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Paranormal Activity
This is part 15 of the puzzle series Around the World in Many Days. Each part is solvable on its own.
Deаr Puzzling,
The numbers in blue here form a Nurikabe puzzle. Shade some cells in the grid so ...
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Coasting Along the Coast
This is part 14 of the puzzle series Around the World in Many Days. Each part is solvable on its own.
Deаr Puzzling,
The larger grid is a Fillomino puzzle. Each of the six different letters in the ...
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Under the Surface
This is part 13 of the puzzle series Around the World in Many Days. Each part is solvable on its own.
Deаr Puzzling,
The first grid is a kakuro puzzle. Fill the grid with the numbers 1–9 so that ...
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Many Moons (and Suns) Ago
This is part 12 of the puzzle series Around the World in Many Days. Each part is solvable on its own.
Many moons ago, on an island far, far away…
Deаr Puzzling,
Today I have a Moon-or-Sun puzzle for ...
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The Key to the City
This is part 9 of the puzzle series Around the World in Many Days. Each part is solvable on its own.
Deаr Puzzling,
This is a Skyscrapers puzzle. Each letter represents a unique number between 1 and ...
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Kings of Centuries Past
This is part 7 of the puzzle series Around the World in Many Days. Each part is solvable on its own.
Deаr Puzzling,
This time I have a shingoki puzzle for you. Draw a single loop that passes through ...
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Who’s in for a Cruising?
This is part 6 of the puzzle series Around the World in Many Days. Each part is solvable on its own.
Deаr Puzzling,
Looks like I’m getting way behind schedule already. Sorry about that! Time flies ...
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From Before Caesar
This is part 4 of the puzzle series Around the World in Many Days. Each part is solvable on its own.
Deаr Puzzling,
How have you been? I hope you don’t mind me showing up a little early this time ...
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Around the World in Many Days
Deаr Puzzling,
How have you been? I am excited to tell you about my new trip. It’s my most ambitious one yet – a full trip around the world! I will definitely keep you posted about my whereabouts. I ...
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This new puzzle type needs a name {7}
This puzzle is part of the Monthly Topic Challenge #5: On-and-onograms - and also extends the 'This new puzzle type needs a name' series...
I believe I have invented a new type of puzzle...
What is ...
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Make sense of the grids
Make sense of the following two grids using the visual clues.
Both grids have a common theme.
What do they say?
GRID 1
GRID 2
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PSE Advent Calendar 2021 (Day 15): Optics Experiment
This puzzle is part of the Puzzling StackExchange Advent Calendar 2021. The accepted answer to this question will be awarded a bounty worth 50 reputation.< Previous Door Next Door >
Optics ...
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A Somewhat Foolish Poem
Your task is to solve the Sudoku and complete the missing words in the following poem.
Classic Sudoku: Each row column and box contains the digits 1-9.
XV-rules: Digits separated by V must add to 5. ...
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Polly O'Mino's Hexcellent Adventure
An entry in Fortnightly Topic Challenge #52: Polyominoes.
I had heard that my good friend Ingrid Deduction was back in town, so I popped round to her apartment today, only to find she'd got herself a ...
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The Puzzling Free-to-Play Escape Room, naturally!
An entry in Fortnightly Topic Challenge #50: Escape Rooms
Without revealing too much, knowledge of geek culture and/or superb Google skills are required for this puzzle.
Coming from an anime ...
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Trivia... sudoku
An entry in Fortnightly Topic Challenge #49: Pub Quiz Camouflage
Please do not search the answers online (hence the no-computers tag), otherwise it would be too simple to solve this puzzle. I tried ...
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Animal Cross(word)ing
An entry in Fortnightly Topic Challenge #43: Variety Crossword Grids
Each of the 40 clues listed below (a mix of pop culture and science/nature) yields the name of an animal. Your task is to solve ...
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Connect Wall - Grid Puzzles Edition!
This is an entry for Fortnightly Topic Challenge #42: Wordless Connecting Walls.
Huge thanks to bobble and Deusovi for playtesting! ><
And hey, this one may also mark my 100-day puzzle here in ...
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Tribute to Clifford Possum Tjapaltjarri
The background text that follows is in this case not part of the puzzle, nor fictitious. The puzzle, which is self-contained, consists entirely of the image below; I have composed it as a genuine (...
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A Puzzle in The Two Towers
Our local used book store is going out of business, and I ran in to pick up another copy of Lord of the Rings. When I picked up a likely copy, a scrap of paper fell out of The Two Towers...I've done ...
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Captain Pun's favourite animals
My good friend Captain Pun's party was a truly excellent event. His new boat - the venue - was a beautiful thing to behold, decorated throughout with nonograms in frames (as anybody who knows him ...
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Party Time with Captain Pun
The other day my good friend Captain Pun invited me to a party on board his new boat.
"What will the dress code be?" I asked.
Captain Pun said he'd email me the details. Later that day I received ...
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Captain Pun's new boat
My good friend Captain Pun has bought a new boat.
"And this is a picture of its sail!" he said, showing me this:
"Solve the nonogram and you'll soon know what type of boat it is!"
Can you solve ...
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Piece de Resistance - Jack in all Tags... But Master in All?
Jack in all Tags... But Master in All?
This puzzle is part of the "Piece de Resistance" series. Go back to Part 1 (Ace) for the story.Ace Two Three Four Five Six Seven Eight Nine Ten Queen King... ...
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R.H.P.C. crossword puzzle
This is an entry into the Fortnightly Topic Challenge #36
I got a ticket to the Red Herring Puzzle Club in the middle of the street. There was just a guy giving them out, like some advertisement ...
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Popularity Within a Target Audience
This is a metapuzzle with four component puzzles and a final meta.
Creations of CSIRO
The Australian research institute CSIRO is notable for producing inventions such as gene shears, the insect ...
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One 'double agent' two-step on a waltzing floor
I'm in a jam – cornered I am! –
No clue 'bout where to go
Here's what went down, a pretty gown
Some wine, a French chateau
She whispered underneath her breath
"Come dance with me and ...
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