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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Figure out the list of 10 words
For this puzzle, you must figure out a list of 10 words.
Each of the following words is a clue for a word in the list:
Candy
Jack
Following
Territory
Area
Common
Improve
Straight
Membrane
Leg
The ...
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Rolling Dice puzzle
The answer is a six-letter word.
Here's an attempt at a text version, but you're really better off looking at the picture.
Rolling Dice
To get a full tour, you must be a man of many faces and ...
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Headings had had their hints long long time ago
Hello everybody, can someone help me? This riddle really gave me the gilles so far.
I need to solve this for school but I have no idea! joking ;)
Not sure if it will help - check this out. So funny! ...
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Use intuition, It causes a schism. Entity?
In your mind I manifest
Understanding of me is vague at best
I'm said to take away the order
Less likey to be seen in the daughter
Heightened moods wont decide your fate
When held onto, is my ...
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riddle - pray you can find the word!
To answer this riddle, solve each of the four lines independently and put all the clues together to get a one-word final answer.
Nonsensical abstraction high up in the army;
The woman with the wheel ...
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The man, the weapons, the time
STORY:
He awakes, covered in quite a thick layer of dust. Quite clearly suffering from some form of memory loss, this man begins to look around, eyes blurry, almost sticky in feeling. There's bodies ...
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Split: A puzzle-hunt style word puzzle
The answer is a six-letter word. You're strongly encouraged to discuss and collaborate on the puzzle in this chat room.
I've had this puzzle playtested before, but I still welcome feedback and ...
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Every second is a waste of time
Ok, as you might have expected I secretly implemented
many hints for you. This time I want you to answer with this:
a unique, selfmade picture with nothing else but the
solution on it. Please use ...
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Name that Entity (5) - Don't be fooled by my grandiloquence
Don't be fooled by my grandiloquence
look past the words to find my substance
Past my skin if you shall pry
my prominent brother will make you cry
I am almost shallow but don't confuse
Utilise my ...
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Riddle... I am like a dear halo
I am like a dear halo,
Plucked from a rainbow,
A tight noose brings me to life,
With the repeated stab of a knife,
Old grief of the elephants,
Holy like the elements,
I penetrate a scar of my soft ...
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The egocentric one
Here is the next one for you. I recommend using a list for this.
Oh, almost forgot to tell you that it's freaking easy. Have fun!
Even if tiny I call you tall
The first two lines contain no hint at ...
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A Fragmented Puzzle
Your roommate is on vacation, and you need to get something off his laptop. You ring him up, asking if you can borrow his computer.
"Sure, if you can get in," he replies.
"What? But it's your laptop!...
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Name that entity (4)
Created or evolved whatever you please
walk in my shoes, which I can't seize
A computer originated world, I won't fathom
my death by some considered gruesome
I know how to live do not give me ...
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Name that entity (3)
We are dotted around and what all life need
for structure, stability and to feed
Some share the name of what we hold
others bear the names of characters of old
Nomads we fear will make us stray
or ...
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You will have to pray!
This riddle is so easy that I already have created another one. Just in case.
Anyway, please avoid wild guesses.
For sure I am queer
and out of place
Are you still here?
Go start the chase
But ...
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Name that entity (2)
I answer all who can connect
I amend mistakes without respect
I aim to place, I aim to serve
I give you knowledge with little reserve
In me, the primary colours I do hold
Though two had a child ...
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Holy as the elements
Everybody should be able to solve this one!
You might try to pet me or kick my butt
but you can not touch me no matter what
If you gave me presents I'd leave you for sure
but take what's around me ...
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An interesting point?
I'm a length of hard wood
Hooped with iron at each end
Used for making a block
Or a case to defend
My sound is like silence:
Dumb, irrelevant am I
Talk about me forever
For I point to the sky
Hint 1
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Two Men - The Physicist and Plumber
You have two men in a room. You know for a fact that one is a physicist and the other is a plumber. Sadly both men have recently been rendered totally deaf and haven't learned sign language. This is a ...
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I hope your brain won't fall apart
I'm the one to be told
at the very end
just get rid of the old
before you descend
I'm the tie on your neck
if you slice it apart
and the third in the group
rhyming is hard
I'm the first of the ...
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Are you clever enough?
I'm always in your thoughts, technically twice
If displayed correctly, just to be precise
If you see my left you will call me a con
and it would tear me apart if you called me John
Take down a note ...
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Catch the killer
The murderer has fled the scene, you have a feeling he will try to leave the country. You get access to his credit card records and see that he has recently spent £500 on flights at Getaway Travel ...
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What are these words?
Which word means "to push hard", and if it is written backwards it
means "to spoil"?
A synonym of this word is "stalemate", and if it is written backwards a
synonym of the transformed word is "...
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What is the next word in this sequence?
What word follows AMPLE in this sequence:
REDDEN
SEAM
PLEA
REARED
DENSE
AMPLE
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Word Ladder puzzle
The Numberplay blog on the NY Times website used to have word ladder puzzles along with their weekly math puzzles. I found them fun and so I figured I'd introduce them here. These aren't just your ...
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A seven letter word - the meaning doesn't change if you remove letters
I am a seven letter word. If you remove one letter from me my meaning does not change. If you remove two letters from me my meaning still does not change, and if you remove three letters from me, my ...
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About Grelling's Paradox
Grelling's Paradox is about certain types of words. An adjective is heterological if it does not describe itself, like 'long', 'German', or 'monosyllabic'. An adjective is autological if it does ...
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What is the "linguistically hardest" number less than $10^9$?
The linguistic hardness ($LH$) of a natural number is the ratio of the amount of letters in the writing of this number in English to the amount of its digits.
For example, $LH(1234) = 7.75$, as:
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