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Puzzles that crucially depend on some feature of the English language or that only work in an English formulation.
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Confusing, Seemingly-Impossible, yet Correct sentence
What does this mean?
"The girl that a man that a dog that a complex that a landlord that a friend that a cat plays with helps owns houses loved seen plays piano."
Can you make any sense out of this? …
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Alphabet splitting extraordinaire!
Final Answer!
Sequences;
ABDOPQR; CEFGHIJKLMNSTUVWXYZ
BCDGJOPQRSU; AEFHIKLMNTVWXYZ
DFHIJLNOPRTUVXYZ; ABCEGKMQSW
ANSWERS (credit to squeamish ossifrage for the 3rd answer):
NUMBERS:
FINAL AN …
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I am used to keep people out
I am used to keep people out
Divide me in half to gain access
Replace access's end to discover your history
Replace history's beginning to meet your end
What is it I am talking about?
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I am used to comprehend
I am used to comprehend
Add one letter and I'm your food
Move a letter to be magical
Drop a letter to quiver in fear
What exactly am I talking about?
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I am a basic necessity for survival
I am a basic necessity for survival
Drop survival's end and I'm a temple for meditation
Repeat temple's last to electrical
Replace electricity's first to sleep well at a friend's
What on Ea …
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answer
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Many forms I take
Many forms I take
Unification I aim to make
I can make you act quite dumb
Cause your tongue to go numb
Appearing in every nation
I am the cause of relation
I can control
Even ani …
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Make the question less broad [closed]
Recently a question of mine was put on hold for being too broad: Longest $Scramble Sentence$?
Or if you prefer have this in the one window:
Before we begin, allow me to define what I call a Scramb …
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answers
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What is it in my eyes that will result in humanity's demise?
The following stanzas
Are hints to the answer
Each a part of the end
Their piece they defend
I am found out in the ground
I can be bought by the pound
I'm put on the line
So in the end you c …
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Longest $Scramble Sentence$? [closed]
Before we begin, allow me to define what I call a Scramble Sentence,
A Scramble Sentence is a grammatically correct sentence, where at least 1 other permutation, of the letters in the sentence, ex …
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answers
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Wait wait wait wait... 1=0? [duplicate]
Wasn't quite sure if this was suitable for Puzzling; however it has a problem/puzzle in it, so decided to give it a shot. Please appropriately downvote if you feel you should.
Yesterday morning I cam …
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3
answers
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Shortest sentence with 2 sets of synonyms? [closed]
Current Best: 13 characters
This time I'm asking you guys to determine the shortest possible grammatically correct english sentence that includes 2 pairs of synonyms (different words that mean the same …
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votes
1
answer
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What is a Scientific Word™
If a word has a certain property, I call it a Scientific Word™.
In each of the short, unrelated sentences below, only one of the choices is a Scientific Word™.
The sentences do not affect whether a …
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answers
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Shortest sentence with two auto-antonyms [closed]
This sentence must be a grammatically correct English sentence.
It's ok to use minor variations on words such as plurals or conjugated verb forms. …
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4
answers
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From Puzzle to Riddle to Solution
Your goal is to create a word ladder that goes from the word "puzzle" to the word "riddle" and then to the word "solution". In that order!
That is, if it's possible, if not you better show me why not …
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5
answers
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Longest Calculator Word? [closed]
Current Best; Babingtonites = 5371207621898; 13 letters
We all know from fooling around with a calculator at some point in our lives, the when we turn a calculator upside down we can make words. For …
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