Unanswered Questions
91 questions with no upvoted or accepted answers
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The Popup Annoyance
The story
Fred, a software designer, woke up, got dressed, took a shower, ate breakfast, then headed off for work. He sat down on his chair and booted up his computer, only to see that all the files ...
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A splash of Minecraft?
I was playing Minecraft the other day and came across a beautiful splash message. Subsequently, I was inspired to create a puzzle for it.
Svir, look out below!
Shorty's slang stays surprisingly stout....
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The Last Challenge
This question is a continuation of this one, and you might want to read it if you haven't already.
'Another code-name,' I think. 'There's no way that's his real name'. Nonetheless, I type in '...
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Used technique to solve web interface permutation used in linked answer
I would love to get to know how the user 'phenomist' came to his solution (Link) from a technical point of view. Of course I did tried it on my own. I used an interceptor to catch the HTTP request ...
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An American Friend Cipher
An American friend of yours, JL for short, sent you the following message: "I can only say that 22. 21. 24. 21. 9. 3. 6. 9. 27. 2. 23."
The hint says the key may be in the initial part of this ...
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I Need Help Solving A Riddle - Its Just An Image?
So I was in this hackathon competition where they promised the people who placed in the top 3 a lot of money and then they delayed the results two weeks. Yesterday, when they were supposed to announce ...
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Find the celestial body
Last week, a group of 5 astronauts went on a space-tour. They accidentally got crashed on a celestial body in space. Luckily no one was harmed! They were amazed to see some highly intelligent aliens ...
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Stuck trying to figure out a hidden message: Sharknado
As part of an ongoing "treasure hunt" in an online game that I take part in, there have been several forum posts made in an attempt to hint the participants to finding certain locations. ...
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Solitaire cipher riddle
I am trying to solve this problem but with no clue of what it actually means. Only thing i know is that it is solitaire cipher hidden message/key.
Here is the content of the image:
To: root@...
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Cipher Puzzle posed to me by my friend
My friend recently sent me some puzzle, and it has me stumped. I'm not that good (garbage, actually) at cipher puzzles, so was hoping if anyone could help me out with it.
It is..
"General O has ...
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Block of characters with no spaces
The puzzle is this string of text:
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A Journey around the Web
Are you ready to embark on a (rather short) journey?
Word Wall - 6 groups of 3, with the answers forming 2 groups of 3. The final answers start with T and U. (They come together into a single thing, ...
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Snailfence: Deciphering puzzle
The following text describes the method used to encipher it.
Ssatnntloe-lree-itgaiima-t-odto-tl,hchaenisoa-a-oitnpsnefenf-p-coigtlxilon--letdnrhitC-iar-ae-reamralcppi-pttfp-dpt-ehrneWeaet-oet-nscewee-...
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The multi-layered multi-layered puzzle competition Part 1/11: February 16th, 2013
This is Part 1 of The multi-layered multi-layered puzzle competition, a 11 part puzzle hunt. Each part is solvable on its own, with the exception of the meta-puzzle at the end
Note: This is entirely a ...
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Find how this finite sequence completes
7 14 31 51 70 81 104 107 129 149 155 175
192 215 238 259 279
299 301 301 314 328 350 372
Inspired by the discussion with the author of, and the clues to its solution are in that discussion: What ...