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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Answers all, boob, X
A four-letter name is encoded A=0 to Z=25. Find a name that satisfies:
The sum of the integers answers all,
their product is like a boob,
and their range is X.
Order the integers by increasing ...
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April 2023 - Hexagons
The final answer is 11 letters.
Helpful notes:
Technically solvable in grayscale/colorblind, but easier in color.
If you have the required knowledge, the solution path will eventually pop into your ...
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Alone in Bronson Canyon
Clues: [contextual images]
[boat shape made of more shapes, each with letters inside]
[box within a box]
[arms on either side]
[water]
Instructions: Name That Captain
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ A _ _
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F the Planet - Enigmatic Puzzle
Clues: [contextual images]
Eye
D G C F U K L K A Z
W A N C H Q T O U I
A E I X L U M N R J
M A M V A I R
S A E T S Z B
F F F F
Instructions: Name That Character
_ _ _ A _ _ _
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I am large and I am small, What word am I?
I come before 1, after 2 and before 3
I am large and small
What word am I talking about?
I don't come after 0 but do come before 10
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What word was he talking about?
Ollie, my friend, says:
"Take away "T" from this word and you will take away 63. Take away "T" and then replace the "S" with "L" and you will take away 59!&...
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A different Crack the Code puzzle
This is a different Crack the Code and get the word puzzle. Here, instead of letters, actual words are hidden.
The final word is a 7 letter famous person. That word consists of several words. I only ...
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Bob wants revenge on his evil boss
Bob wants revenge on his evil boss, so he devises a cunning plan.
He writes a request to visit three American cities, and then gets his boss to approve it.
Bob then instead travels to six locations, ...
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My coworker's apparantly hard to buy for
I'm looking for a four-letter answer to the following puzzle:
My coworker's apparantly hard to buy for.
A calender might make a good gift.
It's a consciencious man I'm dealing with.
He's ...
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The Secrets of Psalm 46
It's well-known that Shakespeare hid his name in the KJV translation of Psalm 46, but did you know that there's more to it?
A line-by-line analysis might uncover the cryptic excerpts he left behind.
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Riddle within a riddle
Welcome to this puzzle, friends.
This riddle inside it contains
The keys to find its own success.
I throughout these lines have spread
The letters needed to solve it all.
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What are the words?
From 5 words, a single letter has been removed and remaining letters bunched together in order. The number in the bracket represents the length of the word. For example:
SEVENTEEN = SVNTN (9) Single ...
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The best scoring REVOLVER
The initial setup a chess game creates this layout:
P P P P P P P P
R N B Q K B N R
If we change the symbol each piece is represented by, something interesting ...
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Five letter words with one vowel difference [duplicate]
Looking for 5 letter words where just the vowel is different.
Eg. Bland, blind, blend
but to cover all 5 vowels.
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I am a professional person
There are 3 boxes: A,B and C, each with 3 rows. Each row is a word. The blanks in each box are the same single word. After filling the blanks you will get 3 separate words (one from each box). Put ...
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What country are you in?
Shown below are 2 boxes A and B, each with 4 rows which represent 8 separate words. Rows in each box have 3 letter blanks which represent a single word. After solving the 2 boxes you will get 2 ...
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What is the final 8 letter word?
Shown below are 3 boxes A, B and C
Box A shows 4 rows. Each row has a 3 letter blank. The 3 letters form a single word (same word for all 4 rows). After filling the blanks you should get 4 separate ...
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What words come next in the sequence?
Try to figure out the next five words in the sequence.
Alpha, superb, succumb, economic, signed, shelf, corgi, within, improv, origami
Good luck!
Hint:
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Two Blinkers, A Pair of Boats, etc
This puzzle is part of the Monthly Topic Challenge #8: Cellular Automata.
Find four capital letters that can replace the X's (and explain why).
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Two masons laying bricks [closed]
I'm having trouble solving a puzzle in Swedish. I've translated it to English:
Two masons work on a project. One mason can complete the project alone in 8 hours, while the other can complete it alone ...
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Riley Riddle in the game
This puzzle is part of the Monthly Topic Challenge #7: Board games.
My first can hold flags (No matches).
My second lasts three months (No matches).
My last is your attention (1 accurate match).
My ...
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Symsquare Number 04
Symsquare6: The answer is a square grid which has the same words vertically and horizontally. The clue is a single sentence written in cryptic style and includes one anagram, one hidden word, one ...
