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E Rebus Unum – a picture sequence puzzle
Gladys is in:
The three rows of rebuses can be solved as follows:
Top row:
Middle row:
Bottom row:
Putting these all together gives us:
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Python Conundrum 3: A Dwarven Vault
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The black dots in the image given represent prime numbers, reading in the top row of 64 (which starts with 2, 3, and 5), then the next row (whose first prime is 67), and so on.
The ...
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Hidden dots in the center
What do we do with the hidden dots?
The image ...
The hidden dots ...
So, in order to find the answer, ...
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A Trivial Pursuit #13 (Geography 3/4): Things Fall Apart
This puzzle is about...
To start with, we note that the pictures represent the words
We can then
the solutions for
which leaves
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The world's smallest square maze?
The full word ladder is
The emojis in the maze represent the words:
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The world's smallest square maze?
Let's number the rooms 1-4, starting from the top left and going clockwise. Completed word chain:
Solve path:
Sneaky pitfall to avoid:
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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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A Trivial Pursuit #10 (Art and Literature 2/4): Bookshelf
I managed to understand the first and third bookshelf
In the first we have a combination of TITLE (YEAR) : AUTHOR, for both the title and the author we only have the initials
Thanks to Chrone for ...
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COMPOSITION [10 letter answer]
The key insight is to realize that
with
The flavortext is
which
Putting all of this together, the first 4 parts can be interpreted like so:
Using this information, we can then interpret the last ...
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Just a regular puzzle (It's what's inside that counts)
Is it
the diagram shown
Alternatively
because the diagram
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Order the cities, then find which one is not described
First, I looked at Elbasan, which I wasn't aware of previously, and noticed that
From that I found that
I placed the cities in the grid as follows
I then replaced the cities with
This left me with
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Python Conundrum 2: Guess The Place
I think the location is
If you execute the code with the right values, it outputs
which is
The keys are derived as follows:
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Element lost? Call a scientist!
I think you're looking for...
Why the strange capitalisation there? Well, first let's identify the three flags. These are those of:
We clearly need to use these identities somehow to produce some ...
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Element lost? Call a scientist!
You were looking for
and you finally found it in
After all, when you called the three scientists,
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Is this duplo train track under too much tension?
Here's a simple and interesting approach which may have some merit:
As discussed above the number of left pieces minus the number of right pieces must be a multiple of 12.
Each segment must have a ...
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A delicious country puzzle
This puzzle is delicious because it contains a nice, juicy...
First solve the rebus. The words we are looking for, of 8 and 7 letters, are:
Now we apply the instruction at the top...
Finally, we ...
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Is this duplo train track under too much tension?
My metric for this is fun. If you attach 2, 3 or 4 duplo wagons that can detach easily and make them go through the track, if they detach or derail, then it's too tense.
Just by looking at the track I ...
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Is this duplo train track under too much tension?
I would first check for track flatness. When locked in with extra effort, the loop will warp a little, basically going into 3d instead of flat 2d.
As for "too much tension", obviously it's ...
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