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A puzzle whose answer will be a word or a set of words but not a phrase or sentence.

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What does my wife want (again)?

After an enjoyable, if not very tiring, weekend, I was working when I suddenly remembered that it is my wife's birthday this coming Saturday! Frantically, I texted her, asking what she wants for that ...
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Build-an-Animal Workshop

If I wear a canine head, I’ll become hard like a rock. But if I wear a cervid head, I’ll be almost as soft as a sock. If I wear a fish tail, I’ll be dead and rotting on a plain. But if I wear a ...
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Futuristic navigation

This is a 3-part puzzle. Parts can be solved out of order, but, in the end, parts must be put together in order they appear (1, 2, 3) to solve the whole puzzle. Parts are independent from each other. ...
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Behaviorists hate this trick

Part of the Monthly Topic Challenge #14: Think inside the (very small) box! Here's a 3x3 grid Here are the nine cells of the grid in no particular order Place them correctly, then tell me the final ...
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A three-stage puzzle

Below are nine groups of common three-letter words ("common" semi-arbitrarily meaning "appearing within the 10,000 most common words in both Google's Trillion Word Corpus and the Corpus ...
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A Trivial Pursuit #09 (History 2/4): Windows 7

This is part 9 of A Trivial Pursuit, a 25-part puzzle hunt. Each part is solvable on its own, with the exception of the meta-puzzle at the end. Colourblind-friendly version available here. Puzzle in ...
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What is in the middle?

You have 4 options to guess what the question mark in the middle is. Please try to solve without the hint first Hint
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Just a regular puzzle (It's what's inside that counts)

What is the 10-letter word to the puzzle below?
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A Trivial Pursuit #08 (Entertainment 2/4): Names

This is part 8 of A Trivial Pursuit, a 25-part puzzle hunt. Each part is solvable on its own, with the exception of the meta-puzzle at the end. Solve the fourteen rebuses below to find some names, ...
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A Trivial Pursuit #07 (Geography 2/4): String Theory

This is part 7 of A Trivial Pursuit, a 25-part puzzle hunt. Each part is solvable on its own, with the exception of the meta-puzzle at the end. If e* t* u* v* w* x* y* is H... What relevant (if ...
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A Trivial Pursuit #06 (Sports and Leisure 1/4): Life Goals

This is part 6 of A Trivial Pursuit, a 25-part puzzle hunt. Each part is solvable on its own, with the exception of the meta-puzzle at the end. ...
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Five ordered names

Why is this puzzle linear? Because it's...
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A Trivial Pursuit #05 (Science and Nature 1/4): Animal Songs

This is part 5 of A Trivial Pursuit, a 25-part puzzle hunt. Each part is solvable on its own, with the exception of the meta-puzzle at the end. ♩ ♩♩♩♩♩ G E G S T H E M A M ♩♩♩♩♩♩♩♩♩ H ♩♩ D A ♩ R ♩♩ B ...
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A Trivial Pursuit #04 (Art and Literature 1/4): Threesome

This is part 4 of A Trivial Pursuit, a 25-part puzzle hunt. Each part is solvable on its own, with the exception of the meta-puzzle at the end. QUE STI ONS SEC@ND L@TR V@LUME B@ANWELL’S AUTHO@ ...
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A Trivial Pursuit #03 (History 1/4): Jurassic World

This is part 3 of A Trivial Pursuit, a 25-part puzzle hunt. Each part is solvable on its own, with the exception of the meta-puzzle at the end. This puzzle is designed to mimic a ‘Multi Cache’ ...
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Your answer may not make any sense to me

Text Version Put me in a STATE and I will ride a car Put me in a CAR and I will talk on a phone Put me in a PHONE and I will stay put Can you tell me what word I am? __________ Hint 1 Hint 2
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A delicious country puzzle

Why is this puzzle delicious? Give me the 5-letter answer I'm looking for. ...
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Techno-Culinary Brain Teaser: Unravel the Code in the Kitchen

The answer is one word. The rebus:
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A Trivial Pursuit #02 (Entertainment 1/4): Wrong Superhero

This is part 2 of A Trivial Pursuit, a 25-part puzzle hunt. Each part is solvable on its own, with the exception of the meta-puzzle at the end. Minecraft character who receives enhanced abilities ...
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The Moldy Square Grid

This puzzle is part of the Monthly Topic Challenge #14: Think inside the (very small) box!. What is in the middle space? Hint:
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A Trivial Pursuit #01 (Geography 1/4): History

This is part 1 of A Trivial Pursuit, a 25-part puzzle hunt. Each part is solvable on its own, with the exception of the meta-puzzle at the end. HERMITS ERECTED HER – SHE TOLD MERCHANT ALL BEST AUTHOR ...
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The image you are requesting does not exist?

Fill in the table below, to get the final answer that consists of 2 words.
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You'll find it if you go along the

Hidden below is a word. Which word is it? ...
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Could you find the way in this maze of rebuses?

