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Real life puzzle: Unknown alphabet or shorthand
User JellicleCat posted this on linguistics stackexhange a few years ago. None of us were able to come up with a satisfying answer but most seemed to agree that it was an idiosyncratic cipher or shorthand. It means that puzzlers may be better…
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Never Completed Game
The seventeenth of the primes.
Its twin is twentynine.
Po.
Let’s drive.
Bye, Alfonsín.
Add seven triangular.
Sweet.
It named the Valley.
This riddle is taken from https://www.nevercompletedgame.com/
It is the final question of the challenge…
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Headless horseman claims new head
Solve the clues and fit the answers into the grid so that each of the coloured squares contains exactly four different letters.
Sahara desert capitals of historically African region in Germany (4)
Fifth Element: Besson's first and last is full of…
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Spilled coffee on my puzzle
Some time ago I created a nice simple puzzle. It's a horizontal word grid with 22 letters and nine clues. However, I spilled some coffee on my notes and can no longer remember what numbers I wanted to put in clues 1 and 4. Can you help me…
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Astronomical number sequence
1 2 3 0 [4] 4 0 [4] [1]
5 6 7 0 [4] 8 0 [4] [1]
9 10 11 0 [4] 12 0 [4] [1]
We're gonna [1] [2] [3] [4] tonight!
Can you name $[1]$, $[2]$, $[3]$ and $[4]$?
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In the olden days, I was feared, for my name meant certain death
here is another riddle I came up with.
In the olden days, I was feared, for my name meant certain death.
Nowadays I describe the gentle wind's cold breath.
when you are young, you hate me, for I always mean more work,
when you are older, you…
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Self-Description
Part of the Fortnightly Topic Challenge #35: Restricted Title 1
This text has ? l's and ? n's, but its ?th most frequent letter is f. This text also has ? letters that are used ? times or less. Its got thirty? uses of the letter it uses ?th most…
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A Space Station 13 tricky situation
You are the Captain of the Space Station 13, and everything went bad very quickly. Most of the crew died, and it took you not so long to figure out that some people are not who they're supposed to be (hence the bloody mess). Your task is to find out…
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Stingray Nebula
An entry in Fortnightly Topic Challenge #35: Restricted Title 1. Inspired by the title of this xkcd comic, but in no way related or affiliated beyond the shared name.
This is the stingray nebula:
Spectacular, isn't it?
This is a nebula map of…
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A game of multiplication and addition
Carol is playing a game with Alice and Bob. She secretly chooses two integers between 1 and 10 and gives the sum to Alice and the product to Bob. After some time, the following discussion occurs:
Alice: You can't know my sum.
Bob: Thanks to…
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Bongard n°1: Fruit Flies
I increased the size of each space but the rules are the exact same as in the original problems published by Bongard.
I'm adding a link in case people aren't familiar with this type of riddles Click me!
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How much money can we make?
My five friends and I used to loan each other money all the time. But over the past several years we have moved apart. We don't trust PayPal, banks, or the postal service so transferring money over such great distances is extremely…
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From Each According To Their Own
I was amused to hear the following conversation between three of my acquaintances.
1: What is it?
2: Look! That bird has got two beaks. Men! Walnuts for eyes every one!
3: Calm down, woman. That bird is always getting underfoot. Watch channel four.…
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Double Speak - Phrases that need rewording
Each of these phrases can be reworded into a Double Speak phrase. A Double Speak phrase has two homophones together in the same phrase. For example a "Warrior's time of rest" could also be called a "Knight's Night". The thirteen phrases that need…
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