Questions tagged [wordplay]
A form of wit in which the used words become the main subject of the work, primarily for the purpose of intended effect or amusement.
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A burglar's sunglasses, a lady's odyssey
This puzzle is part 17 of Gladys' journey across the globe. Each part can be solved independently. Nevertheless, if you are new to the series, feel free to start at the beginning: Introducing Gladys.
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A number of representations
What number, when used to represent all numbers, can be used to represent something else?
To get credit you need the number and the reason behind it.
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Uh oh, now the boards are missing!
I found another trunk in the attic, with more of those vintage propeller games. This time, I've got propellers, but no boards.
Is it possible to figure out the whole board from just the propeller?
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Minimum number puzzle!
What is the minimum number of letters required to satisfy all the following clues?
"especially bad" "earth's counterpart" "flows one-way,
strictly" "release as outward flow"
"being this is ...
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A word loved by poets
A word loved by poets in five equal parts
The end of a dog is how two of them start
The third can be found in the land of Jafar
The fourth can be useful to learn where you are
The ...
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An easy English amusement for children [duplicate]
Here’s an easy one that amused me as a child. I don’t think it’s that well known, but has recently appeared on the internet so it’s trivial to answer if you look it up. It might be slightly more ...
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Fortune tellers have dinner
I've seen these before somewhere (maybe here?), but they're all mixed up!
Who/what is being described by the clues below?
Consequence of a disastrous harvest
What a mathematician might do to ...
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Uh oh, the propeller fell off
I was rummaging through a trunk in the attic when I found this vintage game. It is some sort of pinwheel or propeller mounted on a board. The propeller has a cryptic series of letters painted on it, ...
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Horribly broken and just plain wrong
This puzzle is part 6 of Gladys' journey across the globe. Each part can be solved independently. Nevertheless, if you are new to the series, feel free to start at the beginning: Introducing Gladys.
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And now you see it II (the B side)
It amuses me that the word CANOES has been there in VOLCANOES all along. And URCHIN is barely hiding in the word LURCHING. And ASPIRIN is right there in ASPIRING. SISTER is in RESISTER. AKIN is in ...
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And now you see it
It tickles me that the word TUNA is found within FORTUNATE. And there is a COFFIN in SCOFFING. And who put the LAGER in the VILLAGER? The SKIER in RISKIER? The ROMAN in the MICROMANAGER? The ...
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Deusovi - trapped!
I have been trapped in a void I know nothing of. There is nothing but four plain red walls, annoying me very much. Thanks to my experience in Puzzling Stack Exchange, I am observant to find a small ...
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Mutineer's Treasure
Background:
Your team has recovered a sunken ship.
In the hold there is a small room that appears it was intended as a smuggler's room.
In the smuggler's hold are three decayed corpses a bunch of ...
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What's the key of this WW2 lock?
In the Imperial War Museum in London, there's a box with a Directional Padlock, no one has ever opened it, however they found a letter next to it but no one can open the box even with that letter.
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Alphabet II: Unified Alloy Bonds
As always, good luck!
Caution your tongue, the king you will abide.
Scribe! Yes sire?
The
new table will arrive soon! Seat it left of seaside.
Hints
The ...
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Cyrus' Adventure (Part 8)
After tapping on the wall, it opened automatically. Inside was another corridor - as damp as the previous one. "Eww!" exclaimed Cyrus.
At the end of the corridor, a huge stone tablet blocked the road. ...
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The Librarian's Labyrinth - Part III
"This Library is HUGE!," You say aloud. You hear your voice echoing through the halls and nothing else. How could this be? Who comes here? You start examining the books on the shelves. It's just your ...
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I may be a fraud
I may be a fraud.
But give me your admiration and I shall dominate late night TV.
Give me a stone and I shall be a symbol of celebration.
Give me your filth and I shall make you clean.
Give me but ...
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My suffix is short for the place where you are…
My suffix is short for the place where you are,
My infix for who,
My prefix for where you can learn about what's
Mistaken for me in a crowd at least two.
To echo a riddle that's ...
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A Warm Riley Riddle
My infix has been removed.
My suffix is this.
If you can read this, you're on my prefix.
If you read this in the morning, you might guess me sooner - what am I?
The usual. Please have ...
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Stop and Take a Breath!
I've been to the carnival; I've been to the robber's den.
I've seen judges who are just and unjust.
Can't really judge them; I've been one to make mistakes, too.
I've also seen twins ...
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Could they have avoided it?
Weird undiscovered disease slams twins equally.
Did they catch it in Lyon, Turin or Barcelona?
Hint
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Like totally amazing interchangeable sister outfits II: The Revenge
The sisters have learned a few lessons from their recent debut. They are now ruthlessly efficient outfit-swapping machines. (You know, sort of like Valley Girl Terminators...)
They can now sustain ...
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What solves the riddle and the situation?
