Unanswered Questions
114 questions with no upvoted or accepted answers
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Noita Eye Glyphs
A puzzle found hidden between the background layers of the computer game Noita. The puzzle has not been solved since it was added to the game in October of 2020.
It is made of thousands of eye images, ...
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Decrypting the Key: "Phage is Spreading.."
I've been trying to solve this puzzle called "Phage is Spreading.."
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Determining the meaning of a challenge coin
I saw this rather cool looking challenge coin the other day, and I was wondering what the associated binary on the back of it means, as it isn't standard ASCII.
In plaintext:
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Crack the pigeon code
Can you crack this message? It was discovered in a chimney in 2012 attached to a carrier pigeon and was most likely sent during the D-day invasions. The GCHQ was not able to crack it, even after ...
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Grandma's keynote
Found this note which is addressed
To my grandma, in her chest
Since she's passed now, here's my quest..
What tickled her interest?
And who invited her as guest?
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Can you find the cipher that I used?
I have encoded a phrase, using a cipher that I invented. But I don't want you to decode it, rather I want you to figure out how my cipher works.
This is the phrase that I encrypted
Find the ...
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A funny looking cipher puzzle
What secrets does this jester hold? Hints are found down the road.
A hint, or rather, that what is held transcribed:
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Signatures of serial killer Edward Wayne Edwards?
This is from a real-life murder-mystery. In 2009 Edward Wayne Edwards was arrested and convicted of five murders, following a tip-off from his daughter April. Former detective John A. Cameron ...
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Zed's Order: Breakfast at Elon's
My friend Elon and I constantly irritate each other. He recently built himself a rather respectable restaurant – a sort of bed-&-breakfast, minus the beds. Last week, he asked if I could ...
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What causes these signs to follow this relation?
Can you find why does the below relation hold true?
Hint 1
Hint 2
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Is there another name for this puzzle? (Kyudoku, Nine Find)
Is there another name for this type of puzzle? I can only find two examples of it online:
https://www.brainzilla.com/logic/kyudoku/
http://ninefind.com/
In the game you start with a 6x6 grid filled ...
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Cookie Unionization
My Christmas cookies are gone! When I came into the kitchen this morning, the box was empty. All that remained were a few crumbs and this note:
We absconded.
You never saw that coming, did you? Well, ...
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An Evil Cartesian Psycho
I came up with this puzzle when I was in high school.
There is an island owned by an evil man who keeps some tourists who were visiting the island a few years ago captive.
The authorities demanded ...
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Ode to a Nightingale: a puzzling study in literary criticism
The field of literary criticism is an interesting and fruitful one, in which puzzlers might carve out a niche. This was recently brought home by a conversation I had with a sagacious old gentleman in ...