Unanswered Questions
280 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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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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Is there a move-efficient way to rotate the center 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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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 tasty ...
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Stupendous Sponge
General Notes
This puzzle takes the form a 9×9×9 level-one Menger sponge
whose surface is divided into 648 1×1 cells. The aim is to draw
a single non-crossing loop along its surface by connecting the
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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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Excavation Study
Layer by layer, we continue our journey to the center.
Excavation area (in order)
Excavation plans
Expect plenty of overlap!
Answer is a thematic phrase.
Text transcript of the excavation area (for ...
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Unused By Only Three
First, beg for the most positive among the stables.
Now you can do the second, beg for the independent.
Now you can do the third, beg for the overlappable.
Now you can do the fourth, beg for 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 and ...
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Qubes: Oh, For the Love Of
TL;DR: This is a mixture between a tribute/spin-off puzzle and an attempt at a new puzzle type, greatly inspired by the notorious arcade game, Q*bert, published originally by Gottlieb Amusement Games. ...
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Found the key, but what to unlock?
Here's a series of text messages between me and my friend.
Me: Couldn't use ebg13, so used ______ to hide my messages.
Him: What? How is this possible???
Me: A big prime ______, what else did you ...
