Questions tagged [knowledge]
A puzzle whose solution relies on external sources such as tables, dictionaries, Wikipedia, or specifics that may not be common knowledge.
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Numerical sequence puzzle: 552175, 228496, 198479, 583317, 140554, 114383, 117045, ?,?
So here's the sequence, that I composed on my own.
Think trees and ���� : 🟡
552175, 228496, 198479, 583317, 140554, 114419, 117046, ?, ?
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19-year old me was into geography
My mother recently found an old puzzle I made over 20 years ago. It's a Finnish-language word search with a geography theme. (Note that we have a precedent for allowing non-English puzzles here.) ...
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Top of the World
This is part 61 of the puzzle series Around the World in Many Days. Each part is solvable on its own.
Dear Puzzling,
Today I have travelled to admire another massive mountain peak from a very safe ...
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A Qute Connect Wall
Group all of these words into 4 groups. All the groups have a certain famous individual in CINEMA as their theme.
WHITE
BLONDE
HEAD
GENERAL
MAMBA
MAJOR
APACHE
SEÑOR
PINK
MOUTH
HUGO
MOUNTAIN-SNAKE
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The Planet of over a Hundred Moons
What does this abstract picture represent?
Fill the answers to the clues into this grid for the answer:
(Straight lines, standard wordsearch style)
1. Go at train tracks with a shovel (3 2)
2. Set ...
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Somethings lead to the answer
I wanted to see if my group of 8 long-time online friends, some of which had the same nationality and some not, would be clever enought to figure out where I've hidden a treasure somewhere in the ...
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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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On track with my travel agent
"Hey Pat, thanks for arranging this day trip on the railroad for our scout troop."
"My pleasure, friend. My friend at Union Pacific owes me a favor. I love the sound of the horn and the ...
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Breaking New Ground
This is part 60 of the puzzle series Around the World in Many Days. Each part is solvable on its own.
Dear Puzzling,
This crossword is a combination of straight crosswords clues, cryptic clues and ...
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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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Catch the flag!
On a small island somewhere in Europe, a battle is fought in the middle of World War II.
Two armies, blue and red, have strategically positioned their troops against each other.
For convenience, the ...
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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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