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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Is this a real quote?
One of my cheekier students recently put this quote in an essay they wrote:
"Art is the... bow* I aim, a UK air-bus I fly. Art was oui, no?" - Samuel Endeavour
I can't find any online ...
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Dry Calculus - Name the Song
Clues:
a=eru
5I 5I
[two contextual images]
Instructions: Name the Song
_ a _ _ _ _ _ _ _
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Beatboxer? Get on the tiles!
The three overlapping ellipses form seven curved regions - place one tile in each region so that the tiles in any one ellipse can be re-arranged into an eight-letter solution to the corresponding clue!...
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CliffDriving PS
[contextual images]
[text near one image] 16.,51.
Instructions: Name the Town
_ _ s _ _ _ _
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Hexagonal Topline Crossword
This puzzle is part of the Monthly Topic Challenge #4: Cross-*non*-words
This crossword is a hexagonal one, and it uses a cipher mainly used in geocaching instead of English letters.
The grid ...
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What is a 5 letter word that you can remove the first or second letter and all 3 words sound the same [closed]
What is a 5 letter word that you can remove the first or second letter and all 3 words sound the same?
I don’t know the answer so I don’t have any information other than the question.
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Faces read, made new
My prefix is angry, and sure to make you, too,
My infix is de la Cité, en France,
My suffix is the law, to France’s bro.
My whole is my title.
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A Hypochondriac's Nightmare
For a hypochondriac, all of their test results are fiction
Here is my painting, I call it "Bold and Brash".
To get optimal pool ionization, you need to add some of this product.
To register ...
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With the power to draw you in (and be swept away by the joy of puzzling)
Instructions:
Solve the enigmatic crossword
Each answer clues a letter
Take only the 9 letters which were clued more than once (to find 9 distinct letters)
Apply the title and anagram the result for ...
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more rileys, MORE RILEYS!
Hear ye, hear ye, my first is the, Arabic!
Hear ye, hear ye, my second is money, I don’t know why!
Hear ye, hear ye, oyez, oyez, my last is number one (hehehe) with a stick!
Hear ye, oyez! My whole ...
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Standing upright? It's time to slice fish!
Standing upright? It's time to slice fish!
Why is the answer BRISTLING?
The clue is from The Independent Cryptic Crossword August 30, 2018.
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Vowels and consecutive consonants
Replace X, Y and Z with three different words to form a meaningful sentence:
In 15th century Europe, the people of the city X experienced the flow of Y whenever a Z performed.
The three words should ...
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Twenty-one in total
I'm looking for a single word.
in the M
on the TL and BR
on the TL, in the M and BR
on the TL, TR, BL and BR
on the TL, TR, in the M, BL and BR
on the TL, TR, ML, MR, BL and BR
What Am I?
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There are 10 types 0f pe0ple 1n the w0rld
Th1s puzzle 1s part 0f the Monthly Topic Challenge #4: Cross-*non*-words
C0mplete the cr0ssw0rd and f1nd the h1dden themat1c e1ght-character s0lut10n w0rd.
Acr0ss:
7. Pref1x mean1ng 'just a few' 0r '...
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A Crossweb Puzzle for Herb
I brought my buddy Herb my new Crossweb puzzle to try, and he wrinkled his nose.
"No way. Far too difficult. Besides, there's only one type of Crossword puzzle I like and this is NOT it."
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A Two Part Puzzle
Part of me is injured, but there is no drop of blood.
The other part is mushy, but there is no sign of mud
This is my new address, because I belong here.
Place I came from, now no one lives there
You ...
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Once you see the ---, what can you get?
I'm looking for an eleven-letter word.
The triangle you see is an equilateral triangle.
Note: There are four type of red lines - horizontal, vertical, left-right diagonal and right-left diagonal. ...
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What famous meme am I referencing with a polynomial?
What legendary meme am I referencing (twice!) with this large and strange polynomial?
$5507x^4-302885x^3+1420806x^2-2224828x+1101400=0$
Buckleyour seatbelts, it’s kind of crazy- I sincerely hope you ...
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Avoid consuming broken cereal?
Please allow me to lead you on a merry dance through the following original puzzle (for which you will need to work out exactly which way to proceed).
The question is: What type of dance is it? The ...
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A riddle of how it is being
I'm looking for a nine-letter word.
It's not easy being because it makes me feel very lonely.
People don't even believe being is a real thing.They say being is just real in stories. In this riddle, I ...
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"Brave as a "King"" is our beginning, this puzzle is about a beginning
Me (my friends call me "King") and my friends, who are all puzzle loving university students, have just recently started to give each other puzzles to solve once a day. This day was my turn (...
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If you give me, you may be forsaken
I can be given and taken.
When given, the giver is often forsaken.
I come in a garden variety and more,
but cannot be bought at your typical store.
When you can take me, you may well rejoice,
or ...
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Likeable 10 letter words
This is a list of some of the 10 letter words that are liked and disliked by Adam.
Like
Dislike
Idealogues
Audiometry
Impoundage
Equivocacy
Inoculated
Iceboating
Inosculate
Outpatient
Ionopauses
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A Riddle In Between
I'm looking for a 10-letter word.
