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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PSE Advent Calendar 2025 (Day 8): The Eightfold Way
This puzzle is part of the Puzzling Stack Exchange Advent Calendar 2025. The accepted answer to this question will be awarded a bounty worth 50 reputation.< Previous Door Next Door >
I was very ...
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Watt is this picture?
Something peculiar about this photo...
Note: This is a solved problem, and looking it up would give away the answer.
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Paraphrased Song Lyrics: Just Like Old Times
This puzzle is a spiritual successor to Paraphrased song lyrics and Paraphrased lyrics 2 by Daniel Schepler.
The list below contains paraphrasings of well-known song lyrics. Identify the original ...
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A City Name Game
MAIL = LIMA
ANIMAL = MANILA
PAIRS = PARIS
THEN
GOALS =
TORCHERES =
AGONISED =
ALMOST. =
AVENGE =
ANTIAR =
OARSMEN =
ASLOPE =
Please no computers and no partial answers.
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PSE Advent Calendar 2025 (Day 4): Ring Bethlehem, the day begun!
This puzzle is part of the Puzzling Stack Exchange Advent Calendar 2025. The accepted answer to this question will be awarded a bounty worth 50 reputation.< Previous Door Next Door >
It's advent ...
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Where in the world is the chicken?
Along her journey, the chicken asked an indecisive donkey,
“Can I do it?”
After a long deliberation, the donkey finally answered:
“Seek the Still Green Desert. The skeleton upon the dune has your ...
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Two unique birthdates
My Dad loves math riddles.
He said to me, “You know your late Grandma and her first cousin were both born in the same year and on a Friday. Grandma Hannah Prime was several months older than her first ...
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What is a He shoots! He scores! word™?
This puzzle is inspired by the What is a Word™ and What is a Phrase™ series started by JLee and their spin-off What is a Number™ series.
If a word conforms to a special rule, I call it a He shoots! ...
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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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