Questions tagged [story]
A puzzle that is dressed up as a story or a longer description of a situation.
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Nonogram with story
Fellow puzzlers, here's a nonogram I made for you. But it also has a story!
Two bored male casino dealers are waiting at the craps table. A very attractive blond woman arrives and bets $20,000 on a ...
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Puzzling Pelican Pebbles
Story Setup
It's Percy the Pelican's first day running the front desk of his master's magical pebble shop. His job is to fetch pebbles from the stock room to fulfill customer orders.
The stock room ...
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The nameless horror
Long ago, we defeated the nameless horror that plagued our lands. We thought it was gone forever, but now ____. It's currently approaching our village roaring with ____ laugh, and witnesses say its ...
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Dear Spider-Man
deAr spider-man,
you stopped me once before but nOt this time again. what you do not
understand is That evolution is inevItable. i am merely speeding up
this process. yes, people will become weird dry-...
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Poor Farmer Ned
Farmer Ned bought a pasture surrounded by a beautiful wooden fence. He built a dividing fence and moved his horses to one end and his cows to the other.
But the next day, most of his new neighbors ...
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Caught in the storage maze, part 2
One of your sister's former friends has gotten herself lost in a storage room in some abandoned building, and you've decided to go capture her and turn her in.
However, when you enter you realize ...
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Ambiguities Make Arguments
Linda and Matthew were given a word, 11 letters.
Linda: Well, we can use this word for water.
Matthew: Huh? It sounds like you don't know water is made of atoms.
Linda: What? What about using this ...
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An Infinitude of Perfidious Pupils
Here's an original puzzle I created. Enjoy!
A teacher had infinitely many students, and he referred to them by the designations $\text{Student } 0$, $\text{Student } 1$, $\text{Student } 2$, and so on....
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Lost in a maze with your shadow
In the heart of a mysterious labyrinth, you, the intrepid explorer, found yourself accompanied by a peculiar shadow of yourself, both adorned in distinct blue attire. This enigmatic doppelgänger ...
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An Infinitude of Deceptive Devourers
Here's an original puzzle by me. I hope you enjoy!
A mother had infinitely many children, with the following names:
$\text{Albert}_1$, $\text{Albert}_2$, $\text{Albert}_3$, … , $\text{Beth}_1$, $\text{...
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Caught in the storage maze
Two of your sister's former friends have gotten themselves lost in a storage room in some abandoned building. While your girlfriend managed to get one of them out, the other one apparently got turned ...
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Escape from the storage maze, part 2
A former colleague and a friend of his have gotten themselves lost in a storage room in some abandoned building, so having nothing better to do you head out to try and rescue them. As you reach the ...
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Escape from the storage maze
Your girlfriend's half-brother and his friend have gotten themselves lost in a storage room in some abandoned building. Luckily, you were nearby enough to break in to help them. As you reach the ...
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A and B don't know their own values
() isn't used mathematically in this puzzle. () means that whatever is inside should be evaluated in the most suitable and ...
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Spider Solitaire Puzzle - Can You Help Joe Bloggs Achieve His Goal?
It was yet another dreary Friday afternoon. Hardly anybody to talk to and the internet connection was flaky as usual. And the less said about his latest performance review the better. Hardly anything ...
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Bob wants revenge on his evil boss
Bob wants revenge on his evil boss, so he devises a cunning plan.
He writes a request to visit three American cities, and then gets his boss to approve it.
Bob then instead travels to six locations, ...
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Patrick Terne Wants to Be a Millionaire
This puzzle is part of the Monthly Topic Challenge #9: Game/Quiz Shows.
Sergeant Sequence had it all sussed out at last - his nemesis Patrick Terne was funding his criminal operations via an enormous ...
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Whose garden centre did we visit?
So my mum and I were in a garden centre the other day, run by a large British organisation.
Of course, garden centres sell all kinds of things, including home decoration. They had some jarred candles ...
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Warning!! We need to rescue Mr. Greg
Greg, our Server Security Admin, was locked up today in his own Server Room. (Yeah, quite crazy I know). The guy had forgotten the password to unlock his door. Fortunately he had saved the password on ...
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Black to move. Find all possible #-1
In the middle of researching a new chess AI by pitting bots against each other, the researchers notice the below position just before Black wins on the next move.
They are confounded for a minute ...
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A mysterious message from space
A friend of yours calls you late one night, seemingly very excited about something. He's speaking quickly, and you can't really make out what he's trying to tell you. From what you can understand, he ...
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The Order of Ptolemy: The Initiation
You enter the room and hear the click of the door behind you. On a stone altar of light marble, there are three small statues overlooking 12 cards laid out in neat rows upon the smooth surface. An ...
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Trochaic hexameter
This puzzle is part of the Monthly Topic Challenge #7: Board games.
I was visiting the club yesterday, and I saw some people playing a weird word game araound a table. They use Scrabble-like tiles ...
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My friend does some strange things with the candles on his birthday cake [duplicate]
I went to my friend's birthday party yesterday. It was a wonderful occasion, but something about it puzzled me.
I was in the kitchen with him while he was preparing his cake. He pulled a small number ...
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Unconditional Love: A Journey of Two Souls
And now, a 500 word excerpt from ChatGPT's new book, "Unconditional Love: A Journey of Two Souls," available now on Amazon First Reads - free with Prime.
With laughter, Oscar and Vivian ...
