All Questions
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One 'double agent' two-step on a waltzing floor
I'm in a jam – cornered I am! –
No clue 'bout where to go
Here's what went down, a pretty gown
Some wine, a French chateau
She whispered underneath her breath
"Come dance with me and ...
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Find the hidden word (Harry Potter theme)
Bouncing bulbs are jumping all around the greenhouse. Can you help sort them out and figure out the hidden word?
(Note: the answer is something from Harry Potter)
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▉ ▎▊ ▐▎ ▋█ ▐▉ ▋█ ▐▉ ▎▊ ▐▎ ▎█ ▐
(I created this puzzle myself)
I was shopping for groceries the other day, and I found an item that was in an unlabeled, uncolored package. In fact, the only thing that was on it was this barcode:
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Lost in Translation
You arrive on a foreign island, but upon heading to the local library, you find yourself unable to decipher the texts. You wonder what's caused this...
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The Curse of the Ancients
The night has grown fearful. It has been a fortnight since the rising - when the dead have begun to shamble out of their graves, hunting and preying on sleeping men and women and children. The people ...
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Animal Farm and the Porcine Penitentiary
It's a disaster at the farm!
Overnight, some nefarious individual has stolen an animal. You're not sure which animal, but you're sure that when you went to bed there were ten, and now there are only ...
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The cook was fired!
What word am I looking for?
The cook is fired!
Decay! The baker's dozen!
I need a new job.
Hint #1:
Hint #2:
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V for Vendetta - Who am I?
This link here shows how many "Who am I?" riddles we already have on this site. Obviously, there are many of them and they're mostly riddles describing an object in some funny way. On checking the ...
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Monoalphabetic Geometry
This is a second puzzle from the Monoalphabetic Equation series, you can check out the previous one here.
A set of letters has been replaced by $a$, $b$, $c$, and $d$ and one symbol has been replaced ...
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11 Harry Potter rebus puzzles which together spell a word
11 Harry Potter rebus puzzles. When you have solved them all, there is a word they are hiding.
Hint:
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PSE Advent Calendar 2021 (Day 18): A Reunion, and Christmas Decorations
This puzzle is part of the Puzzling Stack Exchange Advent Calendar 2021. The accepted answer to this question will be awarded a bounty worth 50 reputation.< Previous Door Next Door >
I lived ...
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Puzzle from Pythagoras
Pythagoras wants to…
If 1a,2b,20k,50v and 600x
Then what is 100 10 1000 3 ?
My original puzzle
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My GF is a spy?
So it turns out my long-term girlfriend is a spy.
I probably should have seen the signs earlier (I guess this finally explains all the wigs and false moustaches), but last night she told me on the ...
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What should these be called?
On this site, rot13 is often used to encrypt comments so spoilers can be spoken about. Rot13 is a cipher, in which each letter is shifted 13 letters forward (or backward) in the alphabet.
There are ...
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A Trivial Pursuit #07 (Geography 2/4): String Theory
This is part 7 of A Trivial Pursuit, a 25-part puzzle hunt. Each part is solvable on its own, with the exception of the meta-puzzle at the end.
If
e*
t*
u*
v*
w*
x*
y*
is H...
What relevant (if ...
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Captain Clumsy's crummy communication
An entry in Fortnightly Topic Challenge #45: Flags
Captain Clumsy never ceases to amaze me... This morning I was down at the dockside when I heard a shout from a nearby ship. Steeling myself, I ...
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Note of greetingth
A friend of mine thent me thith note. He'th a little bit thy and often preferth to thend a metthage rather than thay thomething in perthon, even if it'th quite thort, and thometimeth amutheth himthelf ...
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Waiting for . . . Godot?
A Discovery
In Samuel Beckett's absurdist play, Waiting for Godot, two characters wait endlessly and in vain for the arrival of someone named Godot. His identity has long been the point of ...
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->Transitions->
Here is a crossword to solve; the yellow squares hold a relevant word.
Online tools will be useful/needed.
partial text transcription:
...
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Find the hidden message in the Tetris grid
What is the message hidden within this Tetris grid?
Hint 1:
Additional hints may be added if this remains unsolved.
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The witch's hex visual riddle
Ever since that evil witch put a hex on me, my head's been spinning in circles and I constantly feel like I'm about to fall down backwards.
As she fled the scene, she left behind this note. It seems ...
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At the crime scene of a murder 🔪
Someone has been murdered!
Eight suspects have been identified. The contents of their bags have been emptied to use as evidence and are listed below alongside their names.
Which one of them was the ...
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A broken mosaic of words
In this puzzle, you'll have to rebuild words using the "pieces" listed at the bottom and place them in the grid provided below. Some notes about this puzzle:
The gray cells with the dotted border are ...
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6 types of puzzles I like
I like puzzles where you find out about something interesting.
Mike Wilks
I like image editing puzzles.
I like code puzzles, where the code is not that obvious.
Pakistan Dance Omega Beans Cricket ...
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What are these holes in my Connect Wall?
An entry in Fortnightly Topic Challenge #42: Wordless Connecting Walls
"Why on earth are there blank spaces in your connect wall?"
"In my defense, you just asked me to make categories ...
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What about PARIS then?
