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A Message to the SE Admins
The message for the SE Admins is:
This can be found by looking at something hidden in the answers to each of the clues:
Albertan politician who succeeded Lucien Maynard (6, 7)
Approved for ...
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Miniature Puzzle
Final Answer
The bottom left
The bottom middle
The bottom right
Top 3 rows, part 1R
Top 3 rows, part 1G
Top 3 rows, part 1B
Top three rows, part 2
Top three rows, part 2R
Top three rows, part ...
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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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What makes an Interesting Puzzle™?
Subpuzzles
A Fringe Word™
A Not Fringe Word™
A Leaping Set™
A Not Leaping Set™
A Persistent Phrase™
A Not Persistent Phrase™
A Square Number™
A Not Square Number™
A Double Jump Word™
A Not ...
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What is the solution to this metapuzzle from a university puzzling column?
The answer is
obtained by
And of course
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“IQ” puzzles seem to be flooding this site
The answer is:
The test items:
In particular: Question 1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
The grid:
The numbers:
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The Data So Far
The answers to the 13 puzzles are, in order of puzzle posted:
The meta connection is:
Using this to extract an answer:
Final answer panel:
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I got ninety-nine problems - so here's another one!
Top left:
Top center:
Top right:
Center left 1:
Center:
(Note:)
Center right:
Center left 2:
Bottom left:
(thanks to user39583 and somebody for this part of the solution)
Bottom center:
Meta:...
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Double Speak - Phrases that need rewording
Unwarranted reversal.
Untied rope.
Cover up a detector.
Reduce the education.
Wedge of the clock belonging to us.
Story about the end of a dog.
Rabbit's fur
Deserve a pot.
A pair of ...
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Twelve Labours - Conclusion
The twelve images
The twelve answers
To get the instruction,
To follow the instruction,
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Circuit Diagram
Initial Notes
This puzzle was co-solved by Deusovi, ManyPinkHats, Reinier, SKOG, and many hints from phenomist.
If you'd like to solve it yourself, here are the errata (in a spoiler-free way):
The ...
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Community Metapuzzle - The Broken Time Machine
Metapuzzle Answers
I noticed:
Plugging these into the using this decoding blatantly stolen from ffao
Results in
And the next step:
And now, to get letters
So I pull out my phone
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This puzzle's main portion is a piece of... cake?
Wrap-up: The making of "This puzzle's main portion is a piece of… cake?"
This is not a solution to the puzzle but provides notes from its poser. This type of answer has been approved by the community....
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Recognizing a Metapuzzle
I'll edit this post as more progress is made:
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Sussing it out
Minipuzzle 1
Minipuzzle 2
Minipuzzle 3
Minipuzzle 4
Minipuzzle 5
Minipuzzle 6
Minipuzzle 7
Minipuzzle 8
Minipuzzle 9
Minipuzzle 10
Minipuzzle 11
Minipuzzle 12
Minipuzzle 13
Minipuzzle 14
...
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This puzzle's main portion is a piece of... cake?
Full solution details are on this spreadsheet. Thanks to Gareth McCaughan, Wesley Situ, noneuclideanisms, ffao, and xnor for the help solving.
1. Work-In-Progress Puzzle
2. Quizzing for Information
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Dear ___________, this one's for you
Is the answer
You've seen many puzzles, and tried to prevail
Some were right, and many were wrong.
You'll have to be flexing every last muscle,
Searching high, low, all around.
For the solution to ...
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(11 of 11: Meta) What is Pyramid Cult's All-Time Favorite?
Each of these clues can be answered with three letters.
So, what next?
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Chess Fortnight is finally over!
I'm still curious about this puzzle, so here are a couple more of the clues I think might be right but haven't been solved thus far.
Meta 2
Works of parties (6)
Small entraces to functions (4)
...
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Recognizing a Metapuzzle
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25
Gödel
Escher
Bach
Hofstadter
What do we need to recognize metapuzzles as soon as we see them?
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Making Things Difficult
This solution was a collaborative effort between several people. If you like the answer, please also upvote those answers (linked below). I have pulled everything together here so that there is one ...
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A Periodic Puzzle
Leaving a partial solution because I'm going to sleep soon
Incorrect Integers
Part 1
Part 2
Answer
Weird Weights
Part 1
Part 2
Answer
Abnormal Appellations
I've noticed that
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This is why we puzzle
Nail item before each paper item (7)
After shooter’s return, receive big chunk (6)
Encourage bone disease (4)
Lost charge of gold and silver - lies! (4)
Theater costume’s warmth (4)
These are all
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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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Metametacryptic
Impenetrable union loses nothing. Inform about big lie (14)
Stop after part of a right triangle key (6)
Street humor from an octopus's odor (5)
A great distance encircles the begetter (6)
Quickly ...
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Why Do You Love Me?
The messages have to broken in order, as each one helps clue the key to decrypting the next.
ONE
TWO, given ONE
THREE, given TWO
FOUR, given THREE
FIVE, given FOUR
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On The Subject of ???
First, notice that...
Accordingly...
This yields...
To fix that...
Finally...
Proceeding in this manner reveals an apt name for these compiled principles that help us defuse bombs:
I think this ...
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Red Herring Redherring
(Part 0 [hints])
Part 1 [pictures of fish]
Part 2 [weird capitalization]
Part 3 [flags]
Part 4 [word search]
Part 5 [grids]
Part 6 [lines of text]
Part 7 [diagrams]
Part 8 [candy]
Part 9 [...
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