All Questions
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Break into Goldbach's safe
You need to unlock a safe by typing in the correct password. All you have is the following note:
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I don't want to let my friends down
This is an entry into the Fortnightly Topic Challenge #36
I was supposed to do something, but I can't remember what it was. I know it was supposed to be fun or funny. In a typical effort to hide my ...
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the television: a country's finale
This puzzle belongs to the puzzle series: A-Countries-Journey
This is part 3.
New country! Welcome to the UN! Here is your task for today:
Germany's Cryptics Factory: where the cryptics are always ...
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Looking for a message
I'm looking for a secret message found using these two clues:
181-5 253-14 294-7 298-6 382-11 384-2 59-9 480-1 510-10 541-13
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Togetherness - Enigmatic Puzzle
Clues:
43516 27692 9890 49450 25714 1___ 45494 29670 9890 35604
1___
Instructions: Fill-in the Blank
_ _ _ _ a _ _ _ _
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In the Cover of Darkness
I awoke in a mysterious desert wasteland that I didn't recognize. I looked around and saw nothing as far as I could see, except for the oddly rhythmic storm in the distance. Reaching for my phone, I ...
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Coded Formula 1 Champions
This is a list of some of the Formula 1 championship winning drivers in their coded form.
The constructors that helped them to win the championship are also coded in the same row.
COMPLETE THE TABLE
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A Code That's a Little Bit Weird
The street outside Rockefeller Center was a very busy place to hide a secret message, I thought, but sometimes the best place to hide something was in plain sight. I'm a government agent, from one of ...
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...vs VTE(next to)
What do these letters and numbers below represent? After you've figured that out, replace the three question marks!
LXE 329, CIE 266, PNS 260, KPE 141, HCQ 132, LZE 122, FVS 111, DIG 101, VTE 100, ...
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Butchered Morse Code
The space-eater has eaten up all the spaces from the following Morse encoded message. The message contains a quote by a famous person. Can you reconstruct the sentence?
$....-..-.-.---......-.--......
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The ultimate question?
I had a quite peaceful night last night, that is until my phone rang at 2:46 AM. Upon answering, the person on the other side said:
"Kifflom! Congratulations you have won 10.000 € from our secret ...
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All Aboard the Factorio Train to Far Harad
It’s been a while since you started up your Factorio game and you are trying to remember what you had done with your four trains. Use the clues below to work out which deposit each train is collecting ...
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The Search for Dracula - a puzzle
Some friends and I are playing a roleplaying game about Dracula in the modern age. Last night, we received the following puzzle from the game-master.
(7 1 1 1 1) (17 8 8 8 8) (4313 2755)
With the ...
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Dr. Strangelove or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
Can you recover the following two dozens of (well-known) movie titles just from their initials?
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What could be it?
It was too 6-6-500, then I've decided to 1009 it with more color, but it became too 54-1-500.
What could be it?
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Cipher Riddle (intermediate)
You must decode and answer it! Here it is:
00101010 01001101 01100111 01101000 00100000 01101101 01110110 00100000 01101000 01110100 01110111 00100000 01101101 01101110 01110111 00100000 01100101 ...
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** and ## operations on countries
Oman is the ** of Romania
Andorra is the ** of Andorra
Tunisia is the ** of Tunisia
Guinea-Bissau is the ** of Guinea-Bissau
Haiti is the ## of Lithuania
Togo is the ## of Colombia
Maldives is the ## ...
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Entry to CIA Part #1
As I searched for different topics on Google, my whole screen suddenly went black and gave me this letter:
Dear Reader,
if you have come across this message, you may be applicable for the CIA.
We are ...
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Sometimes, we add extra!
Make sense of this picture below. The answer is 8 letters long. Good luck!
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Usually by algorithm's, but not in this case
The task is to decipher the picture below and then replace the question marks!
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Decipher this three times, periodically
After hanging around this site for a little while I finally decided to put together a cipher for my first puzzle. I hope you guys enjoy it.
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Who is John's favourite painter?
John being his usual self forgot the name of his favourite painter. He went to the Oracle for assistance but inadvertently walked in on her while she was busy eating pie. Angry at the interruption, ...
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Dungeon Crawler: Level 3
You are the protagonist in a game designed by NeedAName Inc. Proceed through the levels using
your video game knowledge to solve the puzzles therein. Solve all levels and beat the game!
Level 3: ...
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find the word in a multi-stage internet scavenger hunt
The answer can be anything.
For you can search a lifetime.
To discover the bookmarked answer.
You must traverse down the long long walls.
Using the number of walls of each frame.
The key hides twice ...
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Encrypted Add-A-Gram!
In a regular Add-A-Gram, each word in the chain is an anagram of the previous word plus one additional letter. It is possible to solve them from any entry point, and then work forwards or backwards ...
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The Burnt Textbook
You and your team have successfully intercepted a message from the enemy, which could win you the war! But the message is encrypted with a difficult cipher, and your textbook's instructions for ...
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Covert Conversation - A North Daniels' Puzzle
It's very important to keep your login details secure, which might entail not writing it down, encrypting them, or using a password manager. What you should not do is save them on some random USB and ...
