Questions tagged [knowledge]
A puzzle whose solution relies on external sources such as tables, dictionaries, Wikipedia, or specifics that may not be common knowledge.
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Sum of the parts
This puzzle has 2 parts.
Question A
If GEORGE can be depicted as follows:
and JIMMY can be depicted like this:
then what is the following name?
Question B
If QUEEN can be depicted like this:
then ...
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Not Benny but close
The answer is a single word. Below are clues for the same:
colleague of chia
home to Oscar
means to open
of ancient origin
This is my own.
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The Optimal Way
My puzzle enthusiast friend, who travels around the world whenever they can, recently sent me a puzzle (knowing very well I enjoy solving puzzles as well).
Hey friend! Today I'm visiting a country ...
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What is the Mythical Creature?
A mythical creature links the images below.
Edit: There have been a couple of answers tenuously linking the images with mythical creatures but ...
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Dec. 31 rebus from Games magazine
To partially check your answer:
Attribution:
Mike Martinek in the November/December 1979 issue of Games magazine.
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Find the question for the answer
The answer is:
Q, U, X, Y, Z
What is the specific question?
This is my own. I believe I selected all relevant tags.
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An (early) seasonal connect wall!
I haven't posted one of these in a while. It's a little early, but this one has a seasonal twist. There's also a mechanical twist - when you've found the 4 categories, you have to also figure out what ...
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Fly away with me
My friend Tori wants to bring me somewhere with her on Friday but won't tell me where. I ducked as she threw this piece of paper at me and crowed, "This will help!" I swallowed my judgment ...
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Complete the lines and find the word
Find the hidden word, and then add another word to get the full answer.
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Pumpkin Faces in the Night
Little dead are out in droves.
There's a knock at the door. You see a motley crew of costumed kids. What is this? A costume contest? You decide to play along and judge the costumes.
First up is a ...
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No Roman numerals in me
I represent a number
Take away the first and the last letter, you see a bigger number
Take away the first 4 letters, you see a much smaller number
Take away the first 2 letters, you see an even ...
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The code is inside the safety box
The Escape Room that tells the story of an eccentric millionaire Oscar O'toole, ends with a locked safety box with numbers lock. Ouside you see a note:
NO NEED TO FIND A KEY FOR THE LOCKS
THE CODE IS ...
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Faced with numbers
The answer is a 4-letter word.
You can witness these in...
Part of a group of underlying numbers (7)
Part of a group of divers (who have Let Go, Not That I Care) (5 4)
Part of a group of biases (10)
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Nice pitch? (Hope not...)
If...
D + O = "Priestly",
K + T = "Beholding",
S + T = "Corn-on-the-cob",
and
E + L = "An excess of bile in the blood"
…then what mineral can you make when ...
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Where are they studying?
A riddle: where are they studying?
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women
and
6
men
count up their letters with their friends
visit a table for some
elementary knowledge and prepare for college
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What book is this? (fractions)
What book is this?
Text version of image:
4 fractions: 1/5 (black), 2/5 (black), 1/5 (red), 1/5 (blue)
Attribution:
https://www.tiktok.com/@andymath.com/video/7493542836453870878
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Sweet and sour but also devoted what am I
My boss made this riddle.
I am devoted…. I am sweet…. Sometimes I am sour. I am like a punctuation. You all know me. We often clash.
Who, what or where am I?
I am very big, you can’t miss me. ...
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Number Mapping Riddle - How does F work?
Here is the mapping F: {0, 1, …, 63} —> N.
F(0) = F(1) = 11029
F(2) = F(3) = 8263
F(4) = F(5) = F(6) = F(7) = 12992
F(8) = F(9) = 14188
F(10) = F(11) = F(14) = 347870
F(12) = F(13) = 2697
F(15) = ...
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yet another machine giving O or X for sequences of positive numbers
The excellent recent puzzle
What is the pattern of this mystery box?
immediately made me consider a solution which turned out to be very much unrelated and hence obviously wrong.
Here is another ...
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Can you solve this rebus puzzle? (Silly Little Codes, Puzzle #195)
Can you solve this rebus puzzle?
The answer is typically an American English word, though it's also used internationally.
This puzzle is from the site playsillylittlegames.com/codes of which I am a ...
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What is the pattern of this mystery box?
My friend and I found a mystery box, which requires a paper of number and gives us a ball written O or X.
