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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Colourful Scenery
This is part 41 of the puzzle series Around the World in Many Days. Each part is solvable on its own.
Dear Puzzling,
This is a Word Nurikabe puzzle. Shade some cells in the grid. Shaded cells must ...
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A Trivial Pursuit #13 (Geography 3/4): Things Fall Apart
This is part 13 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.
Identify the 26 words clued by the images below, then ...
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Midnight Omniprescence
Here's some things I kept in my basement for a while.
a scroll
a flower pot
a vase
a bust of a woman's head
a ballerina dress
a blank canvas
Weirdly, these are the only things I can remember.
By ...
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A Trivial Pursuit #11 (Science and Nature 2/4): The Search
This is part 11 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.
Okay, let me tell you a story... I’ve got a terrible ...
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Connect and r - - - - e
What is drawn below? Give me the answer (5, 7, 7) and explain your reasoning.
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Cheese from Denmark
You'll need "cheese from denmark" for this cipher puzzle.
Denmark
Portugal 1/2
France "hello"
?AI EBOM AEEDY EHT SEOU EPNHS TNHG OS EPNHS "F" AN AI SEBOM SSEHÆ AI ...
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Golden Ape Peculiarity
In the wild he reigns, a colossal beast,
From Skull Island, his power unleashed.
Climbing skyscrapers, a towering sight,
This mighty ape, a legendary might.
What is very similar between the ape from ...
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Regional Business
This is part 40 of the puzzle series Around the World in Many Days. Each part is solvable on its own.
Dear Puzzling,
The puzzle on the left-hand side is a regional Yajilin. Shade some cells in the ...
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"Pawn Placement" - a GCHQ word association puzzle (video game edition)
If instead of video games you're looking for board games, check out Stiv's "Guess Where?" puzzle! ;)
Instructions (adapted from The GCHQ Puzzle Book (2016) and the introductory puzzle here ...
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A Trivial Pursuit #10 (Art and Literature 2/4): Bookshelf
This is part 10 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.
Colourblind-friendly version available here.
The ...
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A three-stage puzzle
Below are nine groups of common three-letter words ("common" semi-arbitrarily meaning "appearing within the 10,000 most common words in both Google's Trillion Word Corpus and the Corpus ...
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A Trivial Pursuit #09 (History 2/4): Windows 7
This is part 9 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.
Colourblind-friendly version available here.
Puzzle in ...
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Before the Common Era
This is part 39 of the puzzle series Around the World in Many Days. Each part is solvable on its own.
Dear Puzzling,
The grid on the left-hand side is a KenKen puzzle. Fill the grid so that every row ...
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THE MOST MIND-(8) PUZZLE FOR (4)s in (8)
A MIND-(8) PUZZLE FOR (4)s in (8)
¹ δ (1)
² Junior (2) remifasolati (2)
³ biggest little (4) IO (2) gold (2)
⁴ ccTLD 🟦🟥⬜🦅 (2) UU (1) You're it! (3) 👀 (1)
⁵ chapter (2) tee (1) "Medium: Solid,...
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Roman Empire goes to space
Here is the binary part for convenience:
01110010
10000000
10011111
10110111
Find what celestial objects has Roman Empire visited.
Hint 1:
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#TenderfootSpiral
Clues:
Two hikers on an incline arrow with numbers.
Hiker 1 says: 38.548493. Hiker 2 says: -105.998749.
Sequence: Hiker 17711 Hiker 0 377 0 144 1 10946 233 987 0 2584 6765 75025
Hiker = ...
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An engineer, a mechanic and an athlete walk into a bar
...to exchange puzzles about the thing they talked about the other day and have a drink.
The engineer showed these numbers:
2, 8, 14, 2, 99
2, 4, 0, 0, 1
The ...
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Two similar animals
Can you find the 2 similar animals that has it's names scrambled in this text?
laneeatkajswliuotikes
Please take note of the tags.
Hint:
Hint 2:
Hint 3:
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A Trivial Pursuit #06 (Sports and Leisure 1/4): Life Goals
This is part 6 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.
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Maybe all is not as it seams
What location is depicted in the below, edited image? (First answered by @Rand al'Thor)
What type of game, simulation or software was used to create the original, unedited image (not shown here)? ...
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A Trivial Pursuit #05 (Science and Nature 1/4): Animal Songs
This is part 5 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.
♩
♩♩♩♩♩ G
E G S T H E M A M ♩♩♩♩♩♩♩♩♩
H ♩♩
D A ♩
R ♩♩
B ...
