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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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
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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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Am but not equal
I am myself, but I am not equal to myself. What am I?
Hint:
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Ambiguities Make Arguments
Linda and Matthew were given a word, 11 letters.
Linda: Well, we can use this word for water.
Matthew: Huh? It sounds like you don't know water is made of atoms.
Linda: What? What about using this ...
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On Glance You Should Not Lean
A riddle in rhyme, that's missing a line.
Dare think what it may seem?
Your sample is extreme?
On glance you should not lean!
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ - _ _ - _ _ _ - _ _ _ _!
How is the rhyme ...
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Where’s the Puzzle?
This is part 32 of the puzzle series Around the World in Many Days. Each part is solvable on its own.
Dear Puzzling,
Today, I have toured some lovely small lakes in Britain. I have seen Chinese wall ...
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A puzzling message from the developers of this site
The developers of this site sent me an enigmatic message:
Dear Stackexchange users,
We know that you love exploring and finding great puzzles on Stackexchange!
We made something for you all, but you ...
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A connecting wall for series 1?
This puzzle is part of the Monthly Topic Challenge #12: mobile-friendly puzzles.
Resolve the novel connecting wall below into six groups of four connected words and discover the puzzle's hidden theme....
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Increasing numbers of the common ones (rectangular)
What's the word hidden in the puzzle below?
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A picture of a line
Four Harvard students Bates, Denise, Dennis and Sacha had someone take a picture of them with all of them holding a specific drink in their hands. All four of them were also wearing the same type of ...
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oAlt worked overtime
This is a cryptic crossword. The check mark will go to the first person who submits an answer with 1) an image of the completed crossword and 2) explanations for all clue answers. For users who cannot ...
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Missing capital cities (a puzzle of - - - - -)
What you see below are two ordered sets of capital cities. There are 5 capital cities missing from each set and your task is to find them and then give me the final 10-letter word.
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Sandwiches by the Seaside
This is part 31 of the puzzle series Around the World in Many Days. Each part is solvable on its own.
Dear Puzzling,
This is a sandwich sudoku puzzle. Each of the eight different letters in the grid ...
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Mapping single-words to lists
This is my entry for mobile-friendly puzzles.
I am interested in eight single-words having a common theme. I wanted to create eight lists which map to those words. The mapping procedure is a secret.
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Logic in the Polycule
Heavily based on a puzzle from Brainteasers and Mindbenders.
Eve's anniversary with her polycule is tomorrow, and she's bought presents for all of her partners. However, she stashed the presents in ...
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Tropical Rhythms (Slight Return)
This is part 30 of the puzzle series Around the World in Many Days. Each part is solvable on its own.
Dear Puzzling,
In this crossword, there are no word boundaries. Answers are written one after the ...
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Mathematics of Names
If
THOMAS X ABRAHAM = ALEXANDER
ALEXANDER X THOMAS = ANDREW
ANDREW X ABRAHAM = BENJAMIN
BENJAMIN / THOMAS = ?
Choose from 1 ABRAHAM 2 ANDREW 3 ULYSSES 4 GEORGE
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Lowest possible ratio of number of borders to countries annexable
There's been a recent trend on Reddit of finding how many countries can be colored in by:
Coloring nation a.
Coloring b nations, those touching a's borders.
Coloring c nations, those touching b's ...
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Tropical Rhythms
This is part 29 of the puzzle series Around the World in Many Days. Each part is solvable on its own.
Dear Puzzling,
This is a diagramless crossword. The clues are not numbered according to their ...
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Form the English alphabet using thirteen people
Thirteen well known people (some of them alive and some of them deceased) are numbered from 1 to 13.
Instead of revealing who they are, the following clues are provided:
An Italian football player.
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Digit and (Digit) are different!
A, B, C and D are four different single digit numbers.
It is given that:
A + B = D
A - B = C
It is also given that:
A × B = (B)
C × CD = (D)
Questions:
Decode why B and D are enclosed in brackets.
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A professional geographer who is a sports enthusiast
A professional geographer is also a sports enthusiast. He is a fan of these three sportspersons in particular:
Lewis Hamilton
Nelson Evora
A FIFA World Cup winner with Spain
To honour all three of ...
