Questions tagged [word]
A puzzle whose answer will be a word or a set of words but not a phrase or sentence.
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How is "OXEN" the answer to "They're neat!"?
I had a crossword clue:
They're neat!
The answer was "Oxen"
I cannot see the link.
Source: The Scotsman Newspaper Cryptic Crossword 02/07/22
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What is the two word answer?
I can be a number
Take away one, it is the same number
Take away two, it is the same number
Take away three it is another number
Take away four, back to the original number
Take away five, it is the ...
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Words for Small Sets
This puzzle is part of the Monthly Topic Challenge #1: Restricted Title: xkcd 1xxx
More like Words for Sets of Small, hah!
Intrusion [3]
Aurora [2]
Consortium [2]
Sord [1]
Convocation [1]
Maelstrom [...
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United States Map
This puzzle is part of the Monthly Topic Challenge #1: Restricted Title: xkcd 1xxx
The answer is a timely word
No rotations; all pieces are oriented correctly
The colors are not important or ...
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Riley Riddle #368
My prefix is a language - rather recently designed
My infix is a game - to exercise your mind
My suffix is a journey - a trial to undertake
My whole is all ready - proceed, a guess, to make
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Excellence? Perfection? Success?
What are you striving for?
ACENT / CENOS / AEGNTT / ACGNNOTT
EEEJNSWY / AEEHIMNPRSW / AACHILNNORRT / AAEERLW / KNORWY / AGIINRV / AACEHMSSSTTU / AAEINNNPSVY / EGGIOR / CCCEINOTTU / AALMNRY
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Some say I'm part of the solution
My prefix has won the fights
My infix marks the start of flights
My suffix you can almost solve
My whole makes friendly rubber revolve
What am I?
Hint 1:
Hint 2:
Hint 3:
Hint 4:
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An ever-changing riddle
To find me, you must first find my pairs,
A swarm of creatures, skittering inside walls,
Torturing the old way, sometimes using a chair,
A powerful figure, there until its empire falls,
Or some ...
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This was not my original idea
My prefix is old advice
My infix will guide you away
My suffix is my own
My whole was not right the first time
What am I?
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A most important riddle
I can burn, I can attack,
I can ache, I can break,
Add my head, you might find me in a shack,
Move my head, you can go on a long trek.
I can stop, I can eclipse,
I can throb, or be warming,
Remove my ...
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I am used to modify a sentence
I am used to modify a sentence.
I can be used between two letters, and I can be used to swap two letters.
My prefix is commonly used, and my suffix is sometimes found in remote places.
What am I? ...
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Where am I hiding?
Can a dangerous criminal be caught?
I ran away from the police.
Peruse this list of crimes.
Chin and neck doctors were robbed.
Spa in the Netherlands is no longer one of my hiding spots.
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Be there or be square
When it is just me I have 3
Yet when there are more, I have four
My first two are double
My last two can clarify
Leave my middle one alone, though, and soon you'll be talking to yourself
You'll know ...
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Shocking Singing Logic
$B = (\lnot C \land E) \land A$
$A = (\lnot E \lor D) \land *$
$D = \lnot A \land \lnot(B\lor E)$
$C = \lnot(E \lor B) \land (A \lor D)$
$E = (A \lor \lnot C) \land (* \land D)$
TRUE / FALSE
What am ...
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You can make me sink, yet I have no weight. / You can make me wave, but you might regret
You can make me sink, yet I have no weight.
You can make me wave, but you might regret.
Give me a bird, and I become a non-believer.
Give me to a sea, and I won't help you prosper.
What am I?
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My Email And My Name
In a past puzzle I revealed my email and my name: Just Some Lines To Me
The email address is:
My name is:
Your job is to find the relationship between my email address (the address, not any further ...
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Watching out over my domain
What is the word?
Watching out over my domain
Angry, behold my train
Zooming forth with refrain
Oh, I see you
What am I? How many hints can you find?
Hint:
Hint:
Hint:
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What's in a name?
Due to a certain recent renaming, what change has occurred?
Before (out of order)
After (in order)
Confirmed (6)
Compound having the fifth element [1,4]
Disinterested (5)
Daydreams [5]
Grove (5)
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->Transitions->
Here is a crossword to solve; the yellow squares hold a relevant word.
Online tools will be useful/needed.
partial text transcription:
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How can I make my puzzles twice as long?
I feel like many of the puzzles I post here are too short...
How can I make them twice as long?
Transcription:
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A bit convoluted puzzle
My beginning is the end of the start of the close
My midpoint is the end of the start of the beginning
My end is the start of the close of the midpoint
What accessible word am I?
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A colorful Connect Wall you can almost taste
The 16 prompts below may be separated into 4 groups.
Additionally, there is a word absent from the wall which may be placed in all four of those groups.
#F0F8FF
(240, 100%, 50%)
(255, 215, 0)
Aqua
(...
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A riddle to invite reflection?
I have an eye, but cannot c.
