Questions tagged [literature]
A puzzle that is primarily built around a well-known book, novel, drama, poem, or author.
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A Cryptic Dirty Dozen: Do your best!
Age a herb salad for a cat. (8)
Wolfmother confused a shark. (6)
Alias around the Spanish leader (5)
The Colonel runs through that hibiscus patch (5)
Ursine stench holds soothing plant ...
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A Classic Conundrum
I had a quick idea for a puzzle that may or may not be too hard to solve, but nothing is too hard for Puzzling SE so let's give it a go.
One of my friends gave me a list of classic books to read last ...
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Four Directions #6 - Where and what am I?
Inspired by metazen's riddles, I have decided to create my own
To my west are a bunch of crooks
To my north is a special fruit
To my east is somewhere everyone wants to be
To my ...
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A Discworld Riley
My prefix is the heir to the apprentice of the final reality,
Without the Ephebean "not"
My suffix is both a noun and a verb
Dwarf Bread is not an example of the noun,
Though it may help ...
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What am I wearing today?
Captain of serenity.
Lover of Polish beast slayer.
Sister of double victor.
Foul-mouthed one-eyed soldier.
Murgo-hating emperor.
Owner of runaway bum.
Fateful answerer of "What do you want?"
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♥Veni♀Vidi♂Vici☠
Third in a line, bred to be realistic,
Somewhat compassionate, not too sadistic.
Taught a new game, I learned how to rack 'em.
In spite of their cheating, I improv'd and sacked 'em.
Surprised how ...
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Look up to him, who is he?
Born on the first soil, aiming for the next
Stolen as replacement, his life a lie
To be loved, serve but never die
Death came in a flash, lost mother
Hideous rictus, fear and darkness
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Though some may find me lacking, others call me less
Though some may find me lacking
Others call me less
Some may think I’m both
Despite my flame and my finesse
Family, no family, mind's asunder
Feel the elements, hear the thunder
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How long time does it take an infinite number of monkeys to type the collected works of Shakespeare?
Imagine an infinite number of monkeys typing random texts on typewriters.
Each monkey has same single unit of typewriter.
We assume that typewriters and monkeys are ideal i.e. do not need to be fed/...
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Riddle from Harry Potter
This is a riddle from the 7th Harry Potter book. Who am I?
I christen myself to the rightful lord, there is nothing I cannot overpower;
A crimson splattered history, I was stolen at the top of a ...
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A Weird Librarian
Inspired by this puzzle, you decide to visit your local library in the hope of checking out a copy of Ximenes on the Art of the Crossword.
Upon entering, you ask the librarian whether the library has ...
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Cryptic Rebuses Hit the Books
In order to learn more about Emily Dickinson and T. S. Eliot, who made cameos here and here, cryptic rebuses are going to the library.
If you're unsure how cryptic rebuses work, you may want to check ...
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A Heroic Narrative of two
We two were the ones
destined to do great things
We started as did Jon
aware of Nothing
A world we didn't know
turned out to be our home
Waited where we were
with glorious foretellings
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