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It is a: >!button Finally enough clues to guess it ;) Relevant details: >!4 holes in it. (Finally I get that line!) >! >!I guess buttons used to be made of ivory? >! >!Stab with a knife = thread with a needle
It is a: >!button Finally enough clues to guess it ;) Relevant details: >!4 holes in it. (Finally I get that line!) >! >!I guess buttons used to be made of ivory? >! >!Stab with a knife = thread with a needle <br><br> ADDED BY OP I am like a dear halo, >I am small and circular (als...
It is a: >!button Finally enough clues to guess it ;) Relevant details: Relevant details: I am like a dear halo, >! Something precious and circular Plucked from a rainbow, >! In any color A tight noose brings me to life, >! The eye of a needle/needle and thread With the repeated stab of a kni...
It is a: >!button Finally enough clues to guess it ;) Relevant details: Relevant details: I am like a dear halo, >! Something precious and circular Plucked from a rainbow, >! In any color A tight noose brings me to life, >! The eye of a needle/needle and thread With the repeated stab of a kni...
>!a needle ? easily lost, stabs repeatidly, uses threads of any color, used to be made of ivory, used to sow back wounds and leaves scar. I don't see what the elements have to do with this, though.
It is a: >!button Finally enough clues to guess it ;) Relevant details: I am like a dear halo, >! Something precious and circular Plucked from a rainbow, >! In any color A tight noose brings me to life, >! The eye of a needle/needle and thread With the repeated stab of a knife, >! knife = needl...
Two possible answers hinging on the answer to a question; are red, green and white the only possible colors the cars could be? This meta-question is likely the real test of the puzzle; being able to spot the "hole" in the requirements given by the puzzle (that not all cars in the real world are either white, red or g...
This is a very hot summer in Rome and you don't know what to do. You are the best detective in town but no crime seems to happen. You are all the day in front of your PC trying to solve some puzzles about parties and elephants but you can't find any solution so far. You are on the way to solving the 20th when a young p...
A party is being held at a local mansion. The host is very rich and his success is because of one thing — his famous recipe for Spaghetti!<br/> The only guests that may attend are people who correctly reply to the guard at the door. Here's where you come in. You and a friend are trying to steal this recipe. You s...
This is a very hot summer in Rome and you don't know what to do. You are the best detective in town but no crime seems to happen. You are all the day in front of your PC trying to solve some puzzles about parties and elephants but you can't find any solution so far. You are on the way to solving the 20th when a young p...
You have made it to the last room it's very bright, but suddenly you realize that all the codes you've been reading have been different machine codes. You see the final note scripted on the large door with 4 light bulbs with a different light power. It says "This is the last room in this great puzzle. You're prize will...
This is a very hot summer in Rome and you don't know what to do. You are the best detective in town but no crime seems to happen. You are all the day in front of your PC trying to solve some puzzles about parties and elephants but you can't find any solution so far. You are on the way to solving the 20th when a young p...
This is Part 5 of the Murder of the President brainteaser/riddle series. If you have not already, check out the answers for [Murder of the President - Part 1](http://puzzling.stackexchange.com/questions/3600/murder-of-the-president-part-1) posted by Nit, [Murder of the President - Part 2](http://puzzling.stackexchange....
There are 2 rooms left and it's lighter than the other 2. You enter the 3rd room. You see a door with a key lock and you see a cartridge and a TV with a Nintendo Entertainment System. You look at the cartridge and it says play me. You put the cartridge in the NES and you get this message: "So you have finished 2 rooms,...
You pass the first room to enter the second room. It isn't that dim like the first room so it is easier too see. You see another combination, but this time you see something scraped on the wall that's different from the last code. It says "54686572652069732061206c69676874206e6561722c2062757420746865206c696768742069736e...
A party is being held at a local mansion. The host is very rich and his success is because of one thing — his famous recipe for Spaghetti!<br/> The only guests that may attend are people who correctly reply to the guard at the door. Here's where you come in. You and a friend are trying to steal this recipe. You s...
