Questions tagged [enigmatic-puzzle]
Puzzles where the genre or solving strategy of the puzzle is not explicitly stated; puzzles where the puzzler must deduce what type of puzzle it is.
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A Stack Of Figures (of the same family)
There are a total of 225 edges and all of them are of equal length.
There are a total of 85 regular polygons, where 75 of them are identical and the remaining 10 have exactly one identical match.
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A Resting Anaconda To My Risk-Taking Friend
My gambler friend, who is very much of a risk-taker, usually ends up losing more than he wins. He plays all kind of casino games but mostly poker where he rarely folds his hands (so no wonder he isn't ...
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Surviving Letters
22 letters have been placed and correctly arranged inside 22 thin boxes. Some of the rows then got rearranged and some boxes disappeared.
Exactly which boxes disappeared (and how did they disappear?) ...
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A Holiday to Remember... or Forget?! (Meta-puzzle)
This is the final part of A Holiday to Remember..., a 14-part puzzle hunt.
During the course of this series, 13 locations around the US state of Colorado have been visited:
These will be helpful as ...
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Blue Discs, Red Discs and Happy Stars
What famous song is encoded by the following image?
BONUS QUESTION: What is the significance of the happy star in the top row?
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Double Distilled Word
I've discovered a way to distill words. First I choose a small batch of fermentable words, and put them together into a sort of word mash. It's important to get this part right, so I check the words ...
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Ms. Geo's Greenhouse
Tucked away in a nearby neighborhood is a small, but popular, florist's shop, run by a charming young lady known only as Ms. Geo. I visited her store for the first time about a month ago, hoping to ...
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A Puzzle of No Meaning
Why is this puzzle of no meaning? (The bottom text is just there to confirm you're right).
Hint 1:
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A Holiday to Remember... #13: Missing You
This is part 13 of A Holiday to Remember..., a 14-part puzzle hunt. Each part is solvable on its own, with the exception of the meta-puzzle at the end. The answers to puzzles 1-13 are all locations in ...
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Anyone who exceeds me is not eliglible!
There is a special award given for anyone who can create themselves using only themselves!
But there is a catch: I was declared the hard limit for all possible candidates and everyone who exceeds me ...
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A very rickety series of spurious connections
Make sense of this thread from beginning to end:
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A Holiday to Remember... #12: Off-grid
This is part 12 of A Holiday to Remember..., a 14-part puzzle hunt. Each part is solvable on its own, with the exception of the meta-puzzle at the end. The answers to puzzles 1-13 are all locations in ...
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A Holiday to Remember... #11: Great party, dudes!
This is part 11 of A Holiday to Remember..., a 14-part puzzle hunt. Each part is solvable on its own, with the exception of the meta-puzzle at the end. The answers to puzzles 1-13 are all locations in ...
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