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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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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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.
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♩♩♩♩♩ 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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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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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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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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