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Charlie goes on vacation
ADAM: Hey Benny, check it out. It's a letter from Charlie. He's going on vacation!
BENNY: Cool! Where is he going?
ADAM: No idea. Maybe the letter will say. Let's see...
Hey guys! So I finally left for my vacation. I know you're itching to…
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Secure and unhurt
I'm fast asleep, I'm secure and unhurt.
The argument's valid, I firmly assert.
A body of water, a deafening alert,
a tool used by doctors, I'm found in concerts.
What am I?
Jafe
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How can I avoid the "Riddle-maker's Dilemma?"
When writing riddles, I often encounter an issue that I've decided to call the "Riddle-maker's Dilemma." (Forgive me if there's already a name for this.)
In short, the line of thinking goes like this:
I want to make my riddle difficult, so I need…
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A globetrotting riddle, with a twist
This is an entry into Fortnightly Topic Challenge #36: Twisted Classics 1. First time doing an FTC, so let me know what you think.
Let's take a little trip around the world, shall we? Make sure to write me when you get there!
My first's in Rhode…
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Is Grandpa right? Another Grandpa mystery
Grandpa likes Warren Buffet but not Bill Gates
Grandpa likes Prince Harry but not Prince William
Grandpa likes President McKinley but not President Clinton
Why is that?
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Guess the other shape
Each solid shape is somehow related to the shape below it.
Find this relationship and the correct shape for the last one.
Edit: simplified second shape from left to a polygon
Rafe
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Interchanging Knights and Rooks
Interchange, in the least posible number of moves, the positions of the the two black knights and black rook with those of the two white knights and white rook. Movements allowed are those of the corresponding pieces in the game of chess within the…
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A strange family indeed
We are a family of members twenty-four.
There used to be more,
But we threw them out the door.
Except four of them would rather stay
And I think that's okay
As long as they don't play.
Every day into five tables we split.
In the…
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find who am I Riddle?
Five hundred begins it, five hundred ends it, Five in the middle is seen
First of all figures, the first of all letters, Take up their stations between
Join all together, and then you will bring Before you the name of an eminent king.
Who am I?
narasimha
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One, Two, Three, Four, ..., Five, Six, Seven, Riley!
My first may sometimes hold my all.
My last may sometimes strike a ball.
Between, may sometimes make a shawl.
And people sometimes say we're small.
Hugh Meyers
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Digging a tunnel between random locations
Romeo and Juliet are each placed uniformly at random locations on a spherical planet, meaning that each square meter of surface area of the planet is equally likely.
Romeo decides to dig a straight-line tunnel through the planet towards Juliet.…
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Known Algorithm Attack: Caesar Reloaded
Most of the puzzles here revolve around an unknown algorithm attack. That is, you are given an enciphered piece of text and asked to decode it (and often given a series of hints which describe how the enciphering was done), or you are given a set of…
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Who is the Greatest Classic Rock Band of All Time?
This is not a "normal" crossword, but the clues are pretty normal, i.e. they're not cryptic-clues. The words you put into the boxes, though, aren't the answers to the clues, they're just related.
It's not really that complicated, but in order to…
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Four points with only two distances
Your task is this:
Find all arrangements of four distinct points in the plane such that only two distances occur between them.
When you have $4$ distinct points, you can measure the distance between any two of them. There are $6$ pairs of points,…
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Oh dear, oh my, how blatant
Looking at the Puzzling Stack Exchange recently, I found a surfeit of number sequence riddles that all look the same! I mean, there's no difference between any of them. I'm sick and tired of all these uninspired riddlers cluttering up our precious…
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