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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I'm back! With a film recommendation
Wow, it's been a long time since I posted a puzzle here... Sorry about that!
I asked a friend the other day what was his favourite film, but he'd reply only in riddles. I don't remember how he ...
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1answer
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Here is another interesting person
This is a compound word
Made up of three consecutive verbs, two in the past tense
Starts with a noun and ends with a noun
Starts with a metal, ends with kind of metal
Starts with a ...
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2answers
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Accidentally A Riley [first attempt]
This is my first time attempting to create a Riley Riddle. Feel free to give any suggestions.
My head travels constantly at the velocity of the product of setting ablaze.
My body is the head of ...
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7answers
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Listen for my color
I've been away from the site for a while with work, kids, and going back to school; but since I have some down-time this evening I've decided to write a few riddles for the community. As always, I ...
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1answer
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A notable collapse
Larry Leprechaun was dancing on a table,
but keeping balance, he was not able.
Falling, he nearly did _____ himself,
and wailed "__ __!" while some guy said "Give this __ __" .
Find one word, ...
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6answers
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A regular riddle
I'm kept inside a boxy cage.A prefix for the modern age, I make the
messages you create fly at a supersonic rate.
Now that box has me and my friends inside a box with rounded ends. You
can ...
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1answer
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Rating words from best to worst
In my personal classification, certain words are assigned a rating based on some criteria. The top rating is AA, and below it the ratings go from A all the way down to Z. Seventeen AA-class words are ...
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4answers
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Unusual letter combinations 2
I really liked this puzzle so I made my own version of it!
I'll give you an unusual set of letters which are present consicutively in one* word in the English language (and possibly its derivatives, ...
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1answer
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A Worthless Piece of Ri-ri-ri-ri-ri-ley
Disclaimer: Absolutely no offense to @Riley. Sorry if triggered.
And now... (music), O.K. Productions proudly presents... the Worthless Ri-ri-ri-ri-ri-ley!
My head is worth nothing, a piece of ...
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2answers
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Word Rectangle #2
As with my previous puzzle, this is an unfinished word rectangle:
Can you fill in the blanks?
When completed, every row will contain a common English word with five letters, and every column will ...
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votes
1answer
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My Anagram is Noble
Here is another one of my classic puzzles (1, 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6).
Me, I am what you do when you don't want to do something,
My anagram is noble,
My other anagram is necessary for human ...
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2answers
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Incomplete Word Rectangle
This is an incomplete word rectangle:
When completed, every row will contain a common English word with four letters, and every column will contain a word with five letters. All of these are common ...
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2answers
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The Ultimate Deusovi Honeypot
Behold the ultimate Deusovi Honeypot!
I ran across the linked thread recently, and found it rather humorous - and inspiring! I've taken it upon myself to not only create the ultimate Deusovi Honeypot,...
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2answers
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Word riddle about the word which wants more relevancy outside space science
Here's a riddle about an ambitious word which wants to be used more often
In space I am already
The problem is the lack of space in me
Chant me at the confectionary
Chant me at the ball ...
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3answers
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A unit of language, consisting of one or more spoken sounds? Inexorably!
With great economy and without superfluous, exaggerated, flowery speech, please elucidate how to determine clearly and precisely what the beautiful, ornate, stupendous Word Of The Day is.
My extreme ...
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1answer
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Group Think Challenge 2
The list below are sets of related words which some of them has a letter clue.
What are these groups of four?
---g- ---- ---- ---r--
--r-- ----- ---- -e--
-o--- ------ --- -l----
-u----...
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1answer
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4answers
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Connect Wall - Find the common word: Senior, Station, U.S., Request
Connect Wall (my first one):
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1answer
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My Prefix is Polish
My prefix is Polish
My postfix, just the opposite
My infix is easier to read
I can be anything you choose, but never, ever will I be a Tion.
What am I?
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4answers
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A simple rhyming 'What am I?'
If particularly blunt or sharp I can hurt,
I'm everywhere from pay checks to your shirt,
I've more variations than there are objects on Earth,
I can be measured and used and a mark of ...
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1answer
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Three stubborn siblings
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Three stubborn siblings,
of which only one is whole,
making history is their goal.
What word am I looking for?
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18answers
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I'll have this one!
Through the web and morning view.
Break from rise, it's perpendicular too.
It can be rough or go on forever.
Lets finish this rhyme by thinking about leather!
What is the subject?
Hint 1
Hint 2
...
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0answers
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The P̷̱̚ ȁ̶͈ r̵͝ͅ å̷̡ d̷̹̑ o̸̙̓ x̵̀ͅ i̵͜͠ u̵̼̓ m̷̬̏ // Lock I
You walk into the cave. Strangely enough, you don't know why you walked into the cave. . . Wait second,
What is "the cave" anyways? Where is "here"? Why are you "here"?
And ...
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2answers
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Vole Wizard Hovels
The following nine ten words (thank you Bass) are the only words in the entire English language* that have a certain extraordinary property:
bevy
by
girt
grit
hovels
lo
vole
wizard
wold
What is that ...
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1answer
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Winter Baubles, but no Spring Bling
My first is in winter, but never in spring,
My next is in baubles, but never in bling.
