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<sub>This is part 2 of the puzzle series that started at [Living the traveller's dream](https://puzzling.stackexchange.com/questions/109775/living-the-traveller-s-dream). Each part is solvable on its own.</sub>
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[![enter image description here][1]][1]
> <i>Dear Puzzling,
>
> Time really does fly when... |
[![enter image description here][1]][1]
This is a Sudoku that is also a [brainfuck][2] program.
The standard rules of Sudoku apply. The same symbol can not appear twice in the same row, column, or 3x3 box.
The grid should also form a functioning [brainfuck][3] program. There are two requirements, the program... |
Gladys is in
>! Brazil
as indicated by the highlighted answers in the grid
>! [![enter image description here][1]][1]
which are italicized in the explanations below:
Across
>!1. GOOD FAITH **(THAIFOOD)\* east of (-ban)G(-kok)** Thai food cooked east of Bangkok's centre shows honest intentions (4,5)
... |
[![Sudoku][1]][1]
This is a Sudoku that is also a [Brainfuck][2] program.
The standard rules of Sudoku apply. The same symbol can not appear twice in the same row, column, or 3x3 box.
The grid should also form a functioning [Brainfuck][3] program. There are two requirements, the program must halt, and it must ... |
This is one of the hardest Sudokus (and one of the best Sudokus) I have ever seen, with only 4 given digits. There are some more rules too:
1. First, normal Sudoku rules apply here.
2. Both the diagonals also should contain 1 to 9 in some order.
3. You cannot put the same number in cells which are at a knight'... |
I don’t seem to have option to comment on the question or answer (or atleast I am not sure how to do that) but can’t it be done by using just 1 helper?
On, days 1, helper and explorer both start with 4+4 days worth of supplies. On day 2, they are left with 3+3 days worth of supplies, today helper takes 1 day worth of ... |
[wrong answer] I don’t seem to have option to comment on the question or answer (or atleast I am not sure how to do that) but can’t it be done by using just 1 helper?
On, days 1, helper and explorer both start with 4+4 days worth of supplies. On day 2, they are left with 3+3 days worth of supplies, today helper takes ... |
This puzzle is a variant of the https://puzzling.stackexchange.com/questions/1761/doctors-dilemma.
There are two patients in a hospital (let's call them A and B), both of them need an operation by two different doctors (let's call them X and Y) -- so four different operations in total. However, just before the fi... |
I came across this sign in a shop and thought it could make a nice puzzle. So you can buy items and get discounts depending on how many items you got. You can combine discounts and use as many as you need. I want to buy $n$ items. Is there a value for $n$, such that I need to use all three types of discounts to get the... |
> A humorous king pays his worker with one inch gold bar everyday. He had a $31$ inches gold bar and he paid the worker $31$ days of a month cutting it in just $4$ places. **How is this possible?**
Taken from the book *Neurone Abaro Onuronon* by *Muhammad Zafar Iqbal*. |
How did the king paid the worker? |
How did the king pay the worker? |
> Here is the clue.
>
> Cut cut!
>
> What crazy, bloodthirsty creature remains? (5 letters)
EDIT I added the word 'crazy'. Apologies that I missed this out before.
Please use typical cryptic crossword strategies to solve this but some lateral thinking may be required.
In the unlikely event that there ar... |
I believe this is the solution (apologies in advance, not sure how best to format this):
>!<pre> ,+>[.<#-]
>! [#->+]<.,
>! .<[,-#>+]
>! #>[+]-.,<
>! +,.<>[-]#
>! [-<#,.+]>
>! <[+-]>,#.
>! >[,.#+]<-
>! -.#[<,]>+</pre>
Edited to include explanation of how I arrived at the solution:
>! I first ignored the... |
>My prefix has a value when defined,
>
>My infix has value when it's refined.
>
>My suffix is not usually moved,
>
>My whole is after something's been removed.
**What am I?**
Hint 1:
>! If you steal my infix, you may end up at my suffix.