If in an alternate universe CAMBRIDGE is renamed as AIMRFCJKS, ISTANBUL as ...
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The Ultimate Typo
Here are four sentences that I made up. But I accidentally shuffled the characters in every column! Can you figure out what the original sentences were?
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Find your way through the five rings
I am trapped in a cage full of animals and all exits have been sealed. At the end of a long path, there is a sealed six-foot iron gate with 5 rings as shown below. Each ring contains floating letters, ...
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Monoalphabetic Game Theory
This is a third puzzle from the Monoalphabetic Equation series, you can check out the previous one here: #1, #2.
Last night, I went over to my friend's house for our monthly game night. After we ...
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I, for one, welcome our new
An entry in Fortnightly Topic Challenge #30: Metapuzzles...
For two months, the ship had hovered above the world ... silent, unmoving, just relentlessly hovering in a fixed spot over a desolate ...
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Bird is NOT the word!
I can't get into my computer.
It's password protected, you see, and I got hit by a cement truck this morning in front of the Compound Word Store.
Luckily, I have this nifty cheat sheet. It was ...
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Weird WhatsApp message
Today I found by internet an artist that does commissions. I wanted to get drawn a map for one of my role playing games.
First I tried to call him (there's a lot personal info on the website I found ...
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Jealous, Lying, or unAmerican
I opened my email today to find this odd image.
I suddenly had a strange craving, which fortunately I was able to satisfy outside my local Starbucks—-I happened to be driving by literally as the ...
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Meteor strikes again [closed]
Part of a phone call:
-...well why didn't you just say so?
-It wasn't as easy as you thought, Jack. All the power lines here were destro---
-I know...It's not like we're living on a different planet ...
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Find the hidden word!
What word is hidden here?
IVxVII IIxVIII IIIxII IIIxII IIxIII IVxVII IVxVII
Hint 1:
Hint 2:
Hint 3:
Hint 4:
Hint 5 (last one):
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There are 10 types 0f pe0ple 1n the w0rld
Th1s puzzle 1s part 0f the Monthly Topic Challenge #4: Cross-*non*-words
C0mplete the cr0ssw0rd and f1nd the h1dden themat1c e1ght-character s0lut10n w0rd.
Acr0ss:
7. Pref1x mean1ng 'just a few' 0r '...
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What photos do I love?
This one may be my favorite... I tend to linger, unable to stop admiring it... I wonder what that person is thinking down there...
Ahh my favorite city... a classic...
With summer coming up this ...
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Decryption Puzzle Race!
The encryption is:
TN HF QX BO TN BO WG VY QX TN UP IE TN TN QX BO
I will tell you that it is a word.
Clue one:
Clue two:
Clue three:
Clue four:
Enjoy!
(I will add more clues if it goes ...
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What did my uncle want to write?
I've always been a writer as well as a puzzler, and my uncle shares that same fascination with both.
Recently, he shared with me a complex puzzle that he'd made when he was my age. He said that the ...
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Cipher text on an ancient wall
The following text was found written on the wall of an ancient tomb:
$\text{DXFDMKEPU}$
Can you decipher what it means?
Nearby the wall, this piece of parchment was found. Perhaps it is a clue ...
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Monoalphabetic Equation
A set of letters has been replaced by $a$, $b$, $c$, and $d$.
Following are some of the words that consist of those letters, and their meaning:
$abc = a\ title\ (n.)$
$abcd = a\ title\ > abc\ (n.),...
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Given these numbers, find the hidden word
Given this sorted list of 33 numbers, is it in your power to find the riddle they are hiding and figure out the secret word?
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Weird song from liner notes of a broken CD
Grandpa Bob liked to think he was a rockstar. He also loved to play that play-a-song-and-guess-the-name game. Known outside the family exclusively as Mr Deau, the weirdest thing he left behind when he ...
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It's time to go!
You have stolen the object.
You have completed the mission.
You're ready to get out.
There's just one little snag:
Your driver was captured and you no longer have an escape route. You sent a ...
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Not Just Black and White
Answer for this puzzle is one word. Have fun!
Highlighted parts are where I realised I have clued it wrong... Sorry for all this inconvenience!
Hint:
usefulness level 1
usefulness level 2
This ...
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The Painted Barcode
Someone spilled paint on what looks to be some sort of barcode, although I am not entirely sure that's what it is.
Can you figure out what the original message may have been?
Hint 1
Hint 2
Hint 3
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A simple cipher with a single-word answer
Here is a puzzle I made about a year ago. The answer is a single word.
Transcription of the text in the image:
$\text{rFfRaTsEfHeGtMbTrL}$
$\text{aTsEbTsHeGoHlFmTkB}$
$\text{oPsuUbPdMeGaTpuUeG}...
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What do I use…?
What do I use…? Can you solve the rebus and decipher the code?
Each group of four numbers represents a letter.
YzNSaGJucGg=, then ...
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Word that Stands Out Clear
I
have a message in
a
very new
kind of question page
a
way to find it is
to look
closer at the word
that stands out clear
a
way
to learn to
remember to find help
the
reverse cipher will ...
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Find the question to find the answer hidden within
I had an idea pop into my head for a multi-stage puzzle, I hope you like it. The first stage in particular I kept pretty straightforward since this is my first try at this. :)
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