Questions tagged [geography]
A puzzle centered around geographical features, such as countries, continents, cities, mountains, rivers, and climate.
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How much is USA - Brazil?
Given that:
France - China is 4
Morocco - USA is $+\infty$
And
Laos - India is 1
Preliminary question
Can you give the value of USA - Brazil?
Puzzle question
What is the highest finite value that ...
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Tombs of Ancients
This is part 68 of the puzzle series Around the World in Many Days. Each part is solvable on its own.
Dear Puzzling,
The top grid here is a Yin-yang puzzle. Shade some cells in the grid so that ...
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Worship and Wandering
This is part 67 of the puzzle series Around the World in Many Days. Each part is solvable on its own.
Dear Puzzling,
This is a direction-agnostic cryptic crossword. Instead of writing top-down, left-...
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66: Luftballons
This is part 66 of the puzzle series Around the World in Many Days. Each part is solvable on its own.
Dear Puzzling,
This is a Dosun-Fuwari puzzle. Place some balloons (white circles) and anvils (...
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Motion in the Ocean
This is part 65 of the puzzle series Around the World in Many Days. Each part is solvable on its own.
”It’s not the size of the crossword that counts.” – unknown
Dear Puzzling,
Today I have dived ...
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Mapping Jack's Chicken
Clues:
Map of world with numbers 1, 2, 2, 3, 3, 5, and 9 strategically placed.
Portrait of man with numbers 1x2, 2, 3, 5, and 5 strategically placed in hair.
Instructions: Name That Film
_ _ _ _ E _ _ ...
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Bare Bones – a semi-DIY crossword
This is part 64 of the puzzle series Around the World in Many Days. Each part is solvable on its own.
Dear Puzzling,
This is a semi-DIY crossword. Shade some cells in the grid so that the grid has ...
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You can't tell me the US lacks –
Solve on Penpa+
Across
1. Wyoming national park managed only wee slot (11)
9. Florida public housing clerk in Springfield mart (3)
10. California city cops regularly dropped somewhere in Southeast ...
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When in Rome... – a deconstruction sudoku
This is part 63 of the puzzle series Around the World in Many Days. Each part is solvable on its own.
Dear Puzzling,
This is a sudoku deconstruction puzzle. Draw eight non-overlapping rectangular ...
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Restricted – a cryptic crossword
This is part 62 of the puzzle series Around the World in Many Days. Each part is solvable on its own.
Dear Puzzling,
Every clue in this cryptic crossword contains one extra word, which must be ...
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19-year old me was into geography
My mother recently found an old puzzle I made over 20 years ago. It's a Finnish-language word search with a geography theme. (Note that we have a precedent for allowing non-English puzzles here.) ...
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Top of the World
This is part 61 of the puzzle series Around the World in Many Days. Each part is solvable on its own.
Dear Puzzling,
Today I have travelled to admire another massive mountain peak from a very safe ...
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This bird is so popular, many countries around the world share a name with it
There's a bird, it's very popular.
Several IRL Earth countries (more than 2) around the world share a name with the same bird, although the relation between the country name and the bird is not ...
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Connect the dots x Crosswords
About the puzzle:
This puzzle is a crossover of "connect the dots" puzzles and crossword puzzles. It requires the solver to place dots on the graph using crossword-like clues. Then, dots ...
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Breaking New Ground
This is part 60 of the puzzle series Around the World in Many Days. Each part is solvable on its own.
Dear Puzzling,
This crossword is a combination of straight crosswords clues, cryptic clues and ...
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