Feeling good about this one: >! 7 Reasoning: >! The answer is based on the ones value of the year that the corresponding Star Wars episode was released: <br /> ([From IMDB][1]) <br /> Episode I: The Phantom Menace - 1999 <br /> Episode II: Attack of the Clones - 2002 (Apparently the guest wasn't a fan o...
There are some puzzles that require sorting out many possible clues, such as http://puzzling.stackexchange.com/questions/4341/the-serial-killers-killer-difficult and http://puzzling.stackexchange.com/questions/4687/mysterious-murder-mystery-3. They are often mysteries. What is a good way to organize and look at the clu...
Sounds like a riddle for christian teaching to me. >!The father - God. <hr> >!One of my brothers is the very hole of a noose - Satan/The devil. <hr> >!Thrice born empire - Jesus dies twice, and is "born" three times. (not perfectly accurate) <hr> >!Father once bled silver till there was none left to ble...
This is Part 5 of the Murder of the President brainteaser/riddle series. If you have not already, check out the answers for [Murder of the President - Part 1](http://puzzling.stackexchange.com/questions/3600/murder-of-the-president-part-1) posted by Nit, [Murder of the President - Part 2](http://puzzling.stackexchange....
>! I think it's `COMPUTERS`. If you translate 0 as dot and 1 as dash in Morse code, except the `0011` needs to be split as `001` (U) and `1` (T). There's no Morse code symbol for `0011`. Edit: The dash character `-` is apparently encoded by `0011` so possibly `COMP-ERS`?
The golden bird can only fly at 5 mph. That is the only way the bird can move. The bird must stop flying and rest its wings for 5 hours immediately after every hour of flying it does. That is the only way the bird can rest so it can continue flying. The ocean is 6 miles wide. The golden bird flies over the ocean an...
The golden bird can only fly at 5 mph. That is the only way the bird can move. The bird must stop flying and rest its wings for 5 hours immediately after every hour of flying it does. That is the only way the bird can rest so it can continue flying. The ocean is 6 miles wide. The golden bird flies over the ocean an...
It is well-known (and has been [asked here earlier](http://puzzling.stackexchange.com/questions/2861/how-many-knights-on-a-chess-board)) how many knights can fit on a chessboard without any knights attacking any others. But what if each knight can attack at most one other? Idea from "The Mathematical Knight" by Noam...
These are the squares from 1 to 100 in Japanese kanji: 百、六十四、十六、九、八十一、三十六、四、一、二十五、四十九 Which is which? If you already know Japanese/Chinese numbers, then sorry, this puzzle is not for you. Needless to say, looking it up is cheating, even to check your answer.
Maybe >! Ford? The car company? <br /> Reasoning: The first of our kind >! Not quite right, but a first with respect to mass production his many children and grandchildren rule over billions, caging them >! Lots of other cars I am a liberator >! Lincoln Motors/Abraham Lincoln *my father ...
Here are the decoded notes. Italics for handwritten, bold for typed. >! #1: ALL WRITTEN NOTES ARE TRUE<br> >! #2: NUMBER ONE IS THE ONLY CORRECT TYPED NOTE<br> >! #3: I AM THE KILLER - VP<br> >! #4: NUMBER SIX IS THE RIGHT CLUE<br> >! #5: YOU WONT CATCH ME<br> >! *#6: PREZ TOD WINTER FALL ...
Here are the decoded notes. Italics for handwritten, bold for typed. >! #1: ALL WRITTEN NOTES ARE TRUE<br> >! #2: NUMBER ONE IS THE ONLY CORRECT TYPED NOTE<br> >! #3: I AM THE KILLER - VP<br> >! #4: NUMBER SIX IS THE RIGHT CLUE<br> >! #5: YOU WONT CATCH ME<br> >! *#6: PREZ TOD WINTER FALL ...
