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This puzzle is pretty epic! I've got four of the components solved, but need to stop for the night, so I figured I'd write them up as a community Wiki so others can contribute. Feel free to add to this answer, or post your own if you crush the whole thing! **13** Who's missing? >! WILLIAM The logic: >! Loo...
A friend of mine wrote the following story. He always was one for using too many words though, and I think that has complicated this puzzle somewhat. Can you unravel it for me? A young vegetarian adventurer was once nearly married. ---- After watching his bride walk down the passageway between the chairs, h...
At your bathhouse job, you encounter a pair of rainbow serpents, each having two heads, hiding behind a wide pillar. They seem to be bent around the pillar with one serpent showing their two heads on one side of the pillar, and the other serpent on the other side. You know that for each rainbow serpent, one head wil...
At your bathhouse job, you encounter a pair of rainbow serpents, each having two heads, hiding behind a wide pillar. They seem to be bent around the pillar with a head from each serpent visible on each side You know that for each rainbow serpent, one head will tell the truth and the other will lie. You also know tha...
Ask three of the heads "Are you a snake?" The ones that say yes are truthful heads and the ones that say no are lying heads. Identify the fourth head by elimination.
This puzzle is pretty epic! I've got four of the components solved, but need to stop for the night, so I figured I'd write them up as a community Wiki so others can contribute. Feel free to add to this answer, or post your own if you crush the whole thing! **13** Who's missing? >! WILLIAM The logic: >! Loo...
Who am I? (a very easy visual puzzle)
This puzzle is pretty epic! I've got four of the components solved, but need to stop for the night, so I figured I'd write them up as a community Wiki so others can contribute. Feel free to add to this answer, or post your own if you crush the whole thing! **13** Who's missing? >! WILLIAM The logic: >! Loo...
Who am I? (visual puzzle)
This puzzle is pretty epic! I've got four of the components solved, but need to stop for the night, so I figured I'd write them up as a community Wiki so others can contribute. Feel free to add to this answer, or post your own if you crush the whole thing! **13** Who's missing? >! WILLIAM The logic: >! Loo...
This puzzle is pretty epic! I've got four of the components solved, but need to stop for the night, so I figured I'd write them up as a community Wiki so others can contribute. Feel free to add to this answer, or post your own if you crush the whole thing! **13** Who's missing? >! WILLIAM The logic: >! Loo...
*Jump to the image to skip the 'flavour' story* I am very worried about my auntie. I have not heard from her for nearly a month now, and our last phone call was very strange: -"Hello?" -"Hi auntie, how are you?" -"Who is it?" -"Your only nephew. You always do that..." -"Oh yes. I'm good, thanks for ca...
Heh, finally (re)cracked it. The key to this puzzle is this: >! Trying to follow the directions in the given order evidently results in some misery. Note that the first letters spell out MULTIPLY BY THREE MOD 17, which gives an ordering for the steps. Starting from 1, the next step we go to is the result of mu...
> Like Baruchel, Cartwright, and Hamill > > heroics and games net me clout > As private as I am general > > in battle my pike is drawn out > If I should play white on a chessboard > > my clock's less engulfed due to motion > I find the sand cathartic, not bad, > > at sinister depth of the ocean! Wha...
Can you figure out what's going on here? <BR> ********** - D ------------ ********* + O ------------ ********** - W ------------ ********* + T ------------ ********** ...
*Jump to the image to skip the 'flavour' story* I am very worried about my auntie. I have not heard from her for nearly a month now, and our last phone call was very strange: -"Hello?" -"Hi auntie, how are you?" -"Who is it?" -"Your only nephew. You always do that..." -"Oh yes. I'm good, thanks for ca...
Codeword: >! The first Down entry is `??G?RT`, which is likely YOGURT. That gives `O?T?T` in row 2 and `O??O?OGY` in row 4 - guessing OCTET and [something]OLOGY gives enough letters to make the rest of the puzzle fall fairly easily. (The fourth Down entry seems to have an issue, though, and J isn't in the puzzle at ...
It looks like >! each set of stars should be a word, and adding or removing the given letters should lead to a new word (possibly with anagramming?). Using that, we can start filling things in: >! Based on letters that are removed before they're added, the first string must have D, W, A, N, G, and five unknown...
It looks like >! each set of stars should be a word, and adding or removing the given letters should lead to a new word (possibly with anagramming?). Using that, we can start filling things in: >! Based on letters that are removed before they're added, the first string must have D, W, A, N, G, and five unknown...
It looks like >! each set of stars should be a word, and adding or removing the given letters should lead to a new word (possibly with anagramming?). Using that, we can start filling things in: >! Based on letters that are removed before they're added, the first string must have D, W, A, N, G, and five unknown...
*Jump to the image to skip the 'flavour' story* I am very worried about my auntie. I have not heard from her for nearly a month now, and our last phone call was very strange: -"Hello?" -"Hi auntie, how are you?" -"Who is it?" -"Your only nephew. You always do that..." -"Oh yes. I'm good, thanks for ca...
