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A short, brutal riddle
Left alone, I'm a word with five letters.
I'm honest and fair, I'll admit.
Rearranged, I'm of no use to trains.
Again, and I'm an overt place, warm and well lit.
What am I?
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This is important. I need you to listen…
Look, you don't know me. We've never met. But, like I said, I need you to listen...
I had the most disturbing dream the other night... Woke up in a cold sweat and couldn't get back to sleep. It wasn'...
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A puzzle in 140 characters
Your final answer will respond to the question "Why don't I like Twitter that much?"
Like usual, I'll confirm any sub-answers if you find them
Here's the link to the puzzle on Twitter.
Here's the ...
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Is this Tetris puzzle solvable?
As a birthday present last year, I received some fridge magnets. They didn't come as a puzzle, so I don't know if they have a solution, but I made a puzzle out of them anyway.
The magnets are ...
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My prefix is food, my suffix is rude
I thought of this riddle myself. Feedback is appreciated.
My prefix is food.
My suffix is rude.
My infix comes in rounds.
I keep you off the ground.
What am I?
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An overheard gang meeting, a double agent, and a murder
I was walking home late last night and heard raised voices coming from a boarded up old warehouse. I stopped, out of sight, to listen...
[When I started eavesdropping, the conversation was already ...
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Lock your computer when you walk away!
Well this is strange.
I forgot to lock my monitor when I walked away from my desk, at work, and one of my co-workers decided to have a little fun.
When I got back, I found this little C# console ...
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Game of Life: Kill the Sun
Below is an initial state for Conway's Game of Life with a single pulsar. Living cells are white.
The area marked with red is your base. You are free to modify any of the red cells, but only those, ...
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In the 100 blue eyes problem - why is the oracle necessary?
The riddle
Randall Munroe (of xkcd fame) has, a bit hidden on his site, a logic puzzle:
A group of people with assorted eye colors live on an island. They are
all perfect logicians -- if a ...
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Deusovi Honeypot
Looks like the community has spoken.
With a heavy heart (as if), I have trapped @Deusovi behind a never repeating, fractally recursive, infinite, unsolvable labyrinth. To keep him busy, I added a ...
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Chaos and Order: a visual puzzle in stained glass
I created a visual puzzle, which my wife then implemented as part of a stained-glass window. I've no idea if it is (a) obvious, (b) stupid or hopefully (c) extremely clever, and hence would love to ...
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Merlin and Hermes: Mysterious Lines
Two adventurers, Merlin and Hermes, approached a large iron door built into a cliff face."Well...", said Hermes, "What do we do now?". Merlin produced an old, large piece of crumpled paper from his ...
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Internship Available!* - Figure out what you're being asked to do before you sign up
Sine waves bound in rectangles shaped into prisms. Mass increases, position changes twice, and mass decreases. The prisms become rectangles and are either discarded or stored for later use. If that ...
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The Rube Wordberg Machine
Gah! I used to be the brilliant one at Verba Retorta University, but ever since that damned Professor Wordberg showed up, there's been nothing but trouble. And it's all his confounded machine's fault!
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