Questions tagged [letters]
A puzzle which involves the manipulation of individual letters within words.
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Square grids with letters [closed]
Let's have a 7x7 letter square grid. In every row, column, and diagonal, the same letter is not allowed to appear twice. What is the maximum number of words that such a square grid can contain? Words ...
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Largest set of words that don’t share letters [closed]
For instance,
banana, excess, giggit, voodoo, pullup, myrrhy
are six six-letter words that don’t share any letters with each other. This isn’t a heterogram puzzle: repeated letters within a single ...
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The New York Time's “Letter Boxed” Puzzle (spoiler)
WARNING: I solved this puzzle and posted a solution below. I'm posting this more for muse.
Hello! I don't know if anyone's enjoyed this puzzle on The New York Times website, but I find it rather fun. ...
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Fill grid with Bs
Here is a letter grid:
Here are the rules as to how to manipulate the letters in the grid:
A marker starts at the first square.
For each move you can move the marker one square either up, down, left ...
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Simple letter subs with a twist!
Here's your typical letter substitution puzzle that you can solve, no tricks.
But even so, there's a twist! Decipher this and find out the hidden message!
xhtm tm ytxeanyyq nofxhea wdccye mf jerfje ...
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Auferonyms - Words Inside Words
I have hidden something from my nemesis Aufero inside other words. The rules are that I can only add one or more letters to a word inside that word (not at the beginning or end), I can only add a ...
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Five from three — what am I?
Another puzzle in the tradition of five from four:
I am three, but my second can be any of the five.
My first is placed above you.
My second believes itself normative.
My third is of wild popularity.
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In the spirit of simultaneous equations
Solve the following word/letter/number equations:
For there are three that bear record in heaven, the Father, the Word, and the Holy Ghost: and these three are one.
And there are three that bear ...
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Captain Clumsy's crooked 'compass'
Sigh. Captain Clumsy is making my life a misery… again. Recently, I installed a brand-new 'simple' navigation device – one I had invented myself – on his ship. And he clearly didn’t listen to my ...
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Equally shaped words
QUAFF . TINT . SHEET . WORLD . SAME . GRAPH
SNUBS - LOSS - LETTER - CRATER - WRYLY - KIWI
There's a strange sort of equivalence between these two sets of words. I'm sure it boils down to a single word,...
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Help - I think my computer's broken!
I wrote a little computer program to count letter frequencies. Don't worry you don't need to know anything about computers! Except of course for Googling, Wikipedia, etc.
So, for example, the ...
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I bet u can not find the word/phrase hidden in this post!
there Is a word/phrase Nefariously inserted into this question/post.
Can you find it?
i do indeed hope this puzzle will fasinate you Or at least Retain your interest for a while!
i Really enjoyed ...
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A hard coding decoding problem [closed]
If LAZED is coded as Y1M2Q then what is the code for STERILE?
I can not see any patterns. Only thing that I observe is 'A' of LAZED relating to '1' of Y1M2Q since 'A' is the '1'st letter of the ...
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Food containing its reverse
When forwards,
I am a type of food.
When backwards,
I am something contained within the food.
What am I?
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Probabilities for “What number is that? — asks grandpa”
Inspired from Multilanguage generalization of "What number is that? Asks Grandpa" and What number is that ? Asks Grandpa
In this puzzle we will use the English alphabet of 26 letters. We ...
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What is the longest word contained in this new puzzle?
I created a word puzzle:
Here is the puzzle:
Here are the rules:
The goal is to spell the longest word possible.
To do so, you must place three different color arrows anywhere on the board. You ...
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Can you find the artist?
A famous artist is hiding within the following sequence: can you find it?
$E-12-ACH-94-VERY-21-HE-1-E-11-F-2-ERY-721-ND-61-O-8$
Is it possible to write down:
Camille Saint-Saëns
?
Hint 15th ...
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Can you name the country code?
As an hommage to @eyl327's "can you name the country code?" puzzles. Here is one more:
Given the country codes of the 10 countries in the following table, can you figure out the country code of ...
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Can you name the Country Code™? (#2)
Given the country codes of 10 countries in the chart below, can you figure out the country code of Brazil?
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Can you name the Country Code™?
Given the country codes of 10 countries in the chart below, can you figure out the country code of Brazil?
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Find the missing words #2
With inspiration from Detiva's puzzle.
Find words to fit the clues. Each pair of $\text{X}$'s should be replaced with the same two letters (in order).
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Find the missing words
With inspiration from Detiva's puzzle.
Find words to fit the clues. Each $\text{X X X}$ should be replaced with the same three letters.
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I'm a tricky word puzzle
Instructions:
Look at the sentences. For each sentence, look for a one-word solution. Then take the first letter of those words to make the answer to the riddle.
Example:
A huge animal = Elephant
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Here is the Answer, Now Solve!
Using a certain rule, I can express "THIS PHRASE IS VALID" as "KZZK GZISKV ZK PSDZV". What is this rule, and how did I come to it?
Hint/Note: Non-native English speakers may have a more difficult ...
