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PSE Advent Calendar 2021 (Day 1): La laa laaaaaa laa la Christmas
The completed word search:
There are 77 clues following the 12 Days of Christmas rhyme. Colors in the grid indicate the different lines of the rhyme:
12 drummers drumming - literally drummers in ...
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My Uncle's present
The first letters say
The letters which have been changed from the original words spell:
Now, from Wikipedia,
if we look at the note and use the letters, we get
So, we look at the letters that we ...
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PSE Advent Calendar 2022 (Day 23): Christmas Classifieds
First we print it out
Then we notice
So we
Then we notice
Then we see
Then there is
Now we see
Then we see
Following it
Interpreting them
or
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The hardest crossword you'll do today!
Finished crossword
No googling is required because
The final message is
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PSE Advent Calendar 2022 (Day 11): The other side of Christmas
The message from the other side(s) of Christmas is:
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PSE Advent Calendar 2021 (Day 11): What Child – Er, Game Is This?
Edit 2:
The game they're playing is
The rules are
Let's analyze the first game. Alice starts with "Jingle bells."
Bob goes for "I saw Mommy kissing Santa Claus."
Alice ...
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PSE Advent Calendar 2022 (Day 8): Dash away! Dash away! Dash away all!
Yup, I can!
My thoughts:
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2020 election: The results are in!
The trick to this puzzle is that
At first tolerate, then back winner (5)
Party briefly represented by 500 at the side of reem, regularly (3)
Extremely jaded Ohio electrician's name (3)
Video-...
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A Puzzling Easter Egg Hunt
Complete answer
First, we can identify the people in the image:
Next, we
This implies that the words in the table below the image
In fact, each word in the table
Next, user39583 found that the ...
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Hey, This is a 100th Puzzle of Mine!
(Write-up complete) Lovely (and tricky!) puzzle athin, and congratulations on your 100! The final solved grid looks like this (with paired regions coloured the same and mines represented by black ...
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PSE Advent Calendar 2023 (Day 12): A peaceful tree
Thank you! You too!
You are wishing us
Each bauble represents
As requested, the following image shows how to extract the phrase:
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A conversation about a Christmas gift
Let's look at which letters have been changed:
You know, I figured out what to buy [] ou for Christmas.
I'll tell you on Christmas Ive.
You are smart! I am sure you will figure it aut.
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PSE Advent Calendar 2021 (Day 16): Poké(snow)ball battle!
The criminals you're looking for are:
Grid:
Solving Table:
Explanation of hints:
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Piece of Cake for King Solomon
To divide the cake into n equal pieces,
Proof:
Here is a drawing to illustrate how it works:
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A Riley riddle to end the year!
The answer:
Explanations:
The solution to the riddle (2nd one, but suits for 1st)
Their prefix is a greedy swine,
Their suffix their negation.
Their infix I’d consider ‘mine’,
Their whole their ...
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PSE Advent Calendar 2022 (Day 1): A festive Sudoku
The finished grid:
Getting started:
Moving on:
Let's look at the thermos more carefully:
The middle row:
The arrow at left:
Finishing up:
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Slitherlink: Around the W0rld
The solution is (drumroll please...)
Explanation:
We start by
Next,
And here's the coup de grâce:
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PSE Advent Calendar 2023 (Day 10): Captain Christmas
What a fun, festive puzzle! The first step is to realize that:
Now the puns:
Putting them together:
And finally:
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Replace some letters at PUZZLE to find out a sentence
**zzle = Spout
*u**le = Group
*u**le = Make money
****le = A person who will love with her whole heart.
p****e = A beautiful city in Central Europe
p****e = A balerina loves to do this
p****e = ...
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PSE Advent Calendar 2022 (Day 24): Merry Christmas and a happy New Year!
Ok, so I think I'm very close to a full answer, I have a picture:
Which is obtained by:
However each of these:
We put these into:
I'm not sure about the 13 word message yet, I'm guessing it has to ...
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PSE Advent Calendar 2023 (Day 2): Wall I want for Christmas
Ok here goes:
So the overall connection is
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Capital Punishment - The Clock is Ticking
Partial answer
The cryptic clues ...
Across
3 No, that is, in lieu of two, a single beheaded homicide leader precedes
4 Limits of source removes, intrinsically the energy would be lost
5 Tip for ...
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