A puzzle designed to be solved without using calculators or computer programming.
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No spanish required
Each letter represents a digit, so what is Mucho and Poco (although who's to say?)
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A poorly-designed chess problem
Entry into Fortnightly Topic Challenge #40
Out of character comment: For effect, don't open up the next spoiler until you've finished the statement before. If answering, please explain each remark.
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1answer
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Excited Raichu vs the Dream (Chess Puzzle)
(Source: An actual tournament game I played all the way back in 2016)
I had the weirdest dream last night…
It started out normal enough, which for me, is basically nothing… but then I woke up, ...
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1answer
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The Wheel of Judas
I was studying up on some pretty archaic methods for testing intelligence and I came across one called The Wheel of Judas. It is said that if you were able to fully solve the wheel that you were a ...
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1answer
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0answers
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An Antichess Puzzle
There's a fairly popular alternate version of chess called Antichess, or Losing Chess, or about seventeen other names. In this variation, the pieces move as usual, but the rules are slightly altered.
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Nobody likes this compound word
This compound word, that no-one likes, is made up of 3 consecutive words.
Also made up of 2 consecutive words.
Also the prefix and suffix are identical words
Uses only 3 consonants.
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Cannibalistic Words
Drawing from the word pool below, find the twelve Cannibalistic Words.
(Note the no-computers and logical-deduction tags.)
WILD
_ _ ☐ _ _ _ _ ☐
PENS
☐ _ _ _ _ ☐ _ _
DEED
_ _ _ ☐ ☐ _ _ _
BLED
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1answer
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Row of alternating coin
I stumbled upon a mathematical puzzle that goes like this: You have 2n coins that alternate between head and tail. For example, if n=3, then it looks like H T H T H T, where H = head and T = tail. To ...
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Some Really Confusing Math
I was talking to a co-worker this morning and he stated that he was able to make both of these statements true using only $1, 3, 5,$ or $ 7$. He then proceeded to tell me:
$1 = 5$
$2 = 4 + 7$
$3 = 1$
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2answers
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Did Grandpa count correctly? Another Grandpa Mystery
Grandpa just returned from a long trip. He started telling me about his adventure in a wild place.
" I saw animals", he said. "Three different kind"
"Just for fun I counted their limbs"
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$109088$ as sum of $3$ palindromes
One can write the number $109088$ as the sum of two palindromic numbers as follows:
$$109088 = 99199 + 9889$$
Note that the numbers on the right are both palindromes (read the same left to right as ...
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A small team doing their job
Find the unique solution to
$$ 5\,ninja + retook + quarter + turn = \_\,\_\,\_\,\_ + \_\,\_\,\_\,\_\,\_\,\_\,\_\,\_\,\_\,\_ $$
where each unknown is a different
_ _ _&#...
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Calculator Bomb
So, I need your help.
I got home after a long day and found a calculator roughly taped to my door. However, there was something much more disturbing attached to that calculator. It was some kind of ...
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Fill in the boxes to get the right equation v2
My take on a recent puzzle. Place numbers into boxes to create a correct equation, using each number at least once:
$$\Box-\Box+\Box\times\Box=\Box\:/\:\Box$$
This time the four decimal numbers are ...
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vote
2answers
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A Fairly Simple Equation #2
I got a lot of positive feedback on my last puzzle, A Fairly Simple Equation (even though it was apparently a lot easier than I thought it would be!) So, I've got another similar puzzle.
General ...
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A Simple Math Puzzle
So my last math puzzle was too easy apparently, and this one might be too. Either way, the rules are the same.
No rotation.
No duplication.
No combination.
No rounding.
No computers.
Good luck to ...
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3answers
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My First Math Riddle
Okay, so I write a lot of Riley and story riddles; however, I've noticed that I like the mathematical riddles too! I decided to write one, and I hope you all enjoy it. A few rules:
No rotation.
No ...
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Fill in the boxes to get the right equation
Here is a math puzzle I had a little bit of hard time with
No computers please
There is a solution without inverting 6 to 9
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1answer
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Products or sums
Arrange the integers between 1 to 20 on twenty of the cells of this board, precisely two on each row and each column. The sum or product of the two numbers in each row must be the number on its right, ...
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Does he like them or not? Another Grandpa Mystery
Now I know very well the weird likes and dislikes of Grandpa.
Yesterday he tells me:
"Son
I like Queen but not the Queen
I liked the King but not the King
I like Monarch but not ...
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Which two houses didn't get any mail that week?
Postman delivers the mail in the small village. This village has
exactly ten houses, numbered from 1 to 10.
In a certain week, he did not deliver any mail at two houses in the
village but at ...
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1answer
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Jabberwocky Question
What's a good word to describe 'Jabberwocky,' by Lewis Carroll?
As a reminder, here's the first stanza:
'Twass brillig, and the sluithy toves
Did gyrre and gimble in the wabe;
All mimsy werre ...
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center of the noise [closed]
In the center of the noise, the accused tries to hide. But the demons are already around, they take control.”?
SOURCE
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Aiming for the 24
6 1 3 4 = ??
Using four basic math signs (+, -, *, /) and brackets, for instance:
6 * (1 + 3) - 4 = 20
6 * 1 * 3 + 4 = 22
6 + 13 + 4 = 23
(6 + 1)* 3 + 4 = 25
61 - 34 = 27
Try ...
