Linked Questions
32 questions linked to/from A Masterpiece: A mirror or an ABC?
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A puzzle in 140 characters
Your final answer will respond to the question "Why don't I like Twitter that much?"
Like usual, I'll confirm any sub-answers if you find them
Here's the link to the puzzle on Twitter.
Here's the ...
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My prefix is food, my suffix is rude
I thought of this riddle myself. Feedback is appreciated.
My prefix is food.
My suffix is rude.
My infix comes in rounds.
I keep you off the ground.
What am I?
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Merlin and Hermes: Mysterious Lines
Two adventurers, Merlin and Hermes, approached a large iron door built into a cliff face."Well...", said Hermes, "What do we do now?". Merlin produced an old, large piece of crumpled paper from his ...
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Deusovi Honeypot
Looks like the community has spoken.
With a heavy heart (as if), I have trapped @Deusovi behind a never repeating, fractally recursive, infinite, unsolvable labyrinth. To keep him busy, I added a ...
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Do I Work with an Orangutan?
This morning I found myself face-down in front of a large building. It was obvious that I had taken a great fall from one of the rooms above me, but now I apparently had amnesia.
I went in.
I could ...
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What famous line does this Linux command line represent?
The following shows a Linux command line with a # prompt:
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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Simple geometry. Or is it?
I've got a regular tetrahedron and a square pyramid. Every edge of the two solids has the same length. If I perfectly attach one face of the tetrahedron to one of the triangular faces of the square ...
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An invisible traveller
Maybe not a typical riddle, but here it is:
I can travel from there to here by disappearing, but I can also travel from here to there by appearing.
What am I?
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A word puzzle about complimenting one's appearance
Think of a unit of measurement.
Now rearrange its letters and read them out loud to form a sentence (an example would be u r a b, meaning "You are a bee"). Make sure the sentence compliments someone ...
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I am described by temperature, and never by looks. I might be found in your camera, as well as children's books
Riddle me this:
I am described by temperature, and never by looks.
I might be found in your camera, as well as children's books.
I described what you observed, but perhaps not at ...
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Smallest Unicode Box Drawing
What is the smallest box diagram you can draw which uses all of the Unicode box drawing characters at least once, but without leaving any loose ends? For reference, you must use each of these ...
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Sometimes I'm ugly, sometimes I'm art. What am I?
Sometimes I'm ugly, sometimes I'm art,
Sometimes I'm near and dear to your heart,
I have been known to bring about pain,
And yet I deliver relief just the same,
You know where I live, yes you know it ...
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Who won the world cup quarter-finals?
I hope this is OK to post as after one occurrence of below last year this has been noted in the media - but I haven't seen it written as a puzzle and think it is nice enough to ask.
Mia was watching ...
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Cryptic Poem: a study in what?
One day, while you work through one of your countless puzzle books, you notice that a sheet of paper has been slipped inside with a curious little poem written on it.
A Study
An ancient man ...
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Why the 7 Apples?
A doctor and a bus driver are both in love with the same woman, a girl named Sarah. The bus driver had to go on a long bus trip that would last a week. Before he left, he gave Sarah seven apples. Why?
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An Odd New Technology
Since it's Friday, and I'm really looking forward to the weekend, I've created yet another riddle for everyone to try and solve.
The Puzzle
I was in my chemistry class the other day, and I noticed ...
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What is missing from this sequence of words?
What is missing from this sequence?
SUM, SUN, SIX, -, SIP
Source: GCHQ Puzzle book
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4 Gridded Prime Numbers
You have the first four prime numbers ($2$,$3$,$5$ and $7$) which are gridded and shown as below:
You are trying to get highest total score you can reach with arranging the numbers by rotating (no ...
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Treasure hunt 'round the world! (clue 4)
If you're interested in starting the treasure hunt from the very beginning, check out the prologue!
After cracking the code, you catch a flight to Oslo, the capital of Norway. Being on a long flight ...
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Mortin Myes' is at it again! 'HOW TO READ.'
Mortin Myes' has blasted back onto the minimalist art scene with a painting titled 'HOW TO READ.'
Modern art critics from around the world are puzzling over the meaning of this abstract work, and how ...
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Piece de Resistance - Introduction & Ace and A's
OP's Words
This puzzle is part of the "Piece de Resistance" series. Read the following section for the storyAce Two Three Four Five ...
Hey guys (and gals), I have worked on this for weeks, took me ...
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Dissect the pixel-heads
Here are two figures, each composed of 54 pixels. Cut each figure into six nonominoes having the same shape and size.
Both figures use the same nonomino
The nonominoes could be rotated, reflected, ...
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Mixing business and pleasure
I asked my manager if it was okay for my friends to come hang around at the shop. Here's his answer:
As I've said, they're always very welcome. But can I just remind that we'll keep working? ...
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Grandpa and numbers: Another Grandpa Mystery
Grandpa loves to make silly little statements. And he thinks they are riddles.
The other day he turned to me and said:
"This is not math but
Take a number
Add a number to it
And ...
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Building a pyramid from di-spheres
Suppose you want to build a square pyramid made up of 30 spheres. So the bottom layer is a 4x4 square arrangement of touching spheres, and it has 3x3, 2x2 and 1x1 layers on top.
The building blocks ...
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What is designed to go into holes and always has a hole in it? [closed]
What is designed to go into holes and always has a hole in it?
It fits this pattern:
S _ _ ...