Questions tagged [seasonal]
Puzzles which are themed towards or particularly relevant to a certain time of year, e.g. seasons, events, holidays.
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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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PSE Advent Calendar 2025 (Day 7): Stooge tablet walking like a seal
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PSE Advent Calendar 2025 (Day 6): Reindeer with presents
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There’s a ...
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PSE Advent Calendar 2025 (Day 5): Cinnamon overdose
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Argh! I was ...
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PSE Advent Calendar 2025 (Day 4): Ring Bethlehem, the day begun!
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It's advent ...
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PSE Advent Calendar 2025 (Day 2): Decorating in the Midst of Purple Skies
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I'm ...
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PSE Advent Calendar 2025 (Day 1): The Wish List
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One of your younger children ...
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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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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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9/16/25 operations challenge
Use the numbers 9, 16, and 25 in that order to create numbers 1-10. You can use addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, parenthesis, and the square root as many times as you want
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What year was it?
Towards the end of a cold February many years ago (some time in the 2010s) I was sharing a takeaway with a friend who suddenly, mid-conversation, asked me "What year is it now?"
At first I ...
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My girlfriend sent me an IQ test puzzle today. Why?
Today of all days my girlfriend strangely sent me a seemingly impossible puzzle to solve on WhatsApp. I mean she loves puzzles but I don’t. Maybe she’s trying to communicate something… who knows? ...
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A Christmas Word Search
The answer of this puzzle is a 6 letters word. (The whole puzzle was made by myself, easy but fun!)
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PSE Advent Calendar 2024 (Day 24): 'Twas the Meta before Christmas
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places far away from each other but similar every now and then
What (approximately) is common to Paris, mid Mongolia and mid North Washington state border with Canada, and when was it manifested last time recently? Also, in what (approximately) do these places ...