Unanswered Questions
208 questions with no upvoted or accepted answers
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The Beale Papers
The background to this one's given here.
NB: These may not be a genuine cryptograms (current thinking is that these are gibberish); but I though it interesting to share these in case they're genuine /...
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Deus Ex crypto puzzle
There is an encrypted email in the recent Deus Ex: Mankind Divided game:
From the game files, this appears to be the string:
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The First Gate: Why So Tense?
Greetings fellow puzzlers and puzzled alike! I’ve concocted a little puzzle for you all... Well little may be an understatement, but I'll come back to that.
Before starting, you should know that the ...
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Is there a more efficient way to rotate the centre pieces on the Octo-Star?
I'm looking for a more efficient algorithm to rotate the center column of the Octo-Star puzzle 45 degrees.
The situation below occurs when four properly-oriented edges are next to each other, ...
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Never Completed Game - Difficult Riddle
The seventeenth of the primes.
Its twin is twentynine.
Po.
Let’s drive.
Bye, Alfonsín.
Add seven triangular.
Sweet.
It named the Valley.
This riddle is taken from https://www.nevercompletedgame....
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She went… She stayed
In 1969, she went to Kazhakstan. She stayed $1$ year
Then she went to Mongolia. She stayed $1$ year
In 1971, she went to ...
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Secret message in a birthday email
A coworker sent this message around on his birthday. Apparently it has a secret message. Here is the exact email body:
Good morning FakeCorp,
I am turning 25 today so I'm offering loads of ...
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Shots, shots, shots, shots!
Once in a while I go out for a drink to my favourite bar. Normally is just drink a beer, eat some snacks and have a good time with my three friends. But last night I wanted to do some shots. The ...
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What is a Richi Word™?
This is in the spirit of the What is a Word/Phrase™ series started by JLee with a special brand of Phrase™ and Word™ puzzles.
If a word conforms to a special rule, I call it a Richi Word™.
Use the ...
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Rethinking this series on the syllabus
I assigned each person in my class the task of creating a number-sequence, however, 4 of the guys I usually consider to be leaders came back with baffling results.
Can you make sense of their work ...
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Alternate, complex potions puzzle from HP fanfic
A long narrow room. The entrance is blocked by purple flame, the path onward blocked by black flame. On a table, the only thing in the room, are two dozen potions in opaque bottles. Half green glass, ...
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A trip around the United States
My journey so far has taken me to the following cities in order: New York (where I started from), Baltimore, Cincinnati, Sioux City, Monroe (La.), and Columbus (Ga.). What's my next stop?
Hint:
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What is a Fascia Word™?
In the spirit of the What is a Word™/Phrase™ series started by JLee, a special brand of Phrase™ and Word™ puzzles.
If a word conforms to a special rule, I call it a Fascia Word™.
Use the examples ...
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An enrypted clue for the police
A well known German drug dealer contacted his accomplice through an encrypted note. The police caught the accomplice during a drug deal and found the note in his backpack.
Note:
(For those who can't ...
