted to share his ‘starry’ experience with his friends; Zilani,Pavan and Manikanta, but unfortunately he could recall only a little bit of it, and he penned down  only those details , for which he was certain.

Help him complete the ‘starry’ grid.
(Put the brightness levels of stars in the grid and join boxes to make the constellations.Arrange the constellations  in the grid ,including the numbers, circles and lines. The lines joining the stars may cross each other when constellations are kept in the grid)

Hit and Trail

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The great Indian Scientist, Roshan has been captured, and sent to jail, by the inhabitants of the planet,  Zorgo.
After acquiring all the knowledge he has, the aliens have given him a chance to save his life. He can escape by reaching the exit door, by moving either left, right, up, or down. But it’s not that simple, once he starts moving, he can be stopped only by a hit with  some barrier, or else, if he moves out of the allotted area; he is dead, Also, the slant edged barriers reflect him, on being encountered.
Whtas the minimum number of moves made by Roshan before he escapes ?
(Don’t count Hit with “End” )

Mine Boggling

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A free-lance developer Manikanta got bored of the old dull Minesweeper. To give it a new twist, he has come up with this Min’E’- Boggling puzzle. The player has to find the positions where mines have been planted.The rules are simple: The numbers along a row or below a column list the sizes of the groups of adjacent mines, in that row or column. But there’s a catch, there can be any

number (>0) of safe squares between any two groups. For your help, some mines have

already been flagged.Let’s check out the beta-version of the game!