Questions tagged [word]
A puzzle whose answer will be a word or a set of words but not a phrase, sentence or sentences.
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Farmer needs to get his word across the river
In the spirit of the classic river-crossing puzzles:
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Four degrees of separation (I make billions #8)
Four degrees of separation
(I make billions #8)
In a typical two part connect-wall puzzle, you are given 16 words which have 2 degrees of separation from the final answer. The first degree of ...
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What has eight eyes but no i in the name? [closed]
What has eight eyes with none in the name?
People travel from across USA to see this
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Chrysanthemum bejeweled with dew drops
If you squint, you might be able to see letters in the reflections of some of the dew drops. Those will help get you started.
In this puzzle, the adventure begins just after 12 o'clock and the ...
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How fast can you “DOCK” the “SHIP”? [closed]
You have to reach DOCK from SHIP in the minimum number of tries with the following rules.
You are only allowed to change one letter at a time.
You have to keep the word length the same.
At each step ...
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1answer
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A Smuggled List of S'S
Smuggled this strange list from [redacted] 's place. Maybe he is making a puzzle. Who is the victim?
Scarlet covers
Swindler's imprecation
Sour disordered equipment
Smash journal
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Who / what am I?
I can be in many places when you talk, and there is more to me than just intention.
Some say I am bad. I mean, I am... but maybe you will understand that sometimes I am needed for a happy ending.
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1answer
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An Efficient Riley
My prefix is for my infix.
My suffix recalls a baritone or a bass.
My whole is quite dreamy - what am I?
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No Halves Hath the Heptagram
Here is the heptagram:
Rules are the same as for the octagram. However, the heptagram has the very nice property that all words are unique. I.e., as you go around, you will not encounter any ...
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Who can it be…?
Who can it be…? Can you solve the rebuses?
Answer the following three questions:
Where does he/she live?
What is his/her name?
What is his/her job?
Hint 1:
Hint 2:
Hint 3:
Hint 4:
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1answer
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Mono-Tonic Crpytic-Clues
Answer for this puzzle is one word. All of the following clues have the same enumeration, but I am hiding it from you ;)
$500 note (?)
You ended up turning around (?)
Substance emitted through ...
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1answer
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Nono-Cube: Approach at Your Own Risk
Inspired by jafe's 3D nonograms :)
Answer is one word.
This puzzle is a part of Ooohh, it all makes sense now! :D
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Snakes and Ladders
Things are getting a bit puzzly...
Reveal the Ladder and solve the clues to form a Word Ladder.
Find the word that fits in the clue “???”.
One fake clue is here to ruin your day [laughs ...
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1answer
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Omni-Riley-Rebuses
Partially inspired by MetaZen’s Four Directions Series :)
North:
East:
South:
West:
This puzzle is a part of Ooohh, it all makes sense now! :D
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2answers
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Not Just Black and White
Answer for this puzzle is one word. Have fun!
Highlighted parts are where I realised I have clued it wrong... Sorry for all this inconvenience!
Hint:
usefulness level 1
usefulness level 2
This ...
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3answers
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Word Web - A Hard One
Disclaimer: "Hard" here is not a difficulty indicator. Please do not edit the title.
This is a Word Web. Divide the 16 words into four groups of four such that they can collocate with one same word. ...
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1answer
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Cryptic, then Crossword, then Clues
Answer is one word.
{1}{2}{3}{4} (6)
{1} [a] (7)
{2} [b][c][d][e] (6)
{3} [f] (3)
{4} [g][h][i] (6)
[a] Bonding family in cod (7)
[b] Container fight (3)
[c] Considering ...
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A Retrospective Captor [Part 2]
Trevor woke up suddenly. He found himself in some sort of office, though it looked like it had been abandoned for sometime. It was relatively clean, however. Apart from the desks and computers, there ...
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A Retrospective Captor
Matthew woke up suddenly. He was in a dimly lit room -looked like an old office space. He stood up in a panic and looked around. He saw a few desks, ancient computers, yet no dust anywhere. He made a ...
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Step into the Octagram
The diagram below shows a partially-filled "octagram". Step into it, if you dare!
At every vertex in a long word.
Flowing into every vertex are two short words. Anagrammed together, these two short ...
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I Don't Start the Fight
I don't start the fight -but I finish it.
I take a side-view approach to it all.
Yet when I work, the best will benefit.
Just stay focused, drawn by my silent call.
When I get up, everyone ...
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Professor Clark’s Precious Chemical Connections
They are primarily eight precious ones.
Fill in the X s with appropriate letters to reveal all the 8 Precious Metals.
Each X represents a letter.
1,5,7..vertical. 2,3,4,6,8..horizontal
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The Confused Alien
A rather serious and studious alien has landed on Earth with the prime directive to communicate with all Earthlings.
With his advanced statistical methods and the vast computing power aboard his ship,...
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1answer
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Word Wall of Whimsical Wordy Whatchamacallits
I was making a particularly difficult word wall, when I misplaced all the words for it. Luckily, I still had the clues. However, poring through the clues, I realised that I had nine clues, yet my word ...
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Two twins - Alike in nature
Two twins we are, and, let it not surprise,
Alike in every feature, shape, and size:
We’re square, or round, of brass or iron made,
Sometimes of wood, yet useful found in trade ;
But, to conclude, for ...
