Unanswered Questions
103 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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Impossible Cipher v1.0
When I create riddles, ciphers etc.. they seem to get solved within only a couple of days of writing. Well no more! This cipher may not be impossible but is extremely difficult. If left unsolved for ...
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How to Complete this Cryptographic Challenge?
This question is from a CTF that a company (EY Cybersecurity) did almost a year ago. The original website is no longer available.
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A multi-symptom affliction
"Kindly state your name." The nurse's voice was polite, but qiet.
"I'm sorry, I can't hear you, my hearing's bad."
Being mostly deaf was quite frustrating for our patient.
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Crypto Riddle for a bonus track
here is a crypto riddle a artist named Master Boot Record put on the page of his music.
087 104 101 110 032 116 104 101 032 077 111 111 110 032 119 105 108
108 032 115 104 101 100 032 110 111 032 108 ...
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Find the secret 7-letter message embedded within this message (unsolved)
Background
This puzzle was originally from a puzzle contest for the USC Viterbi Magazine that is now over, but the answers have not been posted. My friends and I have been working on it for weeks, but ...
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Number Code - A Visitor by Moonlight
You hear a knock on the door downstairs while you're sleeping.
You creep down the stairs by the light of your phone, only to see a shadow exiting through the window.
By the moonlight, you see a piece ...
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Zed's E-mail: My Good Ol' Uncle Sugar
My friend Gabby and I constantly look out for each other. Just the other day, she received a strange message from what I thought was an uncle of hers. "Problem is," she started with a ...
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Coloured dot cipher
I, as a curious being, stumbled upon a page which had a hidden dot cipher in it.
Part of the console states:
[...] we left you a little message in the dots of the footer
(Source: segment.com)
The ...
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Finding Rogue Kitty II
Having been met by a group of very unhappy bosses at
Kitty is being 'returned' to the staff car when suddenly there is a commotion and she makes a run for it.
As they chase her, little old ladies ...
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Late 18th/early 19th century numbers grid
I was researching an historical figure on the Isle of Man, Capt George Quayle (b.1751 - d.1835), and in amongst the museum's papers was this numbers grid which was part of his effects. The museum ...
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Need help with a cipher: "poems" with capital letters
I am trying to figure out a cipher I think I found in a book from 1982 and it's a 36 year old mystery we are trying to solve (I will reveal the book if this turns out to be something so everyone can ...
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Oh no, my chocolate banana puzzles are not unique!
There is a hidden message (7, 2) inside the solutions of the nine puzzles. An answer will only be accepted if it correctly identifies said message.
Here are the Chocolate Banana puzzle rules. Each ...
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Decode the ancient prophecy
A team of archaeologists has discovered an ancient clay tablet. They understand the script it is written in, and have transliterated it to the Latin alphabet, but they do not understand the language. ...
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All Aboard the Factorio Train to Far Harad
It’s been a while since you started up your Factorio game and you are trying to remember what you had done with your four trains. Use the clues below to work out which deposit each train is collecting ...
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Hidden composer
Today I wanted to make a "logo" for a composer. I liked logos with deeper meaning so I had gone ahead and tried this design:
What composer was I trying to make a logo for?
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Lucas's interesting cipher
Lucas was fooling around with some letters when he encoded some text into Gsobj lwmtkd sbceugb vfy rgdjb.. Can you figure out the original text he had?
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Are infinite loops possible in the game Prodway?
I'd like to know if infinitely repeating sequences of moves (i.e. cycles) are possible in the following game:
Prodway is a game for two players (Black and White) that is
played on an initially empty ...
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Cryptogram or Anagram
ArenETalagooD
fanemiPhOdl
Clues:
The answer is 7 characters
Answer can include the following characters: a-z, ...
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Relax, I’m Kidnapped! - Part 2
Part 1: Relax, I’m Kidnapped! - Part 1
You manage to solve the crossword, and you show your captor the answers. “Well, you solved it…but I’m not done yet. Go to my room,” he replies. He directs you to ...
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To get the answer, you'll have to get the key first
Below there is a cipher hidden in the text. Read everything very carefully. As far as I know, it will give the necessary hint.
Look for some patterns: Let nobody distract you.
Eventually, you will see ...
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encode in encode
Today, a cryptic message was received by Area 51:
Bananatexteismarvellous605185682252125223459314283216133301
2
The staff managed to figure out that some 2 digit ...
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Hexadecimal string on a US Military challenge coin
I have been given a string which I believe to be in hexadecimal.
The string comes from the edge of a US Military challenge coin (non-sensitive information). A photo of the coin:
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Need help with cipher
I've been attempting to solve a coded message that someone posted to Twitter, but I can't crack it. I'm not even sure what kind of cipher it is. I believe it needs a key to be solved, but I'm not sure ...
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My first meta puzzle (as I remember)
I don't have any comments about this question, all info are in the image.
Hint 1:
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The Official Stack Exchange Spelling Bee, sponsored by *something something*
Behold, the First annual official amaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaazing Puzzling Stack Exchange Spelling Bee! With hard words! Harder puzzles! And conveniently pre-signed-upped competitors!!!
insert canned ...
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Running away from a 5 euro fine
Scenario:
It is 10:50pm You are in France running away from you 5 euro fine in Germany. You finish paying your 13 euro bill at the coffee shop. Then when you check your inbox at 11:59pm our lawyer ...
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The obscure message
I created this puzzle. Find the message.
q螣 s䈚 q蟝 v쀎 q蟾 q蠸 q襪 q褰 q弧 q螣 q襪 q蛡 q袈 q蟝
Hint 1:
Hint 2:
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What are these encrypted Starfield tweets saying?
There are a lot of rumors about Bethesda Softworks and/or Bethesda Game Studios announcing a new game at E3 this year, or even on May 14th (source). A key in this mystery is the trademark 'Starfield'. ...
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Can anyone decipher this?
My friend just sent me this
5627 4654554
With a keyword of 'Digital'
Which is apparently going to make this have some sense:
At first, it's difficult to understand. But once you read down, you ...
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Encrypted message with Fs, 5s, and 6s
I've been redirected here from Cryptography SE.
This is a university assignment. We are supposed to be employees in a corporate environment that has managed to steal an encrypted message from another ...
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Binary puzzle in World of Warcraft
I apologize if this isn't appropriate here, but it's been driving me insane. Essentially, a puzzle was recently introduced in the video game World of Warcraft, which no one has been able to solve. ...
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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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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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Filling in an 8x8 minesweeper grid with mines (Day 2: Diagonal Reverse Synesthesia)
Note: This is based off of Day 30 of the Minesweeper Advent Calendar on heptaveegesimal.com
So my first minesweeper puzzle did not go so well. I will try to do better today.
First off: This is a torus ...
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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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