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A Trivial Pursuit #14 (Entertainment 3/4): Integration by Parts
The items in the middle column are
The columns on either side contain
If we
Taking just
So the final answer is
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Behaviorists hate this trick
I think the answer is
Reasoning: We can
It looks like we need to place the squares so that the
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A Trivial Pursuit #01 (Geography 1/4): History
First, we need to resolve the six lines in the quote:
We can then observe that
Noting that
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A Trivial Pursuit #12 (Sports and Leisure 2/4): Logic Boat
The 6-letter word that can be extracted is:
The solution path:
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A Trivial Pursuit #04 (Art and Literature 1/4): Threesome
First note that for each row, the @ represents the same symbol
Each describes a three-word phrase:
Note that for each three-word phrase, there is exactly one (unique!) common letter among the three ...
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A Trivial Pursuit #07 (Geography 2/4): String Theory
I think the answer is:
Each of the tables ...
The H example
The first letter
The second letter
The third letter
The fourth letter
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A Trivial Pursuit #06 (Sports and Leisure 1/4): Life Goals
Well,
So we complete the table to get
where
Now
thus:
Well, now, what about
So our final answer is
One thing I was puzzled by but forgot about when writing up the answer:
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A Trivial Pursuit #05 (Science and Nature 1/4): Animal Songs
The answer is
Because all of these is an animal contained in a title of
The note symbol corresponds to the
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A Trivial Pursuit #11 (Science and Nature 2/4): The Search
You were attempting to purchase:
And some explanation:
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A Trivial Pursuit #09 (History 2/4): Windows 7
The relevant final answer to the architectural puzzle is:
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Your answer may not make any sense to me
Are you the word:
Put me in a STATE and I will ride a car
Put me in a CAR and I will talk on a phone
Put me in a PHONE and I will stay put
Edit for the title:
Your answer may not make any sense to ...
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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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Build-an-Animal Workshop
You are a
If I wear a canine head, I’ll become hard like a rock.
But if I wear a cervid head, I’ll be almost as soft as a sock.
If I wear a fish tail, I’ll be dead and rotting on a plain.
But if I ...
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A Trivial Pursuit #03 (History 1/4): Jurassic World
Stage 1:
So 'A' is:
OP note (for completeness):
Stage 2:
So 'B' is:
Stage 3:
So 'C' is:
Stage 4:
So 'D' is:
Stage 6:
So 'F' is:
For completeness:
Stage 5 (thanks to @fljx):
For the meta ...
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A Trivial Pursuit #02 (Entertainment 1/4): Wrong Superhero
Each answer is made by
Minecraft character who receives enhanced abilities after taking the Heart-Shaped Herb (5,7)
Vigilante who patrols the city streets at night wearing one of his many noteworthy ...
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A Trivial Pursuit #08 (Entertainment 2/4): Names
First we solve the rebuses:
Then we notice
We find them all:
Then we notice that
I thought that was the end but @Daniel S observes in the comments that we can go further:
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Excuse me, I don't wear pointy hats!
The first thing that stands out is that
Well,
The second card
The third card
The fourth card
The fifth card
The sixth card
At this point we have
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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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A Trivial Pursuit #03 (History 1/4): Jurassic World
Stage 5, to fill in JGibbers' great answer, and find the final location:
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A three-stage puzzle
Aha! This collection of words is linked to...
For example, the top row of Group 1 is 'cat / met / but' - and these are...
A few notes about the rules behind the OP's choices:
This all being ...
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A Trivial Pursuit #15 (History 3/4): Those Not Present
The answer is
The answers are
We then note
Furthermore
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Python Conundrum 3: A Dwarven Vault
Partial answer
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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Just a regular puzzle (It's what's inside that counts)
Is it
the diagram shown
Alternatively
because the diagram
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A 5 letter word that remains a word if you remove any one letter
I wrote some code to identify all such words, using the CSW21 Scrabble lexicon as my dataset. The longest such word is six letters long; all five and six-letter examples are bolded in the list below.
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