Unanswered Questions
126 questions with no upvoted or accepted answers
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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 ...
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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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We found text from the year 2040!
Recently, the first surviving examples of text from the ███████████████e discovered! The unearthed artifacts included a collection of rectangular tablets inscribed in the hitherto unknow███████████████...
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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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They are all K-verbs
Find the missing verb.
G: Fold, Break, Pry
D: Reduce, Vibrate, Rob
B: Soak, Subtract, Thrash
J: Sleep, Squeeze, ?
Subtle Hint:
Moderate Hint:
Decisive Hint:
Very Decisive Hint:
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Do you see the point?
Original puzzle by me.
Remember to always obey your superiors. The first one should be 08594.
Hint:
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Stress Not! - A North Daniels' Puzzle
Beep, beep, beep, beep...
No, this was not the sound of D.S.I North Daniels playing miniature cricket on his phone, although that would be a preferable situation to the one he is in now.
Unfortunately,...
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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
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What song are these lyrics from (translated into emojis) ~ 2
😁👈🤠🐎🎰
👈🎰🗺️🏘️🏘️ / 👈🎰💯⭕
🕰️👉🫱🫲🃏🃏🃏🃏🃏
👉🧠🤠👈🛏️💰👈👇
🛏️💰👈👇 (2x)
I am happy to share this wonderful song with you. You will love driving or doing any travel with this song.
The ...
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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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Light the darkness
The answer is an event in Wikipedia. Find the date.
4️📅🤐⬇️🏪👀(🥘🇵🇭-S)(🎲21+A)🇺🇸
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Truly unexpected thingy in a Radcliffe novel!
Ann Radcliffe was an English author in the Gothic style at the turn of the nineteenth century. Among the many interesting points in her remarkable career though, one little story is but poorly known. ...
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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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