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Why did she choose O6G?
He gave her 8 choices. 7 lead to death, one lets her continue.
O6A
O6B
I6C
U6D
I6E
I6F
O6G
O6H
Of course, he knew she had no idea. He turned the hour glass and gave her 5 items from his suitcase....
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With five, I’m a platform
A Tyobrien riddle of the week.
With two, I’m a metal
With three, I’m identified
With four, I’m an animal
With five, I’m a platform
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Double Decker Vowelburgers™ — 5 are meat, 1 is vegan
Inspired by Avi's Vowelburger™ Riddle
After making burgers with five and six layers, Vowelburgers™ has noticed that the customers have not been hungry enough to eat such massive burgers. We are ...
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Vowelburgers™ Chef’s Special #3
Inspired by Avi's Vowelburger™ Riddle. Hope you enjoyed our previous Chef’s Special: #1 and #2
Our chef went way ahead to prepare the biggest Vowelburger™ menu till date! There is a burger for every ...
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Six-layer Vowelburger™
Inspired by Avi's Vowelburger™ Riddle
Vowelburgers™ announced their Penta-decker Vowelburger™ two days ago and added to their menu yesterday. For today's burger, they decided to bring back in part ...
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With five, I’m none
A Tyobrien riddle of the week
With two, I flow
With three, I’m one
With four, I move
With five, I’m none
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Penta-decker Vowelburger™ #2
Inspired by Avi's Vowelburger™ Riddle
Yesterday, Vowelburgers™ announced their first ever Penta-decker Vowelburger™. They have made some simplifications to their manufacturing process and have ...
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Penta-decker Vowelburger™
Inspired by Avi's Vowelburger™ Riddle
Vowelburgers™ is proud to announce the first ever Penta-decker Vowelburger™. This means six consonant buns sandwiching five vowel patties as shown:
Here is ...
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What is the longest sentence using each vowel only once?
What is the longest sentence that uses each vowel only once?
Rules:
Any number of consonants can be used.
The letters: A, E, I, O, and U appear exactly once.
Y is considered a vowel, and as such, ...
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With different vowels, what am I?
With an A, I might be a programming trick.
With an E, I'm really not sure.
With an I, I'm just a wee babe.
With an O, I'm often stopping.
With a U, I'm a guy you can meet.
What am I?
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Vowelburgers™ Chef’s Special #2
Inspired by Avi's Vowelburger™ Riddle
The success of our first Chef’s Special has inspired our chef to add even more variety to your favourite Vowelburgers™ menu. The chef’s choice of the day consists ...
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Find the secret word hidden in this message
(TL;DR at the bottom)
The following message was received from a friend:
I need you right away to help me use 0x1DD1A to find out how to set up my ...
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Vowelburgers™ Chef’s Special #1
Inspired by Avi's Vowelburger™ Riddle. Hope you enjoyed our Double Supreme variants
We at Vowelburgers™ are finding more and more ways to bring variety to the table. The chef’s choice of the day ...
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Food Fight! (An extended VowelBurger™ puzzle…)
Inspired by Avi's Vowelburger™ Riddle here (and all its many clones!)
The food hall was a mess. A massive fight had broken out among the proprietors of the five burger stands stationed around the ...
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With seven, I’ve fought
Another variant of the Tyobrien riddle of the week.
With two, I’m similar
With three, I’m grey
With four, I lose
With five, I’m loud
With six, I’ve suffered
With seven, I’ve fought
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Real Fuel 2: Refueled
Could you guys help? I bought a new fancy vehicle last month, and it came pre-fueled. All was well and good until a friend of mine asked if I could spare some gas. I had an extra FUEL TANK, so I ...
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Vowelburger™ Bread-lover's Double Supreme
Inspired by Avi's Vowelburger™ Riddle here.
$\text{Vowelburgers™}$ has decided to start changing things up a bit for bread connoisseurs and they have started making the $\text{Bread-lover's }$$\...
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Vowelburger™ Triple Supreme #2
Inspired by Avi's Vowelburger™ Riddle here and Ébe Isaac's Double Supreme Riddle.
The local Vowelburgers™ recently started making Triple Supremes with two consonant buns sandwiching three vowel ...
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Vowelburger™ Triple Supreme
Inspired by Avi's Vowelburger™ Riddle here and Ébe Isaac's Double Supreme Riddle.
The local Vowelburgers™ has added yet another a twist. They started making triple patty burgers where the patties need ...
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This Vehicle Needs Real Fuel!
I just got a brand new, fancy car! The problem is that it keeps telling me it needs REAL FUEL to function! I took a look inside the tank between both of the "Real Fuel Drums" and both of the "Gas-to-...
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Vowelburgers™ from other cuisines
Inspired by Avi's Vowelburger™ Riddle here
The local Vowelburgers™ restaurant, always looking for inspiration, decided to take a look at some other cuisines for their new menu.
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Vowelburger™ Double Supreme #3
Inspired by Avi's Vowelburger™ Riddle here
The local Vowelburgers™ restaurant increased the variety of their Double Supreme burgers yet again.
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