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Bill the Conspiracy Theorist

When my friend Alice called me very early one morning, it meant one thing: Bill was at it again. Bill is Alice's husband and a devoted conspiracy theorist. He regularly spent hours looking for hidden patterns and concealed truths, and though Alice…
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#1 of the Memebus™

What phrase does this rebus represent? (Apologies in advance for MSPaint skills)
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A calculation error made a rebus

What does this little rebus mean?  14   0 Is fourteen wrong or what? EDIT: OK, there have been way too many answers, only a few having some reasonable match with the rebus. To avoid another flood of not-so-nicely-matched answers, here is a Hint: …
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The Catacombs of Cryptos, The Final Path

Previously, in The Catacombs of Cryptos: 1. The Entrance to the Catacombs The end came long ago. The wars are long since over. Little remains and those who have survived struggle. One of the few places that still stands, however, is the…
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The Biggest Loser

I'm shiny. Yikes, I'm starting to burn! But I'm very careful. I'm all coiled up! I'm part of a plant now. Now I'm all stuck up. But I'm getting fat. Now I'm just a number, And now I'm just me What on earth is going? Why am I changing so much?
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No tea. No coffee. No water

Fr Owen More had left the exclusive Dublin Temperance Society meeting and was relieved to be sitting down in the living room of Mrs. Philippa Glass. She brought him a wee fat-free jam oat scone Then the conversation went: Philippa - Will you…
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Plant 9 trees in 10 rows of 3

"Tree-planting" puzzles are also known as "points and lines" puzzles. The English puzzle author and mathematician Henry Ernest Dudeney was very fond of them. In 1917, Dudeney published a collection of puzzles called "Amusements in Mathematics",…
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Ever increasing highway numbers

A province has 10 cities (arranged in a circular manner). Every pair of cities is directly connected by a straight highway, and each has its own unique number: Highway 1, Highway 2, Highway 3, ..., Highway 45. Below is an example of one such…
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Five Unique Individuals

Each of the sections below has a single answer, and the five sections are related. After finding the solution to one section, the others should be much easier. The Best Friend Whenever you're down and out, I'm in there like a dirty shirt. Your…
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10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 = 2016

Add the four basic operators $\times\div+\,\;-$ and optionally brackets to: $10 \quad 9 \quad 8 \quad 7 \quad 6 \quad 5 \quad 4 \quad 3 \quad 2 \quad 1$ To get the total $2016$. Rules: We are looking for the simplest solution - i.e. the least…
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Numbers on the blackboard: From 2-2015 to 1-2014

The numbers $ 2, \ldots, 2015 $ are written on a blackboard. Each minute any two numbers $ x $ and $ y $ are wiped out and are replaced by two numbers $\displaystyle \frac { 4x + 3y } { 5 } $ and $\displaystyle \frac { 24x - 7y } { 25 } $. Is…
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The tough one from "A Brilliant Young Mind" (2014)

Great movie by the way. I'm quoting from memory, so I may get the wording wrong. The positive integers are each colored Red, Yellow or Green. Prove that for any such coloring, there must exist three distinct positive integers $a,b,c$ such that…
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The largest Monday number

A Monday number is a positive integer $N$ with the following three properties: The decimal representation of $N$ does not contain the digit 0 The decimal representation of $N$ does not contain any digit twice $N$ is divisible by every digit $D$…
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First odd number in a "number dictionary"

All numbers between 1 and 1010 are written out and ordered alphabetically into a dictionary (as the only entries). Spaces and hyphens are removed. 1024 would then be "onethousandtwentyfour". Also, "and" is not being used as a link (I think that's…
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A letter to my girlfriend, she would have been thirty this year

A letter to my girlfriend. She would have been 30 this year. Who is she, and what experiences did we share together? Hello... I miss you. We all do. You loved to paint. A personal passion: it brought out your brilliance. I remember when I first met…
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