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392 questions with no upvoted or accepted answers
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What is the most appropriate clue here?
Background. I'm specifically interested in how to design a puzzles chain for a team (8-10 teenages). We are going to play at a Scientific Museum. The main the idea is to find a key and open a lock.
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A visual crack the code puzzle
Just have this now what are all these acronyms refer to and what is the code ?
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Questionable Cipher
I have received a rather peculiar cipher and in all my years of crypto, I have never seen a cipher like this. The cipher is Numeric, Uppercase mixed with Lowercase. The only hint I'm given is "Capital ...
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Two-column table of numbers from a geocaching site
I found this table, but can't seem to find any relation between the numbers. Also there is not much logic involved.
2002
13
1987
11
1984
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1998
6
2004
22
1999
12
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A table with numbers. ...
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Filling a sudoku/latin square like array
Let us build a square array in the following manner, which I would like to call a modified sudoku:
1) Every row and column contains only one copy of a positive entry and there are exactly $t$ such ...
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RO:09-RI:10-PO:05-PI-22
One of my friends who is good with cyphers and puzzles challenged me to solve this one. I think it reveals a name, or date or some information with which he can surprise his friends. I couldn't find ...
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What are some tips to solve an environmental-based enigmatic puzzle (EBEP's)?
First, some rough definitions:
enigmatic puzzle: a problem where the goal / answer should be well-defined (e.g. enter a certain word or phrase into an form which is accepted; find a clue to a ...
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I need help solving a riddle for my English class, any aid will be greatly appreciated
I need help solving a riddle for my English class, any aid will be greatly appreciated.
When Blood runs black on crimson tides, a sanguine king sets out from this domain.
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Decoding ciphertext with base64 yields obscure unicode
Context: I was given a piece of encrypted string to decipher and I have been stuck at it for a while. To not ruin the point of the problem, I will provide only some description of the text and my ...
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AWS Quest - First Clue
AWS are hosting a puzzle hunt: https://aws.amazon.com/awsquest/ - the first clue is here: https://twitter.com/jeffbarr/status/972382654682120192
The only thing we have to Amazon Sphere is Sphere ...
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What's this message? It should be in italian
I received a challenge, deciphering "cgo feco a atm", the result, if a sentence, should be in Italian. I've tried the ceasar cipher without success, maybe you can help? Thanks!
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Trying to solve Geocaching puzzle
I'm trying to solve this Geocaching puzzle.
NZ NO PE KR AT AT PE AT UK MM SE
Hint: Puzzle includes acting
The answer to the puzzle should give some GPS coordinates, most likely in the following ...
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Possible number based cipher… but which one?
Here's a sequence of numbers:
133, 173, 30, 133, 176, 160, 171, 63, 137, 176, 160, 60, 177
I'm sure they are an important part of a puzzle I'm trying to solve which I found hidden in an image - ...
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Puzzle with crosses and boxes
This is a question asked from a Reddit user
https://www.reddit.com/r/iqtest/comments/1drjv9i/what_do_you_think/#lightbox
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Strategy for solving "Hypatian Enigma" puzzle (all lines add to 38)
The "Hypatian Enigma" puzzle consists of 19 hexagonal blocks numbered 1 through 19.
The blocks are arranged in 5 rows. The first and last rows have 3 blocks, the second and fourth row has 4 ...
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