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Rebuilding the Rio 2016 Olympics logo
This puzzle belongs to the puzzle series: hyper-modern art
It is also an entry to the 13th fortnightly challenge
You two friends are still venturing through the endless halls of the gallery of hyper-modern art.
"Oh, look, this time there is a quite…
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Clue Web #1 - Let's start
This may not be perfect and I have no idea how it should be tagged to be honest but... Here's an idea for a word puzzle. A clue web!
You get 4 clues for each of the outer labels (A1, A2, etc.) on the web.
You solve those clues to fill in the…
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Mysterious Murder Mystery
Last year, December 21, 2013, you were awarded the "#1 Detective in the World" for solving more than 50 murders. Your boss gave you a promotion, contingent upon your moving to Chicago. You agreed and took your new position. Your boss told you that…
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Color elimination puzzle
You have a 5x5 board with on each cell a light that can be red, green or blue.
Next to each row and each column there is a button that when pressed makes all red lights in that row/column green, all green lights blue and all blue lights red.
Is it…
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How many steps are visible on the Escalator?
Alice walks down an upward escalator and counts 150 steps. Bob walks up the same escalator and counts 75 steps. Alice takes three times as many steps in a given time as Bob.
How many steps are visible on the escalator?
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Protagoras's Paradox. An Unsolved Court Case
Many years ago, a Law teacher came across a student who was willing to learn but was unable to pay the fees.The student struck a deal saying, "I will pay your fee the day I win my first case in the court".
Teacher agreed and proceeded with the law…
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The Brothers' Riddle
Here's another riddle I know from a while back:
The smallest of its brothers
Twelve of them in all
A large heart in the middle
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Question the solution: a question
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against | v--- this
is + busbus + against | . gnra + >, , @
The solution to this rebus is a question. You do not have to answer it, just discover it. Good luck, and happy…
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Shakespeare. William Shakespeare
Can you determine these popular quotes as retold by Shakespeare? Before anyone points out, yes I'm aware that Bill used predominantly iambic pentameter, but I've never been a huge fan of that, so I'm going with iambic tetrameter instead.
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How oft…
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Reverend Spooner's Favorite Movies
Reverend Spooner dictated a list of his favorite movies to his befuddled secretary. That well-meaning lad, unaware of his master's tendency to swap some of the consonants in a phrase, did not realize these were movie titles. He thought he would…
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What thing am I?
Many people don't put a high value on me,
even though I have more potential than most.
I have certain well-defined tasks to complete,
but if I complete them all, then watch out!
It's true that I'm smaller than others,
but pass by me on the 5th and…
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Do you know S. Tack, or X. Change?
I'm trying to remember the names of some old acquaintances. If I describe them to you, perhaps you can help me out by telling me their names.
He was once an insufferable borrower, but he turned out to be quite the kisser.
She was like a weasel in…
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Murdered down the Rabbit Hole (a long logic puzzle)
Backstory
Disaster has struck for Leporidae throughout the fantasy realm -- a mass carrot famine has wreaked havoc upon all existences but our own. Because of this, 25 of the leading fantasy bunnies, rabbits, and hares from across the universes have…
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Learning to Solve a River Crossing Puzzle
I have seen many variations of the following puzzle:
Once upon a time, a farmer went to the market and purchased a fox, a goose, and a bag of beans. On his way home, the farmer came to the bank of a river and rented a small boat. The boat was so…
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2 vs. 1.005^200
Without using a calculator or a computer can you determine which of these two numbers is bigger: $2$ or $1.005^{200}$ ?
I saw this puzzle in a YouTube video, which I will post later.
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