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Coded Message From Research Facility
At 5:15AM yesterday a cryptic radio transmission was received from a top-secret research facility which lasted about 6 minutes.
After that we were unable to reestablish contact for nearly an hour.
The ...
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Horological Horrors
This puzzle is part of the Monthly Topic Challenge #6: Is it really that [time] again?.
I was visiting my grandfathers workshop one day, when he received a call and had to run out for a bit. He told ...
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Two roads, one guard [duplicate]
You are at a crossroad. One road goes to hell, the other to paradise. There is one guard. The guard only answer questions and only using Yes or No. The guard is one of two categories: one category ...
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Six questions for the story
6 questions
A brick falls from an airplane carrying 1000 of the same over a forest. How many bricks fell to the ground?
How do you put a giraffe inside a fridge in three steps?
How do you put an ...
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The Seventh Seal
Danton turned to the man on his right.
“Ya think we’re gonna die?”
The man responded, “No.”
But he doubted that…
The order came. John charged, but his compatriots seemed too scared, and he came face ...
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A tedious beginning
Someone keeps sending messages. They seem to be constant on my computer, and there is a answer box on it. I can’t open tabs or anything because of it. The message goes as such:
E96 BF:4< 3C@H? 7@I ;...
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hello! - a country's vacation
Finally.
The U.N., benevolent and all-knowing master he is, has decided to let you take a vacation...
But he's letting UNESCO decide for yo- speak of the devil.
"Hullo, Kossie!"
"I told ...
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You walked all over me
You walked all over me and I felt like I was torn in two. You drove me
crazy. Yet, you cared for me like I was yours.
You dumped my tea out and I felt meaningless. I had to
rearrange my life for I’d ...
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The Asian countries calculate Pi!
The Asian countries convened to try and see if their new computer, the Singapore 9000, with 2 bits of RAM, (in their defense, it was a secondhand computer) could calculate pi.
China punched the ...
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Time to get a watch
This puzzle is part of the Monthly Topic Challenge #6: Is it really that [time] again?.
Last weekend I caught up with a friend I hadn't seen in a while. I went round his house on the Friday night ...
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Riddles in excess!
[NARRATOR] This is a poem from one of the great Romantic masters, Pars (1812 - 1843), who died of tuberculosis. Many suspect its lilting lines hide a clever riddle, alongside its strange finishing ...
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My GF is a spy?
So it turns out my long-term girlfriend is a spy.
I probably should have seen the signs earlier (I guess this finally explains all the wigs and false moustaches), but last night she told me on the ...
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PSE Advent Calendar 2022 (Day 13): Sweden’s Sankta Lucia
This puzzle is part of the Puzzling Stack Exchange Advent Calendar 2022. The accepted answer to this question will be awarded a bounty worth 50 reputation.< Previous Door Next Door >
Ahhh, that ...
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PSE Advent Calendar 2022 (Day 8): Dash away! Dash away! Dash away all!
This puzzle is part of the Puzzling Stack Exchange Advent Calendar 2022. The accepted answer to this question will be awarded a bounty worth 50 reputation.< Previous Door Next Door >
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Watson's deduction about the Mystery Man
Sherlock Holmes and his assistant Watson have taken a case to identify the whereabouts of a mystery man. The only clue thus far is a single photograph of the man, presented here.
Watson starts in. &...
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The Animal Catchers
Using subtle context clues, try to figure out where the animal catchers are and what they are searching for.
In a massive, massive desert - one of the biggest in the world - I trudged through the ...
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Cookie Unionization
My Christmas cookies are gone! When I came into the kitchen this morning, the box was empty. All that remained were a few crumbs and this note:
We absconded.
You never saw that coming, did you? Well, ...
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A Valentine's nonoGram
This puzzle is part of the Monthly Topic Challenge #5: On-and-onograms
The story is not needed to solve the puzzle.
Recently, I've been cleaning out my room, more notably my box of old documents.
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the show: a country’s fashion show
Go straight to puzzles with nickels!
Ahhhh… ladies and gentlemen, lads and lassies, welcome to…
The COUNTRIES ANNUAL FASHION SHOW!
So, here are the main countries!!!
Here we have Germany, in Deutsch ...
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The Bee Lover's Hotel
Dr Bees likes bees. Dr Bees is not his real name, but that is what everybody calls him.
I should actually say that he is obsessed with bees. Bees are his whole life. He knows everything about them. ...
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Reviving the Ruins of Number Kingdom
The great wizard Factorial surveyed the empty buildings with an
ever-increasing sense of dread. The staff of recursion he held was
incredibly powerful and could do great damage in the wrong hands. In
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The Case of the Filched Fanfiction
The cops called me to advise on a case in a McMansion at the corner of Kirk Street and Spock Avenue. Normally I don't work with the 5-0 (or the Colombo, for that matter) but they were insistent and ...
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Natalya, Natalya?
It was on the day of his 29th birthday that Lucas–while on vacation in Santiago–met the two years older bartender Isabella. They soon got married and moved back to the city of San Rafael, Argentina, ...
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please hold: a country’s job
It’s been a while, huh?
You have a job now.
Surfing through the U.N.’s (or is it UN’s) papers to sort them.
Oh, a new pack of ‘em.
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Germany said today some words:
follows:
The is, indeed (4)
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A curious incident [duplicate]
You are a detective and have been for the past 20 years. Pretty experienced if you think about it.
One day you were at your office when suddenly the telephone rang. It was your assistant.
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