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Bro's password... must've forgotten
My overseas friend has forgotten the password to his SackExpunge account, and the only information he wrote down about it was this:
Username: LiveSound
Password: ...
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Josh the College Guy
Josh was new this college game; being an American, he sought out his education in other countries.
He decided to apply as an international applicant. He only needed to give in his ACT scores, which ...
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The Official Stack Exchange Spelling Bee, sponsored by *something something*
Behold, the First annual official amaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaazing Puzzling Stack Exchange Spelling Bee! With hard words! Harder puzzles! And conveniently pre-signed-upped competitors!!!
insert canned ...
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Where did this mysterious note come from?
The boy had a cat on the boat, Alone among blue all around. He wrote a very brief note, Hoping the can would be found.
I just came back from the Latpipe Hotel and decided to head to the beach, for ...
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Where are the twinkies?
You have been stranded on an island in the middle of the ocean for the past 26 days, and your food supply is starting to run low. Unfortunately the only person on the island that has any knowledge ...
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Where does my friend live? 5
Other questions in this series can be found here.
One of my friends, Com, has sent me a code to show where he lives:
ARIA, ---, ---, ESIA, ---, KAAN, KYAN, LAIA, ---, MOVA, RUIA, TAAN, TUAN, UKNE, --...
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Find the cipher used
Each of the following lines were said by various famous personalities. Each line corresponds to one person. There is no relation between these lines. After obtaining the names of these people, A 6 ...
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Single word clues to decipher codewords
Two pieces of information are known about a code language:
One of the Greek letters is Pea23
The past tense of 13Tea is 11Tea
Each codeword in the table is associated with a single word clue.
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Here's a little cryptogram I wrote, you might want to read it letter for letter
Mage's birth seems important. That's all I'm going to say.
J EJPL QW VFIUQT UXWUTH YOSWSUV, HIU Q JQ PIAX PN HSV.
BQIZ BQMKS R QBG WSU MGMTB,
JRE IV E CQC ASWWK JV CLF PNEE QO M EW.
R EN I KMU ...
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Musical instruments and their codes
Fill the empty cells under ONE, TWO, THREE and FOUR
ONE
Musical Instrument
Code
Ektara
I5E6
Masenqo
TWO
Musical Instrument
Code
Erhu
Gunjac
C7G6
THREE
Musical Instrument
Code
R6B9
Shamisen
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These words are for you alone
Can you decode the message this tablet contains?
Good luck!
Note: The knowledge tag is by no means necessary to solve this puzzle, but certain knowledge could be helpful in verifying the answer. ...
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Finding Uncle John!
It was a chilly winter night when I was hanging around with some friends. We were gossiping about the recent kidnapping cases where a few of the people from the town were missing. There was a news ...
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Our Honor is Unstained
Here are four photos from Google satellite maps and one from Wikipedia (see note 1). These photos show a family related by strength and endurance. The goal of this puzzle is:
to identify the proper ...
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Cricket or Cipher?
Congrats Bass for finding the answer of Find this Cricket terminology
Find the names of three Cricket stadiums from the below codes:
1.
dy30q7i
2.
23jgo36
3.
5y39fqo
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Boxentriq level 20 with dancing figures and a book cipher
The picture below is a puzzle from the Boxentriq game, which should help me find a particular book.
Decoding the pictured Dancing Men cipher gives me "LIBERAL II". Using this and the numbers ...
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We Have the Power
I was out supporting my local labor struggle when I got this request:
9F06 7F11 7F23
7F05 7F17
8F19 7G11 8F18 7G08 7G01 7F09 9F22 2F33 9F15
2F07 2F10 7F02
So, what should I do?
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"Friend"-ly Puzzle
All stories in this puzzle are fictions; the puzzle was made by myself.
My friend left me a puzzle. He gave me 5 papers, each had some information on it.
#1
WORD SEARCH
A
B
C
D
E
F
1
SOR
SUF
HYP
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The Great Art Theft
The day was March 18, 1990. Just a few hours ago, multiple valuable artworks were stolen by men in fake uniforms. You, a famous code breaker, happened to stumble upon two pieces of evidences that the ...
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An airport authority's important message
A middle-aged man sat in a sofa in an air-conditioned room of an airport, staring at the officer facing him; the latter had her left hand on a small laptop.
"I have a very important message for ...
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Have you this knowledge?
This is special puzzle, with no story. It should be very easy for people who know what is this:
GgcuuUcaGuUgUauAuuUguUaa
The target is to find the word from that string.
And, if you really want to ...
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A series of strange codes
I made this code series for my computer science friends—they had fun solving it, and one of them told me I should put it up on this site, so here goes. The end of the code is rather unexpected!
Each ...
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the flute section keeps passing notes
(_ˇ෴ˇ)_⟋ 🎵🎶
(づ🪈◕‿◕ )づ日 ٩(◕‿◕)۶🪈
The band director is tired of the flutes passing notes in class, but he can't tell what the notes say. Here is one of the messages.
2 10 - 1 2 3 10 - 1 2 10 - 1 ...
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