Questions tagged [knowledge]
A puzzle whose solution relies on external sources (like tables, dictionaries, wikipedia) or specifics that may not be common knowledge.
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What happens on Day 6?
My friend, who works in a Library, has recently learned about Puzzles, in general, and Puzzling Stack Exchange, in particular. He was excited and has sent me this puzzle to "test" the users of PSE. ...
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Here's a riddle, so listen up yo
I'm from Italy, yet I speak English
On top of that, my name is French
I hail back from the late nineties galore
Last in 2016 did I release lore
Until then it has been a decade
But we never truly ...
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Chess Construction Challenge #2-Check!
Xit's time for round two!
Given that:
-Black has 6 pawns and a king
-White ehas three pieces of any kind you to deduce the identity of and a king
Construct:
-A nlegal position in which both sides ...
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Measuring mystery distances
Some puzzling distances:
If 110 to 39 is 1046km
And 105 to 115 is 114km
Then how far is 97 to 38?
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Bob's unnecessary trip to the shops
Alice and Bob live in London, UK. On a Friday, as per usual, Bob leaves for work before Alice. At lunchtime he receives a WhatsApp message from his friend Charles:
Sorry to cancel on you last ...
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Back to the nineties!
I've left the world before the 90's,
But I'm still many a ninety.
Inside me there's an instant,
I've proposed many a constant.
My universe is not stable,
But I'm still there at the table.
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Where shall we go next?
The following nonogram is about $92\%$ solvable. Also, the grid is not really like it should be.
All this feels somewhat annoying, but honestly, not that much, because this is most likely the last ...
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Translate this “especially important” note from “War with the Newts”
Language-identification questions are off-topic on linguistics.stackexchange.com, or I would have posted this over there. Since it's also a puzzle, I figure puzzling.stackexchange might appreciate it.
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One night in Baker Street
The raindrops ran down the windows of 221B Baker Street while Sherlock Holmes played a sad melody upon his violin. The weather and the music reflected his mood, for it had been a trying and vexatious ...
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Mirror Mirror on the wall, who's the richest of them all? (I make billions #7)
Mirror Mirror on the wall, who's the richest of them all? (I make billions #7)
Clue group 1:
This spa provides a great relaxation rub. Earbuds are included too.
I compared virtual machines, and ...
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The flying colours
Here's a $36\times36$ nonogram with two colours. Name all 12 things depicted in it.
Note that cells filled with different colours do not need to have a gap between them.
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Simple Arithmetic Puzzle 8. Or is it?
This one's different to all the previous ones...
\begin{align}7+53&=28\\16+6&=21\\5+19&=97\\15+8&=\,?\end{align}
Can you find the value of the question mark?
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Puzzling Knight has a Message for all- Especially Newcomers
Of all the more than a Trillion messages he can deliver, he has especially selected this message for all.
Follow his(normal chess moves for the Knight) path to get the message.
His journey starts ...
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Deduce Distinct Digits of the Given Fibonacci Sequence- Detail all Steps
$DEPUS$
$SRST$
$UDQD$
$CTQU$
$DTPR$
$PQR$
$SDE$
$VRR$
$CVV$
$DUU$
$QP$
$TT$
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Valiant Knight is back..but he is in grave danger from the Evil Queen
King has placed a bounty on Valiant Knight and enlisted his evil queen’s help.
Queen knows knight’s regular stops of his journey and knows he goes through all odd prime cells.
She strategically ...
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Strange? Primes and Palindromes have no business being in this Place?
$1$
$1$,$2$ Good easy start
$1$,$2$,$4$ As expected
$1$,$2$,$4$,$8$ I know it is going to be easy
$1$,$2$,$4$,$8$,$16$ why is he giving this? I got it!
$1$,$2$,$4$,$8$,$16$,Prime ...oops!.....
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How do you make Prime “COMPUTERS”?
$Given$:
$COMPUTERS$ is the smallest Pan Digital containing all the digits 1 to 9 occurring only once.
$COMPUTERSV$ is a Prime only when one of the correct digit ($V$)is added at the end.
Also,
$...
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Let's do some CAP (Cosmology, Astronomy and Physics)
ACROSS
5 God of agriculture
8 Time travel
14 Not in Australia...
16 A friend of mine and 800 suns
17 Still growing...
18 Proposed capital Lambda
19 56 + 36 + 3(0)
DOWN
1 Nearest ...
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Listen to my Story…Let us find the Unique Invisible Pan Digital Pair
I was an avid reader of Popular Science magazine. In the last page or so, they usually had visual clues without words to make useful stuff.
I always wanted to create a mathematical puzzle like that ...
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I make billions (#3)
I make billions (#3)
My products are quite edgy,
But most have been a bust,
I'm only one of many,
Lord knows who we can trust,
I'm not a politician,
Yet I work with presidents,
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All Aboard..Hop onto the Power Train to reach Destination Unity
Your goal is to reach the destination unity.
starting from $3462$ with three intermediate stops.
You are allowed to use only 2 mathematical operations..multiplication and Exponentiation.
All the ...
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Find me from this cluster
I lie between a tennis ball and a soccer ball,
I agree that I'm small.
I am at the bottom but at first,
Sometimes, I may even burst.
My prefix rhymes with an app,
I'm in Earth, but not in ...
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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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Primes from the Pan Digital
Pan Digital Number is the smallest with all the digits 1 to 9 with no repeats.
When looking forwards or backwards, eleven Primes can be extracted from that number preserving the same sequence.
Among ...