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Puzzle #111731267 - 19 Crossed Pairs
Instructions:
There are 19 pairs of related answers with a common theme. Each pair consists of an across answer and a down answer. These two answers cross at a single letter marked with a number.
All ...
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Three quiet men
See me on one
after a second din
I'm the third man
I stopped solving at four
and I'm on five
Hint
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A Murder Mystery
The Investigation
Looks like there's been a murder!
Examining these cryptic clues may reveal what the murderer left behind...
In clue order (Across then Down), they will comprise a description of the ...
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How to create a 5 x 5 word grid?
I'm trying to design a new game that requires a 5 x 5 grid of criss-crossed words (like squareword has).
I have a word list of about 4600 5-letter words; I think that there are more than 2 x 10^18 ...
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What is My friend's (not so) new interest
A friend of mine is an English teacher, but he's always enjoyed listening to the sound of music in the classroom while he works, so I'm thinking he's looking for a change of job soon. Maybe these ...
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A country riddle
A riddle I made up while bored. Please follow the steps of the riddle below:
Start with the name of a specific country . . .
If you lowercase the name of this country . . .
And reverse the order of ...
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A Divisive Little Riddle
"Want a cracker? Want a cracker?"
the parrot said. Who wants a cracker?
The grass is always greener,
but you walked in the long grass.
Now me and mine will bleed you dry.
Don't you know who ...
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You walked all over me
You walked all over me and I felt like I was torn in two. You drove me
crazy. Yet, you cared for me like I was yours.
You dumped my tea out and I felt meaningless. I had to
rearrange my life for I’d ...
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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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Shadowfax! A riley
To begin, write something with how you write it,
In the middle, it’s what your tongue may be, make sure not to bite it,
At the end, he’s high above: Upper and Lower send their love,
Completely, I’m ...
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3.8 million points in Scrabble
You are playing English Scrabble solo, but on a 15×15 board that looks like this:
The starting square is the top-left corner and all 225 squares are quadruple word squares. The game ends when you ...
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Closed Captioning Available
This puzzle is part of the Monthly Topic Challenge #6: Is it really that [time] again?.
Please keep your arms and legs inside the space-time continuum at all times
[ An old man becomes kind after ...
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A Riley, in Song!
Should Puuuuzling be forgot and not, broooo-ought to this siiiiiiiite (please shorten),
And middle full of glowing leeeegs,
And end, Alor to flyyyyyyyyyyyyyy!
(Did I mention this shows the way?)
(It’s ...
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They are all K-verbs
Find the missing verb.
G: Fold, Break, Pry
D: Reduce, Vibrate, Rob
B: Soak, Subtract, Thrash
J: Sleep, Squeeze, ?
Subtle Hint:
Moderate Hint:
Decisive Hint:
Very Decisive Hint:
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Lost and mostly drowned
Don't go diving looking for those, you won't find much
Cardigan Bay [5]
Atlantic [3]
Baie de Douarnenez [1]
Baltic Sea [4]
Lake Svetloyar [6]
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Dangerous affection
This word means "(ability) to impose affection", good or malicious.
But if broken apart, the spelling of the parts would mean "to witness damage".
What is this word?
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What is Man? (7)
What is Man? (7)
Please replace the characters in the grids with the correct characters.
Hint:
Hint 2:
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My GF is a spy?
So it turns out my long-term girlfriend is a spy.
I probably should have seen the signs earlier (I guess this finally explains all the wigs and false moustaches), but last night she told me on the ...
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8-letter word that uses all letter keys on a telephone
I have found a few 11-letter words that use every key except 0 or 1 on a standard telephone (like EXPLORATION), and a 10-letter word (PREGNANTLY) but I haven't found any shorter such words. What is ...
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Can you guess the word?
I have a pretty sharp memory.
Preceded by a C, I am usually a hindrance.
But with a B instead, I can prove to be the opposite of that.
It might get difficult for you to identify me if you add an S ...
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PSE Advent Calendar 2022 (Day 9): International Christmas Crossword
This puzzle is part of the Puzzling Stack Exchange Advent Calendar 2022. The accepted answer to this question will be awarded a bounty worth 50 reputation.< Previous Door Next Door >
Languages
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PSE Advent Calendar 2022 (Day 3): Okay everybody, from the top!
This puzzle is part of the Puzzling Stack Exchange Advent Calendar 2022. The accepted answer to this question will be awarded a bounty worth 50 reputation.< Previous Door Next Door >
My brother ...
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