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Coded human body parts
The table gives information about some of the human body parts.
The names of the body parts are all coded and the count of those body parts present in a normal human are given.
Coded body part
Count
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Staying Connected
This is part 28 of the puzzle series Around the World in Many Days. Each part is solvable on its own.
Dear Puzzling,
This is a connecting wall puzzle similar to the ones used in the Only Connect TV ...
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Re-producing the 3D Connecting Wall!
This puzzle is part of the Monthly Topic Challenge #11: Now in 3D. See Introducing the 3D Connecting Wall! for the original presentation of this puzzle type and further context. This post presents a ...
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Special observations
What's missing? The answer to that is a 6-letter word. Can you figure out what that word is?
Arkansas river, USA
Bahrain Island, Bahrain
Akimiski Island, Canada
Mountain ranges, Southeastern Tibet
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Introducing the 3D Connecting Wall!
This puzzle is part of the Monthly Topic Challenge #11: Now in 3D.
A typical '2D' connecting wall puzzle (as made popular by the BBC quiz show, Only Connect) involves dividing a group of 16 seemingly ...
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Hiking Circuits
This is part 27 of the puzzle series Around the World in Many Days. Each part is solvable on its own.
Dear Puzzling,
How have you been? Today I have toured the coastal towns and islands of a major ...
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Protected Schooling
This is part 26 of the puzzle series Around the World in Many Days. Each part is solvable on its own.
Dear Puzzling,
This is a Shakashaka puzzle. Mark some cells half-shaded along a diagonal (one ...
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Ticking Off Boxes
This is part 25 of the puzzle series Around the World in Many Days. Each part is solvable on its own.
Dear Puzzling,
This is a Y’s Are Wild crossword. That means any instances of the letter Y in the ...
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Who Am I Puzzle
The grid you see below is composed of unit squares. Can you figure out who I am?
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Why have I stopped listening to my favorite album?
Why have I recently stopped listening to my favorite Smashing Pumpkins album?
JK, I still love it.
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Changing Landscape
This is part 24 of the puzzle series Around the World in Many Days. Each part is solvable on its own.
Dear Puzzling,
Today I am at a place high up in the mountains that I would have loved to visit 20 ...
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Like F, like S, like GS
I've given you the first word of a 4-word phrase. You'll find the whole phrase once you solve the puzzle below.
Hint 1
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Long Multilayered Puzzle: What's the animal?
This is a puzzle I made myself!
What's the puzzle?
You will be presented with an image containing a puzzle, then another one, then yet another one, and so on.
Here's the first image:
Wait, doesn't ...
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What song goes like this? (not really...)
What? I gave you the main idea.
It it it it it it it
It it it it it it it
It it it it it it it
It it it it it Automation
Robotics
Telecommunications
It it it it it it it
It it it it it it it
It it it ...
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Why is my algorithm not generating the new content I want?
I've seen how good neural networks and large language models can be at generating content based on textual input, so I asked someone to make me an algorithm to do that... My instructions were quite ...
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First Prize: Wisdom of 1972
Clues: [contextual images]
Q: Lei parla inglese?
A: ♂
[25 puzzle pieces with letters inside]
[I] [S] [N] [U] [P]
[N] [R] [I] [S] [N]
[C] [I] [S] [N] [I]
[I] [E] [O] [C] [L]
[L] [E] [O] [C] [L]
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What character am I?
What character am I? What am I from?
The clues:
Graduation hat
a movie Script
a puppetMaster
an Office
a Turtle
a Car
a Dent
a Flame
a Field
a Mobile phone
a Man
a Ball
a Line
a Phone
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Used by many people, yet so differently how
Russian people use me intact.
English people use me flipped.
Bengali people use me hooked.
Korean people use me shaved.
Chinese people use me flipped and hooked.
Japanese people use me flipped and ...
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What weight is it?
One country flag has been replaced with a question mark. Based on the theme of this puzzle, can you figure out which flag it is? The final answer to this puzzle is 10 letters long.
Hint 1: You may or ...
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