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A Trivial Pursuit #04 (Art and Literature 1/4): Threesome
This is part 4 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.
QUE
STI
ONS
SEC@ND
L@TR
V@LUME
B@ANWELL’S
AUTHO@
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A [Song from Taylor Swift's second album] Puzzle
This puzzle is part of the Monthly Topic Challenge #14: Think inside the (very small) box!.
Can you solve the following clues, fit their answers into the grid below, and then determine what belongs ...
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A Trivial Pursuit #03 (History 1/4): Jurassic World
This is part 3 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.
This puzzle is designed to mimic a ‘Multi Cache’ ...
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A delicious country puzzle
Why is this puzzle delicious? Give me the 5-letter answer I'm looking for.
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Around the Bend in Many Steps
This is part 38 of the puzzle series Around the World in Many Days. Each part is solvable on its own.
Dear Puzzling,
This is an Around-the-Bend puzzle. Each answer occupies two rows of the grid, ...
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Python Conundrum: Guess The Song
Python Conundrum: The Series
The key to the puzzle:
The puzzle:
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A Trivial Pursuit #02 (Entertainment 1/4): Wrong Superhero
This is part 2 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.
Minecraft character who receives enhanced abilities ...
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A puzzle of d's (What is the full name of the artist shop?)
As it says in the title, what is the full name of the artist shop? Explain why.
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Java: Make a cast which is necessary at runtime, but not at compile-time
This is based on a very unusual behaviour of Java I recently found while implementing a personal project. It requires a very good understanding of Java and some knowledge of its standard library, and ...
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Musk Oxen and Arctic Foxen
This is part 37 of the puzzle series Around the World in Many Days. Each part is solvable on its own.
Dear Puzzling,
This is an Aquarium puzzle. The grid is divided into “rooms”. Shade some cells in ...
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Musical murder mystery
This is a murder mystery set in an alternate reality that involves siblings of two famous musicians. Your job is to toe the line between reality and imagination, and figure out which of the stated ...
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What - - - - - - - corresponds to the question mark?
What is the answer to this puzzle?
TZAAUTSRBTURZMB?
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Zodiac Signs at the Table
"And we find ourselves at another one of Ophiuchus' little themed puzzle dinners," you say while glancing at the other seven people.
"I really like its puzzle dinners, honestly," ...
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Roughing It (Once More)
This is part 36 of the puzzle series Around the World in Many Days. Each part is solvable on its own.
Dear Puzzling,
The numbers in blue form a Tapa puzzle. Shade some cells in the grid so that the ...
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What are they called?
Something is missing from the image below. Can you figure out what that is? Complete the image to the right and then give me the answer which consists of two words.
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It Must Be New York
This is part 35 of the puzzle series Around the World in Many Days. Each part is solvable on its own.
Dear Puzzling,
In this crossword, whenever one or more letters from the start of the clue form a ...
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Campfire Crossword
This is part 34 of the puzzle series Around the World in Many Days. Each part is solvable on its own.
Dear Puzzling,
These are printer’s devilry clues with an additional definition part in each clue. ...
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The End of the Desert Sauce
Transcript
Clues:
[map compass containing "19!"]
3336665555556669 84433 7777833255 777728822233 8666 77773333 944666 933 64444448 2233
+---+---+---+---+---+ +---+---+---+---+---+
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Johnny Ohm and the Danger Canoes
Clues: [electricity symbol] w/i-t=___
[two canoes] [odd shape that resembles a bear head]
Instructions: Name That Place
_ _ _ _ _ F F _ _ _
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You'll miss out on this IQ test
Find the missing square, options are at the bottom.
This is not your typical "IQ test" question.
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Welcome Our New Overlords
Clues: [contextual symbols]
[kg*m/s] [m/s^2]
[male symbol]
What is Toronto?????
Instructions: Who Won Second Place?
_ _ _ _ E _ _ _ _ _ S
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Elapsed International Power
Clues: [contextual images] [beefcake horse] [beefcake horse reversed with 261] [x10]
Instructions: Name That Movie
_ _ _ _ T _ _ _ _ _ _ T _ _ _
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Tħε Wεαk αlpħα - Enigmatic Puzzle
Clues: [character image]
[In text bubble: #1/2, #2, #4]
[all raised to the -1 power]
Instructions: Name That Number
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ T _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
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An International Affair
This is part 33 of the puzzle series Around the World in Many Days. Each part is solvable on its own.
Dear Puzzling,
This is a codeword puzzle. Each of the numbers 1–26 stands for a different letter ...
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