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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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A symmetrical number sequence

The answer is:
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Move exactly two matches to make the two sides equal

Using
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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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Move exactly two matches to make the two sides equal

Slide two matches down to get:
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kOay kOay kOay!

The single word answer is: But, but, ...
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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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Social Media Announcement

Thanks! Same to you!
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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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The Fellowship of the Square

The square Where the answers, in order are
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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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Move exactly two matches to make the two sides equal

Perhaps You take the
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Move exactly two matches to make the two sides equal

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Move exactly two matches to make the two sides equal

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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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