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### What is the number 4.9292683…?

Guess the next digits of this number. Where does it came from? 4.9292683
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### Infinite Troll Tolls

So, recently there was a very good riddle posted here: Paying the Troll toll. I would like to propose a similar question which might have been partially answered. But anyways... So, same basic idea ...
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### Cora's Death Logic Puzzle

When Cora was killed, Anna and Beth were questioned by the police about the manner of her death by poison. Anna: If it was a murder, Beth did it. Beth: If it was not suicide, it was murder. The ...
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### What are the next 5 numbers in the sequence?

It's a simple pattern I thought of. Here it is: 1,1,1,3,3,6,6,10,10,22,22,44,44,84,?,?,?,?,? Whoever gives the correct answer and a good explanation gets best answer.
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### About Knights and Knaves and their consistency

On an Island of Knights and Knaves (where Knights always tell the truth and Knaves always lie), a Knight will never contradict himself unless some true fact changes. I was wondering: can a Knave ...
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### Witches and Cats

This being Halloween, we will consider the problem of witches and their cats. The whole crowd is out tonight, naturally, and an interested observer, seeing them fly by (yes, witches' cats fly), ...
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### Recover the Ripped Quote

Bruce found a nice quote on the web, then wrote it in on a square piece of paper and left it somewhere in his room. The quote had exactly 64 characters excluding spaces. He has written the characters ...
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### Odd birthdate surprise

Last year, just before my birthday in February, I noticed something unsual. The last two digits of my birth year were the same as my age. How old was I then and was this an unusual occurrence?
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### The Ball Factory Worker

A woman works at a ball factory. She's instructed to open up a ball creation kit composed of one red rubber ball and two strips of digit stickers from $0$ through $9$. She's instructed to do the ...
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### Find 10 triangles in a five pointed star using two straight lines

This puzzle consists of counting ten triangles (check three sides for each one, remember that there aren't exist triangles with more than three sides :P ) using two straight lines that cross the ...
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The unexpected hanging paradox is as follows: A judge tells a condemned prisoner that he will be hanged at noon on one weekday in the following week but that the execution will be a surprise to ...
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### About the island of Knights and Knaves

On one of the Islands of Knights and Knaves you land for the purposes of an anthropological survey. The Island has Knights who always tell the truth ( if they know enough information regarding a ...
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### Oxford versus Cambridge - a geographical puzzle [closed]

What is a geographical similarity between Cambridge University and Oxford University related to their 'titles'?
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### How to let all people in Group A talk to all people in Group B in a shortest amount of time?

Ok, let say Group A has N number of people, and Group B has M number of people. I want each person in Group A to have a fixed T time conversation ( time T is fixed like 5 min or 10 min) with each ...
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### origin of the “missing dollar puzzle”

I am wondering when the missing dollar puzzle first appeared. I am sure I read it forty years ago or so, but maybe it is much older. Does anyone knows it?
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### Non-Diagonal Pointing Problem

You can see the rules for pointing problem at this article. It has been clarified that there is no solution to this question. But, what if we remove the diagonal rule? is there any solution?
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### Write digits 1 to 9 in the table, each pointing to next 3x3 grid

Write 1 to 9 digits in an empty Sudoku table with these rules (similar to 9-Queen problem): There are 9 Boxes indexed from 1 to 9 in the image below. and each box has a 3x3 grid child. Every two ...
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### Horses and Tracks

I have seen this question before and I am intrigued that there might be various ways it can be solved. I do know of one way, but I am trying to find out if there is any other approach possible. The ...
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### Entangled physicists

The anti-intellectuals have won the war, and under the iron rule of emperor Nonotin anyone who has been deemed too smart for their own good has been brought to labour camps. But most of the science ...
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### Find the order of students presentation(logical puzzle)

Four students P, Q, R and S each working under the super vision of one of the four professors A, B, C and D made their final year MBA Project Presentations one by one, one each in the areas of Finance,...
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### Find the pattern of matrices

fill the matrix correctly and the guess the Letter and number of 5th matrix: PS: I'm sure you won't need options!
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### The defective clock

James has a defective clock in his room. The clock is digital, and some of the seven bars on its units digit are broken. A bar that works is on when it should be and off when it should be, whereas a ...
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### How to control the whole board with 8 standard pieces?

How to control the whole board with 8 standard pieces (one king, one queen, two rooks, two knights, two bishops)? P.S. A piece doesn't control a cell simply by staying on it, so another piece must ...
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### is there any sudoku puzzle combined with magic square?

As everyone know in Sudoku sum of each row and column is 45. so all Sudoku solutions are some kind of magic square. but my question is: Have anyone seen a Sudoku puzzle combined with the magic ...
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### Find the next number in the series?

Find the value of 'a' and 'b' in the following series. 100,101,120,103,410,321,205,404,60a,5b2
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### Color the Table

Color each cell of the table with following rules: Yellow and Orange cells are adjacent, but Red and Black are not. Cell with number 3 is White, Green, Blue or Red and the cell with number 5 is not ...
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### Split 12 liters in half with 5 and 8 liter bottles [duplicate]

You have 12 liters of apple juice in a 12 liters bucket and you want to share it with your best friend. But you have an empty 8-liter and an empty 5-liter bottle. How do you split the apple juice in ...
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### The seven piece silver chain

You have to stay for 7 days in a hotel outside your city. But you forgot to bring your credit card and are out of cash. You have a silver chain with 7 links. The rule in this hotel is that residents ...
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### Two doors with two guards - one lies, one tells the truth

You are a prisoner in a room with 2 doors and 2 guards. One of the doors will guide you to freedom and behind the other is a hangman --you don't know which is which. One of the guards always tells ...