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25 questions with no upvoted or accepted answers
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REALLY important days in history

@Z. Dailey asks a mathematical puzzle Important days in history... and to come! with a series of dates in years 1973, 1978, 1983, 1992, 2005. My puzzle asks the question: What is the previous date in ...
9 votes
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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).
9 votes
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Rolling dice in a box

A box containing identical dice that were arranged to have same orientation has a missing die at the center (see figure). The dice moves to the free space for they can change orientation and ...
7 votes
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What is a 255b Word™?

This is in the spirit of the What is a Word/Phrase™ series started by JLee with a special brand of Phrase™ and Word™ puzzles. If a word conforms to a special rule, I call it a 255b Word™. Use the ...
6 votes
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Sequence puzzle: 3, 9, 27

A twist of the classic sequence game: A friend asked me to find the rule to this sequence: 3, 9, 27. I am allowed to suggest other sequences to test if they follow that (unknown to me) rule, to which ...
6 votes
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Find the missing element?

I've been trying to solve this for quite some time, can you help me solve it? This puzzle was made by one of my friend's teachers. This is not copyrighted and cannot be found anywhere on the internet. ...
5 votes
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Longest Fibonacci word

Fibonacci words are defined as $F_0 = a, F_1 = b, F_{n+2} = F_nF_{n+1}$ where $a, b$ are letters. How can you find the longest Fibonacci sub-word in a given string? Try to solve it in linear time ($O(...
4 votes
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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?
4 votes
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The smallest number

Some time ago I created a program to generate a table, and printed the first seven rows and columns. Somehow however I forgot to print the headers and the title of the table. I only remember that it ...
4 votes
1 answer
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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 ...
4 votes
1 answer
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Find next element of the sequence

Source of the question: Taken from the sub-Reddit r/askmath here: https://www.reddit.com/r/askmath/comments/15ar3ne/looking_for_the_answer_to_the_following_sequence/ What is the next element of the ...
3 votes
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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: ...
3 votes
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Odd one's out (sequence)

Once upon a time, there was a curious mathematician named Friedrich. One day, while exploring a new area of mathematics, he stumbled upon an intriguing sequence of numbers: 0, 1, 2, 2, 4, 3, 3, 4, 4, ...
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Here's the song, now tell me the title!

You ever have it happen where you know how a song goes, but you forget its title? I've heard you guys are good at figuring stuff out for free, so I'll just drop some notes here and let you guys do ...
3 votes
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Honda tutu del moto - Words which say something

You find a paper lying on the sand. Does it mean something ... an imgur maze, maybe ? Cultures reserve glasses. Twin economists migrates with tails in a fine risk. Conglomerate ... voo dun saga waga ...

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