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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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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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"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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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