A party is being held at a local mansion, starting at 7pm. The host is very rich and his success is because of one thing — his famous recipe for spaghetti! The only guests that may attend are people who correctly reply to the guard at the door. You have a friend called [Narmer][1], a former acquaintance of the ho...
The Bunny is a new chess piece. It can move in 2 different ways: Diagonally, but only exactly one space (so like a bishop with the limitations of a king). It can also "Bunny-Hop" over another bunny. Here's an explanation of how this is done: Let's say that, in the following image, the white bishop is a bunny n...
I am dying at each set and i am born on each rise No one has seen me or will see me but i am always there I dont move and always stay where i am I will live on, untill time's own end What am I? A riddle i made, inspired by another little riddle
What am I? Time's own end
There were 3 BOYS living in a house with their father and mother.<br> One day, they decided no matter what, they are going to eat ONE THING.<br> One of them said: "Today is SUNDAY, we can wake up late and take our time to eat that THING we were craving about".<br> As they were ready to get back to sleep, their mo...
What is the thing the boys could not eat?
The table below illustrates the availability of four interviewers $(i_1, i_2, i_3, i_4)$ at four time slots $(S_1, S_2, S_3, S_4)$. A 1 in the table indicates that the corresponding interviewer is available at the corresponding time slot. For example, the first interviewer, $i_1$, is available at time slots $S_1$ a...
A party is being held at a local mansion. The host is very rich and her apparently miraculous success is entirely due to her famous recipe for spaghetti. A friend of yours gatecrashed one of the earlier parties and found where the recipe is hidden - in one of the many wardrobes in the host's bedroom - but he was caught...
I am dying at each set and i am born on each rise No one has seen me or will see me but i am always there I dont move and always stay where i am I will live on, until time's own end What am I? A riddle i made, inspired by another little riddle
There were 3 BOYS living in a house with their father and mother.<br> One day, they decided no matter what, they are going to eat ONE THING.<br> One of them said: "Today is SUNDAY, we can wake up late and take our time to eat that THING we were craving about".<br> As they were ready to get back to sleep, their mo...
Your brain? or a braincell? I always act like my brain is another (3th person view) of my world like some spectator haha
>!Your brain? or a braincell? I always act like my brain is another (3th person view) of my world like some spectator haha
Without a moment's hesitation, I answer: >! 8. Reasoning: >! The host is a famous spaghetti chef, so of course he must be Italian. The guard gives the guests numbers and the correct answer for each is their letter count when translated to Italian. For 22, the translation is "ventidue" which has eight lette...
Inspired by Lopsy's [excellent puzzle idea][1], I thought I'd try my hand at coming up with a puzzle that's not simply a real-world language. Once again, we have the squares 1, 4, 9, ... , 81, 100 in some order — but this time it's in an alien language! Once you figure out which is which, can you tell me how you t...
A party is being held at a local mansion, starting at 7pm. The host is very rich and his success is because of one thing — his famous recipe for spaghetti! The only guests that may attend are people who correctly reply to the guard at the door. You have a friend called [Narmer][1], a former acquaintance of the ho...
My hunch is that it's got something to do with >! dates. Each number called by the guard could be interpreted as a date (22 = 2 Feb, 136 = 13 Jun, 44 = 4 Apr, 94 = 9 Apr), and of course there's the mention of a birthday at the end. <br> <br> 2 Feb is the 33rd day of the year, 13 Jun the 164th (165th in a leap year),...
It is a: >! LIST <br> Explanation:<br> The first two lines contain no hint at all > This is true. For sure I'm egocentric You mean nothing to me > All things are said from the perspective of the riddle. So the best choice seems a third person to be > am, are, is Make him steal what ...
It is a: >! LIST Full explanation incoming... The first two lines contain no hint at all > This is true. For sure I'm egocentric You mean nothing to me > All things are said from the perspective of the riddle. So the best choice seems a third person to be > am, are, is Make him steal wha...