Hint 2:
>! Same answer but not necessarily the same prefix/suffix... |
*You can skip the back story and directly jump to the question.*
Capitalism has arrived in suburban Chesster the community most famed for The Game, and with a vengeance. Rents have trebled in less than a year and your little community of scientists and artists already had to make hard choices and let all the pawns g... |
*You can skip the back story and directly jump to the question.*
Capitalism has arrived in suburban Chesster the community most famed for The Game, and with a vengeance. Rents have trebled in less than a year and your little community of scientists and artists already had to make hard choices and let all the pawns g... |
Imagine my horror to discover that I'd been betrayed. I knew it was one of out of five of my must trusted inner circle, so I sent them this message:
> Dear Anna, Bess, Chrissy, Diana and Eva,
>
> I know one of you has done the dirty on me behind my back. If you are good enough to admit it, we can put it behind us ... |
Who has betrayed me? |
Imagine my horror to discover that I'd been betrayed. I knew it was one among five of my most trusted inner circle, so I sent them this message:
> Dear Anna, Bess, Chrissy, Diana, and Eva,
>
> I know one of you has done the dirty on me behind my back. If you are good enough to admit it, we can put it behind us and... |
Fifteen related guests visited a restaurant and got into an argument about who was the greatest among them. To settle the dispute, they asked the owner to decide.
He thought for a moment, then said “While you are eating, write down as many stars as you can name. After the meal I will tally the results.”
The guest... |
# Help me find the password!
All stories in this puzzle are fictions.
Once I was checking my old notes, and found a small chest with a 6-letter lock and 4 strange papers.
__Paper #1__
|inventor|a|b|d|h|t|m|
|-|-|-|-|-|-|-|
|s|0|1|8|9|7|9|
|o|3|5|1|5|2|7|
|a|4|7|0|1|8|9|
|e|7|3|2|3|6|2|
|i|4|2|8|4|6|5|... |
*You can skip the back story and directly jump to the question.*
Capitalism has arrived in suburban Chesster the community most famed for The Game, and with a vengeance. Rents have trebled in less than a year and your little community of scientists and artists already had to make hard choices and let all the pawns g... |
The completed grid:
>! [![enter image description here][1]][1]
Explanations:
>! 1. OBLATE (OB + ETAL<)
>! 2. MALICE (MALIC ("apple-y"!!) + (-hell)E(-bore))
>! 3. EAGLET (LEG\* in EAT)
>! 4. SKATER (RETAKE< with S(-tew) in place of E(-ntertainment))
>! 5. CALICO (substring)
>! 6. SEAMEN (SE + AME... |
(In German a Jigsaw is simply called Puzzle, the pun is lost in English...)
A jigsaw has to match by form and (mostly!) by color at the tile borders. Assume your basic jigsaw tile consists of $m*m$ squares. Any square of the tile may have any of $k$ colors (obviously, only colors on the border of a tile are relevant... |
The answer to the first one is easily found by googling.
>! According to [this link][1], it's meant to be WC (i.e. toilet).
No idea for the second, as I actually don't know Korean.
[1]: http://www.ohmynews.com/NWS_Web/View/at_pg.aspx?CNTN_CD=A0000878431 |
The answer to the first one is easily found by googling.
>! According to [this link][1], it's meant to be WC (i.e. toilet).
Some explanation for people not familiar with the relevant languages:
>! In the ancient times, Chinese characters were used in the Korean language. But starting from about the year 1443, ... |
The answer to the first one is easily found by googling.
>! According to [this link][1], it's meant to be WC (i.e. toilet).
Some explanation for people not familiar with the relevant languages:
>! In the ancient times, Chinese characters were used in the Korean language. But starting from about the year 1443, ... |
The answer to the first one is easily found by googling.
>! According to [this link][1], it's meant to be WC (i.e. toilet).
Some explanation for people not familiar with the relevant languages:
>! In the ancient times, Chinese characters were used in the Korean language. But starting from about the year 1443, ... |
The answer to the first one is easily found by googling.
>! According to [this link][1], it's meant to be WC (i.e. toilet).
Some explanation for people not familiar with the relevant languages:
>! In the ancient times, Chinese characters were used in the Korean language. But starting from about the year 1443, ... |
I hope you will like this riddle:
* I am an invisible key but I don't open a lock.
