Unanswered Questions
142 questions with no upvoted or accepted answers
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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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Formula for the sequence 1, 1, 1, 21, 3, 1, 4, 1, 5, 1, 6, ... if the 21 isn't a mistake
The sequence 1, 1, 1, 21, 3, 1, 4, 1, 5, 1, 6, ... appeared in one of my tutorial sheets in 2019. I assumed that the fourth term, 21, was a mistake (was supposed to be ..., 2, 1, ...) then it made ...
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$T\lceil R \rceil _{eA} \lfloor S \rceil$on
The answer is a 9-letter word
$Log_2(26)$
$\frac{1}{6} (\sqrt{595}-19)$
$-\frac{12^2}{100}$
$0$
$-\sqrt{\pi}$
$6\pi\cdot\tanh^2(2)$
$\frac{307819}{62500}$
$0$
$-\frac{8}{3}-\frac{3}{\pi}+\frac{5\pi}...
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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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Find a missing number in this 28x21 grid
355|066|677|855|677|081|044|855|355|062|216|677|216|855|224|044|034|046|051|677|355|264|044|046|044|351|886|043
043|044|886|357|886|352|225|357|043|222|993|001|233|968|046|225|062|041|351|886|043|227|...
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Please, I don't know greek!
data
key
result
7, 2, 17, 82, 56
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ΛΞλν
1, 3, 8, 127, 65, 8
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5, 64, 13, 9, 4, 42
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δδιΡΠ
13, 9, 8, 657, 31, 3, 7, 5
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Hints
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A math-based jigsaw
This is a fun puzzle I invented 50 years ago. ("Loops of Zen" is rather similar, idea-wise.) Here is a random solution (doesn't spoil much)...
...and here are the building blocks:
Basic is ...
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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.
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WORD SEARCH
A
B
C
D
E
F
1
SOR
SUF
HYP
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