Unanswered Questions
24 questions with no upvoted or accepted answers
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Ode to a Nightingale: a puzzling study in literary criticism
The field of literary criticism is an interesting and fruitful one, in which puzzlers might carve out a niche. This was recently brought home by a conversation I had with a sagacious old gentleman in ...
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Zed's Order: Breakfast at Elon's
My friend Elon and I constantly irritate each other. He recently built himself a rather respectable restaurant – a sort of bed-&-breakfast, minus the beds. Last week, he asked if I could ...
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We found text from the year 2040!
Recently, the first surviving examples of text from the ███████████████e discovered! The unearthed artifacts included a collection of rectangular tablets inscribed in the hitherto unknow███████████████...
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Ernie and the Timing of the Traffic Lights
Ernie picked me up from home, very early on Saturday morning, so I could help him out at the observatory. On the drive, he related some of the history of Junction - the small hamlet that nestles at ...
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Cookie Unionization
My Christmas cookies are gone! When I came into the kitchen this morning, the box was empty. All that remained were a few crumbs and this note:
We absconded.
You never saw that coming, did you? Well, ...
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An Evil Cartesian Psycho
I came up with this puzzle when I was in high school.
There is an island owned by an evil man who keeps some tourists who were visiting the island a few years ago captive.
The authorities demanded ...
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Stress Not! - A North Daniels' Puzzle
Beep, beep, beep, beep...
No, this was not the sound of D.S.I North Daniels playing miniature cricket on his phone, although that would be a preferable situation to the one he is in now.
Unfortunately,...
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Forbidden Love: A tale of two kingdoms
Once upon a time there were two kingdoms (bluex and pinksus) separated by a wall of eternal war. The kings of these two kingdoms each had one son and one daughter. Their children sought to end the war ...
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Zed's E-mail: My Good Ol' Uncle Sugar
My friend Gabby and I constantly look out for each other. Just the other day, she received a strange message from what I thought was an uncle of hers. "Problem is," she started with a ...
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The Cryptic Constellation
You are a renowned cryptographer who has been contacted by an ancient order known as "The Keepers of the Stars." They guard a secret message passed down through generations, hidden in the ...
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A speedy secret
My friend showed up in their million-dollar supercar today. The engine was obnoxiously loud and their weird accent didn't help, but I think they're asking me to meet at some other location. Before I ...
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Will you regret solving this puzzle?
It's February and you walk into the Smithsonian American Art Museum. A piece of artwork was recently bought for $2,061,966 USD, but you are confused that the museum bought this ugly artwork that even ...
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I have no idea what this means
Hmm? What's this? A room. Great. Great. As if the guards don't know I'm claustrophobic.
There's a strange text on the wall:
Ribna tifmagta resru, sunte no, renler sludted dtednsehnun rurdal slutakdal ...
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Discworld (Spider Solitaire Version)
Here is yet another Spider Solitaire short story and puzzle (Disclaimer: I do not have a Bachelor of Arts in creative writing).
Once upon a time there lived a number of $N$ wooden circular discs. All ...
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Zed's Dance: Disarray and Cabaret
All this talk about my friends and I... it's about time I announced myself for a change!
I'm kinda nervous about this because — let's face it — I'm an odd-ball. Take, for example, the fact I usually ...
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