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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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A pilot's messages
Two things jumped out at me as soon as I saw this puzzle.
Firstly, the mixed-case letter strings on the far right. Several of them look like
Secondly, the all-caps letter strings in the middle. ...
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Geography at the pixel level
Looks like
Once all of the places are found,
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What crime have we committed?
Following on from NudgeNudge who got halfway with
This can be shortened to
Adding where we initiated
Whats inbetween and the two lower rated
this combination leads straight to a street
we keep ...
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This month's $100 question (not a real prize)
Part 1: The Solved Grid
The solved grid is below:
The logic for the left side portions was relatively straightforward. There were no particularly difficult steps - just searching for the next place ...
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What crime have we committed?
Partial:
We start in a city that rhymes with angina,
the masculine form,
add in what's drunk in China,
then take phylum's first six,
of the minor kind,
components will make what in our hand we ...
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My little sister & I
You are in
Reasoning:
We are not twins:
I love her very much:
Another possibility would be:
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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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Ten miles south, east, north and west
I think there are three(ish) choices. The simplest one is
To find the other solutions, we have to notice that
This means we can also start
and then we can, of course, start
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Rating words from best to worst
The AA rated words are words which
The seventeen are
Following this rule a Z rated word is
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Charlie goes on vacation
I'm guessing he's really going to
The trick is that
For my first stop, I will be flying to Vienna. Hope to snorkel in the Great Barrier Reef and maybe see some kangaroos as well!
My second stop is ...
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Spilled coffee on my puzzle
The missing clues are
After filling the rest of the clues (and figuring out better words for 5, 6, and 9 particularly), you get
If you now fill in the mystery clues, you get
Which finally fits the ...
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Order the cities, then find which one is not described
First, I looked at Elbasan, which I wasn't aware of previously, and noticed that
From that I found that
I placed the cities in the grid as follows
I then replaced the cities with
This left me with
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IATA Airport Abbreviations
The answer is
Super cool puzzle, as usual. I spun my wheels for a while trying to
The trick is to
Below are the screenshots.
Names:
And the names attached to the diagram in the puzzle:
For those ...
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Flag Interpretation
The UN member state whose flag has been re-designed is
First we note that
Then we look at their suggestions and notice that
If we
Then the re-designed flag
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A hard to find country
You are:
I share a border with France
I'm bigger than Belgium
I have red in my flag
I'm smaller than Poland
I'm south of Denmark
I have no cross in my flag
I have direct access to the Atlantic ...
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Seafront Metropolis
Gladys is in
Let's solve the clues:
Alternative to 9, to complete a KQJT hand
Counterpart of the above, on Stack Exchange
Characteristic of the upper classes, in British parlance
Cheesemaking ...
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Is humanity truly doomed?
The countries are:
Dominican Republic
Norway
Turkey
Spain
Iceland
Tonga
Serbia
Turkey
Uganda
Greenland
Estonia
Argentina
Thailand
Iceland
Norway
Macau
Reunion
We can get a message by
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International Hunger Crisis
Complete answer -
Letters/blots:
Anecdote:
Letters ordered by appearance in the anecdote:
Letters ordered alphabetically by blot letter:
So...still dunno the final answer. Terrible ...
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A transgenre puzzle with rowing
Capital city that matches [A-H]+,
Although almost every capital city has at least one of those letters, let's use a poetically liberal regexp engine that allows no ...
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Where’s the Puzzle?
Gladys is in:
To work this out, note that each paragraph (bar one)...
Taking this paragraph by paragraph then... (note that I may not have caught all references, since there are A LOT!)
Paragraph 1:
...
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Anyone Seen My Snorkel?
Gladys is visiting...
"mqoı ugw7qж" means...
The letter reads (in English),
Following the directions...
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Romans and Germans and such
Fielding this:
My beginning is a halogen. My middle is Roman. My ending is Swedish. My whole was Roman.
My beginning is a dessert. My middle is German. My ending makes plurals. My whole was ...
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Introducing Gladys, an intrepid globetrotter
I think the answer is
Completed Nonogram
Traversed Maze
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'Pointless' US states
The rule can be found by realizing that
Here is how that lazy production team assigned scores:
So the best remaining state is
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