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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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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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Escape from a Grand Canyon
This is part 44 of the puzzle series Around the World in Many Days. Each part is solvable on its own.
Dear Puzzling,
Can you help me out here? I am trapped inside a small room that’s locked from the ...
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Symmetries – a Quadritaisho puzzle
This is part 43 of the puzzle series Around the World in Many Days. Each part is solvable on its own.
Dear Puzzling,
This is a Quadritaisho puzzle. Divide the grid into rooms by drawing borders along ...
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E Rebus Unum – a picture sequence puzzle
This is part 42 of the puzzle series Around the World in Many Days. Each part is solvable on its own.
Dear Puzzling,
Today I have been taking it easy. You might even say it has been a walk in the ...
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1
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A Trivial Pursuit #13 (Geography 3/4): Things Fall Apart
This is part 13 of A Trivial Pursuit, a 25-part puzzle hunt. Each part is solvable on its own, with the exception of the meta-puzzle at the end.
Identify the 26 words clued by the images below, then ...
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A professional geographer who is a sports enthusiast
A professional geographer is also a sports enthusiast. He is a fan of these three sportspersons in particular:
Lewis Hamilton
Nelson Evora
A FIFA World Cup winner with Spain
To honour all three of ...
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Hiking Circuits
This is part 27 of the puzzle series Around the World in Many Days. Each part is solvable on its own.
Dear Puzzling,
How have you been? Today I have toured the coastal towns and islands of a major ...
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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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Making flags from the flag of Norway
Here is the flag of Norway. You can cut out rectangular non-overlapping regions from this flag to form flags of other countries. What is the most number of different country flags you can make?
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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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Four players from two different sports
This list is about two former players and two active players from tennis and football.
Complete the table by filling the missing national flags and the missing player.
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National Flags and their Venn Diagrams
Which cities are X, Y and Z?
The colours in the Venn Diagrams in no particular order are White, Red, Light Blue, Dark Blue and Black
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Longer Than Usual
This puzzle is part of the Monthly Topic Challenge #1: Restricted Title: xkcd 1xxx
One for my fellow mapheads and pub quiz fans... There are many puzzles on PSE which use one-or-two-letter ...
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IATA Airport Abbreviations
This puzzle is part of the Monthly Topic Challenge #1: Restricted Title: xkcd 1xxx
I had a visit yesterday from my good friend Major M. Provement. I say 'good friend' but he can actually be pretty ...
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Basketball Earth
This puzzle is part of the Monthly Topic Challenge #1: Restricted Title: xkcd 1xxx
Below, you will see a map with twenty UN members or observer states labelled with one or more letters from A-G (...
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A week around Europe
I've recently returned from a week of travelling around Europe, visiting a different town or city in a different country on each day, choosing my destinations according to an underlying pattern. I've ...
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Connect Wall of Flags: Stimulants are Endless!
An entry in Fortnightly Topic Challenge #42: Wordless Connecting Walls
Knockoff Gladys was quite happy about how their last puzzle was received. So happy, in fact, that I found a new note waiting for ...
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Please Don't Flag This Question
An entry in Fortnightly Topic Challenge #42: Wordless Connecting Walls
Today, I received a rather peculiar mail from L.B.G. (Low-Budget Gladys), Glady's cousin, thrice removed (and aunt to the ...
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Connect Wall of Flags: Don't Embarrass Us
An entry in Fortnightly Topic Challenge #42: Wordless Connecting Walls
K. G. (Knockoff Gladys) surprised me today with a note.
Hey, bobble!
I took your advice and made a puzzle. Who knew that was ...
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Lunch with my travel agent
JeremyDover: Pat, thanks for taking me out to lunch today.
Pat: Very glad to do it! I know you've been mad at me lately. Maybe the flag thing was a bit much?
JeremyDover: Not really mad, just a bit ...
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Captain Clumsy's crooked 'compass'
Sigh. Captain Clumsy is making my life a misery… again. Recently, I installed a brand-new 'simple' navigation device – one I had invented myself – on his ship. And he clearly didn’t listen to my ...
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Connect Fano Plane - Mark 2
Despite my despair at creating a Connect Fano Plane in the spirit of a normal Connect Wall, I think I succeeded, thanks to the database of world cities I downloaded from Geo Data Source. In this ...
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Stella and the president's secret notes
Jason Trump, president of the Untitled Statues Association, has left a notebook containing presumably important information lying around on his desk. Stella, his nosy assistant, takes a look only to ...
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Gladys goes shopping
This puzzle is part 22 of Gladys' journey across the globe. Each part can be solved independently. Nevertheless, if you are new to the series, feel free to start at the beginning: Introducing Gladys.
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The hearts of gold
This puzzle is part 10 of Gladys' journey across the globe. Each part can be solved independently. Nevertheless, if you are new to the series, feel free to start at the beginning: Introducing Gladys.
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Contours of a clandestine nature
What does each of the answers describe? The answer is two words (11 + 4 letters).
#1
#2
#3
#4
Image credits:
1.2 Slashme, CC BY-SA 4.0;
2.1 AngMoKio, CC BY-SA 2.5;
2.3 ...
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Written every which way
Looking for the name of a country.
This puzzle is part of Recycling old answers.
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