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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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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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Move exactly two matches to make the two sides equal
One easy way:
Other possibilities (sorry, no ascii art):
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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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Move exactly two matches to make the two sides equal
Yet another a bit "special" solution, but I would say it is not against the (current) rules, it's just a matter of interpretation.
1.
2. and another one...
3.
...and another one...
4.
... ...
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Chemistry Puzzle
The answer is
The letters on the left are
The compounds on the right are
Now
And so
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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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work more cleverly, not harder
The theme of the themes is:
Group 1:
Group 2:
Group 3:
Group 4:
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Chemistry Nobel
The gatecrasher is
who unlike
and he took the place of
Of the 2023 winners, only
I confess I haven't explicitly checked that
but I bet it's true.
I suppose I should be explicit:
Remark:
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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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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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Spinning wheels!
The 7-letter answer here is:
This can be inferred by realising that each of the seven lines...
I flipped a Swedish and I got lucky (----•----)
hawa(i)(i)an ()slands
singing in Mongolia is common (•...
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Title of this puzzle? You tell me
The puzzle is named
because
Thus the numbers
ETA: as noted in the comments by the setter
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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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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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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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the flute section keeps passing notes
My first guess was that the numeric values were
but I later decided they might be something closer to the theme, like
Either way, I decided that whatever the numeric values were, they had to
This ...
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At Last, the Crown
The 'Sith' in question is...
There are several clues in the images:
OP Edit:
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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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