New answers tagged enigmatic-puzzle
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Words for Small Sets
You are a ...
The words in the list are ...
It looks as if the numbers ...
But there's an important hint:
And that's ...
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All twelve the same
The phrase you are looking for is:
We note that (as @new QOpenGLWidget posted) "A-Order" likely means
This yields:
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All twelve the same
A partial answer.
"A-Order" seems to mean alphabetical order, so let's order our words in alphabetical order.
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Rules, rules, rules... still not enough!
The rules of the game resemble
The class of Bounty Hunter can only be unlocked after stage seventy-five has passed.
The amount of players can be modified mid-game, but only if the most experienced ...
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Famous faces, different ways
Noting that...
...and we can identify them all as follows:
We can immediately notice that...
Looking now at the letter arrangements below the images...
So what is the final two-word answer?
The ...
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They're all OURS (GHI)
The two-word phrase is:
All of the triplets in the left-hand column are actually:
As for the title:
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Excellence? Perfection? Success?
The word we are looking for is:
ACENT / CENOS / AEGNTT / ACGNNOTT
EEEJNSWY / AEEHIMNPRSW / AACHILNNORRT / AAEERLW / KNORWY / AGIINRV / AACEHMSSSTTU / AAEINNNPSVY / EGGIOR / CCCEINOTTU / AALMNRY
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When you look at this try not to get dizzy!
To solve this puzzle, note that:
Once we do that...
A note on the title:
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In vino veritas
Having spent already three weeks at the forge, I'm slowly starting to develop a feeling of urgency. While the blacksmith is also notorious for his long drinking benders, anything over three weeks ...
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The Cryptic Safe
I'll start with a partial answer, since I'm stuck. Here's what I have so far
EDIT 1: added a bit more progress
The safe:
The letter:
The picture
What's left:
That's what I have. It's not much but ...
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Shocking Singing Logic
I think the answer is
Because there are two different arrangements that make all of the statements true, which are (in order of A, B, C, D, E, *)
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A puzzle with grids and lines
The seven black diamonds are
When applied to the images,
But I don't know what song that is referring to.
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What is 12 in this same pattern?
Partial answer.
Googling OEIS plus some of the numbers, I found
which led me to:
so we're looking for values A, B, C such that
and apparently
Running this through a spreadsheet gives the following ...
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Resolve an old controversy
Since `` is used to normally denote an inline code in markdown, I guess the controversy is between the spaces and tabs. They are all spaces matching the regex <...
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Solve the last equation
we can notice a broad pattern altering between adding 0 and 4.
4+5=? applying the same logic we should be getting this answer.
(5~4) swap places 4+4=8. [58]
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The Sixth Resident
I'm fairly certain that the 6th's resident's surname is
After reading Iuri Guilherme's answer, which mentioned that all of the people are in either room A or room D, I thought
In trying many ...
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The Sixth Resident
Apartment
Name
New York Rank
Havana Rank
Cuba Rank
USA Rank
World Rank
1A
Rodriguez
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1
1
14
57
2D
Clark
646
2091
1254
22
545
3D
Jones
4
1664
2224
5
208
4A
Colon
1077
1202
1146
677
3339
5A
Zhang
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Just Some Lines To Me
Starting with what fljx did, you have to:
apply ROT13
decode as base64, get a string starting with V1Z
decode as base64, get a string starting with WVV
decode as base64, get a string starting with ...
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Just Some Lines To Me
Partial answer, getting the text down to a manageable size.
Note that the puzzle has been rewritten, the encoding for the first stage has changed, but the decoded text is the same:
Original first ...
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What's in a name?
Lovely word puzzle :) This is clearly inspired by the recent news story about:
As what we need to do is:
Resolving the left-hand column then:
The right-hand column:
Which allows us to extract the ...
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