Those totally brainwashed millionaire wolf degenerates devastated PhD academic honor.Kids defend.Devastation.
Hint #1:
Hint #2
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Take a deep breath
Here's a quick one that should be easy.
You've heard me before.
A Cinematic Icon
Perfect audio.
What am I?
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The room, the table, and the chainsaw [duplicate]
You're in a sealed room with no doors, vents, or windows. All that is in the room is a chainsaw, which has a full gas tank on it, and a table. How do you get out?
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A Paper Record is What I Hamper
I can be used to mark your place,
When, with less than ten, you will face,
I can be found at your feet,
There is a flat surface at my peak,
I come in once the votes are cast,
With me you ...
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Like totally amazing interchangeable sister outfit accessory swapping or whatever
OMG, me and my sister are like total BFFs and we share clothes like all the time! We soooo have the same sense of style and we borrow stuff from each other like every single second!
We don't even ...
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Who got some sun on the voyage?
We meek internationalists go on a little afternoon voyage
Who got some sun on the voyage?
Hint #1:
Hint #2:
Hint #3:
Hint #4:
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What makes a man succeed?
What makes a man succeed, a host a captive, and a mess into something meaningful?
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Family friendly escape room, 6 letter Cryptex
The following is a puzzle of mine, I'm hoping to test it out a bit. It will be for a 6 letter cryptex to find the key inside the cryptex allowing you to exit a door in an escape room of mine.
Puzzle ...
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Disembodied hand growing fangs
Across
2. Puzzle expert breaks first dilemma partially (7)
10. Nobleman bandleader (4)
13. Lead singer, AC/DC's second; extremely over-the-top (5)
18. Actor Morgan and organ lying on the same ...
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Shot in the heavens afar
A cloak blankets way overhead,
Beginning the time for your bed.
Remember my comfort and love
Inviting the skies up above.
Look! You can reach like a kite;
Look and not burn from ...
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Choo-choo! Word trains
All aboard the Word Train Express!
Engineering a word train is simple: I'll give you the locomotive (the first word) and the caboose (the last word), and I'll specify the number of boxcars (...
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Extraordinarily Forgoes Anthem
Island oranges don't mix well (11)
Liquid wastes run into river (10, 4)
Cold canines found in the mountains (10)
A season before a season's past in Northern capital (10)
City at the ...
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Arc (&) Reactors
(Note: This puzzle may require a small amount of research if you aren't familiar with the work from its theme.)
It was exactly 11 years ago -- April 14, 2008, in Sydney -- that the first Iron Man ...
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Why, Go Figure!
Burnt bridges are crossed. An icy leg breaks. The devil speaks in detail. Rain is pouring over furry pets. Milk or beans spill. A missing ship takes sail. Some system of hands to escape from! ...
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A pet rabbit called Belle
I have a pet rabbit. Her name is Belle. Most people think she is French (because Belle means "beautiful" in French, and my, this rabbit is beautiful) but she is not. Her fur was also painted Rainbow ...
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My body leaves; my core can stay
My body leaves; my core can stay,
Where I shall breathe another way.
The route of south I always linger.
My arms have arms; my ring no finger.
What am I?
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What is wrong with my poem?
Poetry seemed too difficult this time
Tough... I couldn't find many rhymes
Ideas... just words, a literary crime.
This poem doesn't feel right - what exactly is wrong with it?
CLUE 1
CLUE 2
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All Unique Permutations [closed]
We have the word: RAPSEVNOBLURKANIWA
We want to find the number of unique permutations that could be made with RAP always staying together, so that there are:
no 3 adjacent consonants,
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The answer is buried there somewhere
Wow, the little negative cow army had a balmy sun war.
The forty richest blameless homesteaders await the answers.
Who did the cow army fight in the war?
Hint #1:
Hint #2:
Hint #3:
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cryptic clue: mammal sounds like relative consumer (8)
While solving this cryptic I figured out the answer to 1-across (mammal sounds like relative consumer) without solving the subsidiary indication. (I used down constraints and the standard part of the ...
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I see my dog run
My dog chooses not to go after the highest bets.
What is my dog's name?
Bonus: What is my name?
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The Two and the One
I am the two and the one.
I give life, hold life, fill life,
But I also kill - and hide - and steal.
I'm in your backyard - go look, I'm there!
I am the two and the one.
Two ...
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Mathematical cryptic clues
Programming language, after removing loss for you, reverses time (6)
Complex arithmetic begins, Turing tests start beforehand (7)
Quadruply male doctor Einstein, familiarly (11)
Lie on a ...
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Memorizing the Keyboard
I tried to type blindfolded,actually just closed my eyes and pressed the keyboard
letters one by one with my index finger to write a song line that's on my mind.
When I looked at the screen, I just ...
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Anagram holiday
Virtues, we devour and restore, usher a puzzle.
Related to the above sentence, find a six-letter word, which anagrams to gives words starting with each of the five different letters of the word.
