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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An unwanted guest
I am here, but not really
My presence is eerie.
Why the long face, why the frustration
After all I am only a sensation
You and my body went separate ways
I fill out the empty space
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What poison am I?
A very simple one:
----- .---- ----- .---- .---- ----- ----- .---- ----- .---- .---- ----- .---- .---- .---- .---- ----- .---- .---- .---- ----- .---- ----- .---- ----- ----- .---- ----- --...
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Non-adjacent Riddle
One of many can be swallowed,
One is rot upon the vine,
One for which excess is hollow,
One for which cannot be thine,
Two for cravings not suppressed,
But for what is not the same,
If the last you ...
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Guess the picture password
This is my picture password as used in windows 10. I took the picture from my wallpapers and added some hints. I showed this to many people whom I believed to be able to solve it, but the only one ...
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Spaced Out and Obfuscated: Afterwards Phone Number Abbreviation Heredity Unit Portion
This is, I think, the last of the series. The description of how these works is here. The answer is an English sentence. Enjoy.
exclamation confined chop enclosed by index
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A puzzle inspired by "Cryptobiology? Biocryptology?"
This puzzle is a "look-alike" of the puzzle Cryptobiology? Biocryptology?
but is different at its core. I was convinced that the other puzzle was trying to go in one direction, but after fruitlessly ...
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Two is company, three's a crowd
Should the northern wall serve beer
The first of me and the last of a beloved voice
Dark and flat on high
A popular Dino and hard metal senator
The beginning of a life without meaning and a ...
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I make a song of silence
I make a song of silence,
so sit and listen well.
I hold in beasts of many kinds
far from where they dwell.
I've taken some peculiar things,
like artifacts and faces.
I have thick skin and spent ...
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Spaced Out and Obfuscated 2
If you haven't seen it already, my explanation of a spaced out and obfuscated puzzle is here. I have a sequel. Here is my spaced out and obfuscated version of an English proverb:
pasture ...
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Where will Noah travel to next?
Noah was born in 1989. His parents loved a particular sport.
At the following ages he traveled to the countries below with his parents to see a particular sporting event.
At the age of 9, he ...
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A list-based argument
I have two asian friends who, like me, are into anime, comics and games. One is Chinese and one is Vietnamese.
One day, I found them both in front of a whiteboard, arguing intensively. They weren't ...
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Spaced Out and Obfuscated
In this puzzle I took an English phrase, spaced it differently, then replaced the resulting words with synonyms or definitions. This is an example to show you what I mean.
Spaced out and obfuscated:
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Cryptobiology? Biocryptology?
I have a friend who is a self-proclaimed cryptobiologist. Okay, maybe I don't, but if I did, I like to think she would have presented me with this puzzle:
Find the hidden message:
441344•...
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One of the biggest of some boats, some trees, and pasta
When the final buffalo sings I'll most likely happen.
I'm known to happen when you displace your faith.
If you have a few minutes to rhyme under the boiling point, you might find me within myself
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Going to the movies
Although the 12 film posters displayed above (click on them for a larger version) may seem random, they follow a certain pattern. One of them, however, doesn't belong here.
Can you find the pattern? ...
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A sum of images
1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + 5 + 6 + 7 + 8 = ?
The answer can be given as either an image or a description of the image.
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My Friend in Kanto
I have a friend in Kanto. He sent me a message and told me that he's looking for all sorts of creatures. Included was the following list of descriptions. I know there's a message hidden in there ...
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The desperate student
Now that exam week is over and all of the tests have been graded, the professors of the Faculty of English Language and Literature finally have some time for themselves again. However, when Prof. ...
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The Gnosis questions(3)
This is the third question of the series: The Gnosis questions
"Link a phrase which means being depressed,
A phrase which means propitious future,
Something utilizing the phenomenon which results ...
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Sculptures in a park
Edit: all the unhelpful clues, including bad hinting and misleading ASCII art, were removed and other, (hopefully) more sensible ones were added.
You just moved to a new city, and your childhood ...
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The Gnosis questions(2)
This is the second question in the series: The Gnosis questions
"Since people look at round figures with suspicion,
They added two, to an Indian's estimation for a foreigner named object.
Look, it's ...
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A Knight and a Jester
I was a knight, and a jester,
and I created a king for my modest friend,
but I was never able to guide the queen..
One time I told you of things that I greatly dislike
on the fingers of ...
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Philosophers and boys, who are we?
A dissident theologian and a pessimistic philosopher,
A dissident boy and a cheerful cat
Who are we?
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No tea. No coffee. No water
Fr Owen More had left the exclusive Dublin Temperance Society meeting and was relieved to be sitting down in the living room of Mrs. Philippa Glass. She brought him a
wee fat-free jam oat scone
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I am a violent storm.. Who am I?
I belong to the rider's heel.
