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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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Puzzle hidden in an image of penguins
This computer science puzzle was presented to me by my Computer Science teacher as a challenge. He explicitly granted permission to distribute this image and to seek help or research methods on the ...
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The Worst Possible Chess Move
Bad, even very bad chess moves are nothing out of the ordinary. Every single player will have had their fair share of stupid blunders like hanging a queen in an otherwise completely winning position. ...
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What is the optimum strategy for a logic word puzzle?
I’ve made a small browser puzzle called Codextri where you have to identify a hidden set of three letters by guessing words. Each guess returns a score based on how many of those hidden letters your ...
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How do I construct longer cryptic clues without overly complicated parsings?
I dabble in cryptic-clues, especially as part of Puzzling SE's chat game. I believe I have a solid grasp of how to construct an acceptable clue: how indicators work, what makes a fair definition, etc. ...
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How do I proceed with this Tango puzzle?
Rules to fill out the grid:
I must use 3 of each symbol in each row, and in each column.
I cannot use 3 consecutive identical symbols (horizontally or vertically).
A solid border indicates that the ...
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The Optimal Way
My puzzle enthusiast friend, who travels around the world whenever they can, recently sent me a puzzle (knowing very well I enjoy solving puzzles as well).
Hey friend! Today I'm visiting a country ...
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Crossing a square pond with beams
Here is a classical mathematical puzzle:
In the middle of a square pond lies a square island (whose sides are aligned with the sides of the pond). On the island is a tower with a princess locked ...
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Think inside the box
The answer word has been split into three parts.
Below are the clues for each, listed in no particular order.
Bambi’s mother, musically
kitchen weapon
Atlas, but solar
Hope it’s not all Greek to you....
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Descriptive Grid
What is the hidden rule that will lead you to an answer? Explain your reasoning.
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A Sequence of Words
I created a sequence of words (see a Note below) using a certain method and came up with somewhat cryptic clues for them.
Unlike in crossword puzzles, I did not include word lengths with these clues.
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Regular pentagram inscribed in a parabola
The diagram shows a regular pentagram inscribed in a parabola.
Can another red pentagon (congruent to the one shown) fit in the gray region?
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Find all integers n such that the sum of the factorials of its digits equals ⌊√n⌋ [closed]
Find all integers n such that the sum of the factorials of its digits equals ⌊√n⌋.
For example, if n=2025, then 2!+0!+2!+5!=⌊√2025⌋, although this is not true.
How can you find all integers n that ...
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What is the history behind this chess position?
In the game depicted below, Black managed to come out on top by delivering checkmate to the white king trapped in the corner. On the way to this outcome, seven pieces were captured at several points ...
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How do you get 5 by using the numbers 2, 2, 3 and 5?
You can use addition, multiplication, subtraction, and division as many times as you want but can only use the numbers one time each.
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What is the context? [closed]
As a technical writer, I know that CCVC represents words that begin with consonant-consonant-vowel-consonant, then one would assume a CCC words are words beginning with three consonants but that isn't ...
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What is the Mythical Creature?
A mythical creature links the images below.
Edit: There have been a couple of answers tenuously linking the images with mythical creatures but ...
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Shadowed Dragon Ciphers: #2
This is the SHADOW Cipher in a small sample. One of my hardest, Good Luck!:
Z+b s v k v x w z d o x
-The Shadowed Dragon
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Three-cushion billiards challenge.
World champion three-cushion billiards player can perfectly make a billiard ball end where asked for (if possible), on a standard rectangular shaped competition table.
The champion now, for ...
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Let’s go to the pub! Hey, we’re all thirsty but some of us don’t want to get drunk.
Let’s go to the pub!
Hey, we’re all thirsty but some of us don’t want to get drunk.
Inspiration for my puzzle came from the puzzle below:
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Quilt of many colours
Why is this quilt coloured the way it is?
(You do not need to do any image manipulation or analysis to solve this puzzle.)
CSV for grid colours (R = Red, G = Green, B = Blue, Y = Yellow, M = Magenta, ...
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A "crappy" pentagon puzzle
Lately, we've had plenty of puzzles based on the regular pentagon and its geometric properties. So I propose one that literally brings it all together.
Use eleven copies of the larger (left) piece ...
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What is a CCC word?
This is inspired by the What is a Word/Phrase™ series started by JLee with a special brand of Phrase™ and Word™ puzzles.
This table shows some, but not all, CCC words and several similar non-CCC ...
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No pictures - just words
Complete the sentence to solve this rebus-like puzzle.
He managed to get her
so they can be ___________.
This is my own.
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Sliding coins down an envelope
The envelope is a regular pentagon with two diagonals. The red coins are two vertically aligned and touching congruent circles, the top one passing through the apex of the pentagon, and the bottom ...
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Dec. 31 rebus from Games magazine
To partially check your answer:
Attribution:
Mike Martinek in the November/December 1979 issue of Games magazine.
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JANOB rebus. Can you solve it?
JANOB
To partially check your answer:
Attribution:
Dennis Wade in the November/December 1979 issue of Games magazine.
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Not a Kind Rebus
Find what "😈" represents and find what word for sure must replace "?".
😈(FIX)
+
😈(FED)
+
😈(?)
+
😈(GOT)
=
😈
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Vertical bars...or I mean...well, you'll get what I mean
Find the hidden answer which describes what you've found.
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Percentage as squares or higher powers?
In a class, the teacher wrote 12%, 40% and 73% on a whiteboard.
When the teacher asked the class what those numbers are, a student said they're all square numbers, with being 12% and 40% even higher ...
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Joining Numbers Together [closed]
puzzle from 2.191.149.204 — lv. easy
Numbers are cool. If you join two (or more) numbers together, you get another valid number. For example add 3,756 and 4,192 together. You get 37,564,192 which is ...
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prisoners riddle - a button, a light and a timer
Here is (yet another) prisoner riddle. I made it up (maybe it was asked before, but to the best of my knowledge I'm the first to ask it - correct me if I'm wrong).
There are 1000 prisoners who are ...
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It could be magic
You could enjoy a ride as well...
This is my idea implemented with ChatGPT assistance
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How many gloves do we need to randomly select to ensure each octopus will have 8 different colored gloves? [closed]
The restaurant is a major sponsor of the Aquatic Boxers’ Club. From time to time, two octopuses from the ABC are invited to the restaurant to put on a boxing match in an aquarium, for the ...
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Two semicircles in a parallelogram
Two congruent semicircles (blue) are inscribed in the two triangles formed by the short diagonal (black) of a parallelogram (also black) as shown below. The short diagonal has the same length as the ...
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Short and sweet puzzle
Figure out the picture and savor the fruit of your labor...
This is my own idea
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