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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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:
Hint 2:
Hint 3:
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Take BOSS to a SHOW, but quickly
Start with the word BOSS
Change one letter to get another word.
Change another letter and you will get the SHOW (the word SHOW that is)!
Can you do it that quickly?
No rearranging letters.
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[PHRASE DESCRIBING THIS PUZZLE]
This puzzle is also available as a spreadsheet here.
Transcription of some of the text:
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A classic "What am I?"
Used to remove or to choose,
remove a letter for a better shot
or used on string
physical I can be yet also cannot
add a letter for a description,
or remove the first one to act
used every day by ...
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I'm a little confused
I am trying to find a word that is 5 letters in length.
Change the first letter to two other letters, and it comes to taunt
you. (This becomes a 6-letter word.)
Change the second letter to another ...
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Social Media Announcement
This puzzle is part of the Monthly Topic Challenge #16: Restricted Title: xkcd 2000-2500.
Inspired by xkcd 2045, I made my own social media moves:
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Find the secret word in this encrypted image (part 1)
There is a secret word associated with this image that will be clear if it is decrypted properly. What is that word? (JPEG artifacts are irrelevant)
Full size image: https://i.stack.imgur.com/cc5yl....
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A Trivial Pursuit #24 (Sports and Leisure 4/4): Color Pattern
This is part 24 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.
It’s been a tricky day. After yesterday’s eventful ...
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A Trivial Pursuit #12 (Sports and Leisure 2/4): Logic Boat
This is part 12 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 is a variation on a Battleships puzzle, where the ...
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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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Touching Base (Checkered Fillomino)
This is a Checkered Fillomino puzzle, with the following rules (adapted from the linked page):
All numbers on the grid must be part of a polyomino of the same value.
No two polyominoes of the same ...
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An Homage to "The World's Hardest Riddle"
This is an homage to The World's Hardest Riddle.
This riddle will make more sense if you check it out first.
I apparently am not smarter than a kindergartener, but here's my version of the riddle to ...
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A Trivial Pursuit #23 (Science and Nature 4/4): Making Things Difficult
This is part 23 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.
Here is a crossword for you to solve... Actually, here ...
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A Trivial Pursuit #22 (Art and Literature 4/4): Bookstore
This is part 22 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.
Yesterday, I was asked to create some window displays ...
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Two trips with a common theme
A while ago me and my friend decided to take two different trips to specific nations. I visited four nations and he visited four other nations.
Here are two lists. List 1 is a list of my destinations ...
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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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Animal Farm and the Porcine Penitentiary
It's a disaster at the farm!
Overnight, some nefarious individual has stolen an animal. You're not sure which animal, but you're sure that when you went to bed there were ten, and now there are only ...
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A Trivial Pursuit #20 (Entertainment 4/4): Actors
This is part 20 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.
Talos (2019, 2019, 2019 uncredited, 2023 TV)
Galadriel ...
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A Trivial Pursuit #19 (Geography 4/4): Glass
This is part 19 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.
Front of menu card:
STIV'S SPEAKEASY
COCKTAILS
BOUR....
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Helen helped Liam become best carpenter north of _?
Multiple choice question:
Helen helped Liam become best carpenter north of ____?
A) Australia
B) England
C) France
D) Iceland
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Thunderbolt, with other stuff
Find 1) the correct path through the maze and 2) a six-letter thematic answer.
Text version:
Blood
Father
Metal
Too strong
Data storage device
Capital's inlet
Capital
Code
Polar climate
US soap ...
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A Trivial Pursuit #17 (Science and Nature 3/4): Workaround
This is part 17 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 clues and enter their answers into the grid ...
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A Trivial Pursuit #16 (Art and Literature 3/4): X
This is part 16 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.
The final answer is a thematic 8-letter word.
Text ...
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A Trivial Pursuit #15 (History 3/4): Those Not Present
This is part 15 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.
Eisenhower’s Vice President, later President himself
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Python Conundrum 3: A Dwarven Vault
Python Conundrum: The Series.
While exploring an abandoned dwarven fortress, your party notices a faint glow on the wall. You put your torch on the wall and decide to look around:
A massive stone ...
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A Trivial Pursuit #14 (Entertainment 3/4): Integration by Parts
This is part 14 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.
1975
FLON ERE INCEL ANY DOT HUE MANC HINGE
2018
2022
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A Trivial Pursuit #13 (Geography 3/4): Things Fall Apart
This is part 13 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.
Identify the 26 words clued by the images below, then ...
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Excuse me, I don't wear pointy hats!
There's a guy moving into my neighbourhood. People have seen him
do some strange, reality-bending things, like materialising objects out
of thin air and moving things around telekinetically with a ...
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A Trivial Pursuit #11 (Science and Nature 2/4): The Search
This is part 11 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.
Okay, let me tell you a story... I’ve got a terrible ...
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A 5 letter word that remains a word if you remove any one letter
I'm interested in finding English words that, when any one letter is removed, the result is still a valid, correctly-spelled English word. For example, the word "SPAY" is an example of such a word, as ...
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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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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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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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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 Full Spread of Vowelburgers™
Inspired by Avi's Vowelburger™ Riddle
I ordered some Vowelburgers™ abroad, but every menu had a printing error, so the restaurant just got rid of them. Regardless, they had something for everyone, ...
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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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Help With Dan Brown's Unsolved Puzzle
Dan Brown has an unsolved message on his website https://danbrown.com/
There are hidden symbols on 5 JPG images and 5 PNG images that overlay the JPGs.
JPG Images: int1.bg.jpg, int2.bg.jpg, int3.bg....
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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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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 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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