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My wife has died
In 1980, a man lives on the 30th floor of his building. Every morning he wakes up, gets ready, kisses his wife, takes the elevator down to the first floor, and goes to work.
One morning, he wakes up, gets ready, kisses his wife, and gets in the…
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Do I Work with an Orangutan?
This morning I found myself face-down in front of a large building. It was obvious that I had taken a great fall from one of the rooms above me, but now I apparently had amnesia.
I went in.
I could tell that the building had been built by an…
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Why does this solution guarantee that the prince knocks on the right door to find the princess?
I found this puzzle online:
On the top floor of a castle lives a princess. The floor has 17 bedrooms arranged in a row. Each bedroom has doors connecting to the adjoining bedrooms as well as to the outside corridor. The princess sleeps in a…
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Thanks, dad! Never again
No idea why my dad dragged me into this place. Some guy is performing on the stage. He's reading numbers out loud. I think it's some kind of a sequence puzzle.
1... 8... 9... 16... 17... 24... 25...
This is boring. Where is this place, anyway?…
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It's my birthday today - how old am I turning?
It is my birthday today
Last year I had 5 candles
4 were lit the last was not
But today, I'll light them all
How old am I turning today?
HINT: I am not turning 5 today and...
Next year I'll have 6 candles, but I'll only light the first
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Fwd: Re: Karen is missing!
From: Ada Hughes
Sent: Thursday, April 7, 2016 7:03 PM
To: Joe Dorsen
CC: Jason Bernz ; IT Guys
Subject: Re: Fwd: Re: Karen is missing!
Hey Joe,
That sequence underneath the image: …
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Coin Flipping Game with the Devil
You die, and awake in Hell. Satan awaits you, and has prepared a curious game. He has arranged $n$ quarters in a line, going in the east/west direction. He placed the coins at the ends tails up, and all others heads up, like so:
$$
\text{T H H H…
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How do you prove that mirrors aren't parallel universes?
Migrated from WorldBuilding SE $:)$
"Each mirror is a world of it's own," Joe explains.
"Joe, that's bulls***! Mirrors are just mirrors!" Rita proclaims.
Joe proceeds to lay out the following~
$10~Laws~of~Mirror~Universes$
Law of Rotation: For…
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I am a computer’s nightmare, but a programmer’s best friend
I am a computer’s nightmare, but a programmer’s best friend.
I am both the cause of a problem and the source of its resolution.
What am I?
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REJBÄS - an unfinished flat-pack puzzle
I'm going to come right out and say it: I'm kinda bored of making puzzles, but I still want those sweet, sweet imaginary internet points, so I'm phoning it in this time with a flat-pack rebus I bought at a puzzle warehouse. The only thing is, I…
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Nine gangsters and a gold bar
One night nine gangsters stole a gold bar. When the time came for dividing the bar, they faced a problem: two of the criminals put guns to each other's faces. Now it's up to fate whether one of them lives, they both live or both die.
While these two…
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When I grow up, I want to be
As our story begins, six children meet on a hot summer day. They are enjoying the end of their summer holidays before they must return to school. However, they have now reached the age where they must begin considering their futures and the types of…
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The Puzzling Times
$$\bbox[orange]{\begin{array}{rcl}\\\hline\huge\ \ \star\ \ \star\ \ The&\huge{Puzzling}&\huge{Times\ \ \star\ \ \star\ \ }\\\hline\\\end{array}}$$
Vol. 4, No. 1 $\raise 2pt \tt{\large{\ \ \ \ \ \ \ MONDAY,\ JANUARY\ 9^{th},\ 2017\ \ \ \ \ \ \ }}$…
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Can White Castle?
This is the first chess puzzle I composed in the retrograde genre. I originally posted this in a chess dedicated forum. Hope you like it!
In the following position, is it possible that White could still castle?
To prove it's possible, all you have…
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Guard gets fired after saving CEO's life
A classic:
A CEO of a multi-million dollar business has to go on a business trip to Belgium (from somewhere in America).
Before going to the airport in the morning with his limousine, he's going to the office first to get some files that he forgot…
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