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Knights and Knaves: What does C say?
You are on a fictional island with two types of people: knights who always tell the truth,
and knaves, who always lie. Three of the inhabitants - A, B, and C are standing in the
garden. A says, "B and C are of the same type" (B and C are both knaves…
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A burning sensation
What's the burning sensation in the following Limerick?
Complete, I'm a burning sensation,
Less my second, provide information,
Then curtailed, an offense
Like the one with the quince,
And beheaded, a doctor's location.
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Why is it impossible to connect 3 black dots to 3 red dots?
Connect each red circle with each black circle by drawing a line and the lines should not touch.
From each red circle, 3 lines must be drawn which connect red circles with black circles, but the lines must not touch.
I am 32 years old now. When I…
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Took a trip to a parallel universe, need help deciphering
I recently traveled to a parallel universe where the people wrote in a symbol-heavy language seemingly derived from English. While there, I attended various sorts of collegiate lectures to get a feel for the language; during a particular lecture, I…
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The First Gate: Why So Tense?
Greetings fellow puzzlers and puzzled alike! I’ve concocted a little puzzle for you all... Well little may be an understatement, but I'll come back to that.
Before starting, you should know that the only materials you'll ever need for this puzzle…
When The Dust Settles
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Top ten best ways of transportation
This is an entry into the Fortnightly Topic Challenge #41.
Last night me and my friends had a fun night at the bar. When it was time for us to leave, we couldn't come up with a transport that will be comfortable and fit our status the most. After a…
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Mysterious loss of weight
Now an entry into Fortnightly Topic Challenge #41: Short and Sweet
A man enters a room and presses a button. Within seconds he loses 20 lbs body weight. How did he lose the weight?
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A Periodic Puzzle
Entry into Fortnightly Topic Challenge #38: Reusing Information 1
Isn't it nice to have the same information to depend on, that you know will be reused? ... Wait, who said that you were getting that information?
Hint 1 (Incorrect Integers):
What…
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Anagram’s all over this place
I met a fellow puzzler from a certain country and town. When I asked where he was from, he replied
My prefix is anagram
My infix is anagram
My suffix is anagram
Where is he from?
Hint: When I asked him to clarify, he said
My prefix prefix…
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I like to travel. Can you tell where I've been?
I live in a cold country, and each year I travel to one of my four favorite summer destinations: Valencia, Tel Aviv, Sydney or Porto.
I have a habit of visiting my grandmother when I return (same day or the day after) and when I meet her she would…
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Who are these two sisters?
Once each month I slept with you,
But unfortunately I'm a young woman.
I'll give it to you square: I'm rich!
Halfway to perfect in an attack.
My sister makes much less sense:
Her misfortune was to be created.
Twice I told her, I really…
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What color is the drummer's hair?
Three friends - a cricketer named White, a footballer named Black and a drummer named Redhead met in a cafeteria.
"It is remarkable that one of us has white hair, another one has black hair and the third one has red hair, though no one's name gives…
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Find the missing elephants
Determine color and direction of the missing elephants in the picture.
Here's a textual representation of the above.
G< R< R< G< R< M> G< R< R> M<
G< G< G> G< G> G< G< G< G> G>
G< M> M> G< G< ?? M> M> G< G<
Y< Y> G> G< Y< Y> Y< G> G< Y>
G< G< G> G>…
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The total cost of salaries in a company
Story Version (scroll for TL;DR)
It's the end of the first quarter of 2017.
This means it's the end of the 2016 fiscal year (at least in my country it is).
It's time to draw the line.
So the CEO did his calculations and said we did a good job so we…
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What is MOehm trying to tell us?
MOehm has an interesting (updated) profile picture:
It is a lower case and italic 'm' (supposedly for 'M'Oehm) surrounded by what appears to be braille.
The braille says (in UEB, may mean different in other languages): (* used to indicate braille…
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