Questions tagged [geography]
A puzzle centered around geographical features, such as countries, continents, cities, mountains, rivers, and climate.
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She went… She stayed
In 1969, she went to Kazhakstan. She stayed $1$ year
Then she went to Mongolia. She stayed $1$ year
In 1971, she went to ...
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A queue of countries
This is a queue of countries:
$Ireland, Guinea, Romania, Italy$
Values:
$Ireland = 7$
$Guinea = 15$
$Romania = 60$
$Italy = 87$
Try to answer following questions:
1) $Mali$ = ?
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Stacking countries
This is a stack of countries:
$Russia$
$Gabon$
$Germany$
$Indonesia$
Values of the countries:
$Russia = 8$
$Gabon = 12$
$Germany = 8$
$Indonesia = 6$
Question:
Try to find ...
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Traversing Eurasia: A Cryptic Journey
Earlier parts in the series: Africa, US & Canada, Oceania, Latin America & Caribbean.
Each answer is a place, landmark or attraction in Eurasia, one per country. The answers traverse all ...
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Traversing Latin America & Caribbean: A Cryptic Journey
Earlier parts in the series: Africa, US & Canada, Oceania.
Each answer is a place, landmark or attraction in Latin America or the Caribbean, one per country. The answers traverse all countries by ...
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Traversing Oceania: A Cryptic Journey
Each answer is a place, landmark or attraction in Oceania, one per country. The answers traverse all countries by crossing maritime borders (or close enough). Each clue is missing a country name from ...
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Where Mongol herds graze
One of us – largest outside polar regions;
another one's island's shared with Indonesians;
a third one is found at the edge of the first,
a break from the dryness to quench people's thirst....
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More important than the destination
This puzzle is the 26th and final part of Gladys' journey across the globe. If you are new to the series, feel free to start at the beginning: Introducing Gladys.
Spoiler alert: This puzzle gives ...
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A mountain riddle
In school, I'm mostly concerned with geometry. However, both in Europe and in Asia I may see my rearrangements from above.
What am I?
--- EDIT ---
The question has been edited in its tags.
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Thousands and thousands of words
This puzzle is part 25 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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Crossword gone overboard
This puzzle is part 24 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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Scripture and yachting
This puzzle is part 23 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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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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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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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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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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…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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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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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
715 views
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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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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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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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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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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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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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
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Written every which way
Looking for the name of a country.
This puzzle is part of Recycling old answers.
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1answer
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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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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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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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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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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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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 ...
