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Escape across the floorboards
A mad lexophile sits alone in his apartment obsessively rearranging his Scrabble tiles and writing words on every available surface, even filling each floorboard with a word. The Scrabble tiles have had enough. They are plotting their escape.
The…
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Twelve balls and a scale
You are given twelve identical-looking balls and a two-sided scale. One of the balls is of a different weight, although you don't know whether it's lighter or heavier. How can you use just three weighings of the scale to determine not only what the…
user88
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I'm a noob, plz help me quick!
I'm a programmer and I have a deadline to finish a difficult project, I need your help now.
I would ask it on Stackoverflow, but it's probably gonna get closed, so I'm reaching out on this SE.
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May come in…
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You've Probably Seen Me Naked
As an alphabet aficionado, I can make you laugh long into the night.
As a make of Japanese vehicle, I can keep your surroundings clean and beautiful.
As an execution apparatus, I make you laugh despite not maturing.
As a mixed-up romance, I…
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A Riddle Within a Riddle
MY friend, your luck has Turned.
i've made tHIs Riddle and it is the best, anD "soon iT sHould bE solved.
if it is not, then a QUIet miNd mighT let sEedS be Sown, within which idEas caN grow.
in essenCE: at THE end, in one small day, seCRetly,…
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Bar-coded Message (Reverse Engineering)
This weekend, while totally minding my own business and in no way being suspicious, I just happened to come across the following interesting document:
Left page: download as TIFF (100,203,616 bytes) / JPEG (20,003,558 bytes)
Right page: download…
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Discover the meaning of life!
You've trekked through jungle and tundra, across mountaintops and deserts, into giant caverns and beneath the ocean to find the person known as The Oracle. Finally, after all your hard work, you find him. He sits alone in an opulent palace, never…
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Make 0 0 0 0 = 8
Can you find a way to make:
$0\ 0 \ 0 \ 0 = 8$
by adding any operations or symbols? You can use only these symbols:
$+,\ -,\ *,\ !,\ /,\ \hat\, ,\ ()$.
It is limited to this list, and concatenation is also allowed. You cannot add other numbers…
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Strange women and their strange ways of giving you phone numbers
While Bob was walking down the street one day, he met a wonderful woman that was attractive and smart and a great conversationalist.
After they had been chatting for a while the woman looked at her watch and quickly got up and scribbled something…
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A seven letter word - the meaning doesn't change if you remove letters
I am a seven letter word. If you remove one letter from me my meaning does not change. If you remove two letters from me my meaning still does not change, and if you remove three letters from me, my meaning still does not change.
Even if you remove…
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The Sands of Time
There are people who claim that they can look upon the land, and the land will speak to them.
I recently got caught in a sandstorm, and particles of sand flew past my eyes.
What is the desert saying?
(The solution is six letters)
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All numbers in a 5x5 Minesweeper grid
Can you place mines on a 5x5 Minesweeper grid such that each number from 0 to 8 appears exactly once?
Good luck!
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The Two-Trench Truce
This is an entry into the Fortnightly Topic Challenge #41.
The 100th anniversary of the end of World War I just passed a few days ago! In memory of this, in this puzzle we're going to reconstruct an ancient war, as described by a veteran of the war…
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A Lazy Breakfast
Clark and Albert sat at the same old table they'd met at years ago. As per usual, there was hardly anything to drink, and they'd had nothing but sips between them. Near Albert, there were some scraps of bacon, and an egg, scrambled. It was the…
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Riddled and Dismembered
The following is a riddle. Do not solve the riddle. Instead, explain the title.
My top is tilted to the light,
A trumpet, almost, in its form
You court a woman? There I am.
I please, palliate, perfume and mourn.
Your grief I lament. Slay me…
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