* I am infinite and I am growing faster than anything.
* You are in me but you cannot see me.
* You need me when there is too much going on around you.
* I am a physical quantity.
Who am I? |
Are you...
>! Space?
I am an invisible key but I don't open a lock.
>! Space is the key to everything; without space, there wouldn't be any matter. Space also doesn't unlock anything.
I am infinite and I am growing faster than anything.
>! "Space" or "outer space" is constantly expanding, and there is no k... |
Are you...
>! Space?
I am an invisible key but I don't open a lock.
>! (Thanks, @WhatsUp!) Space is a key on the keyboard, but you can't see it when you type it.
I am infinite and I am growing faster than anything.
>! "Space" or "outer space" is constantly expanding, and there is no known limit to our univ... |
A token starts at location (0,0) on an infinite grid. On turn $n$ it must jump $n$ units horizontally or vertically, in one of four directions. What is the least number of turns needed for it to reach the location (10,10)? **Bonus:** what about location (100,100)? Good luck! |
On the island of knights and knaves (where knights always tell the truth and knaves lie), you meet two islanders named Penny and Quinru.
>Penny: Both Quinru and I are knaves!
Who is a knight and who is a knave?
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How is the following equation is correct?<br>$29$ - $1$ = $30$
**Hint-**
>! Think Ancient.
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How is this correct? |
What am I?
>With thieves I consort,<br>
With the Vilest, in short,<br>
I'm quite at ease in depravity,<br>
Yet all divines use me,<br>
And savants can't lose me,<br>
For I am the century of gravity.<br> |
The heavily-upvoted answer by *user20* is actually wrong. We do **not** need to memorize a single thing to be able to solve all the parity problems on any arbitrary n×n×n Rubik's cube. [This post is a general solution for Rubik's cube type of permutation puzzles](http://math.stackexchange.com/q/1096592/21820). Its para... |
What am I?
>With thieves I consort,<br>
With the Vilest, in short,<br>
I'm quite at ease in depravity,<br>
Yet all divines use me,<br>
And savants can't lose me,<br>
For I am the centre of gravity.<br> |
Find what comes next in the following sequence.
01,04,09,16,25,36,49,64,81,00,21,44,69,96,25,?
Bonus: What is the rule of the sequence? |
Find what comes next in the following sequence.
> 01, 04, 09, 16, 25, 36, 49, 64, 81, 00, 21, 44, 69, 96, 25, ?
Bonus: What is the rule of the sequence? |
You have 100 coins laying flat on a table, each with a head side and a tail side. 10 of them are heads up, 90 are tails up. You can't feel, see or in any other way find out which side is up. **You cannot flip any of the coins.** Split the coins into two piles such that there are the same number of heads facing up in ea... |
You have 100 coins laying flat on a table, each with a head side and a tail side. 10 of them are heads up, 90 are tails up. You can't feel, see or in any other way find out which side is up. **You cannot flip any of the coins or stand them on their edges.** Split the coins into two piles such that there are the same nu... |
**Edit**:- We have a group of words here:- (Go check Hint 1)
| | | | |
|------------|------------|------------|------------|
| ACIDITY | TIME | MICROSCOPE | MARKS |
| LIGHT | SCALE | CHEMISTRY | CLAW |
| REAL | LEAD | INTEREST... |
You have a given a scale which has 4kg and 2kg on the left side and an 8kg stone on the right side of the scale. You have an additional 1kg. How you will balance the scale? |
How to Balance? |
Here is a stunning new version of the famous bear problem. IT IS NOT A DUPLICATE, OR LATERAL THINKING. MATHEMATICS REQUIRED.
A photographer stepped out of their tent with a camera and walked:
- 1 km south, then
- 1 km east, then
- 1 km north & **finally**
- 1 km west.
Then the photographer was back *exa... |
Here is a stunning new version of the famous bear problem. IT IS NOT A DUPLICATE, OR LATERAL THINKING. MATHEMATICS REQUIRED.
A photographer stepped out of their tent with a camera and walked:
- 1 km south, then
- 1 km east, then
- 1 km north & **finally**
- 1 km west.
