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### Is there any pattern involved in the following sequence? [on hold]

Consider the numerical sequence $$800,1600,4800,6400,12000,6400, \cdots.$$ Is there any pattern involved in this sequence? I am very curious to know that. This puzzle is from a FlipKart Daily Quiz. ...
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### Covering an 8x8 grid with W pentominoes

What is the minimum number of W pentominoes you need to cover every cell of an 8x8 grid? Pentominoes may overlap each other and sit outside the boundary of the grid. They can also be rotated in any ...
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### Covering an 8x8 grid with X pentominoes

What is the minimum number of X pentominoes you need to cover every cell of an 8x8 grid? Pentominoes may overlap each other and sit outside the boundary of the grid. An X pentomino looks like this:
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### Rectangles formed from every tetromino, tromino and domino

Can you form a 4x7 rectangle from every tetromino, tromino and domino? There are 5 different tetrominoes, 2 trominoes and 1 domino. Can you find different arrangements that are not mirrors/rotations ...
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### What does this group of symbols mean?

This is what the puzzle looks like. Ꮒ̨̻̰̊̾ͥͦ͠Ꮛ̤̰̭̱̑̔̃̽̋ͬᏒ̡̼̯̳̺̳̺̙͖͈̠̂ ̗̗̗͔̮̀̾̉̃ͩ̿ͤᏁ̱̗͈̰̙̥̪́͊̅̎̅Ꮧ̵͚̥̼̫ͬ̒ͨ̏̅Ꮇ̥͉̂͛ͥ͛̽͐̕͟Ꮛ̨̫̭̋͛̆̋̾ What do they mean? It should be a name.
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### I terrify those beneath

My beginning: steamy, but 2/5ths crazy My middle, wailing, from spectres hazy My end, demonic, lives in Hell My start, to there, does transport sell My middle, within, the original man My end, ends, ...
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### Find d this ones stumped me help?

This one is annoying me so much. Got this from a maths teacher.
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### Double feature: Hot stuff

This puzzle is part 4 of the Double feature series (first part here). The series will continue in "Double feature: In cold blood". Rules of Heyawake1 Shade some cells in the grid. ...
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### What's the Word Given Other Words?

One word to sure make you think Nothing This word will certainly be considered too Pentagon I ate pizza as a part of my breakfast this morning, if that's important Clockwork Pay careful ...
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### A town E miles away?

I got this from my maths teacher What is the value of 'E'?
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I want to make the pattern as shown in the images I get stuck at the last with two adjacent corners to be interchanged. How do I do this ?
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### Foiled Bank Robbery

A bank is getting robbed and one of the robbers tells one of the tellers to give him all of the money. The teller tells him she doesn't have access to it. Suddenly the phone rings. The robber tells ...
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### What's the idea?

They are not isotopes. They are not ions. What are they?
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### Can you catch the thief?

This was a puzzle I recalled from university a couple of years back. I don't know what the original puzzle is but if someone knows it, please let me know so I can credit the source. You are a police ...
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### I'm not a whale or a dolphin

I'm a brave charismatic Iranian, And a cheeky Egyptian rogue, And a small mongrel amphibian, And a serene nameless lake, I'm all twelve of these things but only one at a time, Despite what you may ...
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### Recurring Meeting

The computer scientist's assistant is late at work once again, trying to once again decode their bosses directions for the day. Under meetings, the boss has listed only a single meeting: ...
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### Princesses covering an 8x8 chess board

What is the minimum number of princesses you need to place on an 8x8 chessboard so that every empty square is attacked by at least one princess? A princess is a piece from fairy chess that can move ...
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### What Fruit Am I?

A riddle my math teacher asked back in 10th grade: I am a fruit. If you take away the first letter of my name I become a crime. Take away the first two letters of my name I become an animal. Take ...
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### Twelve Labours - #02 Lernaean Hydration

This puzzle is part of the ‘Twelve Labours’ series. Previous instalments can be found here: Prologue | 01 His first labour now complete, Hercules made his way up the street to the storage depot for ...
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### You may need me after too many

My first, a sight to behold before a drink My second, in the drink My third, a place for a drink My last, what may arise among lads after some drinks What am I?
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### What patterns could be applied in order to solve a Sudoku?

Related to this Q&A. I am looking for a pattern that could be applied in order to solve this Sudoku. The current patterns that I apply: Ensure that every digit appears once in every block Ensure ...
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### Figure out the pattern

$0,4,8,21,52,65,96$ Given this set of numbers figure out the pattern they follow and write down the next seven numbers in the sequence. Hint:
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### Knights covering a 9x9 chess board

What is the minimum number of knights you need to place on a 9x9 chess board, such that every empty cell is attacked by at least one knight? Here is a similar question for a 10x10 chess board: ...
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### The Riddle - I Own the Value Less Than Nine

I own the value less than nine; Mother makes me if child get cry; Manager checks me to find which is high; Lose me, addicts might be about to die; I could be either Apple or Android side; ...
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### Masyu keep making those 3D puzzles?

