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Alphabet snake, master of camouflage
The alphabet snake
is a master of camouflage. It finds a section of text in an old book or newspaper...
...crawls upon it...
...and disappears.
Now see if your camouflage skills can match those of the snake. Figure out how the alphabet…
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Sudoku like you've never seen it before
I've spent this week trying to create a difficult logic puzzle which is a combination of two Sudoku varaints, 'Samuari Sudokus' and 'Pseudokus', and this combo is unlike anything you can find online. The rules are under the puzzle.
Solving it myself…
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This month's $100 question (not a real prize)
****A big one to celebrate my half-century (50th puzzle)!****
I work as a puzzle setter at FakePuzz (not a real magazine). This morning I burst into the office of Eddie Tor (not a real editor) so fast that I bumped against - and smashed - an…
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Selective attention: an unusual game
There's a park behind the local basketball courts, where I like to go for quiet time. The other day, a group of thirty people arrived with a basketball as I was sitting down. One sat next to me, introduced himself as Marcel, and said he wanted me to…
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Happy Pi-Day! Try to solve this "PiDoku"
To celebrate the Pi-Day (3/14) adequately, a challenging math puzzle must not be missing.
Rules:
Fill in the numbers 1-9 exactly once in every row, column, and region.
On top of that, you need to use $\pi$ exactly three times in every row,…
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Three mathematicians are forever in Prison
I'm excited to share the following riddle. It was given to me more than two years ago and I finally solved it last summer (after not thinking about it for a long time). In my desperation, I tried to find a solution online, but couldn't even find the…
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A walk of 3000 meters, but one foot has moved more, how so?
My math teacher has struck again.
Here's his newest riddle:
Today I went for a normal walk of 3000 meters.
One of my feet had to move exactly 3000 meters.
However, the second foot moved 3100 meters.
Can you justify how did that happen?
Edit:
I am…
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What is a Shy 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 a Shy Word™.
Use the following examples below to find the rule.
And, if…
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The Jeweller's Dilemma
You are well known as the best jeweller in Puzzovania; your shop is always well stocked and your pockets are always bulging.
One day, the local 'godfather' of Puzzovania's organised crime comes into your shop. Naturally, you owe him a favour - who…
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2 Monkeys on a computer
(a) Two monkeys are typing capital letters (A-Z) randomly. The first stops typing when the word COCONUT appears as seven successive letters. The second stops typing when TUNOCOC appears; TUNOCOC is simply COCONUT spelt backwards. Which monkey is…
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Which movie will we watch?
A friend invited me to a movie night. But instead of telling me which movie we are going to watch, she just gave me a bunch of movie tickets:
Can you tell me which movie we will watch?
Hint 1:
The searched movie title is not on one of the…
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Man buys item, throws it away on his way out
I thought of this lateral thinking puzzle. Hopefully, it's not too broad and hasn't been asked before.
A man walks into a store, buys an item for $1, and throws it away along with the receipt on his way out. What item did he buy?
Notes:
His…
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How Many Policemen?
A friend of mine presented this nifty little puzzle, he said it's from Round Britain Quiz. It goes like this:
An athletics competition, arranged periodically, rewards a medal to 79 winners, 47 runners-up, and an indeterminate number of third…
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What's wrong with this picture?
This is a nice picture, so what's wrong with it?
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I have three fingers. What is this?
I have three fingers,
Middle finger has a triangle,
Left finger has a circle and,
Right finger has a square
Put these fingers on your PC
What is this?
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