Three of are are inside of me.
I share three things with mother,
Two with brink,
And one with rage.
What am I?
user80007
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What am I? A Stellar Riddle
Nothing is too hot for me
As is everything else
I'm the darkest and baldest
And the largest and smallest
What am I?
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We're sometimes obtuse, we're sometimes right
We're sometimes obtuse, we're sometimes right.
We have eight sides, and proffer insight.
Columbus likes our shape, seers like our font.
As do mages, pirates, and debutantes.
Who are we? Three words.
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My prefix is in the game, but I just kind of dangle
My prefix is in the game, but I just kind of dangle.
My prefix shouldn't be tipped, but you can give me a bangle.
My prefix is noble, yet people stab me right through.
My infix goes far, yet I will ...
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Little search for the bored: Find the hidden word
My lovely poem:
To won my feisty price
You have to ztop the pies
We don't wont urban mice
We wamt the lumb life, guys!
A secret word is hidden in the poem. What is it?
Hint:
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I got ninety-nine problems - so here's another one!
To date, on Puzzling.SE I have contributed (counting: 10, 20, 30...) 99 problems to the site. So to mark my 100th, here's a massive meta-puzzle to celebrate the occasion!
Task
Solve the nine sub-...
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FIND 4 sets of 5-letter words using these non-repeating letters: [closed]
Find 4 sets of 5-letter words using these non-repeating letters:
N, C, A, V, M, S, E, Y, U, R, O, F, G, T, I, L, H, K, P, D
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The Monopoly tournament's secret prize
The image below is the aftermath of a secret tournament of Monopoly played here on PSE.
Akin to something that might come out of a subreddit like r/anarchychess, the board has been massively scrambled ...
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What Am I At 7?
At 1 I was born when my parents parted,
And no folds were used. So that's how I started.
At 2 I was famous since ages ago,
But looked more like three and continued to grow.
At 3 I was cover for a ...
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Merely Players they
What is the relationship shared by the following celebrities?
Deneb
Betelgeuse
Antares
Aldebaran
Altair
Rigel
Adhara
(besides the obvious fact that each is an astronomical object comprising a ...
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I start with the good and end with the bad
I start with the good and end with the bad
I start with the good and end with the (sort-of?) bad
My second letters spell poet
I rhyme with rest
Old Clues:
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I start with the end
I start with the end.
A sixth of a sixth
I end with the start.
A third of a third.
What am I?
Tiny Hint
Small Hint
Big Hint
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An affix riddle to dip into
My prefix is a great part of what can be found in bird cemeteries
My infix is a shortened form of a capturing device's name
My suffix sounds like a great quantity of matter, but prefers to dig
What am ...
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A Little Brittle Riddle
Riddle
I start with half of nothing, end with half of eternity
And in the middle lies a town, named "Monster Bakery"
Little hint
Oh, and it isn't
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▉ ▎▊ ▐▎ ▋█ ▐▉ ▋█ ▐▉ ▎▊ ▐▎ ▎█ ▐
(I created this puzzle myself)
I was shopping for groceries the other day, and I found an item that was in an unlabeled, uncolored package. In fact, the only thing that was on it was this barcode:
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A Connect Wall to watch and seek answers about
The 16 words below may be separated into 4 groups.
Additionally, there is a word absent from the wall which can be placed in all four of those groups.
DANCE
ENTER
ESCAPE
HEROES
INSERT
JACKAL
LETTER
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No repeats were found
I am a word, but there only once,
Maybe absurd, perhaps naming some dunce.
Find how they call me, to get the prize,
And solve this riddle, in one or two tries.
What is being talked about?
Hint:
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"Since his
It looks like I've found part of a puzzle? I wonder where the rest of it is! It should be around here somewhere...
Once you do find it, you might find this transcription of some of the text in the ...
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A riley: The Breaking Point
My prefix is crossed out, for ancients,
My infix is a valley, for genii,
My suffix is charged, for ever,
And my whole is a breaking point.
What am I, and why?
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A Riley: A Jewish landmark
My prefix is a verb, asking for something badly,
My infix is from Rome, we still use it today,
My suffix is a drink of courage, or so some say,
My whole is, all together, a Jew showing you how to ...
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Usually two different meanings
I'm looking for a 6-letter word.
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The four of us, hidden
I'm looking for a seven letter word.
(P's)(I's)(S's)
wispsuauntrimmtuerngermn
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Close your eyes and feel the twist of this puzzle
Answer is two words
Hint 1 (very slight):
Hint 2 (somewhat substantial):
Hint 3 (major):
Hint 4:
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The riddle and its affixes
My prefix is an increase, a flowing unit, and an acid
My infix, with different hearts, can be friends, fruits, or emotions
My suffix can make castles, storms, and even paper
My all is not the word you ...
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AS CODE: FIVE BIT ⇐ U SAW/SEE
AS CODE: FIVE BIT ⇐ U SAW/SEE
As always, your final answer will be a single word.
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