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Grabbing quick drinks
I asked ________ friend:
- ________ interest you in a drink?
- Sure. I want a ________.
- Alright, let's go. I'll just grab ________.
Fill the blanks, two words per line. What do the answers have in common?
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lolcatz can haz ur infinit cheeseboard
This is a problem on an infinite chessboard with pieces called lolcatz. They can move like queens or knightriders, but have a strange disadvantage...
... you've never heard of knightriders? Well, they're long-range knights. They make an odd number…
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Puzzle: Who hacked the computer?
I was working my way through some Knight and Knave Puzzles in Discrete Maths by Rosen, when I came across the following question:
Four friends have been identified as suspects for an unauthorized access into a computer system.
They have made…
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One 'double agent' two-step on a waltzing floor
I'm in a jam – cornered I am! –
No clue 'bout where to go
Here's what went down, a pretty gown
Some wine, a French chateau
She whispered underneath her breath
"Come dance with me and know
what's coming up – so far away –
oh…
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"Paradoxically my name can be the solution" - what am I?
By definition I cannot exist, but paradoxically my name can be the solution
You cannot solve me, but can conclude and resolve me
You can try to figure me out, but you cannot figure me out
What am I?
EDIT:
Clue (the clue doesn't make it "easy"…
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The Longest Word Made from Chemical Symbols
So, as you probably know, each and every element in the Periodic Table has its own unique chemical symbol, which is either one, two, or three letters long. For instance, Oxygen is represented as O and Copper as Cu. So how about combining these…
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The Persistence Of Memory
You find yourself on the floor, slowly waking up and unable to remember how you got here. As you slowly come to your senses, you realize that another weird guy has trapped you in another unfamiliar room with what you're sure is another set of…
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And and... and. And.?
This is a cool riddle, which my Maths teacher taught our class, 25 years ago. I still remember it and find it very cool.
Can you create a perfectly valid English sentence, which makes perfect sense, but which contains the word "and" in it, five…
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Almost a curse?
What am I?
My last three letters serve to clarify.My first four letters are where famous people speak.Dropping all consonants, I am almost a curse.
The solution is a single English word and, once found, will leave no doubt that it is the intended…
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Who poisoned Hugh G. Pokitz? (a murder mystery logic puzzle)
Preface
After your last mishap with a heap full of rabbits, you got sick of being lied to. Isn't life just so much easier when you can conclusively tell if someone's been telling the truth or not? For that very reason, you went out and bought a lie…
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What percentage is grey?
The evenly spaced lines are drawn parallel to the base of triangle. What percentage of the triangle is grey?
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Release the "Q" ball
Hit the "I" ball at such an angle that it creates a chain reaction which ultimately dislodges the "Q" ball.
Whenever the ball in motion hits a stationary ball, the ball in motion replaces the stationary ball in the word, thus forming a new word. …
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Controlling a robot blindfolded on a 9x9 grid
A robot is located somewhere inside a 9x9 grid shown below, but you don't know where it is. You can send commands to the robot to make it move one cell left, right, up or down. Shaded areas and edges of the grid are walls that cannot be traversed.…
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Haters gonna hate
In a classroom, there are $20$ students and every student mutually hates exactly $3$ other students in the class. (If X hates Y, Y hates X as well.)
The principal summons some of the students from this class and somehow within this group of student,…
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