Questions tagged [connections-puzzle]
A puzzle involving making connections between several clues in a list.
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"Where should Jack go?" - a GCHQ word association puzzle
Inspired by Stiv's fantastic Where? word association puzzle, I decided to create my own. Special thanks to Stiv for test-solving and general feedback!
Instructions (adapted from The GCHQ Puzzle Book (...
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Introducing "Where?" - a GCHQ word association puzzle
Introducing the 'Where?' puzzle genre – a type of word association puzzle popularised by The GCHQ Puzzle Book (2016).
General instructions (adapted from the book): This puzzle type consists of an ...
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What is a Surprising Country?
If a country conforms to a special rule, I call it a Surprising Country. If it does not conform to this rule, I call it an Unsurprising Country.
Here is a list (not exhaustive) of some Surprising ...
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Sounds like you need something to do
What word am I thinking of? Each group will give you part of what you need.
Group 1
split, peel, bunch, dump
Group 2
Vermont, Virginia, Tennessee, Kentucky, North Carolina
Group 3
Merlin, Percival, ...
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What do these words have in common? (Season 12, Episode 254)
Here are some chosen words from a large group:
angel
bat
cling
dog
glass
hatchet
ice
king
knife
lamp
lancet
lion
lung
noodle
oil
parrot
pin
pipe
rainbow
rock
sand
sun
surgeon
tile
trigger
turkey
...
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A Cryptic Property
An entry in Fortnightly Topic Challenge #48: Unusual tag mix
After solving the following cryptic clues, find the following properties:
A major property that all ten words share.
A minor property ...
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Crazy hard; essentially futile?
Who do you associate with these words/sounds?:
Oath
This sound
Hell (as a name for something)
Scoff
Cuisine
The answer is a (fairly well-known) person.
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What links these words?
What links the following words:
Brawl
Lost
Dull
Crackpot
Jump
Bunny
Chemistry
Plwmp
Nasty
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What do These Names Have in Common?
What verb do these four names have in common?
Copenhagen
Danny
Roger
Tina
Clues:
If you get stumped on Tina, don't worry. It's a lesser known reference, and if you have a solution for the other three ...
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Letter Connections
What is the connection between each of these pairs and what is the missing letter?
A is to G
B is to P
D is to Q
F is to T
C is to ?
Good luck!
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A brain breaker
Riding in the mountains,
swimming in the seas,
traveling to the farlands,
yet staying home and eating cheese.
Could it be a mouse,
or could it be rat?
Perhaps we'l never know,
or perhaps you'l find ...
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A connect wall where everybody wants to belong
A connect wall is usually a set of 16 words which can be split into four groups of four related words. Each of those groups can be described under a single over arching group as well. Unfortunately, ...
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A Connecting Wall off the beaten track!
This is an extended hybrid connect-wall puzzle which fuses components of the most common PSE strain (where group connections also have one final connection, which is the puzzle's answer) with a ...
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Connect Wall V. S. Word Web
This post is a question about puzzles, not a puzzle in itself. There is nothing puzzly hidden inside it or the self-answer, posted at the same time. No lateral thinking is required.
Question 1: What ...
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Cultural Center
Samoan number
Egyptian gas
Filipino actor
Czech sauce
What do the above items have in common? And can you find another member of this set?
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What you gotta do?
You have 10 groups of 4 words:
DUO, IRON, LINKS, ROCK
ICE, LED, METAL, TIC
DRILL, PI, WIN, WOO
BRA, IGNITE, LOOM, RUBBISH
AIR, DUST, GO, PAT
AUDI, AURA, MEOW, SPEW
GRIMM, HOOT, MUD, TAIL
ASK, BELL, ...
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Letters to Numbers: What goes in the blank circle?
This is a letter to number conversion and pattern puzzle.
What number goes in the blank circle and why?
Each letter is a distinctly seperate digit from 0 to 9. ( There are 10 letters representating ...
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Uncle Nestor's postcard crossword
Uncle Nestor is still finding ways to adapt to life inside a socially isolated bubble. Now that we are allowed to visit family members, I was helping him sort through an old drawer of postcards and ...
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A pack of wordsearches
In designing this puzzle involving wordsearches, I struggled to identify the correct collective noun for them. Asking around, nobody knew - a herd? A gang? A parliament?! After much prolonged (perhaps ...
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Crazy Cool Categories
I'm sorry about the title; I lost a bet with the '90s.
Below are five categories. Each category is united by one word in the category; furthermore, each category rule is formed in the same way as the ...
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Four degrees of separation (I make billions #8)
Four degrees of separation
(I make billions #8)
In a typical two part connect-wall puzzle, you are given 16 words which have 2 degrees of separation from the final answer. The first degree of ...
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Divine apple island
Arrange the following words into pairs. What cities are being clued here? What city is missing?
divine, apple, island, oxford, big, love, novel, lower, rival, refuge, saxony, odysseus, guidance, ...
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$\verb|Eight Circles|$
An entry in Fortnightly Topic Challenge #37: Rare and Endangered 1
Materials
Pencil;
Eraser;
Blank A4 sheet of paper; and
A ruler (also to use as a straightedge).
Puzzle:
Draw a square with a side-...
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A (not so) simple question!
The question is ...
CONNECT
Can you solve this one!? Hints will be provided after some time!
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A Cleverly Disguised Word
This puzzle can be solved as puzzle on its own, but its solution is also part of Deusovi's Community Metapuzzle.
The answers to the following nine clues are closely linked. (Their link is related to ...
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I have added the link to a puzzle which I have asked in the math site.i will be glad if anyone helps me with this
Please go through the link which has my question. All the details I've included there. The first row is question and the second one options. Which comes next in this sequencing question?
Details ...
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The box with the curious inscriptions
A librarian browsing the basement of a library came across an empty box. Its contents were missing, and to her annoyance even its label had been vandalized.
The label did tell her that the box had ...
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What links these words together?
What non-standard and surprising property links the following words together?
testing, ROM, Moore, Mealy, flip-flop, code, Microelectronics, rays, Widgets, plane
Notes:
The list is not exhaustive,...
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Linked pictures
Can you find the link in them? The answer should explain the link in all three of them.
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literally no idea
Clues
What a conductor gives to an out-of-tune player?
You perform this in Spring
Sung by musical miners?
Those behind bars keeps tabs on this
Sounds something like a big colourful Spanish bird
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asked Aug 12 '15 at 11:18
chasly - supports Monica
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Complete the (alpha) sequence riddle
Fill in the blank below (as indicated by the underscore: "_") to complete the unique sequence:
T _ M R P
Rules/hints/clarifications:
The answer is to be in the form of an American-...
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A set for which the majority have a common theme
Sometimes it's fun to be a little too literal.
The family being pushed repeatedly.
The reach of a ring.
Electricity of darkness.
The gradual destruction of transportation.
Unable to marry alone.
Some ...
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The mystery of NOC +10
NOC +10
On March 6th, 2015, a YouTube channel named "Noc +10" was created. Since that day, this channel is uploading some really darkly mysterious videos. I will start saying something ...
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Link the hints to solve this one, starting with Michael Jackson
This is a linking puzzle, where you get 8 hints, and 7 links between them.
Michael Jackson made a song for this film.
1.-2. The link between the animal of clue 1 and the fictional person of clue 2 ...
