Unanswered Questions
123 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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Alternate, complex potions puzzle from HP fanfic
A long narrow room. The entrance is blocked by purple flame, the path onward blocked by black flame. On a table, the only thing in the room, are two dozen potions in opaque bottles. Half green glass, ...
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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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Qubes: Oh, For the Love Of
TL;DR: This is a mixture between a tribute/spin-off puzzle and an attempt at a new puzzle type, greatly inspired by the notorious arcade game, Q*bert, published originally by Gottlieb Amusement Games. ...
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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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Hidden message in rap text II: "Ya, a ray 'ave july joy!"
This puzzle is inspired by this one by @LukasRotter. Hopefully you don't mind me using similar (well, basically the same) format as yours, Mr. Rotter! ;)
The same rapper released another teaser for ...
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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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An Attempt at AV Puzzle
Here's another puzzle with visuals and sound. I hope you enjoy it!
With Sound:
https://youtu.be/yHkQdEu0QpA
Static Image (the musical notes represent the music in the YouTube video):
Hint 1
Hint 2
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April Fool's Enigma
Every year, a famous French youtuber (e-penser) presents his enigma of April Fool, but this year, targeting specifically a group of people who have done particularly well last year, he raised 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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Dreamcatcher Puzzle
I created this puzzle as part of a set of puzzles about good wishes for a wedding. Does it work?
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12:41 puzzle: colorful geometry
The answer is a 4-letter word. I will not be giving any hints.
This puzzle is very old. The puzzle is solved using only the image (no clues to the puzzle in title or description).
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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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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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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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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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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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Visual puzzle involving mathematical operations
Try this puzzle. It involves mathematical operations. Created on my own.
CSV (for those who aren't able to see images):
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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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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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