Questions tagged [knowledge]
A puzzle whose solution relies on external sources such as tables, dictionaries, Wikipedia, or specifics that may not be common knowledge.
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PSE Advent Calendar 2023 (Day 2): Wall I want for Christmas
This puzzle is part of the Puzzling Stack Exchange Advent Calendar 2023. The accepted answer to this question will be awarded a bounty worth 50 reputation.< Previous Door Next Door >
Resolve the ...
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Turn Back the Clocks
This is part 45 of the puzzle series Around the World in Many Days. Each part is solvable on its own.
Dear Puzzling,
This is a Slitherlink puzzle. Draw a single continuous loop along grid lines that ...
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College Athletes
This puzzle is part of the Monthly Topic Challenge #16: Restricted Title: xkcd 2000-2500.
Solve the following 10 sub-puzzles, then use the information you've found to solve the metapuzzle:
Puzzle 1
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The FBI needs your help with this Zodiac killer message
During a recent thorough cleanup round at the main building of the San Fransisco Chronicle, an employee found a piece of paper stuck behind an archive closet in one of the many archive rooms.
Her ...
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Missing photograph
Which person's photograph should be pasted upright (NOT UPSIDE DOWN) in the blank space?
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Trivia - Until eternity [closed]
Description
I know you love trivia so here are some questions for you to google around while listening to this beautiful song.
Some say that eternities aren't countable but a computer will surely try.
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Name, Place, Animal, Thing
Which famous South African's image can replace the question mark and why?
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Not once, but twice
What's the answer to this puzzle?
Text version of the numbers under pattern:
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Social Media Announcement
This puzzle is part of the Monthly Topic Challenge #16: Restricted Title: xkcd 2000-2500.
Inspired by xkcd 2045, I made my own social media moves:
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Escape from a Grand Canyon
This is part 44 of the puzzle series Around the World in Many Days. Each part is solvable on its own.
Dear Puzzling,
Can you help me out here? I am trapped inside a small room that’s locked from the ...
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Flag Interpretation
This puzzle is part of the Monthly Topic Challenge #16: Restricted Title: xkcd 2000-2500.
A UN member state recently raised a motion at a general meeting saying that they wished to change their ...
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When I said I used sugar in coffee, I was asked, "For tea, too?"
My road is filled with answers, and my body has the hints, but it is in my head where the question sits. My shoes are brand new, hence their tags.
Can you end my walk down this road with an answer-...
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Vegas Grand Prix - Ideal Grid
I can't wait for the F1 race in Las Vegas this weekend! As much as I like the current grid in its state, I always make a fantasy grid of all the drivers I wish was racing instead. There's a number of ...
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Chemistry Nobel
This puzzle is part of the Monthly Topic Challenge #16: Restricted Title: xkcd 2000-2500.
When this year's Nobel Prize in Chemistry was awarded, an exclusive group of 12 still-living previous ...
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the flute section keeps passing notes
(_ˇ෴ˇ)_⟋ 🎵🎶
(づ🪈◕‿◕ )づ日 ٩(◕‿◕)۶🪈
The band director is tired of the flutes passing notes in class, but he can't tell what the notes say. Here is one of the messages.
2 10 - 1 2 3 10 - 1 2 10 - 1 ...
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Blunt Talk, Shrubby Barquentine
Clues:
I stand in the East, facing West in all directions
A day’s sail, just across the line
Unlucky year, a ship ran aground...
A different world, different age
Set the stage, elemental alias...
[...
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A Trivial Pursuit #25: Meta-Analysis
This is the final part of A Trivial Pursuit, a 25-part puzzle hunt.
Having solved the previous 24 sub-puzzles in this series, you have managed to find 24 keywords that will help you extract the ...
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Chemistry Puzzle
Here's a little chemistry themed puzzle I made for a website a year or two back. You don't need to be a chemist or anything - I only took the basics in college
Hint 1 (Probably good to know)
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Title of this puzzle? You tell me
What's the answer to this puzzle?
98989576412452356298989576412452654...
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At Last, the Crown
Clues:[contextual images]
[Fanta logo on treble clef]
[Winning slot machine]
Instructions: Name That Sith
_ _ I _ _ _ _ _
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Move exactly two matches to make the two sides equal
Use some creative thinking to make the equation below correct. You must move 2 matches. You cannot alter/modify the = sign. You cannot remove any matches or put one over another match (to make 2 ...
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work more cleverly, not harder
The following sixteen words can be divided into four groups. Each group is of four words connected by a theme; the four themes are also related to one another.
ANTIC ASKEW BATTERS CARPER CASH CHALK ...
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Clueless Crossword, then Connect-Wall
Solve the following crossword that lacks most of the clues (but has some letters revealed), and then perform connect-wall to the resulting words.
Please note that this is an enigmatic-puzzle – One ...
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Symmetries – a Quadritaisho puzzle
This is part 43 of the puzzle series Around the World in Many Days. Each part is solvable on its own.
