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A never ending puzzle
This was quite a journey, with several "a-ha!" moments required to reach the conclusion. I left in some of the memo notes I wrote to myself while solving, hope it makes the thought processes ...
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A Trivial Pursuit #25: Meta-Analysis
The overall answer is a very fitting trivial pursuit:
Or is it 20 words? (Or does the hyphen make it 21?)
Which happens to be the
How did we get here? Many probably saw this outright but I was ...
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Missing photograph
The missing photograph is one of:
To work this out, first identify the pictured people. These are all:
This means we need to identify...
This would be:
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[PHRASE DESCRIBING THIS PUZZLE]
This puzzle requires some...
For the first stage of the puzzle, each of the four columns of words (alpha through delta) needs to be matched to a different quadrant of the diagram before these four ...
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PSE Advent Calendar 2023 (Day 5): Twin-brother waiters
Ok so I have an answer but not the most perfect method. I think the answer is the Christmas food:
a lot more christmassy than pig lips ;) onto the method..
First up, the menu has Christmas dishes on ...
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Not once, but twice
The answer to this puzzle is:
We get this by combining the answers to each of the 3 sub-puzzles...
1. The array of numbers, headed 'pattern':
2. The rebus involving four jacks:
3. The 'nth' boxes:
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PSE Advent Calendar 2023 (Day 7): The Oracle Rambles On and On
The Oracle is...
The emojis before the numbers in each line...
The numbers...
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The invisible O
I think
because
Thus in the first grid
and in the second
and in the third
the fourth
the fifth
giving
Or, visually:
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What weight is it?
After reading all the comments and hints, my guess is to replace the question mark with the flag of:
My assumption to arrive at this answer was:
That will be:
As pointed out by others:
Also:
...
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Pantomime Ladies
They were
The yawn
As @caPNCApn pointed out, requesting the other sister stop
the "had enough"
the timeout
the crucifix
the break again
and
to finally
The title
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PSE Advent Calendar 2023 (Day 7): The Oracle Rambles On and On
The oracle is telling you
The rebus are just hinting at the 9 reindeers
In order
Take all the numbers with the rebus and and take the letter it corresponds to with each answer of the rebus you get
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PSE Advent Calendar 2023 (Day 5): Twin-brother waiters
Big shoutout to @sean47, who provided a basis for a lot of this answer, and to @noneuclideanisms for a very important insight. Go check out sean's answer and upvote it if you haven't already.
The ...
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College Athletes
Ok here goes:
To solve this you need to...
Puzzle 1 Answer is
Puzzle 2 Answer is
Puzzle 3 Answer is
Puzzle 4 Answer is
Puzzle 5 Answer is
Puzzle 6 Answer is
Puzzle 7 Answer is
Puzzle 8 Answer ...
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Vegas Grand Prix - Ideal Grid
I noticed immediately that
Thanks to Hint 1, I noticed that
After some nudging from M Oehm, I realised that the next step was to
The resulting pattern is in fact
The reason he couldn't be included ...
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Escape from a Grand Canyon
Overall Solution
The Pig Latin clue tells us we have 12 digits and also gives us 4 more instructions:
Let's tap those colour keys in the order we can see in the spoiler above. We get:
Partial ...
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Name, Place, Animal, Thing
The famous South African should be
The name of the two first people
Now for the "thing" which is suppose to be represented by a famous South African
Here is an image:
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Can't overthink my daunting, challenging ask
Here is my attempt at the answer, which is an image:
Reasoning:
Next we create the key from what we know:
Now at this point we have already noticed that the title
The next step is to stare at this ...
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Blunt Talk, Shrubby Barquentine
I stand in the East, facing West in all directions
A day’s sail, just across the line
This must refer to
Possibilities at this stage are
Unlucky year, a ship ran aground...
So we're probably ...
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When I said I used sugar in coffee, I was asked, "For tea, too?"
I believe the answer is
My road is filled with answers,...
... and my body has the hints,...
... but it is in my head where the question sits...
... My shoes are brand new, hence their tags...
......
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The newcomers' maze
The maze itself is easy to solve, but obviously that's not the main part of the puzzle:
My first thought was that
But then I hit on something better:
However, I haven't been able to figure out
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A 6x6 table with nothing filled out?
The completed grid:
Where do we start?
Let's start solving:
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Kitty watches TV
This information may well be almost 6 years too late for Kitty to make an impact, but I believe the bomb is hidden in:
Why? Because looking at the list of shows (and movie series, in the case of ...
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What weight is it?
This is only a partial answer.
My first idea is:
My second thought is:
The ideas above are a bit shaky, so I could be way off track.
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