Then the photographer was back *exa... |
> Lang's teacher gave a piece of paper to Lang and said to him, "*Three good quotes are written here. But you have to achieve them through some difficulties*". The following was written in the paper:
(a) CAJEQO EO KJA LANYAJP EJOLENWPEKJ WJZ JEJAPU-JEJA LANYAJP LANOLENWPEKJ.
(b) ZIQQHUV QHYHU TXLW DQG TXLWWHUV ... |
The heavily-upvoted answer by *user20* is actually wrong. We do **not** need to memorize a single thing to be able to solve all the parity problems on any arbitrary n×n×n Rubik's cube. [This post is a general solution for Rubik's cube type of permutation puzzles](http://math.stackexchange.com/q/1096592/21820). Its para... |
Are you...
>! Space?
I am an invisible key but I don't open a lock.
>! (Thanks, @WhatsUp!) Space is a key on the keyboard, but you can't see it when you type it. Shift or caps*lock* have no effect when used with space.
I am infinite and I am growing faster than anything.
>! "Space" or "outer space" is cons... |
"This is really straightforward if you are from the other side of the pond", said Grandpa.
"Put your lateral thinking hat on and prove this to me:
> **Yes x No = VIIX**
Being from US, this was not strightforward for me. How about you?
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Grandpa's Crazy Math. Yes? No? |
"This is really straightforward if you are from the other side of the pond", said Grandpa.
"Put your lateral thinking hat on and prove this to me:
> **Yes x No = VIIX**
Being from US, this was not straightforward for me. How about you?
|
"This is really straightforward if you are from the other side of the pond", said Grandpa.
"Put your lateral thinking hat on and prove this to me:
> **Yes x No = VIIX**
Being from US, this was not straightforward for me. How about you?
|
Fifteen related guests visited a restaurant and got into an argument about who was the greatest among them. To settle the dispute, they asked the owner to decide.
He thought for a moment, then said “While you are eating, write down as many stars as you can name. After the meal I will tally the results.”
The guest... |
Here is a stunning new version of the famous bear problem. IT IS NOT A DUPLICATE, OR LATERAL THINKING. MATHEMATICS REQUIRED.
A photographer stepped out of their tent with a camera and walked:
- 1 km south, then
- 1 km east, then
- 1 km north & **finally**
- 1 km west.
Then the photographer was back *exa... |
On the island of knights and knaves (where knights always tell the truth and knaves lie), you meet two islanders named Penny and Quinru.
>Penny: Both Quinru and I are knaves!
Who is a knight and who is a knave?<br><br>
[Question Source][1]
[1]: https://brilliant.org/practice/knights-and-formal-logic/?p=1 |
You are given a scale which has 4kg and 2kg stones on the left side and an 8kg stone on the right side of the scale. You have an additional 1kg. How will you balance the scale? |
I recently was playing Sudoku on my iPad. As I was stuck on the puzzle I clicked on "Tip" to receive a hint on how I can solve this Sudoku (I am still learning the game) - so please don't judge me for this.
It added all kinds of pencil marks - and I was unable to follow why some of them were not populated. Unfortuna... |
Why are 2s not possible in these Sudoku cells? |
Alice and Bob play the following game, taking turns. Alice starts and writes a non-zero single
digit number at the blackboard.
At every turn, each player adds a single digit at the right of the current number until a number
with 9 digits is reached.
If this number is divisible by 11, Alice wins otherwise Bob.
... |
As everyone knows, in Sudoku the sum of each row and column is 45. So all Sudoku solutions are some kind of magic square. My question is:
Has anyone seen a Sudoku puzzle combined with the magic square rule for all nine 3x3 squares? (even without diagonal sum)
Is it even possible to have such a puzzle?
edit: T... |
Are there any sudoku puzzles combined with magic squares? |
| My rhymes got blacked out and mixed up! | Can you get them intact and fixed up? |
| ------- | -------------- |
| Live on stage, that idol's new. |███████████████████████ay.|
|Too low, maybe sing a little higher. |███████████████████████ge.|
|Gore and guts are common in the Mob. |███████████████████████ir.|
|Heav... |
After a lot of consideration, I have come to this method:
To solve the problem, I had to make two main assumptions.