Below there is a maze that is made out of small rebuses. And when I say small, I mean really small: every rebus is only 18x18 pixels! All rebuses can be solved independently from each other, and ...
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Poetry of the stars

Prof. Levenshtein is meant to be teaching us astronomy, but they fancy themselves as a poet. Can you figure out the name they've given to each star?
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What does my wife want?

I asked my wife what she wants to do this weekend and she sent me this confusing message. What does this all mean? ...
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What - - - - - - - corresponds to the question mark?

What is the answer to this puzzle? TZAAUTSRBTURZMB? ...
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13 puzzles I like

This is the third installment (???) to this series: 6 types of puzzles I like, 9 types of puzzles I like, 13 puzzles I like (and yes, I removed "types of" because I cannot think of more ...
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Vivaldi's favorite

I am looking for a single word, that is missing. Everything you need to know, is right here: ...
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9 types of puzzles I like

This is a sequel to 6 types of puzzles I like. You need to clean up, or things will get more messy... - outer-space MS - Rose MATE - Lagoon MIS - Pegasus MSO - Heart MSI - Whirlpool MEI - ? Ay Bee ...
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A short and neat little riddle

I'm the sharpest blade, dripped in blood Laughter I reaped, and suffering I brought I'm wielded by the devil in his hall of marble, who's weeping amidst a pile of rubble What am I?
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A string of letters (M-I)

Your goal is to place a 4-letter English word somewhere in the string of letters below. There's only one word that fits. ...
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Explain: 5-1=1, 5+1=1, 5=1

Explain the following equations. The final answer is 1 word. $4 ÷ 7 - 1 = 0\\ 1 \times 12 + 8 = 2\\ 0 ÷ 10 + 7 = 0\\ 9 \times 2 - 3 = 1\\ 5 - 1 = 1\\ 4 - 2 = 1\\ 2 \times 2 - 9 = 1\\ 5 = 1\\ 5 + 1 = ...
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What game do I play?

Find the game that I know, Using the clues below. Subtractive unit, toad hesitation; Digital dungeon, show staircase; Pop dancing, tropical mint; Dog therapy, oil ring. Once done, find the sun - It ...
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somehow related to us

What is the answer to the puzzle below?
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Johnny Ohm and the Danger Canoes

Clues: [electricity symbol] w/i-t=___ [two canoes] [odd shape that resembles a bear head] Instructions: Name That Place _ _ _ _ _ F F _ _ _
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Welcome Our New Overlords

Clues: [contextual symbols] [kg*m/s] [m/s^2] [male symbol] What is Toronto????? Instructions: Who Won Second Place? _ _ _ _ E _ _ _ _ _ S
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Is there any word that starts with "A", ends with "Z" and contains "T" in English?

While playing Scrabble, I needed to find a word that starts with A and ends with Z and contains T. Is there such a word or should I keep thinking for a few more days?
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6 types of puzzles I like

I like puzzles where you find out about something interesting. Mike Wilks I like image editing puzzles. I like code puzzles, where the code is not that obvious. Pakistan Dance Omega Beans Cricket ...
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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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Shape puzzle, find the final sequesnce or word? [closed]

Clues: The only instructions given to solve this is that the answer can be alpha-numeric text. Ideas: So far I have this: SQUARE: 101111 DIAMOND: 2111112 RECTANGLE: 111211021 HEXAGON: ?1?1011 Though ...
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Increasing numbers of the common ones (rectangular)

What's the word hidden in the puzzle below? ...
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Missing capital cities (a puzzle of - - - - -)

What you see below are two ordered sets of capital cities. There are 5 capital cities missing from each set and your task is to find them and then give me the final 10-letter word. ...
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The Ancient Letter-Dungeon

You're an archaeologist working at the ruins of what appears to be an ancient, possibly advanced, civilization, and you've just been tasked to investigate a cave. Well, it's not really a cave, per se -...
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Quordle: Killer Guess

The last time I played Quordle, I didn't perfectly match any of the four words on my first guess. But my first guess did give me enough information to fully deduce the solution. (Note that a solution ...
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Visit 12 cities in this word search

Find below 12 cities in this word search puzzle, to find out what you are: Algiers Barcelona Bogotá Brisbane Buenos Aires Cologne Gdańsk Lagos Madrid Miami Seattle Sofia ...
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What is this: G D F?

What does the following represent?
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Increasing number of Dots

What's the 10-letter answer I'm looking for? ...
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Cleaning out the garage

This puzzle is part of the Monthly Topic Challenge #12: mobile-friendly puzzles. I really need to clean out my garage - it's so full, it often feels like it contains one of everything. Today when I ...
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Re-producing the 3D Connecting Wall!

This puzzle is part of the Monthly Topic Challenge #11: Now in 3D. See Introducing the 3D Connecting Wall! for the original presentation of this puzzle type and further context. This post presents a ...
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