Questions tagged [letters]
A puzzle which involves the manipulation of individual letters within words.
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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 ...
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How did my little sister survive?
In a far other universe, my little sister was trapped in a cave. Surprisingly for humans, in this universe, all caves are electronic. This electronic cave had nothing but 5 buttons, two little screens,...
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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 ...
