Questions tagged [no-computers]
A puzzle designed to be solved without using calculators, online decoders or computer programming.
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The Inducheon Conspiricy (Who is guilty #8)
At the Korean Nation Police Agency (NPA) in Migeun-dong, Seoul, researchers discovered that 73% of the Senior Inspectors (경감, 警監) all came from the small village of Inducheon. At first they thought it ...
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The Inducheon Conspiracy (Who is guilty #7)
At the Korean Nation Police Agency (NPA) in Migeun-dong, Seoul, researchers discovered that 73% of the Senior Inspectors (경감, 警監) all came from the small village of Inducheon. At first they thought it ...
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This compound word is a fun thing
Here is an interesting compound word
It has all the 5 vowels but used only once (no repeat of the same
vowel)
It has 4 consecutive words that include 2 names. It starts with a name
and ...
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Murder Detective (Who is guilty #6)
[This is a puzzle I've been working on. It has a unique solution. This one is meant to be one of the easier ones. Comments, thoughts and suggestions are welcome!]
The suspects are Amos, Celia, Emilia,...
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A Criminal Conspiracy (Who is guilty #5)
[This is continuing from previous puzzles. #4 was quite tricky. This one is meant to be much easier (I'm testing the boundaries here). I've been testing various versions and would love your thoughts. ...
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A Criminal Conspiracy (Who Is Guilty #4)
[Appeal: I'm trying to figure out a fun puzzle formula. There are many out there ("Who owns the fish", sudoku, etc). I'm interested in feedback on whether this works or is interesting for people. ...
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A Body Part inside another Body Part
In one of his silly question mood Grandpa says:
" Can you name a body part that is entirely inside (within) another body part but some distance away?"
Taking the clue from his last question I ...
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A Compound word full of words
This compound word is full of words.
You might say it is made up of 2 words and you would be right. But the
first of the 2 words is also a compound word!
You might say it is made up of 3 ...
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Endless eight swap
I have a pegboard with 10 pegholes numbered 1 to 10.
There are 10 pegs of different colours: dark blue, orange, violet, black, light gold, indigo, navy, green, ivory, and teal. Each peg initially is ...
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The Chessboard Exhibition
Why not, another entry in Fortnightly Topic Challenge #41: Short and Sweet
I just bought the newest, coolest chessboard! I think I'm going to share it to my five chess pieces at the National ...
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Anagrams: From Cheese to Sneeze [closed]
Anagram time!
Similar to Anagrams: From Food to Food, but this time its From Cheese to Sneeze, or (almost) Anything You Please.
Brief:
You must turn the names of cheeses into common nouns using ...
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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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But it is not an Enclave
What country (sovereign) lies entirely within (inside) another country,
But
It is not an Enclave?
Two possible solutions
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Grandpa's Numbers
Grandpa likes pencils but not pens
Grandpa likes Beijing but not Tokyo
Grandpa likes math but not chemistry
Grandpa likes Contact but not _______
Make sure to explain!
Hint 1:
Hint 2:
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100 Fruits for 100 Dollars a more challenging version
This is a more challenging version of the reported puzzle " How will you get 100 fruits in Rs. 100? "
Bob buys 4 different fruits for exactly 100 dollars
Jackfruits cost 15 dollars each
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A Halloween Chess Puzzle
Halloween is finally here, so I thought I'd do a theme puzzle! I love chess, and I wanted to do a chess puzzle... so...
(It kind of looks like a jack-o-lantern, okay?)
Black to move and ...
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Knight Checker Puzzle
Inspired by this question
Here's a quick Knight Checker (a chess variant) puzzle. In case you haven't read the rules to it in the above link, I'll repost them here:
Each player begins with 1 ...
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Spelling Puzzle
All right students, take your seats for the "Spelling Bee." Perhaps I should say "Arranging Bee." Listed are the names of seven countries of the world. For the test, I have scrambled the letters that ...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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