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A short, brutal riddle
I believe the answer is
The riddle was tricky (as indicated by the title) and each of the lines is
Left alone, I'm a word with five letters.
I'm honest and fair I'll admit
Rearranged, I'm ...
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A short, brutal riddle
I'm honest and fair I'll admit:
Rearranged, I'm of no use to trains:
Again, and I'm an overt place, warm and well-lit:
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Which country did my sister visit?
Answer
The country your sister most recently visited is:
The reasoning:
What's next:
Moving on:
The last step:
Some final notes:
Regarding the handwritten note:
A final easter egg:
I ...
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Can you prove that 3 + 1 = 5?
The last line here is pretty key: three’s exact placement is directly prior to five. Since:
Regarding the title:
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The answer is the same (tricky puzzle!)
A tricky one indeed! The answers to the puzzle are:
Like so:
The shaded letters going down spell:
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A short, brutal riddle
Left alone, I'm a word with five letters.
I'm honest and fair, I'll admit.
Rearranged, I'm of no use to trains.
Again, and I'm an overt place, warm and well lit.
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Who Can Help Retag This?
Combined with @jafe's extra solutions, we now have a complete set of answers to the clues. These are:
Solutions as follows...
Gestures to stop Jacks' paving stones (solved by @jafe)
Oh! Tiny ...
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Piece de Resistance - Three Troublesome Toshes
Sad Wally, ugliest Alcatraz impala, mimeo abhorrer, lava continuo, kneels.
Mean nerd met imperiled underservant; cuckoo kisses Ina Nagle.
Met nerd, men worry cello neoclassicism negate Icaria tox ...
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What is my favorite color?
I'm pretty sure the answer is
Go to the bottom you'll see.
Rounded but right there with me.
Every morning,
Each open warning,
Negating the color you see.
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Who Can Help Retag This?
Stiv found the correct theme. Just to fill in the rest of the clues:
1. Gestures to stop Jacks' paving stones
4. Circular execution of queer joshes up with issue
7. Encrpytion device by jerk ...
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Starring Samurais - Several Scribbled Short Stories
The method:
First one:
Second one:
Third one:
Fourth one:
Fifth one:
Sixth one:
Seventh one:
Final solution:
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Let's build a tree together!
I think the answer to the riddle is:
Look for the infix, odious indeed,
Obscenities and evil, a hex, but no e.
Oddly the suffix, denotes with just three,
Prefixed by back, again, it is ?
As for ...
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What is my favorite color?
This is vastly different from my existing answer, so I'll add it in another one. I'm pretty sure this is it. Heavy thanks to @LordFarquaad for finding a LOT of this (and they deserve the bounty:)
As ...
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Do exactly what I tell you!
I know this isn't it, but I got on this train of though and couldn't get off. Not a real guess but I had fun with it
Do exactly what I tell you.
Ask me if you see the moon.
That, over there; pick ...
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Happy Holidays; here's a Riley!
I think the answer is
Jasmin, or juniper, the suffix is one.
Obscured and unseen, until we are done.
Next is the prefix, for summer's flowers.
Exactly; eight chunks, of ninety-three hours.
Summer ...
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Bold, vivid family
This feels a bit underdetermined to me, probably meaning that I'm missing some hidden hints that nail things down further. But here's one thing we can do, which meets the explicitly given requirements:...
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A Maze of Sorts
I believe the answer is
This is hinted by
Line 1
Line 2
Line 3
Line 4
How it relates to the title
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A Riley from the Future
My guess is
Sneak in the prefix, while hunting for boar; beware of bobcats, their swift silent roar.
Ask for the infix, obviously straight; oh, no that’s a lie, oh well, too late.
Indeed yes the ...
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Welcome to the Cubic Zoo!
Answers:
Animals: http://bestforpuzzles.com/lists/animals/6.html
Feline Food:
Original Test:
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See the Line Where the Sky Meets
[Attempt #2]
Some parts of this may be a bit stretched, but hopefully it's close enough to the solution.
Step 1
Step 2
Step 3
i sail eastwards
sleep i concede
riches i could earn
musings of ...
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The Web of Puzzles
Is it perhaps
Looking for an exit? You won't escape that easily,
Overwhelmed with hexes, I'll make you shift uneasily,
So many questions, but so little time,
Too few suggestions, forbidden to ...
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Enter the Vermillion
I believe the answer is:
Some work is done here which is really just my though process so forgive the lack of structure:
Better structure:
My suffix is my prefix, defined for both as well;
My infix ...
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Welcome to the Cubic Zoo!
Answer:
Bonus:
Previous partial answer, from when I thought 3-letter words needed to be animals:
Or, if the 7 sub-animals do not need to be distinct, a path of 6
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How much do you know about the internet?
What does the http and https stand for in a web address?
What is the internet protocol suite called?
What important piece of hardware began mass production in 1958?
What protocol replaced DIXIE ...
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