Questions tagged [letters]
A puzzle which involves the manipulation of individual letters within words.
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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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Vowelburger™ Double Supreme #2
Inspired by Avi's Vowelburger™ Riddle here
After the success of their first Double Supreme menu, the local Vowelburgers™ restaurant decided to increase the variety.
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Vowelburger™ Double Supreme #1
Inspired by Avi's Vowelburger™ Riddle here
The local Vowelburgers™ restaurant added a twist to compete its sales with the other branches. They started making double patty burgers where the patties ...
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Six cities. What's the missing number?
Six cities are listed below. For five of them, their numerical value is given. Find the missing number.
$$\text{London = 6800}$$
$$\text{Paris = 9248}$$
$$\text{Seoul = 9100}$$
$$\text{Tokyo = 7500}$$...
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With all five, I'm a country
A tyobrien riddle inspired by Ébe Isaac's.
With two, I'm a city
With three, I'm a town
With four, I'm a village
With all five, I'm a country
Edit: There are multiple possible correct ...
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12 more blackboard puzzles (letter puzzles)
I have previously posted number puzzles. This time it's letter puzzles. Some clues have a Harry Potter theme.
Hint:
Hint 2:
Hint 3:
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letters in consecutive numbers
Are there any consecutive integers which don't share letters when spelled out in English (e.g.One, twO)? If not, can you construct a proof?
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Is this a game to you?
All was still as the stranger loaded a cartridge into his shotgun and peered around.
Looking out furtively from deep within the shadowy gorse thicket, he waited, in silence.
They would be ...
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Two words which are made by decreasing letters of the first word [closed]
I'm six letters word, I usually work on two or more things;i also am a verb
Remove the first two letters from me, I become a suffix
Remove the first three letters in the first word, I become ...
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Three words using some same letters
I'm very smart indeed.
If you remove my first letter, I become very accurate.
Then, if you replace the removed letter with another one, I become the synonym of anagram 'CAPIN'.
What words ...
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Another Secondary Alphabetical Order
Here is another Secondary Alphabetical Order:
If you can figure out the rest of the order, the arrows will hint you how the letters should be written.
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Best way to solve Codeword puzzle
I always find it hard to do codewords puzzles. Whenever I fill in all the spaces with the starting letters, it doesn't really help. I always end up looking at the answer sheet.
Does anybody know a ...
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Heavens to Megatron!
See if you can fill in all the blank letter tiles in this graph
using the clues sets below.
Each set of clues yields a name or word. The name or word is guaranteed to follow some connected path ...
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Secondary Alphabetical Order
Here are the final 16 Official Letters of the Secondary Alphabetical Order:
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K, L, A, I, U,
G, R, H, N, F,
B, X, O, Q, J,
Z
If you can figure out the rest of the order, the first ...
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Confusing letter
I once received a letter where all letters of the alphabet was shuffled around.
The task was then to find out what each letter was and then read the letter.
I wrote a little letter for you:
Be ...
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What is the name of AB×B×A=BBB puzzles?
Some puzzles goes as follows: Solve AB×B×A=BBB, where different letters denote different numbers and A and B are not zero.
What is the name for these types of puzzles?
Edit. I fixed my mistake in ...
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Hangman game backward #12
Time to get back to Puzzling! Hangman game backward #12 - guess what the question was:
fill in "a" - In some area it proves to be a big problem to kids / teens or even adults these day, which ...
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What is the missing letter?
there. I came across a puzzle about a missing letter in a primary school exercise booklet for selective high school exams in Australia. The puzzle is the one shown in the picture below. It looks like ...
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Stool to love - who am I?
Recently, I was walking to Genua, where I stumbled upon Ego.
He told me some Gordas were chasing him.
Now, I usually don't follow Ego's advice, but before I could doubt him I saw Rozel and Fozel ...
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Can you find the pattern behind the proposed letter grouping?
Can you complete these groups or identify the pattern behind?
Example 1:
Group A : {A,C,E,G,I,....}
Group B : {B,....}
Example 2:
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Eric Andre had a dream
Eric Andre had a dream.
What did he dream?
Hint $\downarrow$ (the answer does require knowledge, though I'd assume it's pretty common to know about it)
Not part of the puzzle. TL;DR
This is my ...
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Piece de Resistance - Two Boxes, Two Boxes of Letters
Two - Boxes, Two Boxes of Letters
This puzzle is part of the "Piece de Resistance" series. Go back to Part 1 (Ace) for the story.Ace Two Three Four Five ...
Out of Character: Finally, a working... !
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Introducing WorDonimoes$^2$
@Don Kirkby have designed a set of dominoes puzzles that they call Donimoes. You slide the dominoes like the cars in Nob Yoshigahara's Rush Hour puzzle, always along their long axis.
I have altered ...
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And yet you'll reunite
Your crush texted you:
Met me there, tomorrow, 21th of July. Prove all your romance is true. Prove what you learnt in maths, computer science, litterature... and during all those years of studying ...
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How fast can you “DOCK” the “SHIP”? [closed]
You have to reach DOCK from SHIP 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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A world with roman numeral alphabet
Tomorrow you will wake up and all the letters will be replaced by roman numbers. That'll be "ok" when you'll learn the replacement's order!
Nevertheless, today you have the possibility to make it a ...
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2019 2-letters 33-length list
Find the final 2-letters element of the following list:
AQ AR AT BA BA BA BO CA CY EQ FE FO GO GY HA HO JU KA MO RO RU SA SH
SK SP SU TA TA TE TR VO WE ??
Classification
The 33 elements can ...
