Questions tagged [geography]
A puzzle centered around geographical features, such as countries, continents, cities, mountains, rivers, and climate.
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Gladys goes shopping
This puzzle is part 22 of Gladys' journey across the globe. Each part can be solved independently. Nevertheless, if you are new to the series, feel free to start at the beginning: Introducing Gladys.
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1answer
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A fortified nonogram
This puzzle is part 21 of Gladys' journey across the globe. Each part can be solved independently. Nevertheless, if you are new to the series, feel free to start at the beginning: Introducing Gladys.
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3answers
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Lady G's amazing mazings
This puzzle is part 20 of Gladys' journey across the globe. Each part can be solved independently. Nevertheless, if you are new to the series, feel free to start at the beginning: Introducing Gladys.
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3answers
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Drums and punctuation
This puzzle is part 19 of Gladys' journey across the globe. Each part can be solved independently. Nevertheless, if you are new to the series, feel free to start at the beginning: Introducing Gladys.
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2answers
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A burglar's sunglasses, a lady's odyssey
This puzzle is part 17 of Gladys' journey across the globe. Each part can be solved independently. Nevertheless, if you are new to the series, feel free to start at the beginning: Introducing Gladys.
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3answers
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…And they were stumped for a long time
This puzzle is part 16 of Gladys' journey across the globe. Each part can be solved independently. Nevertheless, if you are new to the series, feel free to start at the beginning: Introducing Gladys.
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6answers
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Moons and messages
This puzzle is part 15 of Gladys' journey across the globe. Each part can be solved independently. Nevertheless, if you are new to the series, feel free to start at the beginning: Introducing Gladys.
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2answers
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A game of cricket
This puzzle is part 14 of Gladys' journey across the globe. Each part can be solved independently. Nevertheless, if you are new to the series, feel free to start at the beginning: Introducing Gladys.
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1answer
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Better than Rembrandt
This puzzle is part 13 of Gladys' journey across the globe. Each part can be solved independently. Nevertheless, if you are new to the series, feel free to start at the beginning: Introducing Gladys.
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1answer
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For the price of one
This puzzle is part 12 of Gladys' journey across the globe. Each part can be solved independently. Nevertheless, if you are new to the series, feel free to start at the beginning: Introducing Gladys.
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1answer
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Fieldwork ahead
This puzzle is part 11 of Gladys' journey across the globe. Each part can be solved independently. Nevertheless, if you are new to the series, feel free to start at the beginning: Introducing Gladys.
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1answer
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The hearts of gold
This puzzle is part 10 of Gladys' journey across the globe. Each part can be solved independently. Nevertheless, if you are new to the series, feel free to start at the beginning: Introducing Gladys.
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1answer
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Gladys visits a campus
This puzzle is part 9 of Gladys' journey across the globe. Each part can be solved independently. Nevertheless, if you are new to the series, feel free to start at the beginning: Introducing Gladys.
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1answer
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A cryptic tricolour
This puzzle is part 8 of Gladys' journey across the globe. Each part can be solved independently. Nevertheless, if you are new to the series, feel free to start at the beginning: Introducing Gladys.
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1answer
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Watching the game, having a puzzle
This puzzle is part 7 of Gladys' journey across the globe. Each part can be solved independently. Nevertheless, if you are new to the series, feel free to start at the beginning: Introducing Gladys.
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1answer
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Horribly broken and just plain wrong
This puzzle is part 6 of Gladys' journey across the globe. Each part can be solved independently. Nevertheless, if you are new to the series, feel free to start at the beginning: Introducing Gladys.
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1answer
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Gladys spins the wheel
This puzzle is part 5 of Gladys' journey across the globe. Each part can be solved independently. Nevertheless, if you are new to the series, feel free to start at the beginning: Introducing Gladys.
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2answers
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Devoted to high culture
This puzzle is part 4 of Gladys' journey across the globe. Each part can be solved independently. Nevertheless, if you are new to the series, feel free to start at the beginning: Introducing Gladys.
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2answers
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T-Rex goes cooking
This puzzle is part 3 of Gladys' journey across the globe. If you're new to the series, feel free to start at the beginning: "Introducing Gladys".
Dear Puzzling,
Today I visited an ...
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2answers
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Gladys unchained
This puzzle is part 2 of Gladys' journey across the globe. If you're new to the series, feel free to start at the beginning: Introducing Gladys.
Dear Puzzling,
Today I spent the ...
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2answers
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Introducing Gladys, an intrepid globetrotter
Gladys has always led an active life full of adventure. As a retiree, she has a lot of free time on her hands and loves to spend it on her two favourite pastimes – travelling and crossword ...
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Where is the criminal?
A worldwide criminal has been hiding in Japan recently, however nobody knows where he is. The FBI intercepted one of his messages to his team.
I am hiding in something you won't expect. Maybe you'...
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4answers
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Disembodied hand growing fangs
Across
2. Puzzle expert breaks first dilemma partially (7)
10. Nobleman bandleader (4)
13. Lead singer, AC/DC's second; extremely over-the-top (5)
18. Actor Morgan and organ lying on the same ...
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1answer
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Extraordinarily Forgoes Anthem
Island oranges don't mix well (11)
Liquid wastes run into river (10, 4)
Cold canines found in the mountains (10)
A season before a season's past in Northern capital (10)
City at the ...
