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❤️Scrambled emoji tale☠️ #️1️⃣
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My twin was born 16 days before me. Who am I?
We were born out of mankind's unquenchable thirst;
Despite my name, I wasn't the first:
Because of a difference in trajectory
My "younger" twin was born 16 days before me.
We were recently joined by a guy with a towel
And our fictional…
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fill this grid with water!
In this puzzle you have to fill with water some cells of the grid. The number of filled squares in each row and column is written next to it.
You can't fill a square if the squares connected to it (under, left and right) in the same region are…
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You'll never walk out of this room
I'm a kind of room you'll find in most any building.
You've walked into me many times I'm sure.
But you have never walked out of me and you never will.
What am I?
To my knowledge I made this riddle up. But it's simple enough that I bet it's come…
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Can you make 1 1 1 1 = 5?
Can you find a way to make 1 1 1 1 = 5 by adding any operations or symbols? You can use symbols such as these: +, -, *, !, ^, (). It is not limited to this list.
Good Luck!
P.S. You can not add any other numbers to the equation.
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Mystery of the One Word Wordsearch
How have you been? Please, come in, have a seat. Would you like a drink? Wine? Soda? No? Yes, I have orange juice... Ok, enjoy!
Anyway, I know how you love wordsearches, so I made one exclusively for you! I spent hours on it! I'm such a good friend!…
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A Single Sentence Puzzle
One of my peculiar acquaintances introduced me to the world of puzzles, so I've started to dabble in making some of my own.
Here's a single sentence puzzle, where I want you to find a four letter word that is the answer to the puzzle, and a four…
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French vs Italian resistance
I have computed that the French resistance is roughly 17% larger than the Italian one. Do you know how I did it?
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Reassemble the riddles!
I'd just finished writing four short 4-line riddles, painstakingly making sure each line was correct, when a wind caught the slips of paper I'd been using to write on and blew them all over the floor. Quickly I picked them up again, but the order of…
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And the rest is hstr!
This is an entry in the 14th Fortnightly Topic Challenge.
Ha, nice, a new fortnightly challenge. What's more, it is about history! It seems that people didn't like sports that much, huh? Fortunatly, there are
(good) puzzlrs around here who seem to…
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Breakfast with friends
One early morning, a group of friends meet in their favorite
café.
Ash, the biggest in the group, remarked :
"Must have been millions of years since we were all together, uh?""
Affie, who was wearing her brand new elephant pants,…
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Polynomial game with Devil
You die, and awake in Hell. Satan awaits you, and has prepared a curious game. On a blackboard, he has written the polynomial $x^2+x+666$. He explains the rule:
On each day at $12$ noon, you must either increase or decrease the coefficient of $x$ by…
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Relabeling two 20-sided dice without changing their total
Usually, 20-sided dice are labeled with the numbers 1 to 20. When you roll two of these, their sum is a random number between 2 and 40. The total 21 is most likely to occur, while 2 and 40 are the least. The probabilities vary linearly in between,…
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A Surprising Circle Packing
A grocery store has a long, skinny box, with no top, that it uses to display soda. The box is two soda cans wide and 200 soda cans long. You can neatly fit 400 cans in this box, using two rows of 200, as shown below.
Show how to fit $401$ soda…
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The Magic Money Machine
The brilliant scientist you are, you have built a magic money machine, capable of materializing money out of nowhere! Here's how it works:
The machine has six boxes, numbered $1$ to $6$, each iniitally containing a single dollar coin.
Beneath each…
Mike Earnest
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