Questions tagged [pattern]
A puzzle in which you spot the pattern that links a set of given data items (like numbers, letters, music tunes). Usually, you use your insights into the pattern to find one or more new elements of the set.
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What is a Uppercut Word™?
This is inspired by the What is a Word/Phrase™ series started by JLee with a special brand of Phrase™ and Word™ puzzles.
This table shows examples of Uppercut Words™ and non-Uppercut Words.
Uppercut ...
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an interesting function f
I wrote this puzzle last year, but didn't post it in time, so I've re-written it for this year. Here's an elegant function f with range and domain as subsets of the natural numbers, some of which ...
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PSE Advent Calendar 2025 (Day 6): Reindeer with presents
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 >
There’s a ...
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What is an Undercover Word™?
This puzzle is based off the What is a Word™, What is a Phrase™, and What is a Number™ series started by JLee.
If a word has a certain property, I call it an Undercover Word™. Can you figure out what ...
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What is an ACE! word? (Can't do it without clubs!)
This puzzle is inspired by the What is a Word™ and What is a Phrase™ series started by JLee
If a word conforms to a special rule, I call it an ACE! word.
Use the list of examples below to find out ...
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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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What is a Pendulum 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 Pendulum ...
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What is a Productive Word™?
This is inspired by the What is a Word/Phrase™ series started by JLee with a special brand of Phrase™ and Word™ puzzles.
Here are some words, both examples of Productive Words™ and non-examples. What ...
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Complete the integer sequence: 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 20, ?, ?, ?, ?
Here is a sequence I happened to work out, although I am certainly not the first one.
Can you fill in the missing numbers?
10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 20, ?, ?, ?, ?
NB: The sequence ends after the last ...
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Shadowed Dragon Ciphers: #2
This is the SHADOW Cipher in a small sample. One of my hardest, Good Luck!:
Z+b s v k v x w z d o x
-The Shadowed Dragon
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What is a CCC word?
This is inspired by the What is a Word/Phrase™ series started by JLee with a special brand of Phrase™ and Word™ puzzles.
This table shows some, but not all, CCC words and several similar non-CCC ...
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What pattern did Excel see in my data?
I was filling out the rightmost column of this set of cells from top to bottom. (The content of that column is intended to be manually calculated using the numbers to the left plus some hidden weights,...
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Progressive matrix of squares and circles
I've tried to see any progression between rows or columns without luck
I also noticed that we could have a cell formed by combining two other cells, like:
cell (1, 1) is a combination of cells (2, 2)...
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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.
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12
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111
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2222
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342
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351
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432
X
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Progressive matrix with blue bars, green dots, and yellow stars
This is from a question asked on Reddit. Personally I believe the answer is 2, but I think my logic is flawed.
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