Right now I'm twelfth.
But now I'm tenth.
Now I'm sixth.
It's weird I keep changing, now I am third.
What Am I?
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My Life Story- What Am I?
Here's my life recap, just for fun-
I was a gangster at age one!
Hesitation soon surrounded me
And I was disgusting by age three.
I got between the rarest in the crust
And by five became anything I ...
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1, 2, 3... What's next?
jxzkgyqhtvfbxoyjsnkwzhcuxogtysfmoivncagkwzjsthiovcbdfrivktyzwbojhuiwtpmltbnxmgnemcsf
Use the title as a free hint. The answer is 9 letters.
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Brothers Divided
Weird given they're both united...
Police! This man stole my _____! (5) [4]
1989 Metal album by Alice Cooper (5) [5]
Something Rome did in 476 (4) [1]
Gnarly, rad, tubular even (4) [3]
Unit of length ...
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The answer is in front of you
I'm myself most of the time, but a third I am not
I'll trick you, my boy, like an insect you caught
I start, I end, but I'm not in my middle
I'm here right now, all throughout this riddle
Who am I?
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Eight letter word, I am
I start this word
My enemy follows me to the end
I am at the end of this word
I am also present just before the end
There is a living thing in the middle
What is it?
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Countries and Capital Cities divided into two halves
'Bypass' is a word which belongs to the first half with a special feature while the words 'boast', 'bracket', 'nebulous' and 'plague' doesn't belong.
'Shadow' is another such word which belongs to the ...
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a Riley, because I'm hype
My first is NOT lazy,
My second is NOT going to sit back and watch,
My third is "glib, deceptive, or foolish talk".
My full describes what two puzzles in one day are.
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A puzzle from OPUS VIII
I just got a mail from an online puzzler who calls himself OPUS VIII. He said he wants to see if I have what it takes to become a member of his secret online puzzle club. He said it's time limited and ...
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Convert a means of transport into an animal
Step 1:
Consider a means of transport.
Step 2:
Insert two consecutive letters in the alphabet to the middle of the word in step 1.
You have now obtained the name of an animal.
Which animal did you ...
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A list of absurd phrases
The following words/phrase belong at the beginning:
Letter, Second, Confinement, Move, Logical Operation, Demise, Foyer
The following words/phrases belong at the end:
Number, Colour, Prohibition, ...
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I'm Still Standing and I Will Return
My first is hot.
My last is cold.
In the middle, lies a road.
Altogether, I'm both shortest and longest.
What am I?
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This IQ test appears to be corrupted
This puzzle is part of the Monthly Topic Challenge #2: IQ Puzzle Parody
I've been sent an IQ test by a friend (because that's a really normal thing for friends to do) and I just can't work out what's ...
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Build your own puzzle!
This grid contains 3 puzzles all in one; 0h n0, a Crossword and a Wordoku (Sudoku with letters)...
...but first you'll need to build it.
0h n0
Cells can 'see' other blue cells in the same row and ...
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Another Strange Crossword
Solve the strangely-shaped crossword.
Then find the answer word describing how PSE treats new users.
Sorry- no text version of the crossword image. It is difficult for me to fit all that info into ...
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Forest for the Threes
Transcription of the clues:
Two-part examples:
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Arthurian villain
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4
Authors
11
25
Backer
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4
Lunatics
23
24
Walked on again
2
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Woman warden
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An abandoned Connect Wall
The 16 prompts below may be separated into 4 groups.
Additionally, there is a word absent from the wall which may be placed in all four of those groups.
Beaver
Cheat
Cod
Direction
Elf
Fuzzy Wuzzy
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This colored box puzzle is driving me nuts
This colored box puzzle is driving me nuts…
…looking for a relevant 3 letter word.
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“IQ” puzzles seem to be flooding this site
“IQ” puzzles seem to be flooding this site, so I reviewed a few and left some feedback.
The answer to this puzzle is a single relevant word (8), with explanation of how you found it.
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2 Years, Still Unsolved
I made this image code a while back. The answer is a meaningful word in the English language.
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I need help with this IQ test puzzle I found online
This puzzle is part of the Monthly Topic Challenge #2: IQ Puzzle Parody
What's missing?
Hint 1 (for use after the first step):
Hint 2 (for use after the second step):
Hint 3 (for use after the ...
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A crossword with no clues?
This crossword doesn't appear to have any clues... or does it?
Solve the crossword to get a bonus puzzle, and find the final word to describe the crossword!
Google Sheets Link
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Whites of Their Eyes
This puzzle is part of the Monthly Topic Challenge #1: Restricted Title: xkcd 1xxx
Encoding where F equals seventy
_____ Tenkula, a heavy metal musician
Vadodara financial services company & bank
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The Road to a Fulfilling Life
The final answer is a 12-letter word and is confirmed by the title.
Other applicable tags: visual, enigmatic puzzle, rebus (stage 2)
Stage 1 of 2:
Mark the correct cells black in the 5 grids below and ...
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Do you see the point?
Original puzzle by me.
Remember to always obey your superiors. The first one should be 08594.
Hint:
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