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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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A puzzle of relations

What is the answer hidden in the puzzle below? ...
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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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Up and up they go

What's the answer to this puzzle?
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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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A slippery puzzle

Replace the question mark with a fitting image.
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A triangular puzzle

The answer to this puzzle is two words.
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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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Make sense of this mess!

Give me the correct answer to the question below. What is this? ...
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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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Valence Levels?

Each yellow and orange (barred to distinguish) dot gets a letter. The center green dot does not get a letter. The final answer is a relevant word, once you unscramble it.
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rectangles gone black

Based on the sequence of rectangles you see below, which rectangle (A-E) should replace the question mark? Once you figure out what this puzzle is all about you'll know which of the five should ...
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By ourselves puzzle

What's the 4-word phrase I'm looking for?
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Most isolated place on Earth

If you come to this place on Earth then at certain times the closest people to you are in Space! Where are you?
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It boggles my mind

Part of the Monthly Topic Challenge #10: Möbius Strips, Klein Bottles, and other unusual topological surfaces ...
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The Police Took a Wonderful Taxi to Oz

Clues: [contextual images] T [scissors] [hand shape] ? [cylindrical contoured container] $\sqrt{(m_{_0}c²) ² + (pc) ²}$ Instructions: Name That Duo _ _ _ _ _ _ D _ _ _ _ _
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Make "home" from "motherhood" [closed]

By removing seven letters from the word, "motherhood," the word, "home," can be formed. True or false?
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Radioactive Babyface

Clues: [Contextual Images] [hexagon made of 6 shapes] [polygon filled with letters] [alien at a bar] Instructions: Name That Castle _ _ â _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ è _ _ _
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Keep stealing from me

Steal my completeness and I'm still productive. Steal my productivity and I'm still normal. Steal my normality and I'm still metric. Steal my metric and I'm still open. What am I?
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A TINY PUZZLE - Where is Fiabangu?

The Valley - "Bakudilich" iș in Ăurigasu, Vaprist in Adohalu and Aquitom in Skabuja, so.. Fiabangu is in ? Replace the question mark with correct word to complete the sentence.
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An unpleasant puzzle

Based on the image below, can you determine who I am? Who Am I?
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In It for the Long Haul

This is part 22 of the puzzle series Around the World in Many Days. Each part is solvable on its own. Dear Puzzling, The light grey numbers and arrows from a Yajilin puzzle. Shade some cells in the ...
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Killer Capybaras

Clues: [contextual images] [2 triangles] [2 trapezoids] [1 rectangle full of letters listed in-order] Instructions: Name That Poison _ _ _ A _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ Hint:
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April 2023 - Hexagons

The final answer is 11 letters. Helpful notes: Technically solvable in grayscale/colorblind, but easier in color. If you have the required knowledge, the solution path will eventually pop into your ...
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Alone in Bronson Canyon

Clues: [contextual images] [boat shape made of more shapes, each with letters inside] [box within a box] [arms on either side] [water] Instructions: Name That Captain _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ A _ _ ...
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F the Planet - Enigmatic Puzzle

Clues: [contextual images] Eye D G C F U K L K A Z W A N C H Q T O U I A E I X L U M N R J M A M V A I R S A E T S Z B F F F F Instructions: Name That Character _ _ _ A _ _ _
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Sardines and Octopi

This is part 21 of the puzzle series Around the World in Many Days. Each part is solvable on its own. Dear Puzzling, The thick black lines in this grid form a LITS puzzle. Shade an orthogonally ...
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A Burning Puzzl .

Final Answer ✅ Can you solve this burning puzzl...?
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Singles, Doubles, Triples

This is part 20 of the puzzle series Around the World in Many Days. Each part is solvable on its own. Dear Puzzling, The circled numbers in this grid form a Kurodoko puzzle. Shade some cells in the ...
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