First, it can only be solved from a single point of view, ie. from the evil (logician) because he is the common denominator. He gave both Rose and Mark just two numbers to choose (18 or 20) trees.
Seco... |
After a lot of consideration, I have come to this method:
To solve the problem, I had to make two main assumptions.
First, it can only be solved from a single point of view, ie. from the evil (logician) because he is the common denominator. He gave both Rose and Mark just two numbers to choose (18 or 20) bars.
Secon... |
Room Puzzle, containing chess and ciphers. Can someone help? |
The following figure is folded to form a box. Choose from the alternatives (A), (B), (C) and (D) the boxes that is similar to the box formed.
[![Dice_1][1]][1]
[![Dice_2][2]][2]
Source: [YouTube Video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a0mkm4Csddw&t=993)
In the above YouTube video while explaining the answer... |
The following figure is folded to form a box. Choose from the alternatives (A), (B), (C) and (D) the boxes that is similar to the box formed.
[![Dice_1][1]][1]
[![Dice_2][2]][2]
Source: [YouTube Video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a0mkm4Csddw&t=993)
How to answer these type of questions? How to decide w... |
What is the largest pair of consecutive numbers, not greater than a million, each of which can be expressed using precisely four fours and an assortment of standard operators (including concatenation, exponentation, square root, factorial, gamma fuction, decimals, and periodical decimals)?
In general, for each 2 < *... |
You go into a room, and the door closes. Some sign says:
>You must find a forced checkmate on the black king in two moves. The key for the Vigenere is ONLY your moves. In other words, if you played Qc3 followed by Re1 (regardless of black's moves) it would make the key Queencthreerookeone.
The chessboard:
[![... |
It's time for Episode 4 after a long time off air! This time, it's another unusual dazzle. It's a short, but succulent, sweet New Year's treat.
In the starting position, with no pieces other than the kings, what is the shortest possible sequence to a position in which both sides are stalemated? May the math be with ... |
It's time for Episode 4 after a long time off air! This time, it's another unusual dazzle. It's a short, but succulent, sweet New Year's treat.
In the starting position, with no pieces other than the kings and pawns, what is the shortest possible sequence to a position in which both sides are stalemated? May the mat... |
The figure given on the left hand side is folded to form a box. Choose from the alternatives (1), (2), (3) and (4) the boxes that is similar to the box formed.
[![Dice][1]][1]
Source: [IndiaBix](https://www.indiabix.com/verbal-reasoning/dice/discussion-203)
I understood that box (1) and (2) are possible from... |
Why box (3) isn't possible and why box (4) is possible? |
The following figure is folded to form a box. Choose from the alternatives (A), (B), (C) and (D) the boxes that is similar to the box formed.
[![Dice_1][1]][1]
[![Dice_2][3]][3]
Source: [YouTube Video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a0mkm4Csddw&t=993)
How to answer these type of questions? How to decide wh... |
Let us define "fastness" as a characteristic of how fast/agressive a driver is. One aspect of this is the (maximum) time between a traffic light turning red and the driver deciding they have to stop. The assumption here is that a "slow" driver will have low (read: very negative, like minus 5 seconds) value because they... |
Excluding the word SPINE, can you give me 2 words which are part of the human body that also have one word anagrams that are part of the human body?
Again, please exclude SPINE.
No partial answers. No slangs, abbreviations. |
Excluding the word SPINE, can you give me 2 words which are part of the human body that also have one word anagrams that are part of the human body?
Again, please exclude SPINE.
No partial answers. No slangs, abbreviations.
One of the two I found was a 4 letter word. I am sure there are more? |
My theory: the 2s were removed **arbitrarily** in order to help you (since you are left with cells with only one candidate). Obviously, if you search for a reason for that removal, you will eventually find one just by solving the puzzle.
Why do I think they were removed arbitrarily?
1. [Jesse's (excellent) answer... |
>My prefix I trail,
My suffix is male,
My infix is home to a wonder.
I make my prefix periodic,
My infix melodic,
My suffix detrimentally blunder.
