Questions tagged [enigmatic-puzzle]
Puzzles where the genre or solving strategy of the puzzle is not explicitly stated; puzzles where the puzzler must deduce what type of puzzle it is.
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This is important. I need you to listen…
Look, you don't know me. We've never met. But, like I said, I need you to listen...
I had the most disturbing dream the other night... Woke up in a cold sweat and couldn't get back to sleep. It wasn'...
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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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An overheard gang meeting, a double agent, and a murder
I was walking home late last night and heard raised voices coming from a boarded up old warehouse. I stopped, out of sight, to listen...
[When I started eavesdropping, the conversation was already ...
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Chaos and Order: a visual puzzle in stained glass
I created a visual puzzle, which my wife then implemented as part of a stained-glass window. I've no idea if it is (a) obvious, (b) stupid or hopefully (c) extremely clever, and hence would love to ...
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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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Paper Picture Puzzle
Here is a puzzle I drew
Your final answer will be what you need to know to solve this puzzle (You'll know it when you have the final answer)
Notes:
I did a couple dumbs. One is the space planning. ...
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A hunt for long forgotten treasure ...but beware the pirate's curse!
I never really knew my uncle growing up. He seemed nice enough, but I got the sense from the distant, troubled look in his eyes that there was at least some truth to the rumours...
Years before I was ...
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This new puzzle type needs a name
I believe I have invented a new type of puzzle...
What is its name?
Colour-blind-friendly version available here.
Begin by solving the 16x16 sudoku; each of the digits 1-16 must appear exactly ...
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Fwd: Re: Karen is missing!
From: Ada Hughes <[email protected]>
Sent: Thursday, April 7, 2016 7:03 PM
To: Joe Dorsen <[email protected]>
CC: Jason Bernz <[email protected]>; IT Guys <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: ...
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The Puzzling Times
$$\bbox[orange]{\begin{array}{rcl}\\\hline\huge\ \ \star\ \ \star\ \ The&\huge{Puzzling}&\huge{Times\ \ \star\ \ \star\ \ }\\\hline\\\end{array}}$$
Vol. 4, No. 1 $\raise 2pt \tt{\large{\...
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Redundancy
Your final answer should answer the question "What is something you could get after solving this puzzle?"
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I assure you — This Is A Puzzle
Let us consider the role of the hyphen. The all-important hyphen—which we use use on a daily basis. The no. of hyphens that we see everyday may well surprise you. They are ever-present, don't you ...
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My God, it's full of stars!
An entry in Fortnightly Topic Challenge #32: Grid Deduction Hybrids
My dear friend, unknown to us, may have relocated again. He sent me imagery and constellation maps indicating that a distant red ...
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How many questions are there on Stack Exchange?
Stack Overflow, Ask Different, Science Fiction & Fantasy
Drupal Answers, Linguistics, Islam, Movies & TV, Drupal Answers
MathOverflow, Tor, Sound Design, Vi and Vim
Puzzling, Emacs, Mythology &...
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Correct way to add 22 to 4 to get 82
Inspired by this other puzzle, tell me a correct way by which adding 22 to 4 will give 82.
As in that other puzzle, these numbers are all expressed in base 10.
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This is it. This is the one. Save your wife
You now know where your wife is, so you hop on a plane and fly over to France. You reach the house and burst through the front door, only to find the house deserted. In despair, you slump into a chair ...
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90% of people will fail this puzzle!
Those of us who have a Facebook account probably have lots of connections in it. Some are actually real, but then there are the rest of them -- the ones that use Wiktionary instead of real ...
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The Thirteen Doors of Aj Noc'la
An entry in Fortnightly Topic Challenge #39: Deep Down in the Dungeon 1.
Having finally defeated the tyrannical wizard Aj Noc'la, your party makes its way through the door at the rear of the throne ...
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Honeycomb: a hexagonal grid of letters
This puzzle consists entirely of one image, attached below. The image is large and you will need to zoom in to see some of the details. There is no hidden information, only what you can plainly see. ...
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Caught splinging at work
Én, to, tre, shabam,
go ahead an sprim that man!
Kvin, ses, sep, setresk,
saw him spling off on his desk!
Nove, dez, onze, spling,
not setresk is such a thing!
Treize, quatorze, ...
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Miniature Puzzle
This is my first post on here, and I doubt it'll be my last
I figured that I probably should do a little puzzle because it's my first submission, but unfortunately, I'm way too literal
Everything ...
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I'm a noob, plz help me quick!
I'm a programmer and I have a deadline to finish a difficult project, I need your help now.
I would ask it on Stackoverflow, but it's probably gonna get closed, so I'm reaching out on this SE.
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A Riddle Within a Riddle
MY friend, your luck has Turned.
i've made tHIs Riddle and it is the best, anD "soon iT sHould bE solved.
if it is not, then a QUIet miNd mighT let sEedS be Sown, within which idEas caN grow.
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Discover the meaning of life!
You've trekked through jungle and tundra, across mountaintops and deserts, into giant caverns and beneath the ocean to find the person known as The Oracle. Finally, after all your hard work, you find ...
