Questions tagged [letters]
A puzzle which involves the manipulation of individual letters within words.
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Fastest way from 10 to 1 with everyone in between
I got inspired by this question from trolley813 to make this puzzle.
How fast one can get from TEN to ONE, passing each number in between?
The rules are simple:
You are only allowed to change ...
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Fastest way from 8 to 7
Inspired by this great question by Uvc (actually, it's the same logic but with different words).
How fast one can get from EIGHT to SEVEN?
The rules are the same:
You are only allowed to change one ...
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As easy as Three, Two, One… How fast can you go from Five to Four?
You have to reach Four from Five in the minimum number of tries with the following rules.
You are only allowed to change one letter at a time.
You have to keep the word length the same.
At each step ...
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Alphabet riddle [closed]
For the sake of this question, the alphabet repeats itself after the letter "Z" and/or before the letter "A"
What comes after the letters "H", "G", and the letter "Z" but before the letter "B".
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What is the Longest Meaningful Sentence U can make Using single letters only? [closed]
Some Examples:
I C U.
S I M A B.
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What's the key of this WW2 lock?
In the Imperial War Museum in London, there's a box with a Directional Padlock, no one has ever opened it, however they found a letter next to it but no one can open the box even with that letter.
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Shot in the heavens afar
A cloak blankets way overhead,
Beginning the time for your bed.
Remember my comfort and love
Inviting the skies up above.
Look! You can reach like a kite;
Look and not burn from ...
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Oh, one short ode of love
I'm to grow in mind
If now onto learning;
And to show understanding,
We cannot be blind.
Where is the heart? :)
Inspired by this (thanks @Bass!)
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Brainzilla Cryptic #2
I have been doing the 'broken words' cryptic puzzles on the Brainzilla website, currently up to the second puzzle.
In this puzzle, you need to find words by combining the broken fragments listed. ...
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Triple Cryptics
Here's an attempt at a new twist on cryptic clues. The following clues do NOT have a definition section. However, the wordplay is keyed in three different ways. Can you work out the words?
User ...
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Suzankas Riddle
Here is a puzzle I have been trying to solve for a long time. It was given at work as a monthly puzzle but the solutions were never released.
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Remove, mix, and take in: Cryptic Clues
Here's another cryptic game to play. The rules are as follows:
A) Nine of the 27 clues are standard cryptic clues
B) Nine clues are missing a word which is an answer from part A
C) ...
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The Late Queen Gives in to Remorse - Reverse Hangman
Add a "C", I am what has been,
Add a "G", I might be a queen,
Add a "P", I'll turn away from sin
Add an "L" and I may just give in.
This is a Reverse Hangman puzzle, see here for an example.
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Why did I create this table? Counting letter frequencies maybe
This is a real puzzle, in the sense that I'm puzzled by what I've found.
I stumbled upon a google sheet in my google drive.
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/...
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Group Think Challenge 2
The list below are sets of related words which some of them has a letter clue.
What are these groups of four?
---g- ---- ---- ---r--
--r-- ----- ---- -e--
-o--- ------ --- -l----
-u----...
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Winter Baubles, but no Spring Bling
My first is in winter, but never in spring,
My next is in baubles, but never in bling.
My third, it's been said, is in conflict and strife,
My fourth's in your girlfriend and also your wife.
My last ...
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In a blockset for my 2 year old: “Q” for…?
This "ABC Block Set" for my 2 year old has mostly recognizable images to represent each letter. For example, C is for "crab" and ...
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Monoalphabetic Game Theory
This is a third puzzle from the Monoalphabetic Equation series, you can check out the previous one here: #1, #2.
Last night, I went over to my friend's house for our monthly game night. After we ...
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Monoalphabetic Geometry
This is a second puzzle from the Monoalphabetic Equation series, you can check out the previous one here.
A set of letters has been replaced by $a$, $b$, $c$, and $d$ and one symbol has been replaced ...
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I send you all to the Connect-Wall
Here's a random code-wall for you though; I think of it as unfair to the point of impossible, but some people of this site never cease to surprise me. You need to split the 16 words into 4 groups, ...
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Monoalphabetic Equation
A set of letters has been replaced by $a$, $b$, $c$, and $d$.
Following are some of the words that consist of those letters, and their meaning:
$abc = a\ title\ (n.)$
$abcd = a\ title\ > ...
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Areas of Focus: Cryptic Clues
What follows are fifteen standard cryptic clues to solve. The catch is, I've removed the letter count from each clue. To help you out, note the following:
No answers have the same number of ...
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Guess what letter conforming each word
This is an entry in the Fortnightly Topic Challenge #41: Short and Sweet.
1 letter only could be mean anything.
With an additional letter in front, could be used as medicine component and something ...
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Unusual letter combinations
This is an entry in the Fortnightly Topic Challenge #41: Short and Sweet.
English spelling is very strange. Sometimes you encounter words with letter combinations that would seem entirely ...
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Values of words
If:
SCORE = 7
NUMBER = 10
ZEBRA = 16
QUESTION = 17
RAINBOW = 12
AXOLOTL = 14
Then:
ANSWER = ?
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A long riddle: My First is in Apple but not in Lear, …
My First is in Apple but not in Lear
My Second is in Fiona and also in Flower
My Third is in Integrate and also Interrogate
My Fourth is in Neon and Never an "E"
My Fifth is not coffee, of course not ...
