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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On this historic day

Today is 04 17 2 017 as of posting this puzzle in my current time. What happened on the date I am thinking of? YQTNFYCTKK FOGLQENMILAGTSLJA - 1st BCIXDHEELQJUFQWDENIZ - 8th LSRCODAIJWNPFXEAD - ...
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Ode to the heroes, vanquisher of puzzles

These heroes, although not as rare as you might think as a new one is born every 2 weeks, are precious gems appreciated by all. Sometimes all you can do is stare at them, other times you can't help ...
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Save the Easter bunny - An Enigmatic puzzle

This is a puzzle themed for Easter Monday 17-04-17 The inhabitants of Puzzletopia are shocked: the Easter bunny has gone missing! They immediately ask you, the police’s best detective, to find out ...
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It's Top of the...Oops!

Welcome to the Hit Parade on KIGI radio. That completes our rundown of the top 10-there's some absolute classics in there this week! And what a bunch of new entries as you can see if you've been ...
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The biggest answer ever, maybe

Yew Knead It's Vane Urn Wrapped Strait, don't You? Don't be mislead, it sounds like you're on the right track.
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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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An Easter Puzzle

I woke up this morning to find Easter eggs hidden around the house. Instead of being filled with chocolate, each one had a slip of paper inside. Apparently the Easter Bunny left a puzzle to solve. ...
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An Enigmatic Puzzle With a Strange Loop

Aesop Fables -1 ¬engine ¬Greek 10-20 bankrupt louise input: 10-28 loop victim st = new String(out); st = StringBuffer(st).insert(1,"M").toString(); The life and times of 41st Return (10-28) ...
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Soapbox on a street corner

When I was walking today, I came across a man standing on a soapbox. He was broadcasting his view to the world, and though he was speaking in English, I couldn't understand what he was going on about. ...
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Who can spot the difference?

My family and I have just moved house! Lucky us! So what did my family do? We held a housewarming party, and rung everyone in the neighbourhood up to invite them. So, anyway, people were coming in ...
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Away from the hub

Today I got a weird FaceTime call from teenage girl I didn't know. They must have dialled the wrong number, but I was too intrigued to hang up. Instead, I covered my camera and turned off the ...
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Meeting a friend

A friend of mine has recently sent me a couple of strange post cards from his recent traveling, and I can honestly not make head or tail of it. I would really like to meet up with him in person, ...
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Two-Button Idle Game

Two-Button Idle Game is a puzzle that was made for but not included in the Galactic Puzzle Hunt, and can be found here. It was mentioned in the wrap-up (Caution: Spoilers!), but no solution was ...
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Crack The Clock Code [closed]

Can you guess the letters in all the question mark locations on this clock? Note the actual shown time is not relevant.
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Making broken love smile again!

A friend of mine stopped by last night. Sad, depressed, was about to cry when I asked him, what's wrong. He narrated this story to me - Today at cafe, I met her. We had a little chat where I was ...
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Robot Dan and I

Robot Dan, world smartest vacuum cleaner, and I took our packages and fly to trip. We had to took our big pistol, that could shot down a tank. Last time we almost started world war 3, by shooting ...
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A Game Of Cat And Mouse: Part 1

Inspired by Engineer Toast's "The Hyper-Modern Kidnapper" series, and NextTimeDW's "Great Puzzling Trophy" trilogy, I've decided to have a go at creating my own story-based puzzle series. I hope you ...
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It's the end of the world as we know it

You wake up in a daze... Your head is pounding and your vision is a bit hazy... You're in some sort of room... Steel walls, no windows, a single door and a piece of paper nailed to the wall... Above ...
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Thanks for all your help

This is a thank you to all those who've either welcomed me to Puzzling or have assisted me in learning new puzzles and giving me tons of feedback. I appreciate all of it. (Sorry not everyone I've ...
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Where's my pet gone to?

I came home today and realized that my furry friend was not there to greet me. There was a note on the counter from my SO that explained where they had gone but I wasn't quite sure what it meant. Can ...
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A Lovely Moony Message!

I like to watch the night sky! One night, standing beside the window, I looked up at the sky. Seemed a little cloudy, but something was unusual. The moon was surrounded by some stars which ... Well, ...
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Sensational clues

Some of the clues are images, because it seems like you can't do colors on SE. Like in a previous puzzle from me, if you get any "subanswers", I'll confirm them. This doesn't count answers to a ...
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....ge From - Boom Boom Boomerang.!

| OTSH SH SHOTOTOT OTSH OTOTOT OTOTOTOT * OTOTOTOT OT OTSHOTOT OTSHSHOT OTOTOT * SHSH OT * OTOTSHOT OTSHOTOT SHOTSHSH | | ...
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Me and Alexander in Puzzlevanian cafe

Some time ago I visited my old friend, Alexander, who lives in Puzzlevania, where everything is a puzzle. We went to a cafe to talk a bit. To check how well we know each other I ordered for Alexander ...
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A Farewell Message From My Toys!

