All Questions
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The Tower of (-----)
What's the name of this tower?
As usual, explain your reasoning. (You'll know if your answer is correct).
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Use your fingers!
This puzzle is my attempt to make one in the style of PSE user Prim3numbah:
Find what is in the question mark!
1D3, 12, ED, ED, 5A, 244, 84, 1E2, 1E2, ?
Go back a ...
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World Puzzling Competition #1: the beginning
This year, you were invited to attend the WPC, otherwise known as the World Puzzling Competition. The World Puzzling Competition is attended by the 88088 users of PSE (as per writing of the draft) all ...
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It's what's inside them that counts
What is this puzzle about? The answer is a word.
Hint:
Edit: Added an image.
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Social Media Announcement
This puzzle is part of the Monthly Topic Challenge #16: Restricted Title: xkcd 2000-2500.
Inspired by xkcd 2045, I made my own social media moves:
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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 delicious country puzzle
Why is this puzzle delicious? Give me the 5-letter answer I'm looking for.
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What - - - - - - - corresponds to the question mark?
What is the answer to this puzzle?
TZAAUTSRBTURZMB?
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Who Am I Puzzle
The grid you see below is composed of unit squares. Can you figure out who I am?
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Valence Levels?
Each yellow and orange (barred to distinguish) dot gets a letter.
The center green dot does not get a letter.
The final answer is a relevant word, once you unscramble it.
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April 2023 - Hexagons
The final answer is 11 letters.
Helpful notes:
Technically solvable in grayscale/colorblind, but easier in color.
If you have the required knowledge, the solution path will eventually pop into your ...
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Two Blinkers, A Pair of Boats, etc
This puzzle is part of the Monthly Topic Challenge #8: Cellular Automata.
Find four capital letters that can replace the X's (and explain why).
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What is Man? (7)
What is Man? (7)
Please replace the characters in the grids with the correct characters.
Hint:
Hint 2:
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Avoid consuming broken cereal?
Please allow me to lead you on a merry dance through the following original puzzle (for which you will need to work out exactly which way to proceed).
The question is: What type of dance is it? The ...
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"Brave as a "King"" is our beginning, this puzzle is about a beginning
Me (my friends call me "King") and my friends, who are all puzzle loving university students, have just recently started to give each other puzzles to solve once a day. This day was my turn (...
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This colored box puzzle is driving me nuts
This colored box puzzle is driving me nuts…
…looking for a relevant 3 letter word.
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“IQ” puzzles seem to be flooding this site
“IQ” puzzles seem to be flooding this site, so I reviewed a few and left some feedback.
The answer to this puzzle is a single relevant word (8), with explanation of how you found it.
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Do you see the point?
Original puzzle by me.
Remember to always obey your superiors. The first one should be 08594.
Hint:
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Rexnology puzzle
What's the word I'm looking for?
Hint 1a:
Hint 1b:
Hint 1c (I don't know if someone already figured this out but knowing this should be enough to solve the puzzle.)
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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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I got ninety-nine problems - so here's another one!
To date, on Puzzling.SE I have contributed (counting: 10, 20, 30...) 99 problems to the site. So to mark my 100th, here's a massive meta-puzzle to celebrate the occasion!
Task
Solve the nine sub-...
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Help! I need somebody
A friend sent me the following puzzle and claimed that with a bit of general knowledge (or compensatory research skills) and creative thinking I could arrive to the answer. Alas, the puzzle exceeds my ...
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Estimating Time
Here is a descending sequence of seven puzzles sorted from large to small. If you work on one a day, you should finish within a week. So let’s say two weeks to be safe.
The sequence is also ascending ...
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Swarms of Codes
Since the days of old, codes have been devised and utilized to various ends: to relay secret messages, to identify friend from foe, or to record secret formulae.
What ancient dark art is at work here?
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Just for fun (it's fair)
Try make sense of the image below. The answer is ten letters in total.
Hint:
Hint2:
Note: I added a (4) and an (8). It doesn't affect the puzzle.
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This diagram needs a name!
This puzzle is a spin-off from the 'This new puzzle type needs a name' series.
I have devised a new diagramming style. The examples below have been deliberately selected and ordered in a way that ...
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To remember them
The answer to this puzzle consists of three words with a total of 13 letters. Combining what you see below should lead you to the correct answer.
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A Clear and Crescent Danger
I was putting up a poster at work the other day when I looked at it and saw this:
What word was the poster trying to convey? And for bonus points, where do I work?
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Who's Missing? (A metapuzzle)
Task
Solve the sub-puzzles to enable you to solve the meta-puzzle at the end.
Partial answers contributing to the overall solve are welcome (but, of course, do try to answer as much as you can!).
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Originally not a movie
Can you tell what movie these images together represents? (the answer is a 5-letter noun)
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Red Herring Redherring
Red herring redherringredh
Redherri ngredh
Red herrIng red HErrING reD heRring Red herRing rED herrINg
REDHERRING
rEd HErring reD HerRing Red hERriNg Red herring Red HerrIng rED hErrInG reD HerrIng ...
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Dirac notation for English
Dirac notation is very expressive: not only does it allow to write quantum states and operations more concisely, it can also be used to shorten written English words and phrases! Here are some ...
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A new adventure awaits! Let's go!
UPDATE: To make this puzzle fairer, the pieces have been modified to include additional hints. If you want to try and solve the puzzle with the original non-clued pieces, click here.
A tale is being ...
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What are these people trying to tell you?
These people are trying to tell you something. What is it?
Also, kudos if you can find the pattern between the images...though you'll have to find the pattern to solve this puzzle in the first place.
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C equals O, but in general
You return to your consciousness.
You find yourself trapped in a room, facing a wall where all information is located. There is also a table, on it a permanent marker.
Before inspecting every piece ...
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Weird song from liner notes of a broken CD
Grandpa Bob liked to think he was a rockstar. He also loved to play that play-a-song-and-guess-the-name game. Known outside the family exclusively as Mr Deau, the weirdest thing he left behind when he ...
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Again, the scientific one!
I am looking for an answer that consists of two parts(____ ____).
The task is to somehow make sense of this word grid below with the help of the clue.
Hint
Hint2
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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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Excavation Study
Layer by layer, we continue our journey to the center.
Excavation area (in order)
Excavation plans
Expect plenty of overlap!
Answer is a thematic word phrase.
Text transcription of the excavation ...
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The Spirit of Christmas
Alice: Help, It's almost Christmas but my house is full of spirits!
Bob: But isn't that a good thing? Your family is joyful because it's the holiday season and they're excited for Christmas!
Alice: ...
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Diagrams of a Summer
My friend was being cryptic about how he spent his summer. I was prying, so he gave me two oval-shaped diagrams and told me I could figure it out, at least before next summer. However, I'm lazy and I ...
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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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