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Optimize a keyboard for one-finger typing
The ubiquitous QWERTY keyboard layout works well enough for ten-finger touch typing (though Dvorak proponents may disagree).
But what if you're typing a text message on a mobile phone? Those fiddly ...
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Lyckety-Splyt gets some Deli
This here's my song, G,
'Bout when I was hongry:
I went to the deli
In harlem. They sell me
A sandwich so smelly,
Thought I was in Delhi.
They put grits of hominy
On top of pastronimy.
Nine bucks? ...
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My teacher gave me a puzzle one day
I told my teacher that I liked riddles and puzzles. As a matter of fact, I introduced him to the Puzzling Stack Exchange! Then, he got a sheet of paper, asked for a pen, and when he found one (I didn'...
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K, L, M, K, L, M, … what is the pattern? It is not what you first think
Everyone knows the J Family. It is the family where the names of the three sons and three daughters of Mr and Mrs Jameson each start with the letter J.
Three Boys:
Jordan;
Jasper; ...
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Moans to Rocky in 4 moves?
In his novel A Case of Need, one of Michael Crichton's characters claims that the classic word‑ladder‡ "MOANS to ROCKY" can be made in 4 moves (5 lines total).
But the book does not ...
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What happened to the teacher?
One day, you go to school to find that your teacher is gone, and there is a substitute teacher instead. The substitute says, “Sadly, Mrs. Chunflower can not make it today, but she told me to still ...
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The Vowel Sudoku Challenge
This is an entry into the Fortnightly Topic Challenge #36
Here is a partially filled in Sudoku-like board involving the five vowels:
As with real Sudoku, no vowels in any 9-square box or along any 9-...
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What's the best life advice you would give to a child in Hex Speak? [closed]
This puzzle involves coming up with a sentence using any of following:
characters: ABCDEF (+5 points)
numbers: 0123456789 (+3 points)
numbers disguised as letters: OILSTRG (0,1,1,5,7,12,6) (+3 ...
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Confused… why?
Finish of bronze or finish of gold.
Uncurse my bluff and the way will be told.
In fiction and fact, at the edge of the grave.
I'll fit in a tux if I see where you pave.
I'm a dragon's start—a ...
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Two letters can form so many things
I am only two letters, in troth,
But expanded, I can be more than both.
I might be here on behalf of a holy one,
Or one that's full of shops and houses.
I might be the shell of a noun or a brand,
Or ...
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Latter treed $\longrightarrow$ letter trade
In a twist on consonant sameness, each clue leads to a pair of words that swap their vowels to reveal a common phrase.
Example
The clue
Latest, forested (6, 5)
has solution
latter, treed $\...
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Yes, leaves turn different tones
A throw back to my very first puzzle here on Puzzling SE, you have to complete the steps listed for each bolded phrase to reveal a secret quote!
1. Yes, leaves turn different tones.
Find the ...
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Finding the murderer
There are six suspects "Siva", "Durga", "Ekagra", "Naman", "Aniket" and "Manish".
Amartya has written the murderer name in secretly in his diary in a mysterious way as "DVVPQ".
Police were unable to ...
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How many 5+ letter words can you find?
NYT does a word hive in every Sunday edition, and I quite enjoy it, so I decided to make my own, using the same rules. Check it out:
If you're unfamiliar, here are the rules.
You may only use the ...
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Referring R to a person
How can R refer to a person only by adding a symbol?
Conditions:
You cannot add any letter with R.
You can add only one symbol.
(EXPLANATION IS NECCESSARY)
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Message for You:) #2
I got a letter from someone today. There was no name or address of sender but only some scrambled letters:
Inside the letter the text was written:
Message for You:)
and below that was scratch-able ...
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Use a button instead of a wave
This recipe does not make any sense but each step has its own by-product.
Add a letter and you'll have the shortest and the most ambiguous answer.
Add a letter and you'll have 47 machine-guns.
Add a ...
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Creepy video on Youtube, with secret cipher built in
This showed up in r/deepintoyoutube:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j1ExfbH4Jew
I've posted it around, and no one has solved it. I believe it is a cipher for a couple of reasons, at the end 26 ...
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Reverse Hangman
Add "g", and I may end early in the morning.
Add "b", and I may end late in the afternoon.
Add "t", and you better listen while you do it.
Add "y", and it can come in a bundle.
Answers should ...
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The hangman game backward # 11
It's been a while! Hangman game backward #11 - guess what the question was:
fill in "c" - Some said I'm black, others said I'm white. Either way you'll find it hard to lose me.
fill in "j" - You ...
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Clink Clank Clunk
Known as number one
Found on the edge of Trinidad and Denmark
Tool for filling six pockets
What's missing?
Hint 1:
Hint 2:
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Group think challenge
What missing member/s does each group have?
The first letter sets of related words are as ff:
S E W (?) $\checkmark$
S W S (?) $\checkmark$
T I M R (?) $\checkmark$
S S T T (?) $\...
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Additions & Twists
Start with a word.
For each line below, add one letter to the last word, then anagram, to get a word that means:
pitch
fleet
slowly
anent
public
adverse
What word did I start as and what words did I ...