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Strange women and their strange ways of giving you phone numbers
While Bob was walking down the street one day, he met a wonderful woman that was attractive and smart and a great conversationalist.
After they had been chatting for a while the woman looked at her ...
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A Lazy Breakfast
Clark and Albert sat at the same old table they'd met at years ago. As per usual, there was hardly anything to drink, and they'd had nothing but sips between them. Near Albert, there were some ...
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This month's $100 question (not a real prize)
****A big one to celebrate my half-century (50th puzzle)!****
I work as a puzzle setter at FakePuzz (not a real magazine). This morning I burst into the office of Eddie Tor (not a real editor) so ...
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Selective attention: an unusual game
There's a park behind the local basketball courts, where I like to go for quiet time. The other day, a group of thirty people arrived with a basketball as I was sitting down. One sat next to me, ...
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Which movie will we watch?
A friend invited me to a movie night. But instead of telling me which movie we are going to watch, she just gave me a bunch of movie tickets:
Can you tell me which movie we will watch?
Hint 1:
Hint ...
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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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Mysterious message from the NoSlaves™ Calculator Co
So my son is starting to show an interest in mathematics, and being the awesome dad that I am, I decided to buy him a basic calculator. Being the cheapskate that I am, I ordered the cheapest one I ...
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The needle in the network - find it!
We all know it can be difficult to find a needle in a haystack, but in this puzzle you have to
#Find the NEEDLE in the network!
A bit more detailed:
Somewhere in the network pictured above hides the ...
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For all your flag design needs
Pleased to meet you. I'm the CEO of a startup that specializes in designing flags for newly-independent countries. As an example, let me present to you the flag we designed for the proud republic of ...
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A Message to the SE Admins
We're graduating! I feel the only appropriate way to respond is a Stack Exchange themed puzzle:
Albertan politician who succeeded Lucien Maynard (6, 7 or 6, 8)
Approved for passport authorization (6)
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A puzzling image maze!
I was inspired by Rainbow Road Rabbit Hole to make a two-dimensional image maze where each image points to its neighboring rooms. Start here:
Clarifications and corrections:
Reassembly
"Either... ...
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28 Minutes Later
An entry in Fortnightly Topic Challenge #50: Escape Rooms
I open my eyes to find myself lying in a bed in a white room. Sitting up is difficult, as a tangle of wires and tubes are attached to my arms ...
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Decipher this message for instructions to decipher this message
NINTH UNDUE COMICAL BURGER CUTLETS SLITS TURTLE REGRESS SORTS PROPHET SQUATS PUPPY ANGINA DUDS SKUNK TIGHT ODD TERSE COLONEL DIVED SOON AREA DIARIST SKUNK DREAD HASH RENTER DOWDY MAMAS GURGLE PORPOISE ...
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I can't say more, I really can't
Under Sahara, delicious tuber
Greek cheese, asian sword way
Translucent dead, getting older
Communication device, outdoor shelter
Heawy iron block, Neeson's name
Shining coating, exists forever
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Labyrinth Puzzle
Part of the Fortnightly Topic Challenge #35: Restricted Title 1
Surprised no one went for this low hanging fruit yet
Get from MAZE to DONE
When you're DONE with the MAZE, apply the following the ...
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The Madman's Speech
You are walking through the prairie when you find a madman wandering around talking to himself. The following is what you manage to hear of his speech:
"How? I - I'll ask her. I owe her much, again....
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Can you explain these equations?
Anthony just got a new drone with an HD camera and microphone, and he is eager to test it out. He connects his computer to its wireless live video stream, opens up his window, and flies it outside. ...
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The Secret Club
Since I was a kid, nobody wanted me in their super-exclusive clubs... the "House in the Tree Club"... the "Girls Only Club"... the "Whatever you are NOT Club"... but now that I am a skilled (and a bit ...
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Shady business in the local paper
I work as a delivery man for our local newspaper and noticed something that has my alarm bells ringing. The embassy of Warfaretania has ordered exactly nine issues of our paper, from December 1 ...
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You're not feeling well. You need something.
You're not feeling good. Something is horribly wrong with you. You're trying hard to feign happiness, but...
...deep inside, you feel dead.
...deep inside, you are hurt.
...deep inside, you ...
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Batman and the piano
Batman: Alfred. Are you there?
Alfred: Yes, Master Bruce. How may I help you?
Batman: ...
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What is Lukas Rotter's secret?
The former user Lukas Rotter has had1 an intriguing profile picture:
This looks like it's some kind of encrypted message! And just to confirm my suspicions, on his profile he says:
By the way, my ...
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Find the treasure before Dargloc does
Some time ago I met an old man who handed me a scrap of paper and told me:
Dargloc - the treasure hunter is searching. You must be quicker. The key to success is to obey the rule:
"If Dargloc rests ...
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Ron couldn't quite put his finger on... something?
Ron got up out of his bed, feeling slightly odd. Despite only being conscious for under ten seconds, he felt like something recently slipped his mind, something he couldn't quite put his finger on.
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