Remember the day when you grew up and didn't want to play anymore with toys? Well, I remember the same happening with me. But, well, my toys were smart. And may be they left a goodbye message for me. ...
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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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Solve the riddle [duplicate]

Solve the riddle, That's all you great folks Hint:
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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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What is JonMarkPerry trying to tell us?

Following in the footsteps of MOehm, leoll2 and the formerly known Lukas Rotter (who has deleted his account D:), we have a new name to add: JonMarkPerry! In his profile we find an interesting image: ...
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#When money speaks#

# # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # 8 # # 4 #...
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Where is my friend traveling to?

Over the weekend I met my old friend Wayne Machkeb, so we decided to go for a coffee and had a nice little chat. He was totally excited about a trip he was going to take but didn't want to tell me ...
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A Message carrying Train!

- - - - - - - - - - | | ++++++++++++++++ ++++++++++++++++ ++++++++++++++++ ++++++++++++++++ | 1 |-...
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Terms and Conditions Apply

Socks. They have much more use than just keeping people's feet warm. I wanted to make one, to provide as a backup account in case I ever forgot my details for this account or something... So, I ...
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Message from Birds

This story was narrated by Marshal Terryan, a friend of mine, and is into paper industry. Last weekend, while he visited the local forest for checking out how things are going, he was amazed by a ...
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A Nice Wavy Message

Σ ᴎ___|___z | ...
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Eye the bull's-eye!

Not too long ago, while I was hanging around in a sports club playing darts, I met a friend. We talked for a while. When he suddenly came up with an idea of a puzzle. He grabbed a piece of paper and ...
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The puzzle from ____

We’ve had some tough puzzles on this site, but this is the puzzle from... well, if I told you, it wouldn’t register as a puzzle now. Maybe you can work it out for yourself: HGT - 271 T 732 LI ...
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Binding Washington? Ordered abbreviations

Twelve lists of ordered abbreviations are given below. The first part of your mission is to find out what comes next in each of them. Further instructions will await you once you have completed this ...
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Where did my friend go?

My vacation is off to a great start! I have traveled far and wide, but never have I seen anything like this! Perhaps you already know where I am, but if not, here's a photo: Your friend, Jessica...
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Puzzle: They're Coming. Help Me

They’re going to kill me. I don’t know what they want from me. Goodness, I can’t remember what happened… The last memory I had was of two evil looking creatures peering in at the end of my English ...
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Can you find the missing lad and the treasure?

This is an entry in the 27th Fortnightly Topic Challenge. $\mathtt{Once \ upon \ a \ time, \ there \ was \ a \ young \ sailor. \ This \ young \ sailor, \ however, \ was \ a \ pirate. \ The \ scourge ...
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Simple country arithmetic

Given the country sums below, what country sums up the last one? EGYPT + HUNGARY = CHILE GREECE + SPAIN = NEW ZEALAND GREECE + PERU = JAPAN SWITZERLAND + AUSTRIA = VIETNAM SWITZERLAND + CUBA = SRI ...
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Help, my life is in danger!

So I was sitting in this nice little pub minding my own business when this party of 6 people walked in and sat down at the table next to me. The group looked kind of odd. There was this woman with ...
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I need your help. I... I think I'm in danger

I need your help. I... I think I'm in danger. I'm not sure what's coming, but whatever it is... I need to know. I'm scared because I don't know what going to happen... I just know that whatever it is, ...
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Nodes and Bonds

1. Which letter replaces the question mark? 2. Where can #10 be placed in this diagram? 3. Not a double bond from one node to another here. But where is L?
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Spaceman from dying rainbows?

18th February 2024 Incoming Signal! A superluminal message has been received. It was emitted from a faraway galaxy near the black star 5 years before it became a supernova; engulfing the source of ...
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Puzzlegrid: 5 levels

Those are the warmups. Here's the real challenge. And yes, it is uniquely solvable.
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A strange message

Yesterday I helped my grandfather clean out his attic and amongst some old papers I found a peculiar message, that seemed strange to me. Upon asking my grandfather what this was about, he told me that ...
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Did you hear that JLo is shooting a new movie in Africa? It’s called:

Crazy robots: we want you to dance for Miss Evan. “How I want a drink,” thought Akira, getting himself primed. You’re high, mom- they don’t have TV on the moon. Oh mercy, my darling cokehead’s ...
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Where is Steven the Stegosaurus?

This is an entry to the Fortnightly Topic Challenge #27: treasure-hunt. Steven the Stegosaurus has been kidnapped! It's now up to you to save him. When you enter Steven's cave, the only thing you ...

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