Questions tagged [geography]
A puzzle centered around geographical features, such as countries, continents, cities, mountains, rivers, and climate.
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An Alien Lands - where?
This is a question of general knowledge though if anyone gets it without investigative effort I would be mightily impressed. All you need is in the text and you will then require some intuitive, ...
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Plumbing Issues
This is part 59 of the puzzle series Around the World in Many Days. Each part is solvable on its own.
Dear Puzzling,
This is a Pipes puzzle (also known as Net, FreeNet and NetWalk). Rotate some cells ...
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Cover me, I'm going in!
This is part 58 of the puzzle series Around the World in Many Days. Each part is solvable on its own.
Dear Puzzling,
This is a diagramless checkerboard crossword. Empty cells are either blue or white;...
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Riverboat Soufflé
This is part 57 of the puzzle series Around the World in Many Days. Each part is solvable on its own.
Dear Puzzling,
This is a bicolour Masyu puzzle. Draw two separate loops in the grid, one red and ...
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Burial Traditions
This is part 56 of the puzzle series Around the World in Many Days. Each part is solvable on its own.
Dear Puzzling,
The answers to these twelve rebuses are single words in alphabetical order. Your ...
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Australian landmarks
I'm trying to make a list of prominent Australian landmarks, but I'm having real trouble with one entry. Could you help me out? Here's my list so far.
Brisbane: Stranahan's Distillery
Canberra: Mob ...
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A puzzle about ERIC
This is a puzzle about (7, 8, 8), or ERIC for short. Can you decode them?
IM[K]N, OPQFR
ABNP, AC
V R[K]T, U R[K]T
HIJK L, HIJK
JPFH, SFH
NPFJ L, NP[J]F
V D, EF GF
ERIC = ??P??[K] [J]?GFP ?[N]??[K]R
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Mercury in Centigrade
This is part 55 of the puzzle series Around the World in Many Days. Each part is solvable on its own.
Dear Puzzling,
This is a non-consecutive thermo sudoku. Fill the grid so that each row, column ...
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An impossible A to Z journey
An impossible A to Z journey
I was chatting with my uncle Van Wetherall and his wife Wanda when VW burst out with
"You know, we did the whole VW thing. We followed the A-Z map in the VW and ...
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Anyone Seen My Snorkel?
This is part 54 of the puzzle series Around the World in Many Days. Each part is solvable on its own.
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Unchained Again
This is part 53 of the puzzle series Around the World in Many Days. Each part is solvable on its own.
Dear Puzzling,
The black and white circles in this grid form a Masyu puzzle. Draw one continues ...
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Aquatic Giants – Heyawake / Marching Bands
This is part 52 of the puzzle series Around the World in Many Days. Each part is solvable on its own.
“One, two, three, four, five, I love marine wildlife.” – unknown
Dear Puzzling,
The grid on the ...
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Winetasting Far from Home
This is part 51 of the puzzle series Around the World in Many Days. Each part is solvable on its own.
Dear Puzzling,
I hope you are well. My journey continues with another exciting destination. Today ...
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Yes, but... where am I?
Emergency services recently received a puzzling distress call from someone claiming to be lost:
Hint A:
Caller: Hello? Can you hear me?
Responder: Yes, I can hear you. What's your situation?
Caller: ...
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Orange on Turquoise
This is part 50 of the puzzle series Around the World in Many Days. Each part is solvable on its own.
Dear Puzzling,
This is a Beaches puzzle (or tricolour Aquariums, if you prefer). Shade some cells ...