Here are some results of my trial.
number
result
1
O
2
O
12
X
111
O
2222
O
342
O
351
X
432
X
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Touch that thing to keep me at rest or perish
I am not a person, animal, or real-life character. I am at rest, but I am not resting on table, or in bed, but I am resting in a sealed object. I am also not lying when resting. Melody is what keeps ...
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A joyful sequence
$\dfrac54,\space\dfrac54,\space\dfrac43,\space\dfrac32,\space\dfrac32,\space\dfrac43,\space\dfrac54,\space\dfrac98,\space1,\space1,\space\dfrac98,\space\dfrac54,\space\dfrac54,\space\dfrac98,\space\...
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Discussing strategy reduces winning chances of everyone!
A certain board game is played, which involves two teams, each with multiple members. Every time the game is played, one of the teams wins, and the other loses - there are no ties.
At some point ...
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Solve the equations to name the animal
39=27
2323=913
30=48
66=102
203=515
What animal am I thinking of?
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The most beautiful …
I’m looking for beautiful answer.
An egyptian stretching their two arms upside
1 with tittle
Purpose of author
T in lowercase, somewhat nervous
Currency of Korea
Two in Chinese
The neutral (not ...
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Do you have another one in mind? If so, just post it!
What figure must replace the question mark? As usual, explain your reasoning.
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Enigmatic puzzle: find the missing value
In honour of my recent acquisition of the enigmatic-puzzle tag badge, can you provide the missing value?
2e
21
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One letter, one name
A magician brought to life four buddies but something went wrong... unfortunately their names magically disappeared in the process, somehow the magician and the buddies forgot their names. Luckily the ...
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Name the actor by clues #2
A Puzzle: Please tell the name of the actor I give the clues for.
Guidance:
These are not metaphorically or philosophically inclined. There is one hypothetical clue though
A partial match to an actor ...
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Name the actor by clues
A Puzzle: Please tell the name of the actor I give the clues for.
Guidance:
These are not metaphorically or philosophically inclined
A partial match to an actor does not count. Each clue matches the ...
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What is an Evil Word™?
This is inspired by the What is a Word/Phrase™ series started by JLee with a special brand of Phrase™ and Word™ puzzles.
If a word conforms to a special rule, I call it an Evil Word™.
Use the ...
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Cryptic Family Reunion: It's Easy to Overlook Us
This is a Cryptic Family Reunion puzzle, where a set of cryptic clues has been given, and the answer to each clue follows the same theme. Since a definition for the answer would give the answer away, ...
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A missing destination
My petrolhead friend Julius is off on another road trip, and they won't tell me where. They only sent me this string of numbers:
21 32 33 01 41 36 22 90 40
Which country are they headed to?
Hint 1:
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Constant anagram in PI
Anagram 3.14159 and then double to find a well known mathematical constant.
Avoid triviality; those answers will not be accepted.
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Some don't like me, some people do
Sweet Baby Milk & Wire Fire Air
Dark Dead Sea & Old Work Store
Love With care & Cash Code None
Table Post Gas & Window Eye Sun
A nine letter word- eight letter too
Some ...
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A missing Country
I received a note from a friend, a scientist and amateur mathematician, who seemed to be going away on a mysterious trip. The address of the place he said he'll be staying is
Nice Blan Hall .k.v
But ...
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A selfish behavior - What makes it possible?
It doesn’t care about others moving, it only cares about one.
When it starts observing one of us, others stop for it.
After it’s done, it changes our entire world.
In the changed world, we are allowed ...
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Ensure no fungus
Dear Solver,
Today I went to 4A, which is not short of wonders regardless of its small size. After staying at its capital, 23A, I went to view nature in a protected area, where I saw Mount 13A-34D ...
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What number is next? 40, 0, 2, 1, 0, 10, 50, 4, 0, 16
What number comes next in this sequence?
40, 0, 2, 1, 0, 10, 50, 4, 0, 16
Answers must have an explanation of why the next number is what it is.
Hint:
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A light grid of first halves
Solve the small grid and give me the answer which is a 5-letter word represented by the whole grid. What word?
Hint 1
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~A Hairy Riley~
My prefix is to get things done
My infix is a bit of fun
My suffix is a finder's rake
My whole is a bear or snake
What am I?
Hint 0
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What happens to her?
A nudnik says she uses Wiktionary as a thesaurus, and gets involved in a disagreement
A fishwife says she uses Wiktionary as a thesaurus, and gets involved in a clash of opinions
A scold says she uses ...
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Noble feathers?
My prefix is skilled with paint;
My infix is a bit of pain;
My suffix is the name of a hero;
My whole is the name of a hairdo.
What sort of conundrum?
HINT:
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