My third, it's been said, is in conflict and strife,
My fourth's in your girlfriend and also your wife.
My last ...
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4answers
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This word is a name. Also a Surname
Starts with a place, ends with a place
Starts with a number, ends with a number
Starts with a surname, ends with a surname
A word to the wise. Only one vowel- used twice.
Can you guess,...
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1answer
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Love is a chore
There's a match in my pocket
And an ace up my sleeve
Yet I'm no magician
That you can conceive
I'm admired in New York
London and more
Yet I am no God
And love is a chore
You can set me on grass
Or ...
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6answers
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Opposite of “Rarer for younger, yet also the opposite”
Inspired by this puzzle
I am a common word that refers to a person.
I often refer to very young people – in fact, the younger a person is, the more likely they are to be called me.
However, if ...
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4answers
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Rarer for younger, yet also the opposite
I am a common word that refers to a person.
I rarely refer to very young people – in fact, the older a person is, the more likely they are to be called me.
However, if you pick two random ...
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1answer
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I live in a pretty complex social structure, apparently
At my core I am pretty dense. So I like to stay grounded and don't really change where I am at. But there are more who are denser than me! Compared to them I change a lot more freely. But from your ...
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votes
1answer
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My prefix is an H bent outwards minus end three
Part 1 is here (not important to solving this one)
My prefix is an H bent outwards minus end three;
My infix weighs fourteen pounds, minus the letters in me;
My suffix is an uncle's ...
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2answers
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Strange letter puzzle [duplicate]
What has $4$ letters, sometimes $9$ letters, always $6$ letters and never $5$ letters. How?
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4answers
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What do these three things have in common?
What do these three things have in commmon?
A sandwich shop, a computer and a casino.
— from The Puzzling World of Winston Breen
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1answer
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A Tetrad Puzzle: Find The Key
I made this to test some ideas for a game I'm developing. Feedback would be appreciated.
What is the key?
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3answers
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I need help with this secret santa puzzle
My secret santa is playing a game with me.
One of the games is a series of 6 riddles, that make up a word of 6 letters or a phrase of 6 words that help me decrypt an encrypted message through an app.
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2answers
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The Spirit of Christmas
Alice: Help, It's almost Christmas but my house is full of spirits!
Bob: But isn't that a good thing? Your family is joyful because it's the holiday season and they're excited for Christmas!
Alice: ...
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1answer
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A word if you take one letter away at a time you will be left with a two letter word [duplicate]
A word where if you take away one letter away at a time you end up
with a two letter word.
What is it?
Hint 1:
Hint 2:
The word is not mentioned in The most words that can be made by ...
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5answers
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Word that is fun. Nine and one
Starts with a name, ends with a name
Starts with a charge, ends with a charge
Starts with an element, ends with an element
Would be fun to guess this one! (May be more than one?)
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votes
1answer
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Use the same word in each blank [closed]
One ___ girl went to the market and purchased ____. After returning to home she met with ______ boy. She got angry and left all her _____. The boy arranged the ____ and talked with the girl ____, ____ ...
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2answers
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Reflect on a Point to the North of France
The first among physicians,
He always flies alone.
He's used by some musicians,
He speaks in monotone.
A dull and shiftless fellow
Right in the end we see
That bands of black and yellow
...
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6answers
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I am a Russian ay
I am a Russian ay,
ah, in the English way!
For many is to say,
the booty's ours, hooray!
I am an English ay,
ah, in the Russian way!
For many not to say,
and all is quite okay!
...
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2answers
206 views
I Hope You Like Connect Walls! #5
As in previous puzzles, you need to sort the following 16 words into 4 groups of 4 words; each group will have something in common, and all the common things relate to a tag.
I've tried to make it ...
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1answer
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I Hope You Like Connect Walls! #4
As in previous puzzles, you need to sort the following 16 words into 4 groups of 4 words; each group will have something in common, and all the common things relate to a tag.
...
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votes
3answers
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Going deep… or a museaum piece?
Start with a four-letter edible ectothermic animal.
Remove three letters.
Add a small insect and you have a 1994 Indian action film*.
Take something you have when you don’t have something else, ...
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1answer
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3answers
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Help, I've gotten stuck in the Word Web!
If you'd like to check out a similar puzzle I made, check out The Word Web of horror - Clue Twenty Two.
Oops. You think, that after the spider invited the fly in, I'd be smart enough to stay away ...
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1answer
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Informal relations
Both my prefix prefix,
and my suffix suffix,
became so the same sec,
as my infix infix.
What am I?
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1answer
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This compound word is a fun thing
Here is an interesting compound word
It has all the 5 vowels but used only once (no repeat of the same
vowel)
It has 4 consecutive words that include 2 names. It starts with a name
and ...
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2answers
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I Hope You Like Connect Walls! #3
Here we go again, identifying a Puzzling SE tag from 16 words you would have no idea of any similarity between them. I have made this one harder than the others though.
...
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1answer
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Using the letters a,h,i,o,p,s,t, create an exclamatory sentence decrying the poor quality of an electronic cash register [closed]
Using the letters
a,h,i,o,p,s,t
create an exclamatory sentence decrying the poor quality of an electronic cash register. Letters can be used more than once. If people have trouble, I will add ...