It is a: >! LIST <br> EXPLANATION: The first two lines contain no hint at all > This is true. For sure I'm egocentric You mean nothing to me > All things are said from the perspective of the riddle. So the best choice seems a third person to be > am, are, is Make him steal what surr...
It is a: >! LIST <br> EXPLANATION: The first two lines contain no hint at all > This is true. For sure I'm egocentric You mean nothing to me > All things are said from the perspective of the riddle. So the best choice seems a third person to be > am, are, is Make him steal what surr...
It is a: >! LIST <br> EXPLANATION: The first two lines contain no hint at all > This is true. For sure I'm egocentric You mean nothing to me > All things are said from the perspective of the riddle. So the best choice seems a third person to be > am, are, is Make him steal what surr...
A tiny creature caked with slime <br> A loathsome little parasite <br> I'll take your food and drink your wine <br> I'll ask for more and you'll oblige. <br> Not a tapeworm. No, not quite. <br> 'Twould be ironic! This is why: <br> On tapeworms I as well reside. <br> Now the question: What am I? Hint: >...
Riddle: What am I?
You are a: >! Leech Aren't you..?
Father sits on his horse in his shining armor, lonely. His soft heart led him to take in a young and sickly girl, her jaundice a blemish on her wispy, light face. Though father has said he can't be alone, it's an exaggeration. He simply loves her, and it is a love eternal. Out of their love, we are born beyond count. A...
A tiny creature caked with slime <br> A loathsome little parasite <br> I'll take your food and drink your wine <br> I'll ask for more and you'll oblige. <br> Not a tapeworm. No, not quite. <br> 'Twould be ironic! This is why: <br> In tapeworms I as well reside. <br> Now the question: What am I? Hint: >...
You are a: >! Leech Aren't you..?
You are a: >! Protozoa Correct....?
Is it a: >! baby \ fetus? They could be unwanted if you are too young.
A tiny creature caked with slime <br> A loathsome little parasite <br> I'll take your food and drink your wine <br> I'll ask for more and you'll oblige. <br> Not a tapeworm. No, not quite. <br> 'Twould be ironic! This is why: <br> In tapeworms I as well reside. <br> Now the question: What am I? Hint 1: ...
Is it a: >! baby \ fetus \ embryo? They could be unwanted if you are too young.
>! A stomach? Tapeworms (I assume) have some sort of this, it will receive whatever you give it, it is certainly slimy, although not necessarily tiny.
Is it a >! worm? The first stanza fits, and the second stanza: "In tapeworms I as well reside" could be wordplay since "worm" is found in tapeworms, and a worm is "not quite" a tapeworm.
>! A stomach? >! Tapeworms (I assume) have some sort of this, it will receive whatever you give it, it is certainly slimy, although not necessarily tiny.
>! Is it in four years? 'When the next struck' I interpreted as 'when dynamite is dynamite again'. Every year the function is applied. After one year dynamite becomes i * dynamyte. after two years i * i * dynamite = -1 * dynamite. After three years i * -1 * dynamyte = -i * dynamite. After four years i * -i * dynamite =...
Is the answer >! 16 November 2018? As @aschepler already noticed, the numbers give >! DyNAmITe, so we have >! Definition of dynamite: Imaginary DyNAmITe. Functions are not case-sensitive, so (dynamite) = $i$*(dynamite). Iterate to get $i^2$, $i^3$, and so on. "Every iteration, a year went by" - so it tak...
>! Is it in Königsberg? The walking across platforms just once sounds like the famous bridges of Königsberg problem. see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seven_Bridges_of_K%C3%B6nigsberg
Consider the set of positive integers. Each integer can be definitively placed either above the line or below it. Given the initial collection of placements below, what are - The next two numbers in the series that should appear above the line, and - The next two numbers in the series that should appe...
>! Shallot. Explanation: Dont be fooled by my grandiloquence <br> look past the words to find my substance >! Just distraction? "Look past the words" meaning the words in these two lines? Past my skin if you shall pry <br> my prominent brother will make you cry >! "My prominent brother" is the o...
