Questions tagged [story]
A puzzle that is dressed up as a story or a longer description of a situation.
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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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ARG: https://youtube.com/@donde_esta_andrea [closed]
This is an arg, but apparently it is in Spanish, I don't know much Spanish and I would like to know the history of this arg.
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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 where there are two guards. One road goes to hell, the other to paradise. The guards only answer questions and only using Yes or No. The guards come in two categories: one ...
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Six questions for the story
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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.
Tring!!!! ...
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King Bob's money making machine
King Bob has tons of gold and silver, and he wishes to introduce a new currency to his kingdom. He orders a custom coin printing machine to be built for producing the gold and silver coins. He wishes ...
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The four knights (rileys)
Four knights were on four hills, some on higher hills than others.
The first spoke, and he said:
“I begin with my “for” noun,
then the one next to me is tumblin’ down,
then I… um… ummmm… yeah that’s ...
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The Old Brazen Head
While walking through the forest, on the way to confess to your crush, you come upon an old house. Outside of this house is an old, damaged Brazen Head, with a hastily wired coin-slot appended beside ...
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Pi is a perfect square!
Explaining math is hard, but when 'squaring the circle' came up in class, I could not resist to explain the connection between circles and squares.
I started easy by introducing Pythagoras' theorem
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Reconstruct the lost labyrinth of Knossos
A contribution to the Monthly Topic Challenge #3: Pencil and Paper Games series
This is another improbable story. If you want to skip it scroll to the bottom. The story is not necessary or even ...
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A 1-D labyrinth
Bob is busy saving the world on Puzzling Stack Exchange by tracking down yet another super-villain. Alice rushes in holding a long paper.
A: I made a discovery you will like.
B: I am not on Facebook.
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Dark time in prison
You wake up. It is pitch dark. You don't know where you are. You feel groggy.
The last thing you remember is being in a bar, a sexy young woman appeared out of nowhere, walked straight at you, ...
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Sergeant Sequence faces his toughest (IQ) test yet
This puzzle is part of the Monthly Topic Challenge #2: IQ Puzzle Parody
Lando had never felt so nervous. The Badger and Biscuit's 'KWIZ NITE' was only minutes away from starting, and he had just ...
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The Oracle's IQ Test
This puzzle is part of the Monthly Topic Challenge #2: IQ Puzzle Parody
I was feeling pretty confident and secure about my intellect so I decided to ask the Oracle for her opinion. I sent her a ...
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Who owns The Golden Pie Café?
It's the early second millennium, and we're in Italy's two-dimensional cartesian world, and look, Mr.X has just opened a new café—The Golden Pie Café! He's put a lot of thought into constructing the ...
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Objects in Mirror
This puzzle is part of the Monthly Topic Challenge #1: Restricted Title: xkcd 1xxx and is based on https://xkcd.com/1125/.
[Penpa link at the bottom, if you want to skip the story]
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A logic puzzle with some lateral thinking
Original puzzle below created by me. The writing is... to be honest, not that good, but it's a puzzle. Focus on the puzzle part.
Your name is John D. Tectif, and you're looking for 4 notorious ...
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File Extensions
This puzzle is part of the Monthly Topic Challenge #1: Restricted Title: xkcd 1xxx
I’ve been tasked with auditing a certain computer. I was advised that the owner of the computer might have deleted ...
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A Letter and Puzzle From Grandma
[ EDIT: It's OK to skip the long, boring letter for now, and go straight to Stage 1 of the puzzle.]
Dear Grandson,
I could use a break, so I came to your grandpa's farm to unwind. However, woe to me! ...
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Upside-Down Map
This puzzle is part of the Monthly Topic Challenge #1: Restricted Title: xkcd 1xxx. The streets and addresses are fictional.
It's your friend again; they've moved to a new address (you already know ...
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Is this maths equation leading me through the first or second door?
I needed to speak to my professor who has gone into hiding.
I followed her directions, leading me underneath the university until I got to corridor with two doors, labeled with the Roman Numerals: I ...
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If the door in Monty Hall is opened by a person without knowledge of where the prize is, and also does not reveal prize, do the odds change?
Here is the quiz variant.
After the candidate chooses one door for the first time, and before the master (who knows which door hides the prize) intentionally opens another one to reveal no prize, an ...
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Is Daryl's Mail Legit This Time?
You are the lead mail inspector for a large prison. One of your jobs is to check all incoming and outgoing mail for any contraband and for any hidden information or codes, which are often of a ...
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