Someone might think of wrestling, but I am not from there.
I am a violent storm.
But above all I am a sportsperson.
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This puzzle you must solve
Can you add 2 numbers to this pattern ?
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11823
12922
2701
3793
4892
16787
Hint 1
Hint 2
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The Mnemonic Forgotten
In school, one of my teachers, Mister Ball, gave us a mnemonic to remember the... something. Unfortunately, it has been a very long time and I only remember half of the mnemonic. I don't even remember ...
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In the history of sports
I received this riddle and I don't have any other hints , can you solve it ?
What does the following number represent in the history of sports?
26533500
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The Wonderful Set
What is the name of the set in which these elements usually are?
{GPoG, HGoB, SoZaO, ToAaE, MaH, CoR, LoA}
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Japan is in India
Inspired by this question: Which country is INDIA in?
Japan is in India.
New Caledonia is in Lima.
Greenland is in Quebec, but only during the winter.
Portugal is in November in the winter too.
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Which country is Italy in?
Find a country Italy is in, given that:
Belgium is in The Netherlands
Germany is in Switzerland
The United Arab Emirates are in Oman
Russia is in Belarus
Note: This puzzle was inspired by Which ...
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Which country is INDIA in?
An intrepid globetrotter needs to know this:
BENIN is in Libya
CANADA is in China
DENMARK is in the United States
FRANCE is in Germany
INDIA is in ??
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Rebuses linked by a certain topic
See if you can solve these rebuses which range from easy to hard. They are all linked by a topic.
On e
luu (-4)
EDIT:
Hints:
[Note that I have now posted the solutions to this puzzle below]
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Meditative Futility
I was working in a lab, late one night, when I happened upon a slip of paper stuck into my lab partner's desk.
I know, I know! I shouldn't go poking around where I don't belong...
It was just.......
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The hangman game backward #9
Hangman game backward #9 - guess what was the question:
fill in "i" - a famous city in New York, Illinois and Nevada.
fill in "o" - half of the population said to have experience being one.
fill in "...
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Headbanging Emojis
Maybe you remember my emoji loving friend. To make it short, he heard about the current music challenge and sent me this (click for bigger version):
(Emoji art supplied by Emoji One.)
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Butchered Morse Code
The space-eater has eaten up all the spaces from the following Morse encoded message. The message contains a quote by a famous person. Can you reconstruct the sentence?
$....-..-.-.---......-.--......
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I'm purple and small, what am I?
I'm purple and small,
not hard to make at all.
I take you to new places,
Where you will see some new faces.
I'm part of the world, yet take you away,
When you step through me, you see mostly grey.
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Complicated Mixture Problem
A woman has a pot that contains a mixture of sand, salt, sawdust, and iron filings in it. She needs to separate all the different parts, how does she do it?
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Poor little thing. it didn't deserve this [closed]
What creature lives in the sea and is sometimes 1,000 times more valuable when injured than when at full health?
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Story of our Glory
Story of X's Glory
Let us tell you the Story of our Glory.$[\cdots (0)]$
We started according to the new Year.
Manual on 'How to Win'.$[\cdots (1)]$
Everybody started exclaiming "X"$[\cdots ...
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Program rebus (VBA)
The code snippet below in VBA contains all the clues to find an old movie quote. Who said it, and in what movie?
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What areas of math are related to both $\pi$ and $\varphi$? [closed]
What areas of math are related to both $\pi$ and $\varphi$?
There are at least two answers.
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REALLY important days in history
@Z. Dailey asks a mathematical puzzle Important days in history... and to come! with a series of dates in years 1973, 1978, 1983, 1992, 2005.
My puzzle asks the question: What is the previous date in ...
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Important days in history... and to come!
The other day I decided I wanted to come up with another simple puzzle before releasing another toughy on puzzling.SE. I came across an interesting series of dates that I wanted to share and see if ...
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The Torero (Bullfighter)
I have dealt with the bull many times
The first was the first of the titans
And the second was the second of the sword.
The third was the first of the fallen
And the fourth was the second of ...
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a prime number behind a picture
Over the time people collect tons of characters in movies, songs and games.
I'm sure you don't need to know all of them neither for the resulting prime number.
Here are my first 2 hints. Yes, two, ...
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A wordsmith's bravado
The following clues lead to a famous quote. Can you tell me what the quote is, and how you got there?
Emily Dickinson has decided that something of ours is swiss.
Laura Regan's 2002 one-...
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A Shakesperian inverse alphametic
Every digit (in base-10 representation) stands for a letter,
different digits stand for different letters.
233 + 8519 + 954 = 9706
The whole is a famous ...
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More than a riddle
I was, for the most part, created to accompany something else. It would seem like I'm just playing second fiddle to a jive-talking glory hog, but that's not actually the case; we both wound up being ...
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