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What is a Scalable Phrase™?
Now that you are familiar with Cyclone Phrases, let's look at another kind of phrase.
If a phrase adheres to a certain rule, then I call it a Scalable Phrase™.
Use the examples below to find the rule.
EDIT: I added the visual tag as a hint.
If you…
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You stand in a forest... Where are you?
You stand in a forest,
So black, dark,
Light can’t quite wind around the dry, tough bark.
Trees are all you can see,
But change your viewpoint even slightly;
And a brighter vista it may indeed come to be.
Those seen trees which bear ripe…
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A Cave in the Black Mountains
Across the Deadly River, among the Black Mountains, is a mystical cave. Anyone who enters the cave finds within it a single gold coin, which may be freely taken. Once you leave the cave, you can never reenter it. However, a group of people may enter…
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What is the largest n-way tie possible for Mario Kart?
In a $12$ player race, the scoring system of Mario Kart awards $15$ points for 1st place, $12$ for 2nd, then $13-x$ for $3\leq x\leq 12$. A standard cup is $4$ races. What is the largest $n$ such that an $n$-way tie is possible?
For example, a…
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Sliding crosses in a 5x5 grid
Well you probably already knew that this was coming after the last two puzzles :) I believe this is the most beautiful one.
You are given a 5x5 grid with 3 crosses as shown below. Each turn, you can select a cross and slide it along horizontally or…
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What test am I taking, anyways‽
On a recent math test, I had the following question showing a series of six images. The answer was one of the five options A, B, C, D, or E.
Can you tell me what the correct answer is? And can you tell me what field of math the test was on?
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"Since his
It looks like I've found part of a puzzle? I wonder where the rest of it is! It should be around here somewhere...
Once you do find it, you might find this transcription of some of the text in the puzzle helpful:
"Since his
now that it has been…
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PSE Advent Calendar 2021 (Day 1): La laa laaaaaa laa la Christmas
This puzzle is part of the Puzzling StackExchange Advent Calendar 2021. The accepted answer to this question will be awarded a bounty worth 50 reputation.Next Door >
...la laaa laaa laaa la la:
TASK: An odd number of related things (greater than…
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Three missing digits in 42 factorial
When calculating $42!=42\cdot41\cdot...\cdot2\cdot1$ the result is
$42! = 140500611775287989854x14260624y511569936384z00000000$
However three digits have been replaced by $x$, $y$, and $z$.
Can you find $x$, $y$ and $z$ without recalculating $42!$ ?
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Sudoku on a Mobius Strip
Well we've done sudoku on keyboards, so the next step is obviously putting a Sudoku on a Mobius strip... of course...
I present, the world's very first MOBIUS SUDOKU:
Now this sudoku is going to be a bit different, because how you solve it, is…
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Ancient machine in the desert... how does it generate its output?
I was walking through the desert and came across an ancient contraption of cogs and gears. It had a series of dials on one side that appeared to allow the input and output of numbers. On the other side was an enormous lever. It looked far too old to…
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Two out of a dozen cartons have Easter eggs. Two people try to find one Easter egg carton, each using a different strategy. Who is expected to win?
I have found a counter intuitive puzzle. I have read the answer given at the source and understand it completely. But, what I am unable to understand is why my intuition turned out to be wrong. Following is the question:
Alice has a dozen cartons,…
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100 prisoners and a secret number
There are 100 prisoners numbered from 1 to 100. They know their own numbers. There is an interrogation room with a table and an envelope. The envelope contains a secret number - an integer chosen between 1 and 100, inclusive. On the $k$-th day the…
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Secret decoder ring
I was digging in my dad's trunk and I found some sort of 1940s secret decoder ring. Not quite sure how it works, but anyway, one of the lines has become almost illegible (#T#######). Can someone help me to restore it?
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Scoring a grid
As a professor of Awesomeness at the prestigious Ad Hoc University (other questions in this series), I decided to assign my students this puzzle. Unfortunately, they were all unable to get it! I want to post it here to see if any puzzlers can get…
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