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A friend at hand - What am I?
What force and strength cannot get through
I with a gentle touch can do;
And many in the streets would stand,
Were I not, as friend, at hand.
An old-classic
From The Book of Riddle -
Portland: ...
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What Am I - Short Riddle
Two bodies I have,
Though both joined in one
The stiller I stand -
The faster I run
This is an old-classic riddle
From The Book of Riddle
Portland: Bailey & Noyes.
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Make it right and you'll be fine
We are just some of many
One or more on every line
Don't jump to conclusions
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If you snatch, I trade
If you snatch, I trade.
If you work with bites, I isolate,
If you work with celestial bodies, part of me protects.
If you work with the land, I divide.
What am I?
Give the reasoning for each line!...
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iEnglish word and its secret Puzzle [closed]
Many students pass their A-Levels (UK), High School Degree or their countries' equivalent. Most of them passionately have to study mathematics and in one of their courses, they might have heard:
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Be a Wordsmith — Assemble enough words to score 50 from the Triangular Settings [closed]
Use this triangular setting of letters to form as many words(minimum length 5) as possible, following the given rules.
You can start at any letter, follow the connected lines to pickup additional ...
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Hit the Bulls Eye with T in the Center
There are 3 Rings with “T” in the center. In each ring, letters are distinctly different - 16 in the outer, 8 in the middle, 4 in the inner rings.
Hit the Bulls Eye by making sixteen different four ...
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Who is this…? Array…?
You can find me as a veg,
In a series I'm a language.
But now, my hair is gray,
In short, I'm Array...
Who am I?
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At my beginning there's a vessel, you can slash me with a chisel
At my beginning there's a vessel,
You can slash me with a chisel.
I belong to the first from a total of four,
There's nothing to add more ...
Who/ what am I?
Hint 1
Hint 2
Hint 3
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Setting up the trap
Start with eleven in one e four e six;
add what is missing from otherhood, oke, icks;
improving position, go upwards by one;
mix up for organs, remove fifty-one.
Add to the end an ...
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1answer
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Who Am I? (A Dead Guy)
You seek him who died at sea,
Try and find who he might be.
A heart that did not wilt in flame,
Writ on Roman stone is his name.
Nothing of him that doth fade,
But doth suffer a sea-change,
Into ...
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1answer
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In a Fish that is not a Fish
Righteous head of a snake that is a snake,
Aback, held in a fish that is not a fish.
Now, I'm beauty in disguise,
Despite being, to most, nightmarish.
I am looking for two answers... One on the ...
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1answer
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You may find me… puzzling
I am within my rights to stay silent.
I am abandoned in the middle.
I am held in by spirit.
I am African capital.
Who or what am I?
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Common Marsupials and Rare Antelopes
Following the surge of riddles from senpais: this by jafe, and this by Rand al'Thor
I hide as a puzzle in Malaysian spoon,
Bounding sturdy monument and sturdy wood.
Upside-down in common ...
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1answer
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I wish, I yearn, for an answer to this riddle
In a creature is my natural home.
Have me in your meal and you'll become me.
(With me, this line would be adjacent.)
Experts take more time with me.
In winter wear, I might be half a mile.
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I'm yearning in grey
I have made films on wood.
I have stopped by a park.
Going outside late makes me happy.
I'm yearning in grey.
What is my name?
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1answer
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Like a Baby - Riddle
I'm like a baby,
but look out -I can bite!
I depend on the milk you give me
and I will be wherever you leave me.
I love going outside with you
as you push me in my stroller.
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1answer
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Fighting for Father's Attention - Riddle
I love my father. I've been around him as long as I can remember. People often talk about us as being complementary, as if I were as great as he. I don't have much to offer, so I just show everyone ...
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Lead the way to this Literary Knight to its final “DESTINATION”
As this Literary Knight (only chess move allowed) hops along, picks up a letter each time to make it to final
$DESTINATION$
Starting from a cell containing right D, ride the Knight picking up each ...
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What would be some fun/unique and relatively easy puzzles for people to put words together?
I am playing a table top role playing game and want my players to discover two words by putting together different hints. Let's assume the words are "devourer" and "avocado".
I was thinking of a ...
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Think Outside the Box - A Riley Riddle
My prefix is like an angel,
Whose access to heaven's denied,
My infix is just like my whole,
Both lie on the outside.
My suffix a type of recorder,
Who features heavily here.
You'll use ...
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Preparing for the End - Riddle
This is the end.
I knew it was coming.
All of my ends are tied up, I'm ready.
Only a few more minutes to spend.
I blame you for this.
You killed the messenger.
I strained and cried ...
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Problem with heights - Riddle
I hate heights. As soon as I can see how far away the ground is, I'm filled with this uncontrollable fear and urge to get down -any survivable way to get down is better than this.
My captors seem ...
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Who am I ? [ Not in Stack Exchange ;) ]
$\color{blue}{\text{My first name}}$
$\small\bullet$ Prefix is a country, but I don't belong to there
$\small\bullet$ Infix is the name of a saint
$\small\bullet$ Suffix is a preposition
$\...
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Fastest way from 10 to 1 with everyone in between
I got inspired by this question from trolley813 to make this puzzle.
How fast one can get from TEN to ONE, passing each number in between?
The rules are simple:
You are only allowed to change ...
