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The Hidden Treasures
Credit: Brandon X.
My friend made this riddle and I think it’s pretty well made with lots of components, so here it is:
Look
there Is treasure Here
in Its purest Form
The large Key is Here
In front Of Your Face
found In Moments,
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It was a dark and stormy night
September 8: It’s raining, and Russian Emperor Czar Nicholas awakes, confused.
Someone enters, completely soaking. “It’s positively vile – I’d resist going outside.”
It’s Czarina Alexandra. “Anyway, my dear, you look awful. What’s wrong?”
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A Checkmate of Dubious Legality
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Black has just delivered checkmate in the above position - but is the position legal?
If no, explain why.
If yes, give Black's mating move.
FEN: 3r4/2r4b/8/8/8/3Kp3/5k2/8 w - - 0 1
URL: lichess.org
Also hello, fellow puzzlers! Long…
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I make billions
I make billions,
I never spend less than $1000,
I'm a man in black,
I'm a force of nature,
I'm the original,
Audiences of all ages have seen me.
Who / what am I?
JS1
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The Confused Alien
A rather serious and studious alien has landed on Earth with the prime directive to communicate with all Earthlings.
With his advanced statistical methods and the vast computing power aboard his ship, he sets out to understand every language of…
SlowMagic
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The mysterious operation $\oplus$
We are given an operation $\oplus$ that is associative and commutative, has $0$ as a neutral element, and we know:
$1/10 \oplus 1/6 = 5/29$
$1/6 \oplus 2/3 = 7/10 $
$1/5 \oplus 2/5 = 3/7 $
$1/4 \oplus 3/4 = 2/3 $
$3/5 \oplus 1/3 = 3/4 $
$5/8…
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Theorists sure want true answers to this!
So, birds eat bread I toss.
One romantic kiss in the rain's too nice, methinks.
Untidy notes disrupted a student in a study period.
Deodorant on to end an odor.
The wisdom of anagrams fathoms a game in words.
False hope helps a foe.
I may be in…
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The Video Gamers' Double-Duty Crossword
"OK, so I know that you two are always arguing about what type of crosswords to do- 'Normal crosswords are too boring!' 'Cryptics are too esoteric!!' Trivia vs wordplay, yeah, I've heard both sides. But, I've also heard that you BOTH love video…
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The King's new dress
The King has come to me at once
And ordered that I make a suit
"The suit should have a lot of folds
Contain a lot of metal discs
Please color it by using paint
Then decorate with flower leaves
And please adhere a crown with tape"
Five…
Thomas Blue
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Superhero words!
Quietly walking among us are words which are actually superheroes in disguise! Just as Diana Prince spins around to become Wonder Woman, some seemingly ordinary words can spin around to reveal their super identities!
For example, STRESSED turns…
SlowMagic
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Some numbers are more equivalent than others
[Second part and bounty challenge appended in May 2020]
ALL ANIMALS ARE EQUAL
BUT SOME ANIMALS ARE MORE EQUAL THAN OTHERS
— from
Animal Farm
by George Orwell
Original puzzle…
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I may also be found in your body
My infix won't tell you a thing,
But you can find me from the rest:
My suffix sounds exactly like me,
And my prefix is already half known.
In wood or wire, what am I?
Rand al'Thor
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Reversed Sudoku
Sudoku from Sudoku Solutions.
Here's a Sudoku grid with all the obvious candidates removed. Your task is to re-supply the givens.
JMP
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Logic puzzle: Driving around the United States
For Super Bowl Sunday, here's a super-sized logic puzzle!
This was a practice puzzle for a hunt I participated in a few years ago.
There are ten delivery drivers driving around the United States of America. Here are their stories:
The drivers…
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Maths equation: 357568588-11 = ~357568584.858
Move one line and make this true: $357568588-11 = $ ~ $357568584.858...$
No cross through the "=" sign stuff.
Hint:
It can be ANY line
Rohit Jose
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