Questions tagged [situation]
A puzzle that involves figuring out what happened with regard to a certain incident.
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How could the driver waste time? [closed]
A road passes through two small villages, A and B, as shown in the map below.
A truck traveled on that road eastwards at a constant speed of 30 miles per hour and passed through village A at 5pm, but ...
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The Strangely Clairvoyant Hobo
One day, I was waiting to get on the subway. I was eating the apple I always have for breakfast, and I decided to sit next to a homeless man on the bench. We saw a rather... rotund man walk by us, to ...
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Tartar sauce, Gary!
My pet underwater snail just chewed up this poem I've been working on! I convinced him to spit it out, but I could only salvage one verse (you know how long I like to make my poems) and the lines are ...
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Murder of the President - Part 5
This is Part 5 of the Murder of the President brainteaser/riddle series. If you have not already, check out the answers for Murder of the President - Part 1 posted by Nit, Murder of the President - ...
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Who stole my laptop?
It’s obvious that one of my “friends” was lying to me back in March this year. Someone who knew I’d be gone stole my $1,500 laptop and my crappy old broken microwave (I probably won’t ask for that one ...
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Mysterious Murder Mystery 4
The sky is dark, filled with black clouds. The sun, high in the sky, still shining, trying to cut through the dark, thick, black clouds. The moon, slowly turning red, slowly taking over. You hear a ...
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Locate the hacker: Part 2
This is a continuation of Locate the hacker. Be sure to read through part 1 and the accepted answer first so you can get an idea of how to solve this. There are no tricks here. There’s no breaking of ...
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There is a secret message in the picture #2
There is a secret message in the picture, can you find it?
This solution is also a clue (how to solve) to the previous one - There is a secret message in the picture.
This picture was neither used ...
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There is a secret message in the picture
There is a secret message in the picture, can you find it?
This picture is from the 50 trillion dollars challenge from the free ebook "Muko and the Secret". This one is already solved so I hope I do ...
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The camel-challenge [duplicate]
A sheik had two sons. He loved them both very much, but he had to choose one heir. So he called both and said to them:
"Take your best camels and ride to the oasis, which is is the farthest
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Group trust problem [duplicate]
The previous part to this question is here.
As a family generally has no more 5 kids, and I want to generalise the situation in the previous question, I shall change the context a little:
There are ...
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100 Prisoners and a Light 2: Electric Boogaloo
You may recall the prison experiment done along the following lines:
One hundred prisoners have been newly ushered into prison. The warden tells them that starting tomorrow, each of them will be ...
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Sibling trust problem
Amy and Bill are two siblings who share a computer with their parents at home. A maximum of two user accounts can be set up on this computer, so Amy and Bill have to share an account, whilst their ...
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Awesome Murder Mystery [closed]
Source: gpuzzles.com
Note: The owner of gpuzzles.com did not allow me to copy the puzzle, However site is fine pasting picture.
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