This is a three-dimensional Masyu puzzle. The five squares depict the layers of a $5\times5\times5$ cube. The goal is to make a single loop in 3D space which fulfills the following properties: ...
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### Piece de Resistance - Jack in all Tags… But Master in All?

Jack in all Tags... But Master in All? This puzzle is part of the "Piece de Resistance" series. Go back to Part 1 (Ace) for the story.Ace Two Three Four Five Six Seven Eight Nine Ten Queen King... ...
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### Knights covering a 10x10 chess board

What is the minimum number of knights you need to place on a 10x10 chess board, such that every empty cell is attacked by at least one knight? Good luck!
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### You see a boat filled with people [on hold]

You see a boat filled with people. It has not sunk, but when you look again you don't see a single person on the boat. Why?
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### Double feature: In concert

This puzzle is part 3 of the Double feature series (first part here). The series will continue in "Double feature: Hot stuff". Rules of Ripple Effect1 Fill the grid so that each cell ...
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### Four hand tiled squares demonstrating a Pythagorean Quadruple

Demonstrating the Pythagorean Quadruple $6\times6 + 6\times6 + 7\times7 = 11\times11$ Using the pieces shown in the $11\times11$ square: The objective: Arrange the pink pieces (four enneominoes) ...
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### I love fishing, dancing, playing, crafting, and fighting

I'm not a sketch, but I can be drawn, I'm not origami, but I can be folded, I'm not a pill, but I can be swallowed, I'm not a haircut, but I can be short or long, I love fishing, dancing, playing, ...
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### The scales never lie (oh yes they do!)

There are $10$ coins, one of which is a fake, and weighs either more or less than the others - you don't know which. There are two sets of scales - one tells the truth, the other lies (always says ...
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### Beware! Beware!

What are, famously... Ebon, sienna High, low Within, without, ubiquitous Distant, close Absent, present Swift and slippery, not to be trusted
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### Give the name of this “outlaw” [on hold]

Who/what am I? I am a stunning fresh shiny bandit HINT: HINT2:
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### 10x10 grid with no unpainted hexominoes

What is the smallest number of cells you need to paint in an 10x10 grid, such that it contains no unpainted hexominoes? Note that a hexomino is a set of 6 adjacent cells (horizontally or vertically). ...
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### 8x8 grid with no unpainted pentominoes

What is the smallest number of cells you need to paint in an 8x8 grid, such that it contains no unpainted pentominoes? Can you find multiple solutions? Note that a pentomino is a set of 5 adjacent ...
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### How to fill up the numbers in a set of empty discs drawing a pentagon?

The following pentagon is composed by $10$ discs. Each disc must be filled with one number. The allowed numbers to be used are the first $10$ even positive numbers. The sum of the numbers to be placed ...
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### How to flip top row center pieces on a 4x4x4 Rubik's cube? [duplicate]

I'm trying to solve a 4x4x4 Rubik's cube by first reducing it to 3x3x3 and I'm stuck in the end. I've completed all sides, matched all corners, but two pieces remain and I can't figure out how to flip ...
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### Family Relations

Now I am not sure if these kind of questions are allowed on this site but I found it interesting so here i go A points to B and says " His grandfather adopted my grandfather " . Now what is ...
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### It's right here. It's very very far

IT IS DIVINE IT’S A KILLER IT’S A GIFT IT’S A MEASURE IT’S A SOLID IT’S A LIQUID IT’S QUICK IT’S A CAR IT’S HERE IN A GLASS HOUSE IT’S VERY VERY FAR ...
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### Find the missing link from the following verbal series

Three links are missing from the following series, one of them is a word. The answer is the word. bass gland guitar venom
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### 10x10 divided into the most number of rectangles of different area

How can a 10x10 be divided into rectangles such that there are as many as possible and they all have different area? Can you find multiple solutions that are not mirror/rotation of each other? Good ...
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### 7x13 rectangle divided into 13 different rectangles

Can you divide a 7x13 rectangle into 13 rectangles all of different area? Can you find multiple solutions? Note that rotations and mirrors don't count as separate solutions. Here is a similar puzzle ...
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### 4x7 rectangle divided into 7 different rectangles

Can you divide a 4x7 rectangle into 7 rectangles all of different area? Can you find multiple solutions? Good luck! P.S. @Deusovi wanted me to make puzzles that have an "aha moment", so here is my ...
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### Number Sequence Puzzles : Find missing number in triangle [closed]

Solve this question plz send me answer
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### Prime magic star

Can you replace the letters with 10 consecutive primes such that the sum of numbers on each line is equal? I expect this to be solved with a computer. Good luck!
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### Partition a 3x3 square into rectangles [closed]

Yesterday I watched "The man who knew infinity" about the amazing Ramanujan. Inspired by the partitions problem from the movie I came up with a puzzle: In how many ways can you partition a 3x3 grid ...
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### Which person is telling the truth?

A person was killed. There are 4 suspects. A says C is the killer. B says C is the killer. C says that B is lying. D says that it wasn't him. There is only one person telling the truth. Who is this ...