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We're just hanging out, man
I believe your partner is
the words are
and the significance of your games is that
The five words so far are
The sixth must have been
and the reason you have not heard from him is that
and ...
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Pi is a perfect square!
Your students should probably brush up on their
So let's clear things up, shall we?
Why is pi a perfect square?
Why is four not a perfect square?
What's going on with the number theory?
"That ...
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Construct a meaningful phrase
A suitable phrase would be:
Why? Because:
So, for my chosen example:
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How one would solve the Cisternian cipher problem?
Here's one way you might go about it.
Part 1: General Structure
I see that all of these symbols have a big diagonal line through them, all in exactly the same way. That seems like it must be important!...
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Functions and their Codewords
The functions work out as follows:
To demonstrate...
Which means our missing two are:
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Fun with Flags part 11: flexable flags
The two eight-letters words are:
The obvious:
The Seychelles
United States
South Korea
Iran
Eswatini
Mongolia
Brazil:
Belize
The final answer:
Credit where it's due:
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Noughts and Crosses and... there's more?
First, as clued in the hint,
Looking at the grids in the first row, we note that
Interpreting
Looking at the bottom row of grids
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Coded Formula 1 Champions
The drivers and constructors you see are
The fourth row should be completed by
The fifth row should be completed by
Because
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Spell My Username in The Following Code (i.e. Cheese Cake)
One tentative answer, which supposes Q's representation is not 13. So I may be wrong....
Encoding explanation:
Based on this rules, the missing letters are encoded as follow
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Spell My Username in The Following Code (i.e. Cheese Cake)
I think the answer is
Explanation (credits to @franckvivien for figuring out the most part of the solution):
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Communication via a Rubik's cube
I would send something like the first picture as my 'Rosetta stone' and hope to get something like the second one. Decoding the spaces should not be a big problem and reading the message makes almost ...
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The Empty Cube (Interactive Puzzle)
Solutions for five faces, and some ideas for where to go from there.
With some assistance from @Stiv and @wimi.
7:9BOJ: Not solved
7:41OC1:
6:1EG:
b21:3P2:
61:7RP:
1:2EG:
Putting it all together:...
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Communication via a Rubik's cube
A 5x5x5 cube has around 2.8E74 possible states. So if your character had some algorithm that allowed them to order all those states then any specific cube carries about 247 bits of information. ...
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Is Daryl Jr.'s Birthday Card Hiding Something?
A community wiki answer to share the solution of the wordsearch, initial letters circled:
Shared in the hope this might help others spot the word property and next steps...
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How one would solve the Cisternian cipher problem?
Deusovi's given one solution. Here's an alternative way to start. Uniquely among the possible answers, 7 has only one non-zero digit, and among the symbols, (g) has an addition to the baseline in only ...
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