Questions tagged [english]
Puzzles that crucially depend on some feature of the English language or that only work in an English formulation. General English questions are off-topic but can be asked on our sister sites English Language & Usage Stack Exchange or English Language Learners Stack Exchange (depending on the level).
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Who is Mr. T and where does he work?
Part 1:
Write each answer as ONEWORD, without spaces, punctuation or abbreviating. Some questions may have more than one answer when taken alone, but only certain answers will work with respect to the ...
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With a little effort, one can prevail
What is common between the following words and names?
(Inspired by this except that I actually know the answer to this one)
Defeat
Kleenex?
Guanaco
Nerdiest
Sardar
Ian McKellen
Dingo
Gun
Diablo
...
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Largest set of words that don’t share letters [closed]
For instance,
banana, excess, giggit, voodoo, pullup, myrrhy
are six six-letter words that don’t share any letters with each other. This isn’t a heterogram puzzle: repeated letters within a single ...
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Rotating through a word [duplicate]
Take the word
no
if you move the first letter to the end you have a new word
on
I consider that 1 rotation. What is the largest word that can be fully rotated, the most number of rotations?
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The Popular Letter Chessboard
You are given a Chess board with black and white squares.
You must fill your Chess board with Merriam Webster English words, or other equivalent dictionnaries if you prefer such that each square ...
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1answer
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Just a Normal Word
I am a word you see every day,
I rhyme with conspicuous,
I am an adjective,
I actually sound a bit like the word biscuit,
Just a bit.
I love eating pizza,
Or you can call someone who does that,
Me.
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1answer
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Hidden words in sentences
There is one word hidden in each of these sentences, what are they related to?
I held the food to my lips.
The den in the jungle lives the lion.
High-quality biscuits are frequently requested.
Most ...
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1answer
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Wordmorphs IN SPACE!
The year is 21XX. Space tourism is easy and affordable. You decide to spend your next vacation hopping from planet to planet, hanging out with aliens and so forth. To that end, you rent a WordMorphian ...
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Can you provide a hint on how to solve this Hex Cube puzzle?
I've been tackling this puzzle named "Hex Cube" which comes with the instructions "Can you decipher the message? You should be able to if you go back to basics and use a little bit of ...
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1answer
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My prefix is myself
My prefix is myself,
My suffix comes second in competitions,
My infix is two mountains side by side,
I am a competition.
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1answer
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What is a Parallel 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 Parallel Word™.
Use the ...
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1answer
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1answer
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7answers
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Spelling Bee Bee Bee
I once attended an English-language spelling bee where a speller, during her turn, repeated the same letter three times in a row, and she was judged to be correct. She spelled the word perfectly, ...
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1answer
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What order to they go?
Below is a list of clues, in no particular order:
Home
Forever
At 7:00 PM
Frequently
Annoyingly
Speedily
One order is the correct order. What is this order, and why is it the "correct" ...
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2answers
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What is a Foldable Word™?
In the spirit of the What is a Word™/Phrase™ series started by JLee
If a word conforms to a special rule, I call it a Foldable Word™.
Use the examples below to find the rule.
$$
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Food containing its reverse
When forwards,
I am a type of food.
When backwards,
I am something contained within the food.
What am I?
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1answer
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What gets past the bluegrass bulge?
Sort of in the style of that old classic, ‘What goes through the green glass door?’
What gets past the bluegrass bulge?
Blue does, but green doesn’t.
Grass does, but glaze doesn’t.
Bulge does, but ...
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1answer
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My first attempt at a Vowelburger™ puzzle
You can find the other Vowelburger™ Riddles here
I ordered 9 Vowelburgers™ with buns and meat at the linguistic restaurant - help me identify each one from the description on the menu!
$$
\def\S#1#...
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1answer
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Another phonetic Vowelburger™ Riddle
You can find the other Vowelburger™ Riddles here
I ordered 7 Vowelburgers™ with buns and meat only at the linguistic restaurant - help me identifing each one from the description on the menu!
$$
\...
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1answer
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What is a BS 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 BS Word™.
Use the ...
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1answer
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What is a Computer Phrase™?
In the spirit of the What is a Word™/Phrase™ series started by JLee, a special brand of Phrase™ and Word™ puzzles.
If a phrase conforms to a special rule, I call it a Computer Phrase™. Use the ...
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votes
1answer
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What is a Rotting 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 Rotting Word™.
Use the ...
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1answer
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Can you find the missing words?
Given that:
$
\begin{gather}
\ \text{ art}\hspace{1em}\Leftrightarrow\hspace{1em}\text{phi}
\end{gather}
$
Can you figure out the words that are missing?
