Questions tagged [geography]
A puzzle centered around geographical features such as countries, continents, cities, mountains, rivers, and climate.
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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 ...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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 ...
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Four place names from 12 cryptic clues
A1. Steps, Mister? Outside? Thank you (5)
A2. Aerial exercise outside, computer network inside (5)
A3. Canonized hollow fruit recurring (6)
B1. Light-hearted student at first sent back in ...
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Storms form above my head
I have searched for treasure in Egypt,
and spent a lifetime fishing in the Atlantic.
I have seen powerful storms form above me,
and felt the earth shaking with devastating effect.
I have seen ...
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What crime have we committed?
We start in a city that rhymes with angina,
the masculine form, add in what's drunk in China,
then take phylum's first six, of the minor kind,
components will make what in our hand we find.
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It's sophisticated because I mentioned Silmarillion
Dwarf fellow with ring next to container leads to volcano (11)
Hamlet follows holy unity to rocky settlement (5 4)
Sacred five-peaker to hop onto Silmarillion creator after first of month (5 4)
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From the death to the fresh beginning - A treasure hunt
Shortly after your mentor's passing, you received an envelope along with the following note:
My Dear Disciple,
I am afraid my time to leave this world has come but don'...
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I rhyme with omega
The place of the birth of a short-reigning king,
the fifth of his name and the last of his kind.
As well as the place of his death one cruel spring,
the label of genocide later assigned.
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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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She has a unique personality
Each square is one word, and each row also has a one-word answer.
The final answer is what I tell everyone whenever my sister is coming to town.
#1
Image credits: 1. Mickayyy, CC BY-SA 4.0; ...
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My Grandpa's Box #1
My grandpa died last month. At the reading of his will, he left me a strange wooden box. A post-it-note on the side read "You were always good at puzzles." There was a number lock on the front that ...
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Ideological rebus
The answers form one word.
#1
#2
#3
#4
Hint for #3:
Image credits:
clue 1 #1: dtstuff9, CC-BY-SA 2.0
clue 1 #2: See Li, CC-BY-SA 2.0
clue 1 #3: Mingle Media TV, CC-BY-SA 2.0
clue ...
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An Artwork Made from Several Countries
Last year I went to 12 different countries around the world. I made an AI to convert every country that I've visited into a beautiful artwork as a reminder. I input the 12 countries name, then somehow ...
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The Adventures of Jack #3
He's back at it again!
'Twas the night before Christmas,
And Jack only wanted one thing.
A hat - what else would he need?
Jack thought about colours, possibly crimson.
But the ...
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The Adventures of Jack #2
I hope you liked the first one, because Jack is back!
This time Jack begins his journey in Asia,
He chops off oxygen's head with a comma to get;
A place where he sees Luke Skywalker's ...
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The Seven Siblings
PREFACE
This is a more lively try on "Where do I want to go next?" riddles, hope you like it!
THE PUZZLE
Hi, here are us, the seven siblings, but one is missing!
The brothers:
A: Let's introduce ...
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A ruthless savage
I'm from a Muslim country, but practise no religion myself.
I have killed over eighty people.
I've never been convicted, not once even been to court.
They would have no case ...
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The Adventure of Jack #1
Jack's adventure starts at the top left of the table,
Hey, Vietnamese money should be removed!
So he adventures along to Rome, stopping for 50 minutes.
And suddenly he's back at the ...
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Have you been here?
I am every man. I am named after a festival. I live in the largest of spaces. I belong to the thin. Uniquely, I began twice. What am I?
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The thousand-year enigma
Three two and five versus one five and three twos,
sellable merchandise made out of these clues,
latter being northern the first's in the east,
country's name one thousand years back at least.
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A Geography-ish Riddle
Here's another riddle of mine, albeit one that's not as hard:
The name of which national capital city sounds as if it's composed of two Greek letters?
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Where have I visited?
Now an entry into Fortnightly Topic Challenge #41: Short and Sweet
Having a new try on "where do I want to go next" questions", hope you enjoy it.
I have visited:
1: Regulations on the internet ...
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Endless pain and Belgian ale
Endless pain with prosecutor is board game and peace garden place in anonymous organization (6)
South German to a Spaniard is Hebrew month in alehouse with well-rounded finish (6)
100th ...
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A transgenre puzzle with rowing
Capital city that matches [A-H]+,
take out the first four and then add deux cents plus;
crossing the Danube, you make your way north;
stay on that route till the coastline comes forth.
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Columbus's coccyges
Calculate Christopher Columbus's coccyges, characterize Cyprus / Cuba / Crete. Count couplet's components, country's command central, Cairo, Chicago & Cebu.
Correct comeback comprises 10 ...
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Hotly contested
Arab dad infiltrating computer network islands (6)
Franco-German brown egg is peaceful abode (6)
Haiku song corrupted southern port (9)
No heartless Swedes in springtime capital basin (9)
...
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Close encounter of the orthographical kind
Over here! Hey! People! Thank goodness. I managed to escape. I was held captive in a Keerg spaceship hovering high above the continental United States. They pointed on different places on a map and ...
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Horror Episode #5: Hats and Cloves
A row of four hats is seen sitting on a desk through the window of a noble Victorian Era clothing store. Before you can even prepare yourself as you walk in to get a closer look, you are immediately ...
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Tomato sauce with flavourant vowels
Cathedral returns warm air, a madness (10)
All-salad cave mixes up historical house (12)
Endless tomato sauce with flavourant vowels gives Casbah mosque (9)
Dirk C.O. Rosalyn backed off a ...
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World-renowned for having many natural wonders
Ancient tombs perplex urban Bonnie (11)
Magic sleek hill mixed is small island (14)
Small island's hidden twin is Moroccan (7)
Dramatic sound and additional grotto are underground site (11)
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Deranged hippo person
Statue suing deranged hippo person (11)
Baltic port is original pope's German castle (12)
Animator and universe are perplexing snowy riddle (11)
Pop star and French city confusedly lock javelins ...
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You're a large automobile
Capital city says you're a large automobile (7)
Work horse videography camouflages monastery (9)
Football stadium building hides coastal city (6)
Black Sea hub hides Caspian Sea hub (4)
...
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Tropical trees and god-kings
To my north is the residence of an antique ruler.
To my east is a tower made of iron.
To my south is the tomb of a god-king.
To my west are tropical trees.
I have a big pool with music.
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Remote yet central
Dry lake messed up as a Lear (7)
Short Mervin found in summer vacation (4)
Probabilistic risk analysis conceals deep lake (6)
Historic city confounds a sand mark (9)
Fantasy prince's body of ...
