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### Order the elements of this set using the clues provided

We must order the elements A, B, C, D, and E. We are told about the ordering A B C D E None of the elements are in their correct positions and none of the elements above correctly follow their ...
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### This is not an eggplant

It sure is self centered! I think it's fast! Hot, I say, definitely hot! It's ALIVE! You may say that it's kind of angry (but I wouldn't say it to its face). It's definitely big. Looks like someone ...
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### A word puzzle about complimenting one's appearance

Think of a unit of measurement. Now rearrange its letters and read them out loud to form a sentence (an example would be u r a b, meaning "You are a bee"). Make sure the sentence compliments someone ...
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### Solitaire wins and losses

Let say a solitaire game can be solved 1 in 10 plays. (A play is defined as shuffling of cards and trying to solve the solitaire). If after each successfully solved game we skip 8 games (we ...
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### How can this be right?

I'm a typical human being in a real place, on this planet Earth, right about now, in a developed country, in an everyday situation. I realise that for me, right is simultaneously left, right, and ...
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### Ten suspicious coasters

Last Friday I've been out with nine friends and we went to a new bar in town, called "Take it Easy" bar or something. We had a great time as a group. Well, I think most of the group had. I ...
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Saturday, 2nd April 2016 - somewhere several meters below surface "Report, agent." "Mission 'Capture the bird' was not fully successful, sir. The ...
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### What country is missing?

What's missing? Russia, ___, Egypt, Kazakhstan, USA, Azerbaijan, Georgia. (In order of most commonly seen when looking this up) Hint Hint2: Hint 3: Hint 4 Hint 5
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### I wave when you don't, and when you do

I wave when you don't, and when you do, Only because I look up to you. Watch as I dance with my jelly-like bones, That can't be broken by sticks or stones. My eyes go deep when you closely stare, But ...
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### Are perfect cubes possible?

Based on this. Can you find 4 distinct integers a, b, c, and d such that a+b, b+c, c+d, a+b+c, b+c+d and a+b+c+d are all perfect cubes? If not, prove it.
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### A Monster of A Riddle

On my own I am large, But give me fruit, Or an insect, Or even a flower, I'll grow small. Take any letter away and rearranged, You could have hundreds, Maybe an instrument, Perhaps one element,...
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### What is the 'best' way to tilt through a D20?

A regular D20 die (icosahedron) as depicted above has the number 1 to 20 arranged on its faces such that the sum of opposing faces is 21. Each triangular face touches three other faces directly by a ...
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### Perfect Squares!

A question was asked in a mental ability test yesterday. Write four distinct numbers with these properties: 1. Sum of each pair is a perfect square. 2. Sum of all four is also a perfect ...
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### One plus five is four?

First puzzle! Might be a little easy... :P Real life has you feeling bore,      or maybe you puzzle to feel alive. Must it all be just a chore? A fake world is where some thrive,      no meaning in ...
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### I rest and sing and sing or help - What am I?

On my own or in a pair, I might rest quietly at your side. In greater numbers we may hang and sing about your adventures. More again and we might sing to a crowd, or perhapse help you give ...
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### Can you find the pattern? What two letters are missing from this sequence?

What are the two missing letters in the sequence below? JT SH PM JC KC __ JT Hint:
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### Extension of Four Is Cosmic

The fact that four is cosmic, at least in English, is quite well discussed. However, what if we instead took a number and then took the first letter of its word form that number and converted it to ...
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### Someone I've seen

NOTE: This is another take on a riddle/rhyme kind of puzzle. My previous one didn't get a lot of good reception, and so I've tried to make this one not fall to the same fate. Hopefully you enjoy it. ...
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### What changes can be made to make Matthew happy?

When Matthew eats at a buffet, he has one serving of each dish, but never goes back for seconds. When asked the name of his favorite animal, Matthew lists 26, each starting with a different letter. ...
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### granola bar math puzzle [closed]

On a box of granola bars it says: "60 % bigger than regular granola bar (based on weight compared to regular bar"). The regular, 24 g, granola bars come in a box of 8 bars. The big, 42 g, granola ...
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### A friendly jigsaw

This puzzle belongs to the puzzle series: hyper-modern art The two friends in the gallery of hyper-modern art move into a room which is painted completely in black and white. Strange, wavy lines ...
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### Someone is trying to warn you--with a voice

You're a KGB agent currently in Russia who had experience with weird email. Now, you had received an envelope from the front of your door with the following: A letter saying "Fly to this airport." A ...
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### A simple riddle [closed]

When you are on top of tree and have no support, you had to trust me. What am I?
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### English is so confusing! Can one word have two opposite meanings?

Having just recently moved to the United States from Japan with her family Miyo has been working hard trying to understand the English language. Miyo's parents encourage her to focus on reading and ...
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### The Twins and the Number of Candies

Yveti and Xerni are twins. Their mischievous friend, Cubo, one day decides to give them a riddle. Cubo comes up to them and says, "I have two bags of candies in my bag. The first of you two to guess ...
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### Do exactly what I say! [closed]

Inspired by Infinite Precision No, I'm not picky, I just want things done exactly right. Complete 5 of these tasks (tell me how you would do them) and I will give you exactly 25 bragging points. I ...