Unanswered Questions
147 questions with no upvoted or accepted answers
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One 'double agent' two-step on a waltzing floor
I'm in a jam – cornered I am! –
No clue 'bout where to go
Here's what went down, a pretty gown
Some wine, a French chateau
She whispered underneath her breath
"Come dance with me and ...
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Binary cryptogram from a friend
My friend sent me a "puzzle" in binary, and said that there are multiple steps to solving the puzzle, all of them including decryption. I translated the binary into text and he said that was a good ...
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BFTIODFTTWKBCSC
This is my first self-developed cryptographic puzzle. I hope it is neither too hard nor too easy for you to break, and that you enjoy it. Please do not only post the answer, but also your way towards ...
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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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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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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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Find the place, find the palace
A part of me was a mode of transportation in the past.
A part of me is the mode of transport in the present.
A part of me is an important place in two fictional novels.
A part of me has acted in 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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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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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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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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6x7 Pokemon-based cipher
My friend made this cipher for me to solve and it has me stumped. Wondered if anyone else would want to take a crack at it. All it is is this image:
Names of the pokemon in order are (assuming I ...
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A Domino Rectangle
Can you arrange a standard set of $28$ dominoes into a rectangle of $7\times8$, where each of the 8 rows sum to $21$ and each of the 7 columns sum to $24$?
Image from WikiPedia.
The 'twistier' the ...
