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Bob's unnecessary trip to the shops
Alice and Bob live in London, UK. On a Friday, as per usual, Bob leaves for work before Alice. At lunchtime he receives a WhatsApp message from his friend Charles:
Sorry to cancel on you last week (...
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How would you like your face? Scrambled?
Great!
First day on the job here at the F.B.I., and I've got a mess on my hands.
Someone hacked into Langley's mainframe and scrambled twelve of the mugshots that we have on file, and it's my ...
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Girls are Mean!
Can you help poor little Benjamin fix his homework paper before he submits it?
He needs to know what words to put back into his paper.
Transcript:
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A strange message in a library
A few days ago I entered a small and ancient library in China Town, and while I was looking for some interesting book to borrow, a torn slip of paper fell from a shelf.
On it, a strange message… ...
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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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Don't clear your terminal history 2
Previously, on terminal use...
The door accepted your input and slid open! Unfortunately, so did a trap door under your feet. You slide down and end up in another room. The only apparent exit is a ...
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Finding Uncle John!
It was a chilly winter night when I was hanging around with some friends. We were gossiping about the recent kidnapping cases where a few of the people from the town were missing. There was a news ...
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