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1answer
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Charlie's geography presentation
Okay, so hi everyone. I’m Charlie and I’d like to talk to you about my home country, the United States of America. We’re the third most populous nation in the world (after China and India), have the ...
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Four Directions #18 - Where and what am I?
To the North, Jorge and Natan spent some quality time
To the South, a victory for a famous symbol
To the West, you can check out one of Baird's
To the East is a presidential coastal town
A Nereid ...
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Four Directions #17 - Where and what am I?
To the East is a place where arrows may flow
To the West you may see Beelzebub hitching a ride
To the North is a view if your vision's not clouded
To the South is a place where languages were born
I'...
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Four Directions #16 - Where and what am I?
Inspired by MetaZen's riddles, I figured I might try making one. It's definitely not as...indirect...as their puzzles, but still difficult nevertheless.
To the south and east is the North West
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Contours of a clandestine nature
What does each of the answers describe? The answer is two words (11 + 4 letters).
#1
#2
#3
#4
Image credits:
1.2 Slashme, CC BY-SA 4.0;
2.1 AngMoKio, CC BY-SA 2.5;
2.3 ...
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2answers
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Keeping you safe
Complete the grid and find a two-word final answer.
Across
1. Ability to move first to northern aristocracy (8)
4. Animal to rip a short tail back (5)
5. Oral tradition about the origin of ...
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2answers
573 views
Written every which way
Looking for the name of a country.
This puzzle is part of Recycling old answers.
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1answer
613 views
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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2answers
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Emojional cryptic crossword
ACROSS
3. 🌟½☥🐪🚫👣 (9)
7. 🏆❌🖽⚔️ (3)
8. ½🍔🇫🇷🌊🏢 (6)
11. ♉½🇬🇷✉️ (3)
12. 🔫⭐⏺️♥️🗽🎭 (5)
13. 🍈♥️🇨🇴🏙️⏮️🍟🔚💐 (6)
14. 👂♀️🦌💰 (5)
16. 🎩👦♻️🐴🦄☝️🗾🏝️ (6)
19. 🐏💪🔀 (3)
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4answers
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Sailing the cryptic seas
So, I've built myself a ship. The image shows it from above. (Look, use your imagination, ok?)
With the clues below, try to figure out whether my ship is headed toward the top right or toward the ...
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3answers
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You may not be eligible to be in this community
Hello everyone! I want to introduce a community that I've joined a
long time ago. This community has millions of members that spread
throughout the world. Our main focus is simple: "help people ...
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3answers
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Traversing the US and Canada: A Cryptic Journey
Each answer is a place, landmark or attraction in the United States or Canada. The answers traverse all Canadian provinces, Canadian territories, U.S. states and the District of Columbia. This is done ...
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2answers
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Who am I? A name
Okay, here is a who am I puzzle.
I am an absolute thing to like
For I got my name from sea to shining sea
But I cannot reach the peace
Without help from the South
And I pull loads of stuff ...
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2answers
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Cryptic Crossword with Missing LUGs
Inspired by jafe's Cryptic with missing capitals and Tzu Li's Tokyo Metro puzzle:
Solve the clues and fill the grid. Each clue is missing a different London Underground Station
As jafe has noted in ...
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3answers
658 views
Traversing Africa: A Cryptic Journey
Each answer is a place, landmark or attraction in Africa, one per country. The answers first traverse all countries on the mainland by crossing land borders, and then the remaining ones go around the ...
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3answers
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Cryptic with missing capitals
Solve the clues and fill the grid. Each clue is missing a different European capital city.
Across
1. Funny beret men strike $??$ to convene (4)
3. Containers found in a $??$ plaza (...
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4answers
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Now…where was I?
Below are some observations and random thoughts from a recent trip:
A barrel maker passing on some oolong.
Brimming with an unspecified amount.
An unpretentious piggy.
Astonished by ...
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3answers
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Cryptic cross… with words
Solve the clues and fit the answers into the grid.
Far north Silicon Valley's research & development leaders surround Jessica (8)
Pop star loses British-American distribution ...
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8answers
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Headless horseman claims new head
Solve the clues and fit the answers into the grid so that each of the coloured squares contains exactly four different letters.
Sahara desert capitals of historically African region in ...
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1answer
704 views
Colourful cryptic
No numbers in this grid. The clues are grouped into 12 squares by the location of the word's first letter. No guesswork is needed – if you have the correct answers, there's only one way to fit ...
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2answers
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Seven levels through Europe
Let's take a little trip through Europe, shall we?
Each level forms a word chain. Even-numbered levels (yellow) go clockwise, odd-numbered ones (white) go anticlockwise.
Each level has ...
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1answer
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Rating words from best to worst
In my personal classification, certain words are assigned a rating based on some criteria. The top rating is AA, and below it the ratings go from A all the way down to Z. Seventeen AA-class words are ...
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2answers
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Rebuses with an unknown symbol
Each picture features the same unknown symbol. What does it mean? Where would you place it fit in the final answer?
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3answers
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Where on Earth have I flown?
I traveled to, and fro, and afar
And arrived at my starting point,
I stood facing north in the midst of the sea
The farthest from any shore's viewpoint.
I took a full turn and headed that way
From ...
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3answers
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Cryptic clues with a common theme
Concealed Yugoslav introduces military cemetery (6)
Buddhist temple is top three watching photos (3 3)
Central square hides koala to observatory (3-3)
Thriller writer John adds three lines to ...
