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Find the hidden word (Harry Potter theme)
Each rectangle of letters gives
Top row:
Bottom row:
At first I'd thought the dots in some rectangles would be
Now, what can we do with these words we've got?
Another idea is to
Thanks to Stiv, ...
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Shakespeare. William Shakespeare
Here's a shot. All but the 2nd are on this nifty Wikilist:
How oft the potion, orange in hue
delights my sense among the dew.
Indeed this land can scarce contain
Our presence should we both remain.
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A Harry Potter sequence puzzle
The next term in the sequence is:
Because:
EDIT: Since some commenters wish to understand the thought process behind my solving this puzzle, here's roughly how I approached it:
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Vizzini has captured Buttercup!
Continuing M Oehm's work: if we continue until we have used the whole message, base64-decoding what comes after the text he posted yields:
The block of garbled letters does not appear to be English ...
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A Trivial Pursuit #04 (Art and Literature 1/4): Threesome
First note that for each row, the @ represents the same symbol
Each describes a three-word phrase:
Note that for each three-word phrase, there is exactly one (unique!) common letter among the three ...
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Three linked oppograms
The author is:
Oppograms:
Order from nothing:
Wild whole no:
Received low out:
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The German Terrorist
Given the story, it stands to reason that
Given that information, here are the Wikipedia pages he probably visited:
He hit these pages when searching for this target city,
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♥Veni♀Vidi♂Vici☠
You are
♥Veni♀Vidi ♂Vici☠
Third in a line, bred to be realistic,
Somewhat compassionate, not too sadistic.
Taught a new game, I learned how to rack 'em.
In spite of their cheating, I improv'd and ...
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Not like the one in Texas
You are
Why?
And for the title (credit to @Prim3numbah for pointing out what I missed):
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A Trivial Pursuit #16 (Art and Literature 3/4): X
The final answer is:
Getting there:
First, some answers to the clues around the grid:
Left:
Right:
Top:
Bottom:
Graphically:
Putting it all together
Finally:
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11 Harry Potter rebus puzzles which together spell a word
COMPLETE SOLUTION: The solutions to the 12 rebuses are as follows...
Noting that:
This then anagrams to the final answer:
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A riddle in James Still's "River of Earth"
My guess would be
Explanation:
First green
and then yeller, (sic. yellow)
All guts
and no tallow.
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Cryptic Rebuses Hit the Books
This is a community wiki answer that anyone can add to.
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A Classic Conundrum
Partial Answer
ads go est (3)
o illed over alleged rpe (4)
mn ie fr cash (4)
in the end she is (4)
s boys ight (4)
oaming the y (4)
oman not uilty after bad her (6)
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A Trivial Pursuit #02 (Entertainment 1/4): Wrong Superhero
Each answer is made by
Minecraft character who receives enhanced abilities after taking the Heart-Shaped Herb (5,7)
Vigilante who patrols the city streets at night wearing one of his many noteworthy ...
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A place without hands
Here's my guess:
UPDATE: I finally figured out, duh, what is meant by "a place without hands". Here's a revised guess:
RE-UPDATE: I had assumed all the riddles were classics and well-known, besides ...
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A Weird Librarian
Partial answer so far:
Clue 1
Clue 2
Clue 3
4+5 solved by Techidiot, 6+7 solved by rand.
Clue 7
Clue 8
Clue 9
Clue 10
Clue 11
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Where have I visited?
1: Regulations on the internet in an adventure
2: A shirt for sports I just bought
3: A part of the former USSR or What's that always-learning monkey called?
4: Better put them together or it will ...
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A Trivial Pursuit #10 (Art and Literature 2/4): Bookshelf
The top row is
Thanks to Davide (and Chrone, in comments) for finishing off the ones I couldn't figure out - check out Davide's answer for more.
The bottom row is
To figure out the middle row, we ...
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Immovable object
You are
I have a long history from east to west,
to some I'm the worst and others the best.
With a core made of resin I dance and I flutter,
no one judges me when I speak with a stutter.
I may ...
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