Unanswered Questions
46 questions with no upvoted or accepted answers
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REALLY important days in history
@Z. Dailey asks a mathematical puzzle Important days in history... and to come! with a series of dates in years 1973, 1978, 1983, 1992, 2005.
My puzzle asks the question: What is the previous date in ...
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Do you see the point?
Original puzzle by me.
Remember to always obey your superiors. The first one should be 08594.
Hint:
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Ode to a Nightingale: a puzzling study in literary criticism
The field of literary criticism is an interesting and fruitful one, in which puzzlers might carve out a niche. This was recently brought home by a conversation I had with a sagacious old gentleman in ...
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My drunken formula?
I know that today is an important day, but I can't remember why... All I have in my possession is this formula I wrote last night in my drunken stupor:
You go here:
$$B = 25 + \biggl(\frac{O}{C}...
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We found text from the year 2040!
Recently, the first surviving examples of text from the βββββββββββββββe discovered! The unearthed artifacts included a collection of rectangular tablets inscribed in the hitherto unknowβββββββββββββββ...
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Missing Key Caps
So I bought this set of key caps... I was surprised to see the large amount of key caps included in the package, but despite that, you can't even seem to be able to put together a standard QWERTY ...
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Six strange experiences
I recently had six strange experiences related to food.
First, I met some allies who aided me when I ate too much and got heartburn.
Next, I read some verses and had some bread and wine.
Following ...
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Stress Not! - A North Daniels' Puzzle
Beep, beep, beep, beep...
No, this was not the sound of D.S.I North Daniels playing miniature cricket on his phone, although that would be a preferable situation to the one he is in now.
Unfortunately,...
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They are all K-verbs
Find the missing verb.
G: Fold, Break, Pry
D: Reduce, Vibrate, Rob
B: Soak, Subtract, Thrash
J: Sleep, Squeeze, ?
Subtle Hint:
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Light the darkness
The answer is an event in Wikipedia. Find the date.
4οΈπ
π€β¬οΈπͺπ(π₯π΅π-S)(π²21+A)πΊπΈ
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Truly unexpected thingy in a Radcliffe novel!
Ann Radcliffe was an English author in the Gothic style at the turn of the nineteenth century. Among the many interesting points in her remarkable career though, one little story is but poorly known. ...
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Complete the following analogical analogy
In an analogy ":" means "is to" and "::" means "as/like".
Now, since this is almost an analogy (maybe a future type), I will accept the solution if it's almost correct.
Kinberg : β΄niΙΙΖ¨nΙΖ¨iΖβ΄β :: ?
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7 clues that fit a squid
7 clues that fit an octopus, a monkey, the monkey's brother, the monkey's cousin and a Siamese centaur.
small adorned
place you can drink
after about
the kind I like to meet
be1oved teacher ...
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Zed's E-mail: My Good Ol' Uncle Sugar
My friend Gabby and I constantly look out for each other. Just the other day, she received a strange message from what I thought was an uncle of hers. "Problem is," she started with a ...
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Finding Rogue Kitty II
Having been met by a group of very unhappy bosses at
Kitty is being 'returned' to the staff car when suddenly there is a commotion and she makes a run for it.
As they chase her, little old ladies ...
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