**What am I?**
*<sup>Inspired by the original ['Riley riddle'][1].</sup>*
[1]: https://puzzling.stackexchange.com/q/62349/48337 |
Fifteen related guests visited a restaurant and got into an argument about who was the greatest among them. To settle the dispute, they asked the owner to decide.
He thought for a moment, then said “While you are eating, write down as many stars as you can name. After the meal I will tally the results.”
The guest... |
I recently was playing Sudoku on my iPad. As I was stuck on the puzzle I clicked on "Tip" to receive a hint on how I can solve this Sudoku (I am still learning the game) - so please don't judge me for this.
It added all kinds of pencil marks - and I was unable to follow why some of them were not populated. Unfortuna... |
**Edit**:- We have a group of words here:- (Go check Hint 1)
| | | | |
|------------|------------|------------|------------|
| ACIDITY | TIME | MICROSCOPE | MARKS |
| LIGHT | SCALE | CHEMISTRY | CLAW |
| REAL | LEAD | INTEREST... |
Whilst walking home from a long shopping trip, my friend sent me a text, which read:
>Hey, Brainiac! I remember that time you won 4 spelling bee's in a row, so here's something to scratch your brain with.
>
>• Havana
>
>• Antidisestablishmentarianism
>
>• Megalomaniac
>
>• Crabapple
>
>• Everlasting... |
Commonality between this contiguous list of words? |
Whilst walking home from a long shopping trip, my friend sent me a text, which read:
>Hey, Brainiac! I remember that time you won 4 spelling bee's in a row, so here's something to scratch your brain with. Try and find out what these words have in common:
>
>• Havana
>
>• Antidisestablishmentarianism
>
>• Meg... |
<sup>An entry in [Fortnightly Topic Challenge #50: Escape Rooms](https://puzzling.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/7172/)</sup>
<sup>Without revealing too much, knowledge of geek culture and/or superb Google skills are required for this puzzle.</sup>
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Coming from an anime convention and looking for someth... |
### Partial answer
Since this has been around for so long, I figured I'd share my progress so far.
<sup>[NB: I *did* need to bruteforce the first cipher, and I would've never gotten it without doing that. I also bruteforced the other one, but don't plan to use the information until I figure out how I was suppose... |
### Partial answer
Since this has been around for so long, I figured I'd share my progress so far.
<sup>[NB: I *did* need to bruteforce the first cipher, and I would've never gotten it without doing that. I also bruteforced the other one, but don't plan to use the information until I figure out how I was suppose... |
<sub>This is part 3 of the puzzle series that started at [Living the traveller's dream](https://puzzling.stackexchange.com/questions/109775/living-the-traveller-s-dream). Each part is solvable on its own.</sub>
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[![enter image description here][1]][1]
> <i>Dear Puzzling,
>
> As I'm sure you know, I a... |
<sub>This is part 2 of the puzzle series that started at [Living the traveller's dream](https://puzzling.stackexchange.com/questions/109775/living-the-traveller-s-dream). Each part is solvable on its own.</sub>
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[![enter image description here][1]][1]
> <i>Dear Puzzling,
>
> Time really does fly when... |
Apart from the fact each share the same common letter between their end and the start of the next word, another commonality is
>! Each contains a word (or more) in it as a substring
>! VAN, ESTABLISH, MANIAC, CRAB, EVER, GRAND, ROCK, MEN, NEON, ROW, WAR, REAL, THE
Maybe a coincidence as this is true of m... |
Answer: OPPOSE
I can see that "act" gives POSE", but how do you get to "OPPOSE"?
|
Clue:
> "Don't act like a pro (6)"?
Answer: OPPOSE
I can see that "act" gives POSE", but how do you get to "OPPOSE"?
|
How is "OPPOSE" the answer to "Don't act like a pro (6)"? |
Clue:
> "Don't act like a pro (6)"
Answer: OPPOSE
I can see that "act" gives POSE", but how do you get to "OPPOSE"?
|
Clue from the West Australian Cryptic Crossword 13/5/2021:
> "Don't act like a pro (6)"
Answer: OPPOSE
I can see that "act" gives POSE", but how do you get to "OPPOSE"?
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