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A puzzle in 140 characters
NOTE: If you upvote this, please upvote the puzzle itself too! It took far more effort to make than my solution did.
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This is important. I need you to listen…
(Thanks to f'' for the help in chat! He solved the majority of this puzzle - I just came in at the end.)
Step 1: Crossword
The crossword was solved by feelinferrety, Z. Dailey, and Sleafar:
Step 2: ...
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You have prepared. You are determined. You approach the door
After a period of thought, you approach the door triumphantly in order to type in
as the keycode.
As you do so, you recall the reasoning that led you to this conclusion. Putting together the torn ...
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Strange women and their strange ways of giving you phone numbers
Her name is
Her phone number is
Because
The translated message is:
Which, converted to plain text is:
The result above
Translating this, we get:
These are the
Which spells out the following:
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Caught splinging at work
"What kind of trouble am I in?" You're... having a small stroke? :P But seriously:
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Paper Picture Puzzle
At first, this solves fairly simply.
The pictures are:
And the message is:
So, what do we do next?
The trick to this puzzle is that...
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I'm a noob, plz help me quick!
So, you want me to...
I vote to close as "unclear what you're asking". ;)
The solution:
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For all your flag design needs
Your business seems to be ...
Panda, Brandon and commenters have already figured out ...
So let's do that and we see:
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Do you *really* know Stack Exchange?
More partial answer, work in progress:
As noted in Rupert Morrish's answer:
The hint:
So if we decode the cipher text found above using that cipher and key, we get:
So if we ROT-13 the remaining ...
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What is Lukas Rotter's secret?
It's
Because
To elaborate, ASCII is a standardized representation of text which assigns a numeric value to 128 different characters.
The RGB color space is an additive color model where we mix red, ...
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The Thirteen Doors of Aj Noc'la
The answer is
as pointed out,
Added info: To get the answer:
OP edit: here's a gif that might help visualise the above explanation:
Also note that the clue poem states:
Brilliant puzzle - used ...
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100 pieces 1 opportunity, choose wisely!
What you're missing here is the chance of playing at all, given that the game ends when someone finds the prize. (or, chance of finding a prize goes to 0, which is the same thing)
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A Message to the SE Admins
The message for the SE Admins is:
This can be found by looking at something hidden in the answers to each of the clues:
Albertan politician who succeeded Lucien Maynard (6, 7)
Approved for ...
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A Riddle Within a Riddle
The final riddle, found by others is:
Which gives
So the final answer is:
which is indeed how
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Miniature Puzzle
Final Answer
The bottom left
The bottom middle
The bottom right
Top 3 rows, part 1R
Top 3 rows, part 1G
Top 3 rows, part 1B
Top three rows, part 2
Top three rows, part 2R
Top three rows, part ...
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Grandpa's crazy math. Another Grandpa Mystery
2.72
1000 x 10000
Relatively speaking I think Grandpa is a genius
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Honeycomb: a hexagonal grid of letters
Starting with the bottom,
On the left,
On the right,
In the middle,
And for the top,
And now the final puzzle can be solved:
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Who's not welcome here?
I'm going to guess it's the
based on the observation that
Particularly, they could be
So, the odd one out would then be
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How many questions are there on Stack Exchange?
When you single click on a stack exchange site (i.e. Stack overflow) it gives you the number of questions on that site.
I just did this with every site and added them all up. The answer is there are ...
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