Questions tagged [word]
A puzzle whose answer will be a word or a set of words but not a phrase or sentence.
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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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Check out these rebuses
A set of simple rebuses with a common theme. The bottom-right is a meta-puzzle for once you've solved all the rebuses.
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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 Pair of Stanzas
Finding myself immersed in belles lettres I found this poem lacking, but it's got potential. I just feel like, God, it could be good or at least better with a small adjustment to each line.
The ...
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Rulers, bots, cards, spots. Which country am I from?
This is an intentionally easy puzzle. To encourage new users to participate, please refrain from answering this puzzle if you have more than 200 reputation points (i.e. the level to get the ...
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Can you find the 7 letter triple-encrypted English word?
I have created a custom encryption where the same 7-letter English word is represented in three different ways. No external "Key" is used, but the logic evolves in each version.
Here are the ...
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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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One secret word encoded in three different ways
Challenge: One secret word encoded in three different levels.
Context: I created this challenge myself. I have encoded a single word using three different methods (three levels of encoding). All three ...
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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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Just follow clues and combine results
This is my own.
The solution is a single noun.
Clues to the two parts:
pioneered by Xerox
not a song
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It is about Money
As a whole I am about money.
Take the first letter out, it is about money.
Take the first two letters out,it is about money.
Take the first three letters out it is about money.
I am a six letter word.
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