Archeologists discover two dinosaur eggs, and you are given the chance to test the durability of these eggs (bad move on their part). Suppose that these eggs will absorb a specific amount of force with no cumulative damage. In other words, if they don't crack, it is as if they never fell. You have a 100 story buil...
[Music to go along!](http://youtu.be/xeojFespmgc) The riddle is in the Film Noir style in the voice of a gruff PI. Read it aloud with the music for extra fun! I sweated through my shirt waiting for a wrench jockey when a looker I had dealings with came through the door. She didn't seem phased by the heat or the smel...
<pre>Ok, as you might have expected I secretly implemented many hints for you. This time I want you to answer with this: a unique, selfmade picture with nothing else but the solution on it. Please use colors with contrast to the background color (for obvious reasons, I appreciate). But first you should put yo...
Are you clever enough? Maybe you double your speed this time
Martin Buttner has already answered the question as stated, but as a pure mathematician I feel obliged to generalise. If you're allowed $kn$ trials and you have $k$ eggs, then the maximum number of floors for which you can test using Martin's method is $n^k$. Is this algorithm best possible?
A tiny creature caked with slime <br> A useful little parasite <br> I'll take your food and drink your wine <br> I'll ask for more and you'll oblige. <br> Not a tapeworm. No, not quite. <br> 'Twould be ironic! This is why: <br> In tapeworms I as well reside. <br> Now the question: What am I? Hint 1: >!...
Archeologists discover two dinosaur eggs, and you are given the chance to test the durability of these eggs (bad move on their part). Suppose that these eggs will absorb a specific amount of force with no cumulative damage. In other words, if they don't crack, it is as if they never fell. You have a 100 story buil...
A tiny creature wrapped in slime <br> A useful little parasite <br> I'll take your food and drink your wine <br> I'll ask for more and you'll oblige. <br> Not a tapeworm. No, not quite. <br> 'Twould be ironic! This is why: <br> In tapeworms I as well reside. <br> Now the question: What am I? Hint 1: >!...
>! A bad SE question? The first 2 lines brought this to mind, but it's probably wrong. Requested by some to vacate <br> in time I could pack and migrate >! People might vote to close me, but I can be migrated to another SE. Don't think too hard, just differently <br> don't link me with discrepancy ...
I am one of many siblings in a great family. <br> We are the most perfect of our race, <br> Because each of us has a clear worst enemy. <br> My foe - I know him well - is much like me, <br> But we continually fight each other; <br> We never hide our hatred for each other. Wave at my eldest brother and he become...
Brothers, cousins, and foes - what am I?
The next two numbers on top of the line would be >! 12 and 13. All positive integers (natural numbers) can be placed on the line, the ones already in place are in order, and the next one after 6 below the line is 30, therefore 12 and 13 must be above the line otherwise they'd already have been placed below it. A...
Partial answer. >! It's a proton. We are the most perfect of our race, Because each of us has a clear worst enemy. >! Every particle has an anti-particle My foe - I know him well - is much like me, But we continually fight each other; We never hide our hatred for each other. >! This would be the anti-pr...
It claws at me. Ha! There is work to be done, but the pale lands have thorns growing from its roots. Work to be done, but my eyes cannot look away. Is a fish a trout? Can it swim to Prometheus? For, four, floor? More? Is the attempt a virtue and the vice failure or is the attempt an exercise in frivolity that the overs...
You're very familiar with me And may even see me daily Well read I may look But you won't find me around a book You often hear me speaking But never know what I'm thinking Sometimes I say something That has a different meaning But even though I'm married I'm alwa...
>! "Would your counterpart in the other Order tell me to go left?" - if the answer is "yok", take the right fork, "pom", take the left. This is a related problem to the "two doors, two men, one always lies, one always tells the truth" family of riddles. You basically need to formulate a question that will be answere...
