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The Late Queen Gives in to Remorse - Reverse Hangman
The answer is:
Add a "C", I am what has been,
Add a "G", I might be a queen,
Add a "P", I'll turn away from sin
Add an "L" and I may just give in.
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Can you name the Country Code™?
The country code of Brazil is:
This is because:
For a full explanation for each country in the original list, see the following table:
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28 Minutes Later
The eight patient names
1:
2:
3:
4:
5:
6:
7:
8:
Summary:
And finally:
Easter eggs / references:
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A long riddle: My First is in Apple but not in Lear, …
Second word
My Tenth is in Ride and also in Row
My Eleventh is also my three
My Twelth is in Down but not in Grown
My Thirteenth is in Dinner and also in Deed
My Last Two are two different ...
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Vowelburger™ Riddle
Today's Vowelburger comes with:
Just check out our menu:
So, what's for dessert?! :)
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Speak without using the letter "b"
You could count upwards from 1, because none of the numbers less than a billion contains the letter "b".
However, this might be repeating words if "101" is considered to contain "one". (The version I'...
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As easy as Three, Two, One... How fast can you go from Five to Four?
Just signed up to share some of the solutions (3 of them) I was able to come up with in 6 steps:
OH MAN! After a lot of searching I was able to do it in 5 steps (5 solutions):
I confirmed the words ...
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'SILVER' -> ‘LESIRU' and 'GOLDEN' -> 'LEGOND', so 'NATURE' -> what?
It looks like there's a typo in the question:
If so, here is how I solved it:
Then the answer is:
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You think YOU have it bad?
Full answer with lots of help:
They took from me something near to my heart. I crossed the Atlantic, my short became long, but I was still essentially myself.
I gave up heroin. I introduced my ...
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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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Avoid consuming broken cereal?
The dance is a
First we notice that
To the right are four squares.
The first square
The second square
The third square
The fourth square
For the clues at the compass points
North
Northeast
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What is the smallest set of letters that can spell any integer?
Explanation:
Extension:
Other possibilities:
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Is this a game to you?
The stranger's mission is
As Tonkleton found in their answer,
Given this hint, we can then discover that
Finally, we
Other clues that validate this answer:
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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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Unusual letter combinations
The final answer is
formed by the words
I tried to reconstruct who came up with individual words first; which is kind of hard given the timelines and grace period edits. Apologies for any mistakes.
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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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Known for my code
I am known for my code
if you add a letter before my last one my first three letters are never eaten by my last five letters
what is my first letter
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