Dear Puzzling,
This is a Quadritaisho puzzle. Divide the grid into rooms by drawing borders along ...
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A Trivial Pursuit #22 (Art and Literature 4/4): Bookstore
This is part 22 of A Trivial Pursuit, a 25-part puzzle hunt. Each part is solvable on its own, with the exception of the meta-puzzle at the end.
Yesterday, I was asked to create some window displays ...
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Two trips with a common theme
A while ago me and my friend decided to take two different trips to specific nations. I visited four nations and he visited four other nations.
Here are two lists. List 1 is a list of my destinations ...
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Quadritaisho: The sports bet
My friend from America was going to watch a game and wanted to bet I couldn't guess where he was going. The answer lies in the Quadritaisho puzzle below. Can you help me find out where he's going to ...
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A Trivial Pursuit #21 (History 4/4): Expedition
This is part 21 of A Trivial Pursuit, a 25-part puzzle hunt. Each part is solvable on its own, with the exception of the meta-puzzle at the end.
Excerpts from recent round-the-world itinerary:
Flew ...
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A Round Britain Quiz Question
This style of question commemorates the Round Britain Quiz on BBC Radio 4: the format is one, long, cryptic question which has six parts to it, indicated by the letters a-f. Please submit answers ...
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To be reminded of the old days
I recently was in a hotel in a small community somewhere near a capital of a certain country (I don't want to say exactly where, I'll let you figure that out on your own) which I was very fond of (had ...
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A Seemingly Geographic Riddle
Selçuk, İzmir Province, Turkey.
Bodrum, Muğla Province, Turkey.
Yassıhüyük, Ankara Province, Turkey.
Sart, Manisa Province, Turkey.
???
İzmir, İzmir Province, Turkey.
Atalanti, Phthiotis, Greece.
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A hive buzzing with words
A turtle that goes into battle on a cart. (16)
That which is overshadowed by the front. (10)
A vital component of gaining speed. (12)
A time measuring device that has gained wisdom through the ages....
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Multi smol boi puzzle I: apologies
Disclaimer: Jryy, svefg bs nyy, V jbhyq yvxr gb ncbybtvmr. Abg sbe npgvbaf (jryy bxnl, sbe npgvbaf), ohg sbe zl fzby obv pvcure. Vg frrzf gung zl svefg fzby obv chmmyr jnf whfg n ovg gbb uneq. Fb, gb ...
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A Trivial Pursuit #20 (Entertainment 4/4): Actors
This is part 20 of A Trivial Pursuit, a 25-part puzzle hunt. Each part is solvable on its own, with the exception of the meta-puzzle at the end.
Talos (2019, 2019, 2019 uncredited, 2023 TV)
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What we commonly refer high definition as
What is the two word answer to the puzzle below?
16777215+262709978263278+3435973836 = (4)
281474976710655+1240612796065921481376886589594988270+967140655691703339764940 = (12)
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A Trivial Pursuit #19 (Geography 4/4): Glass
This is part 19 of A Trivial Pursuit, a 25-part puzzle hunt. Each part is solvable on its own, with the exception of the meta-puzzle at the end.
Front of menu card:
STIV'S SPEAKEASY
COCKTAILS
BOUR....
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Helen helped Liam become best carpenter north of _?
Multiple choice question:
Helen helped Liam become best carpenter north of ____?
A) Australia
B) England
C) France
D) Iceland
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10 friends of a triangular baseball batter
"I'll do it tomorrow"
"Lattices and nets are my forte"
The paved one
A shadowy character
A place where organic and inorganic meet
Older brother of a piece of text
A job title. Do ...
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An optimal puzzle (unit)
Given the image below, which of the options, A-E, should replace the question mark? Explain your reasoning.
Hint 1
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A Trivial Pursuit #18 (Sports and Leisure 3/4): Connected
This is part 18 of A Trivial Pursuit, a 25-part puzzle hunt. Each part is solvable on its own, with the exception of the meta-puzzle at the end.
Sometimes one connect-wall puzzle just isn't enough... ...
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What is a Heavenly Word™?
Inspired by JLee's original Word™/Phrase™ puzzles.
If a word conforms to a special rule, I call it a Heavenly word.
Use the examples to find the rule:
Heavenly Words™
Non-Heavenly Words™
behead
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E Rebus Unum – a picture sequence puzzle
This is part 42 of the puzzle series Around the World in Many Days. Each part is solvable on its own.
Dear Puzzling,
Today I have been taking it easy. You might even say it has been a walk in the ...
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A Trivial Pursuit #16 (Art and Literature 3/4): X
This is part 16 of A Trivial Pursuit, a 25-part puzzle hunt. Each part is solvable on its own, with the exception of the meta-puzzle at the end.
The final answer is a thematic 8-letter word.
Text ...
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27 spaces, 27 curious places
Grid 1:
Grid 2:
Grid 3:
Find the meaning behind these images.
Hint 1:
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