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The Dance of Love?
Romeo and Juliett are sitting idly in the lobby of their hotel awaiting their chaperone for the evening. Romeo takes a sip from his glass of whiskey as he watches his wife consume pages of abstract algebra voraciously from a recently published…
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I Learned a New Word Today
To start the day off, I went for a swim
Then dug up a tuber with vigor and vim.
I scored it as 10. It was proper and prim.
A relative came. One clue: it's a him.
A movie with guns, hats and horses entwined.
Another kin came, of the…
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A Ghastly Cryptic
Oh no! Hallowe'en has weakened the borders between this realm and the spirit realm, allowing some tenebrous nogoodnik to release several ghosts from other universes upon you!
In this cryptic, each of the following (luckily benign) ghosts haunt 6…
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A relaxing glass of Shiraz
You see, I am that what makes you able.
What I am is an element stable.
Without me a name for oneself's lacking.
I'm in fish, Thai, Shiraz and unpacking.
You can try and guess what with mouth could rhyme.
Sixty times me is still quite a…
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Self-Referential Humor
This is an entry into the Fortnightly Topic Challenge #38. I hope it fits the theme!
The answer to this puzzle is what you should do to solve this puzzle.
Getting 51 and nice guy to start (7)
Level 51 not this (4)
Totems you shouldn't have—51's…
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I can be heavy, but I'll never sink. When I am ready, my glass is a drink
Riley Riddle:
My prefix runs past, When you leave what you cast, Where a square may be skipped by a pawn. My suffix is vast, When I swap first with last, Where a breath may be currently drawn. My infix is fast, When it thinks in a blast,…
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My roommate's short riddle
My roommate (rm) this morning suddenly give me this riddle,
rm: Hi, good morning! I have a nice riddle for you
me: Seriously? Isn't this too early?
rm: 'mon, just guess who I am
You change me once, You'll find me on your phone or next to it
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Plot Twist (variety cryptic)
This is an entry into the 36th Fortnightly Topic Challenge: "Twisted Classics".
Each clue/answer pair in this puzzle has been affected by one of these types of plot twist:
28 of the clues have wordplay resulting in a string with a "red herring"…
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Popularity Within a Target Audience
This is a metapuzzle with four component puzzles and a final meta.
Creations of CSIRO
The Australian research institute CSIRO is notable for producing inventions such as gene shears, the insect repellent Aerogard and more.
Three clues resolve to…
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Can you solve my Chess Sudoku puzzles?
Rules
Normal Sudoku rules apply except that instead of 9s you must place chess pieces. A puzzle can mix chess pieces, and in principle any piece may be used - although the rest of the constraints provide implicit limitations on which pieces may go…
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What's the perimeter of the hexagon?
Consider a hexagon which is equiangular but not equilateral: all angles equal to 120 degrees but four consecutive sides of length $a,b,c,d$ not necessarily equal. What is the perimeter of the hexagon?
A very simple problem with a very neat…
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What is a God Word™?
This is in the spirit of the What is a Word/Phrase™ series started by JLee with a special brand of Phrase™ and Word™ puzzles.
If a Word conforms to a special rule, I call it God Word™.
Use the following examples to find the rule.
God Words™
Not…
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Huh? That's a word?
I am a word with 6 letters.
I contain a "la" in the middle, in in the beginning, and at the end.
What am I?
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The tilted labyrinth - Can you find the fastest path in this 3D-puzzle? (Simulator now included.)
This is a puzzle was inspired by the board game labyrinth, which I very much enjoyed as a kid.
It either requires very good 3D-visualization skills in your brain or some paper & scissors work. (Hence mechanical puzzle).
Thanks to Kevin, there is now…
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Is there a move-efficient way to rotate the center pieces on the Octo-Star?
I'm looking for a more efficient algorithm to rotate the center column of the Octo-Star puzzle 45 degrees.
The situation below occurs when four properly-oriented edges are next to each other, allowing for full freedom of movement.
As can clearly…
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