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votes
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How can 15 become 3?
This is not a mathematical puzzle.
How can 14 become 7?
10 becomes 1, but can also become 2.
13 becomes 8, and 8 becomes 10.
6 stays as 6 under this thinking.
Hint 1:
Since answer was found, OP ...
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A word exercise : Same consonants and five vowels [duplicate]
Can you think of 5 different 5-letter words which use the same 4 consonants and each word includes one separate vowel?
You must use all 5 vowels. In all 5 words, the 4 consonants and one vowel must ...
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I like to stuff things in my gut
What am I?
I like to embrace pretty much everything in life,
And I am obsessed with a popular essential oil.
I chew on gum pretty much all day,
And don’t drink a lot of water.
I ...
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1answer
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A special square
Is there a four-digit square number which has at least one digit in common with every other four-digit square?
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2answers
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Tiling rectangles with a Heptomino plus 2x2 square
Inspired by Polyomino T hexomino and rectangle packing into rectangle
See also series Tiling rectangles with F pentomino plus rectangles and Tiling rectangles with Hexomino plus rectangle #1
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4answers
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2answers
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Tiling rectangles with Heptomino plus rectangle #7
Inspired by Polyomino T hexomino and rectangle packing into rectangle
See also series Tiling rectangles with F pentomino plus rectangles and Tiling rectangles with Hexomino plus rectangle #1
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votes
2answers
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Ziggy - Make a square from 8 polyomino pieces
A few years ago I created a small packing puzzle that I'd like to share here today. The puzzle is based on the fact that $1+2+3+4+5+6+7+8 = 6^2$. It consists of 8 zig-zag polyomino pieces, ranging in ...
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1answer
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Bumblin' Stumblin' Rumblin' Jumblin'!
This is an entry into the Fortnightly Topic Challenge #36
Jumble® was one of my favorite puzzles growing up. They were quick and fun and relatively easy; they took just long enough to keep me ...
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votes
1answer
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Five different things and five different clues and five different-----
Please finish the title of this puzzle!
Five different things, quite common
All come in different size, shape and colour
Each word has 3 different consonants
Five words share and ...
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2answers
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Tiling rectangles with Hexomino plus rectangle #3
Inspired by Polyomino T hexomino and rectangle packing into rectangle
See also series Tiling rectangles with F pentomino plus rectangles and Tiling rectangles with Hexomino plus rectangle #1
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2answers
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Tiling rectangles with Hexomino plus rectangle #2
Inspired by Polyomino T hexomino and rectangle packing into rectangle
See also series Tiling rectangles with F pentomino plus rectangles and Tiling rectangles with Hexomino plus rectangle #1
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Riley Riddles in Reverse, third helping
Once more! For science!
Here's yet another batch of "inverted" Riley riddles. The idea is still exactly the same as before:
You get three words.
You must find one solution word that you can ...
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Riley Riddles in Reverse, batch 2
"post some more sometime :)" -- user @Dragonrage in the comments of Riley Riddles in Reverse
Here's another batch of "inverted" Riley riddles. These still work exactly like the ones before:
You ...
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Riley Riddles in Reverse
In the all-famous Riley riddles, you have to guess one word from clues about its prefix, infix and suffix. Here, instead,
You get three words.
You must find one solution word that you can attach.....
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Barrel - Part 5
An entry in Fortnightly Topic Challenge #35: Restricted Title 1. Title based on this xkcd.
This is a continuation of Barrel - Part 1, Barrel - Part 2, Barrel - Part 3, and Barrel - Part 4, but this ...
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A challenging Magic Square
Find a 3x3 Magic Square where each row, column and both diagonals result in positive number 9
You are allowed any of the 4 math operations : add, subtract, multiply or divide. NO OTHER OPERATIONS ...
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Candy Button Paper
An entry in Fortnightly Topic Challenge #35: Restricted Title 1. Title based on this xkcd.
Your biggest dream has come true: you have an infinite supply of your favorite five-flavor candy button ...
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1answer
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Tiling a rectangle with an odd number of Y pentomoes
Follow-on from Tiling a rectangle with just the Y pentomino
Two questions:
Find the smallest rectangle that can be tiled with an odd number of
Y pentominoes, or prove it impossible
Find the smallest ...
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Tiling a rectangle with just the Y pentomino
Inspired by this question series, which was inspired by this question. They give rise to beautiful pictures (at least in the eye of the beholder mathematician) and some nice generalizable solutions.
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Color Logic problem 3
Find the rule specified in the image below. Make sure the rule fully satisfies.
Part two and one
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Here's another Color Logic problem
Find the rule specified in the image below.
Note that the rule applies to each row independently so every "true" row is "true" by itself
If you are confused about these, here's an easy one:
Did you ...
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Color Logic - Find the rule
Find the rule specified in the image below.
Taken from Caterpillar Logic, now the app is gone.
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A very evil cipher
A very evil tyrant locks you in a very evil cellar in a very evil castle. Every day he brings you a bit of soup and a bit of bread with a message he says, "It's the code but you have to decipher it ...
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Strategy for 2x3 Sliding Puzzle
Here's an instance of a $2$x$3$ sliding puzzle:
The $2$x$3$ sliding puzzle is just a smaller version of the well-known 15 puzzle. Many guides exist on solving the 15 puzzle, and there are strategies ...
