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What is a He shoots! He scores! word™?
This puzzle is inspired by the What is a Word™ and What is a Phrase™ series started by JLee and their spin-off What is a Number™ series.
If a word conforms to a special rule, I call it a He shoots! ...
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"Interlacing" the 8 Queens Problem
Let "attacking" mean protecting, but everyone says "attacking"...
Let Q be a chess position with q non-attacking queens, R one with r rooks, B b bishops, N n knights and P p pawns (...
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The God of War's Pairs
To Hephaestus, my father’s son,
My two bits, I’ll weigh in:
Do some tasks that I’d like done,
a couple prizes you may win.
The first pair you can find at Godsco
(members-only, if I’d be so precise).
A ...
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What is a Pendulum word™?
This puzzle is inspired by the What is a Word™ and What is a Phrase™ series started by JLee and their spin-off What is a Number™ series.
If a word conforms to a special rule, I call it a Pendulum ...
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Sort this puzzle out
The answer is a single noun.
Built from parts:
(morphs into boast or seize) + (BIV BUTY)
As a whole:
could be young
could be treasure
could be field bound
It could be simpler than it sounds.
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Undecidable Checkmate
While playing chess, I had a momentary dizzy spell which erased most of my short-term memory. I knew only the current position, and that I was playing White, and that all play so far had been legal, ...
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Find side view and simple 3d [closed]
You need to find a side view of B) nacrt=front view tlocrt=top view. You also need to draw the 3d model. I got this puzzle from my teacher in school.
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Solve the Cipher, Find the Passphrase
So just for context - my (now former) coworker Megan is a HUGE nerd, but she's always been a bit of a troublemaker too. I mean, she once got caught stealing some monitors and managed to get off with ...
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Sum of the parts
This puzzle has 2 parts.
Question A
If GEORGE can be depicted as follows:
and JIMMY can be depicted like this:
then what is the following name?
Question B
If QUEEN can be depicted like this:
then ...
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What is a Productive Word™?
This is inspired by the What is a Word/Phrase™ series started by JLee with a special brand of Phrase™ and Word™ puzzles.
Here are some words, both examples of Productive Words™ and non-examples. What ...
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Supposed pigpen or rosicrucian cipher
There are more variations than the one present in the image, but the most used letters are certainly present. I tried letter frequency, word searching. The plain text language is most likely Romanian.
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When you're done - you'll have none
The answer is one word.
Complete clue:
against synthesis
Hint:
This is my own.
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Not Benny but close
The answer is a single word. Below are clues for the same:
colleague of chia
home to Oscar
means to open
of ancient origin
This is my own.
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When you see the whole set, the answer you'll get
Find the hidden answer.
Key points:
Clock-wise
When one ends, the next continues
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Complete the integer sequence: 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 20, ?, ?, ?, ?
Here is a sequence I happened to work out, although I am certainly not the first one.
Can you fill in the missing numbers?
10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 20, ?, ?, ?, ?
NB: The sequence ends after the last ...
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