$
\begin{gather}
\text{imps}\hspace{1em}...
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1answer
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What is a Vowelreuben™ 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 Vowelreuben™ Word™.
Use ...
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2answers
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A phonetic Vowelburger™ Riddle
You can find the other Vowelburger™ Riddles here
I ordered 5 Vowelburgers™ with buns and meat only at the linguistic restaurant - help me identify each one from the description on the menu!
The ...
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votes
2answers
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Can you name the Product Code™?
Given the product codes of 10 fruits and vegetables in the chart below, can you figure out the product code of Broccoli?
Fruit / Vegetable
Product Code™
Lemon
CNL
Carrot
DSB
Plum
CAC
Tomato
CME
...
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2answers
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1answer
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Here is the Answer, Now Solve!
Using a certain rule, I can express "THIS PHRASE IS VALID" as "KZZK GZISKV ZK PSDZV". What is this rule, and how did I come to it?
Hint/Note: Non-native English speakers may have a more difficult ...
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2answers
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What is a Plot 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 Plot Word™.
Use the ...
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1answer
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What is a Baguette 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 Baguette Word™.
Use the ...
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2answers
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What is an ?????? 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 an ?????? Word™.
Use the ...
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votes
1answer
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9 (plus or minus various things) is the opposite of 8
Find a word, whose pattern is such that is fits the nine letters as follows. Then change it accordingly so that its pattern becomes eight letters as follows respectively.
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What is an HTM Word™?
In the spirit of the What is a Word™/Phrase™ series started by JLee
If a word conforms to a special rule, I call it an HTM Word™.
Use the examples below to find the rule.
$$
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Unidirectional letters flow
GOAL:
Write a letter in each square such that every group of four contiguous squares is a four-letter existing English word (i.e. it can be found in the Merriam-Webster dictionary).
RULES:
The ...
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Zed's Dance: Disarray and Cabaret
All this talk about my friends and I... it's about time I announced myself for a change!
I'm kinda nervous about this because — let's face it — I'm an odd-ball. Take, for example, the fact I usually ...
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Logic Puzzle - Alphabet splitting extraordinaire! sequel
A group of Gobos is discussing how to divide the Scrabble tiles into two groups.
Here is what they suggested.
ADFHJLMOQSUY; BCEGIKNPRTVWXZ
ABFKLMPVWY; CDEGHIJNOQRSTUXZ
AGIJKQXZ; BCDEFHLMNOPRSTUVWY_
...
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1answer
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What is the longest word made with mostly affixes? [closed]
What is the longest word you can make that is mostly made up of affixes (prefixes and suffixes)?
For example,
Retestings
would work, but it's not a long word.
The word has to have only one ...
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Zed's Order: Breakfast at Elon's
My friend Elon and I constantly irritate each other. He recently built himself a rather respectable restaurant – a sort of bed-&-breakfast, minus the beds. Last week, he asked if I could ...
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1answer
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What is a Counterfeiting Word™?
This puzzle 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 Counterfeiting ...
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2answers
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Spelling Beelzebub
I've recently been banished to a land of eternal torment. Nevertheless, the first thing I do each morning is still to solve the New York Times Spelling Bee. Unfortunately, here they don't give out the ...
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Zed's Phone: Failure to Communicate
My friend Beto and I constantly buy things for one another. One day, he gave me a strange-looking phone and said it was my birthday gift (My birthday wouldn't be until 3 more months). He said he ...
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Sentence with 5 letter words
Can you make a sentence only using words of exactly five letters?
It must be a grammatically correct sentence.
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Zed's Note: Famously Infamous
My friend Al and I constantly bicker. One time, he proudly boasted that he can crack any cipher ever written, so I put out a little wager: if I can stump him with any cipher I write, he would have to ...
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A loyal traitor
Two countries are at war, Albekistan and Uzbania. The leader of the Albekistanian army asks, "Who ___ me?". The Uzbanian army's leader replies, "I ___ you!" She is promptly shot by her own army for ...
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Well-known American figure with Roman numerals
Which well-known American figure has an 8-letter name, with 6 consonants and all of them are Roman numerals?
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“bees” -> “hive” in 5 letter changes or fewer
Example of "warm" -> "cold":
warm
worm
word
cord
cold
Notice that it's a real word each time. Can you get from "bees" -> "hive" in 5 letter changes or fewer?
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Density type puzzle 4
In the spirit of this puzzle, here's another (with dice!). Enjoy!
Final answer: (8)
Hint
