Unanswered Questions
96 questions with no upvoted or accepted answers
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The Search for Dracula - a puzzle
Some friends and I are playing a roleplaying game about Dracula in the modern age. Last night, we received the following puzzle from the game-master.
(7 1 1 1 1) (17 8 8 8 8) (4313 2755)
With the ...
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Whose turn is it?
This puzzle builds around some similar ideas as in my last one, but here I was able to flesh out the story in the critical sequence a bit more. Can you tell whose turn it is in this position? And, ...
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What did Aryabhatta say?
I was looking at an old Sanskrit shloka.
I saw the following verse - and as I know Sanskrit (or Saṁśkrutaṁ), I translated it roughly.
tukā nātha kabīra ete ādikavayah |
nāmā gadimā kintu ...
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The Mono-Quantum Condrum
You are presented with a locked box, and on its surface, you notice a sequence of peculiar symbols:
⌬ ⌅ ⊙ ⊡
Next to the symbols, there's an inscription:
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Please, I don't know greek!
data
key
result
7, 2, 17, 82, 56
0
ΛΞλν
1, 3, 8, 127, 65, 8
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εΤψΒΖ
5, 64, 13, 9, 4, 42
7
δδιΡΠ
13, 9, 8, 657, 31, 3, 7, 5
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Hints
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Code found written in chalk: "JSMYCTLYCTJCBEXD19"
The code I found on the sidewalk in chalk at my local courthouse is
JSMYCTLYCTJCBEXD19
I have had trouble identifying the code type as well as the deciphered message. Any and all suggestions/help ...
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"Friend"-ly Puzzle
All stories in this puzzle are fictions; the puzzle was made by myself.
My friend left me a puzzle. He gave me 5 papers, each had some information on it.
#1
WORD SEARCH
A
B
C
D
E
F
1
SOR
SUF
HYP
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Help With Dan Brown's Unsolved Puzzle
Dan Brown has an unsolved message on his website https://danbrown.com/
There are hidden symbols on 5 JPG images and 5 PNG images that overlay the JPGs.
JPG Images: int1.bg.jpg, int2.bg.jpg, int3.bg....
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Can you help me recover this message?
So, in May 2018, a friend and I were sitting in study hall, bored. Both of us had finished our homework early, and we were trading ciphers over email. I sent something that I had encoded, and neither ...
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The cryptic treasure hunt
I created this puzzle. This may be really challenging. But I assure you that there is a solid logic behind. (Note: Questions are cryptic)
1: Ucbemfol.jcancyf
2: Mwamebyr;assdpwhbporcrof;
File
3: ...
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Cipher my friend sent me
"The world is: ::: :#: : ::## :### / :##: ##: #:::"
My friend sent me it and said the use of the symbols : and # don't matter. It's the pattern that matters.
The hints he sent were:
(EDIT)
I worked ...
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How to solve this puzzle?
I have solved the sudoku. Scratching my head on the second part. Any hints?
It is not picked from any competition. One of my office colleagues usually post these types of puzzles on emails for fun ...
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A deciphering riddle
Recently in class a computer science related deciphering riddle was shown which I could not solve. For the course itself it is not obligatory to solve it but I am interested in the topic and I wonder ...
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My smol boi puzzle! :3
It should be noted that all this puzzle intends to do is give the second half of the answer to my first puzzle, while being a puzzle itself. Other than that, this is just your normal smol boi puzzle :...
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A tie knot algorithm puzzle
This is the actual way I memorize tie knots in life using just one "code word" for each.
The four-in-hand knot has the code word BERT.
Trinity has SRESITET.
Eldredge has SESIETSAT.
Can you ...
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