I'm sure you know how the word 'ghoti' can be interpreted to be pronounced 'fish', by taking the sounds from the words 'cou**gh**,' 'w**o**men' and 'ac**ti**on.' But can you find a word in which the letters 'wo' are pronounced as a standard 'u' (as in 'hut')? The word isn't used much nowadays, but fifty years ago...
The bathhouse you work at is being visited by some of the primordial beings from the pools of chaos. You have been tasked with finding out which pools they came from, so that the proper form of chaos can be made for them. Unfortunately, the primordial ones can't speak, so you can't ask where they came from. It is a...
The bathhouse you work at is being visited by some of the primordial beings from the pools of chaos. You have been tasked with finding out which pools they came from, so that the proper form of chaos can be made for them. Unfortunately, the primordial ones can't speak, so you can't ask where they came from. It is a...
Which celebrity completes this four square? [![celebrity_four_square][1]][1] <BR> <BR> Thanks to Megaptera novaeangliae for inspiring this puzzle. See here: https://puzzling.stackexchange.com/questions/111101/who-am-i-visual-puzzle [1]: https://i.stack.imgur.com/OJ10d.jpg
The bathhouse you work at is being visited by some of the primordial beings from the pools of chaos. You have been tasked with finding out which pools they came from, so that the proper form of chaos can be made for them. Unfortunately, the primordial ones can't speak, so you can't ask where they came from. It is a...
You have been kidnapped by aliens. You have counted 5 individuals: a mercurian, venusian, martian, jovian, and saturnian. You have been lock in the maze found under the bathhouse you work at. You know the layout of the maze, and that there are 5 elemental creatures in the maze: the pyrausta, wobbling, creeper, automato...
You have been kidnapped by aliens. You have counted 5 individuals: a mercurian, venusian, martian, jovian, and saturnian. You have been lock in the maze found under the bathhouse you work at. You know the layout of the maze, and that there are 5 elemental creatures in the maze: the pyrausta, wobbling, creeper, automato...
This puzzle is pretty epic! I've got four of the components solved, but need to stop for the night, so I figured I'd write them up as a community Wiki so others can contribute. Feel free to add to this answer, or post your own if you crush the whole thing! **13 - Jeremy Dover** Who's missing? >! WILLIAM The l...
You have been kidnapped by aliens. You have counted 5 individuals: a mercurian, venusian, martian, jovian, and saturnian. You have been lock in the maze found under the bathhouse you work at. You know the layout of the maze, and that there are 5 elemental creatures in the maze: the pyrausta, wobbling, creeper, automato...
I think teh puzzles on this site are too hard. I can’t figure out hardly none of them. The ones that look easy seem to get closed??? Can someone tell the reason? Here are some examples of puzzles that I could actually solve, but keep getting closed. They seem to use neat things like *morse code, semafors, rotation-13...
Doubt: In cases of problems involving order and ranking where there are two indices namely left and right there is a particular chance of overlapping. Let us take an example to justify this: "Ranjan is 16th from the left end and Vineet is 10th from the right end in a row of boys. If there are eight boys between R...
How to solve this problem on overlapping?
I think teh puzzles on this site are too hard. I can’t figure out hardly none of them. The ones that look easy seem to get closed??? Can someone tell the reason? Here are some examples of puzzles that I could actually solve, but keep getting closed. They seem to use neat things like *morse code, semafors, rotation-13...
This puzzle is pretty epic! I've got four of the components solved, but need to stop for the night, so I figured I'd write them up as a community Wiki so others can contribute. Feel free to add to this answer, or post your own if you crush the whole thing! **13 - Jeremy Dover** Who's missing? >! WILLIAM The l...
I think the 2 words are: >! CHROMATIC SCALE This is 14 letters. Initial observations: >! Small Box 1 looks like 'alpha prime' or something >! Small Box 2 looks like A P I S in sequential order of number of sides. This seems to clue "BEE" (synonym of apis) >! Small Box 3 looks like the ele...
In cases of problems involving order and ranking where there are two indices (namely left and right) there is a particular chance of overlapping. Let us take an example to justify this: > Ranjan is 16th from the left end and Vineet is 10th from the right end in a row of boys. If there are eight boys between Ranjan a...
The idea for this puzzle came from my friend Jan. The puzzle is based on real world events from the Tokyo Olympics. The Olympic rock climbing preliminary round has 20 climbers. Each climber competes in 3 separate events, where they rank from 1st to 20th. The final score of a climber is the product of their rankings ...
The number we want is >! 71. We want to know >! what the best possible 9th-place score is. (Then the answer we want will be 1 less than that.) I claim we can safely assume that >! our 9 contestants place 1st to 9th in the three events, in some order. (If not, there's an event in which someone does worse ...
The number we want is >! either 70 or 71, depending on exactly how we interpret the wording at the end of the question. If "What can be a climber's largest score ..." is intended to indicate that only _actually possible_ scores are acceptable, then the answer is 70. If it's just a slightly flowery way of asking "wha...