>! "Would your counterpart in the other Order tell me to go left?" - if the answer is "yok", take the right fork, "pom", take the left. This is a related problem to the "two doors, two men, one always lies, one always tells the truth" family of riddles. You basically need to formulate a question that will be answere...
It claws at me. Ha! There is work to be done, but the pale lands have thorns growing from its roots. Work to be done, but my eyes cannot look away. Is a fish a trout? Can it swim to Prometheus? For, four, floor? More? Is the attempt a virtue and the vice failure or is the attempt an exercise in frivolity that the overs...
Even the five largest gems in the world were worth no more than one of the dark tribunals in the height of their power; now, they are worth any three gems in the eyes of the law. With whip and terror they forced the vast darkness into the sun and candles into the darkness. Both great crimes, they sate greed first and l...
What about... >! An integer I am one of many siblings in a great family. We are the most perfect of our race, Because each of us has a clear worst enemy. >! An integer is a whole number ('perfect') with a clear worst enemy, its negative value. My foe - I know him well - is much like me, But we continua...
Here's an oldie but goodie from The Daily WTF; I paraphrase to avoid copyright issues: > A middle school math teacher, who also happened to be the P.E. coach, made the following deal with the non-athletic "nerds" in each new math class he taught on their first day: > Outside the classroom was the main hallway...
How many cars does the millionaire have?
Five people saying almost the same thing? Well I like to be different, so try this for an answer: >!The old man tasted the seagull and realized it was the exact same meat he'd been eating all along - it wasn't "good" food cooked properly or anything, just more seagull meat cooked by the same firepit they've been usi...
What about >! arithmetic operators I am one of many siblings in a great family. We are the most perfect of our race, Because each of us has a clear worst enemy. >! addition / subtraction, multiplication / division Wave at my eldest brother and he becomes me. >! multiplication can be expanded as series ...
I am one of many siblings in a great family. <br> We are the most perfect of our race, <br> Because each of us has a clear worst enemy. <br> My foe - I know him well - is much like me, <br> But we continually fight each other; <br> We never hide our hatred for each other. Wave at my eldest brother and he become...
<pre>This riddle is so easy that I already have created another one. Just in case. Anyway, please avoid wild guesses.</pre><br> For sure I am queer<br> and out of place<br> Are you still here?<br> Go start the chase<br> But always remember<br> in the first place<br> stacks are amazing<br> but not a maze<br> ...
Somebody ordered a pizza. They ordered `X` slices with pepperoni, `Y` slices with mushrooms, and `Z` slices with cheese. If no two slices were identical, and no combinations of toppings were not present, how many slices was the pizza cut into?
Father sits on his horse in his shining armor, lonely. His soft heart led him to take in a young and sickly girl, her jaundice a blemish on her wispy, light face. Though father has said he can't be alone, it's an exaggeration. He simply loves her, and it is a love eternal. Out of their love, we are born beyond count. A...
Somebody ordered a pizza. They ordered `X` slices with pepperoni, `Y` slices with mushrooms, and `Z` slices with cheese. If no two slices were identical, and no combinations of toppings were not present, how many (equal) slices was the pizza cut into?
[Music to go along!](http://youtu.be/xeojFespmgc) The riddle is in the Film Noir style in the voice of a gruff PI. Read it aloud with the music for extra fun! I sweated through my shirt waiting for a wrench jockey when a looker I had dealings with came through the door. She didn't seem phased by the heat or the smel...
It claws at me. Ha! There is work to be done, but the pale lands have thorns growing from its roots. Work to be done, but my eyes cannot look away. Is a fish a trout? Can it swim to Prometheus? For, four, floor? More? Is the attempt a virtue and the vice failure or is the attempt an exercise in frivolity that the overs...
> 1. You're in a country which contains thousands of soldiers whome never fight. > 2. You take the 1st number of the name of this country, and subtract lines of 7. > 3. Under the square tree's stump. > 4. You take this number and find a corresponding key. > 5. You go down soh, left stx and concatena...
Where'd you end up? [Part 3!]

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