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A pilot's messages
Two things jumped out at me as soon as I saw this puzzle.
Firstly, the mixed-case letter strings on the far right. Several of them look like
Secondly, the all-caps letter strings in the middle. ...
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A Riddle Within a Riddle
The final riddle, found by others is:
Which gives
So the final answer is:
which is indeed how
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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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Did you ask her yet?
As Deusovi pointed out in the comments, it's a repeating 5x5 block, so I focused on those 25 pixels. The hex values I found for those are
However, I noticed in the description that
After ...
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Selective attention: an unusual game
Brace yourself to realise that this puzzle is even cleverer than you first think... This is a special one...
The seven-letter answer is:
Why? Firstly:
Next, notice:
To replace the underscores with ...
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This is it. This is the one. Save your wife
This is a comprehensive and complete roundup of the answers submitted by various users and brought together by the OP. A lot of this was solved in chat, mainly by Deusovi, Rubio, Techidiot and ...
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The Worst Afternoon
Right now, you'd really appreciate some:
Why? Well, notice that the story conceals:
The solution therefore requires us to:
The title provides an extra clue:
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Today starts my new puzzle series!
Hey! A date I maybe predicted to appear today has truly occurred perfectly...
This puzzle is about:
Because:
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Ron couldn't quite put his finger on... something?
The thing forgotten by Ron is
This is obvious when you come to see
Thus he is most likely referred to not by "Ron" but is referred to
The hints describing this:
... but there might be others I ...
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Little bits of food
The answer is
Following Dan Russell's partial answer:
Thanks to @f'' in the comments, the interpretation of this is:
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What number should be the answer to this question?
Close examination of the text reveals
These are
So I believe you're thinking of
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This is not a spam post
Counting the
reveals the word
I'm unsure if there's any deeper answer - I expect there to be, but I don't know what they may be at the moment.
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"sprinG summEr autumN winTer" - what does this mean?
This could be a rebus depicting
EDIT: I originally used the wrong preposition in the idiom, although the page I linked to had it correct. A now-deleted comment informed me of this. Rosie F also ...
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A Suspicious Mail
Partial answer
Definitely correct stuff...
Text is
Which produces:
Based on the hint,
Other notes and observations...
The stamp appears to be
Except that it has been squared off, and
Probably ...
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Why Alexa Shouldn't Teach Non-Native English Speakers About Idioms
They cost ≈ $0.00833333333333333333333333333333 each.
Go! Intentionally fracture your fibula!
You are the joints of the lower appendages of a eusocial animal.
I bequeath unto you the frigid ...
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Can anyone tell me why this program fails?
The program is failing because:
It would seem that:
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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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Steal This Comic
Final answer:
When comparing the image above to the original comic, we can see that...
Phew! All that image stealing made me tired! Thanks to everyone who was solving it alongside me!
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A Puzzle That Marches Swiftly To The Median
I think the answer is:
Pawn:
Rook:
Knight:
Bishop:
Queen:
King:
Hidden word:
Title:
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Hint : I have 4 siblings
Your name is:
"What is the one thing common between China, North Korea and former Russia?".
"No, fingers crossed!"
"Call me"
Punch
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When was this marvelous thing first invented?
The image doesn't seem to be much at first glance. However:
In The Sphinx's Lair, we spent ages trying to figure out what this might be, with no success. However, athin pointed out that:
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Gain Access to the Café's Internet
The number you should say is:
We can decode each phrase by ..
There's a special rule, though. The name of the café hints at ...
With this method, the first phrase becomes:
Second phrase:
Third ...
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Theorists sure want true answers to this!
They are all
I’m guessing this means that the
The
Then
And the title:
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