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Is this map real?
There's a treasure all right and it's hidden ...
The map ...
The "Next Gen" scrap:
The list of numbers separated by pipe symbols:
The coordinate tuples:
The four numbers:
The letter-...
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Is this map real?
Wrap-up: The Making Of Is this map real?
This is not a solution to the puzzle, but provides notes from its poser. This type of answer has been approved by the community.
Thought I would write a wrap ...
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Writing a Puzzle Book: Enigmatic Puzzles
This puzzle hunt style question has a thematic hidden word, which is:
To find it, I first worked out that each clue has two parts, each with a 4-letter solution:
Moreover, these words can be placed ...
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A set of five (one is missing!)
The car that is missing is:
Why? Because:
So what's missing is..
PS
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Self-descriptive
The answer is:
Because the 4 images represent...
Now let's use the numbers to...
Of course, there is something missing...
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Nothing to do with books but everything to do with "BANGS"!
Why
Following this lead
The book orientations
The title
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Barnum Effectus
The image depicts
If we
Here's a diagram illustrating how I extracted the letters:
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Nothing to do with books but everything to do with "BANGS"!
The two-word phrase is
Which was achieved by
@PDT got it right with decoding the individual components - please upvote!
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Together we stand... I mean...,
Thanks to the hint from @MOehm I've finally figured it out.
The red line then spells out
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Joined Progression (all possible ones)
The two-word answer could be:
The highlighted dots ...
The corresponding letters ...
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Find the 16th image
The household appliance would be
Because the sequence is
The "second" one
The "third" one
So the sixteenth one
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Visual puzzle involving mathematical operations
I’m not sure if there exists some kind of coincidence, but I noticed…
step 1. add up the numbers with the same color of each row/ column
$$
\begin{array}{cc|ccccc}
row/col & value & orange &...
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Why am I here? What about my dad?
Ok, let's give it a "what the heck, it's friday"-shot.
I'd go with
Why?
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