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I make billions (#2)
I make billions (#2)
At 9, I met my best friend,
At 12, I lived an outdoor life,
At 13, I broke my arm right before camp,
At 15, I worked my first corporate job,
At 17, I was ...
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Resolve this Fibonacci Relationship
$Given$:
$A$, $B$, $C$, $E$, $F$ are distinct digits varying from $1$ to $9$.
$A$ is a Fibonacci number.
$BB$, $BC$, $EF$ are concatenated Numbers.
$Relationship$:
$(A*BB)*(BC)^2$ = $(EF)^2- B$
...
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Word Wall of Whimsical Wordy Whatchamacallits
I was making a particularly difficult word wall, when I misplaced all the words for it. Luckily, I still had the clues. However, poring through the clues, I realised that I had nine clues, yet my word ...
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On Fri morning I was racing to work and took usual NYC train from Princeton and
I found a piece of paper with these scribbled on it
Dark Thunder. X P X ...with P circled
Silver Lightning. X X X...
What could those X s possibly represent?
Hint 1: Given yesterday
Hint 2: ...
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Perfect Powered Relations - Please Figure them out
$D$, $E$, $F$, $G$, $H$, $S$, $T$, $U$, $V$ are distinct digits and can vary from 0 to 9.
$DE$, $FGH$, $ESDE$, $SS$, $ST$, $SU$ are all concatenated Numbers.
From the given Relations below, deduce ...
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Through the Looking-Glass
Two friends are discussing concepts for a new fantasy story:
A: There exists a magical mirror that leads to a mirrored universe. In this universe, people drive on the left side of the road, and you ...
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Decipher this three times, periodically
After hanging around this site for a little while I finally decided to put together a cipher for my first puzzle. I hope you guys enjoy it.
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First impressions count
Insert four letters, which represent a place, to create what may be seen in that place.
N E T
N E T
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Tom travels extensively all over. He was trying to figure out
The missing members in the following sequence.
$A$, $A$, $A$, $A$, $?$, $?$, $?$
Please help him out.
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Be a Wordsmith — Assemble enough words to score 50 from the Triangular Settings [closed]
Use this triangular setting of letters to form as many words(minimum length 5) as possible, following the given rules.
You can start at any letter, follow the connected lines to pickup additional ...
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Find the Missing Members of this Family
Who are the Missing Members?
$?$, $V$, $U$, $?$, $S$, $?$, $P$, $O$, $N$, $?$, $H$, $F$, $?$, $B$
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See me once, See me Twice #12
See me once, I'm watching your every move
Thanks for your visit, I know you were there
I see what you did there in my lair
Look for my acronym and you'll have your proof.
See me twice, ...
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Magical Knight Moves with Effortless Ease in his Magical Kingdom
Magical Knight knows every Square of his Magical Kingdom.
In many respects, he is like any other knight...Literary,Prime, Normal(makes same allowed chess moves).
He is people Knight . As he traverses ...
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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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Unorthodox Prof. Roman’s Chemistry Class Quiz
Prof. Roman of Chemistry department as you all know is quite unorthodox..here is his Quiz. It is Monday Morning and it is time for Prof. Roman’s unusual quizzes to his chemistry class.
What is the ...
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Elementary, my dear …
My list for today
Iodine-Sulfur+Americium-Scandium:Phosphorus
Iodine-Titanium+Molybdenum+Thorium+Yttrium-Lithium:Helium
Praseodymium+Oxygen+Vanadium+Erbium+Boron+Sulfur-Lithium:Aluminum
...
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Setting up the trap
Start with eleven in one e four e six;
add what is missing from otherhood, oke, icks;
improving position, go upwards by one;
mix up for organs, remove fifty-one.
Add to the end an ...
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I'm yearning in grey
I have made films on wood.
I have stopped by a park.
Going outside late makes me happy.
I'm yearning in grey.
What is my name?
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Problem with heights - Riddle
I hate heights. As soon as I can see how far away the ground is, I'm filled with this uncontrollable fear and urge to get down -any survivable way to get down is better than this.
My captors seem ...
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A Tale of Snake and Coffee
I had the strangest dream last night:
I am in field of red stones. I start walking around until a smell of
fresh coffee catches my attention. I follow it until I see a large
cave, and in its ...
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Prime Sequence…a little bit Unusual about the Missing Members
What are the Missing Members in this Prime Series?
what is the Significance of this Sequence?
$19$, $17$, $13$, $?$, $?$, $3$, $2$
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Math to Math Nerdy Love Expressions…Fillin the Blanks [closed]
1) My Love for you is like $L= m.C^2$...because it grows xxx with speed of xxxx.
2) My Love is like a xxxx it goes on xxxxx.
3) You must be the xxxxx xxxx of xxxxx because I feel irrational ...
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Rhyme with Time
Commonly used units of Time are:
$Second$
$Minute$
$Hour$
$Day$
$Week$
$Month$
$Year$
$Decade$
$Century$
$Millenium$
Can you find at least one rhyming word in English Language for each of ...
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Lunatic Loves this Sunny Sequence…Find the Missing info
Complete this Sunny Sequence,
Based on the information given below:
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Primes and Puzzles are my Passion. Combining them here to get Productive Prime Puzzles..Find the Missing Info
$EXAMPLE$:
$997$ = $O.$ $T.$.- $T.$ One Thousand - Three
$Expand$ on the Full Info of the following Prime clues.
A). 2 = F & O. E. P
B). 3 = S.P
C). 5 = F. On the H.
D). 7 = H. of ...
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Cross-Numbers (not words)!
Can you solve this Crossword (Cross-numbers) with numbers from the given pictures ?
ACROSS
DOWN
