What is a Universal Word™?
If a word conforms to a rule, I call it a Universal Word™. Can you figure out the pattern?Universal Words™Not Universal...
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The Moldy Square Grid
This puzzle is part of the Monthly Topic Challenge #14: Think inside the (very small) box!.What is in the middle space?Hint:Hint 2:Hint 3:Hint 4:
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Comfolding Origins
Unfortunately, this image is too big for me to provide a transcription.Hint:
View ArticleA simple "scientific test..."
I hold every single day, in my lovely picture frame.I look a hundred years old, but I was built on the spot.You might say I'm weak, and I'm four times over the hill.Sometimes I take the elevator from...
View ArticleWhat is an Electronic Word™?
This puzzle is in the spirit of the What is a Word/Phrase™ series started by JLee with a special brand of Phrase™ and Word™ puzzles.For certain integers, there exist some corresponding Electronic...
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Aquatic Giants – Heyawake / Marching Bands
This is part 52 of the puzzle series Around the World in Many Days. Each part is solvable on its own.“One, two, three, four, five, I love marine wildlife.”– unknownDear Puzzling,The grid on the...
View ArticleNothing but pairs of a kind
The objective is to reduce a given word to nothing in a series of steps.At each step, remove every occurrence of an adjacent pair of letters of your choosing.For example:Problem: Reduce CONCOCTION to...
View ArticleFilling a 5x5x5 grid
Inspired by this. On each line to the left is the position of a word, and to the right is the "snyptic clue" not a cryptic clue (duh) for the word, along with the word's length. The 5x5x5 cube should...
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Find four related words in a word search [closed]
This puzzle was given to me by a friend, who had received it from his professor.This puzzle contains a word search with 4 hidden words. Your task is to identify these 4 words. The solution to the...
View ArticleNote to self: DO NOT FORGET!
Just found this connecting wall on a scrap of paper in my pocket. I know I created it as a reminder about something... I just can't for the life of me remember what!Can you help me recall what the four...
View ArticleTwo 10-letter words consisting of 20 unique letters?
I'm looking for two words, 10 letters each, 20 unique letters. Below are my by-hand attempts.https://www.wordunscrambler.net/word-list/10-letter-words-with-no-repeating-letters Find words with 3 or...
View ArticleBack Word Puzzle [closed]
There's a puzzle given to my friend by his professor. Answer is one real word only.Puzzle: ifhgormtClue: "Sometimes you have to go forward by going backwards"zyx..
View ArticleMagical Spellchecker
As a fifth year in Hogwarts, you’ve begun working as a part-time spellchecker, earning gold to pay off your costly tuition. First years and second years, who are just getting the hang of crafting their...
View ArticleRomantic? Old? Get rid of me or give me hell
I'm not generally romantic, butShow me a couple and I'm broken.Two couples and I'm gone completely.You might think I'm very old:Unlucky, like paper,Or a little further on, like metal.All right, you've...
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Sort 25 words into five groups
Arrange these 25 words into five groups of five.I initially created this puzzle for my friends but none of them have solved it yet, so I have posted it here to make sure it was not too hard!For a bonus...
View ArticleAn Indonesian Vowelburger™ Riddle
Ok, so this is a bit embarrassing. I just found out about the whole Vowelburgers™ thing, and I just realised that a Vowelburgers™ Restaurant opened next door. Of course I had to get one. They were...
View ArticleOrdered Vowelburgers™ as many as possible
I wanted to order Vowelburgers™ as many as possible, and came up with one idea. But for the purposes of giving a puzzle, I'm concealing what the idea was.Here are the Vowelburgers™ I've received,...
View ArticleWho’s missing from this group of stars?
You’ve recently joined the Grey Elm, an exclusive VIP club, as an event organizer. Tonight’s event in particular features a lot of starpower, going by these aliases:Black-DRAGONGreenTurtleShellsgolden...
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Infiltrate the Imposter Ring
POWER has arrived late to the puzzle, and another word has stolen its place! Who is the imposter?Notes:This style of puzzle (connect-wall) requires you to group 16 words into four groups of four.I...
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Emoticon text code
I found this text on my phone.Is there a genius out there that is able to tell me what this means?
View ArticleNonsensical phrases tied together by a common theme
These phrases are meaningless by themselves, but upon closer inspection, they all describe various instances of the same thing. Can you figure these out? Give this problem a try, and when you're ready,...
View ArticleWhat was her sentence suggestion?
I'm a judge, and I'm currently judging a littering case. I was going to go with the usual sentence of a public hanging, but when I texted my friend she gave me a much better ideaThe problem is that...
View ArticleA mysterious importance
These words. They have a poetry to them, do they not? A mystical or religious significance? Perhaps they were born of the fundamental, ancient stuff of reality, from water or metal. Or maybe just...
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Reverse Word Pyramid
Group these words into groups of:SixFiveFourThreeTwoand One.Then, figure out why this is a 'reverse' pyramid.
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Data is plural?
The three overlapping ellipses form seven curved regions. Your task is to place exactly one tile per region, so that the four tiles in any one ellipse can solve the corresponding clue!
View ArticleA cotton-y connection
The following words and phrases have something in common: FinalIn caseRecordDefeatedDesireFigure out what that connection is, then fill in the blanks with suitable phrases:Cotton item???Cotton...
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An endless loop in a desolate wasteland
You check your position tracker. Back at the beginning.Slowly, once again, you begin taking steps and counting cracks in the sidewalk.One. Two. Three. Four. FiveYou look around. Pitch darkness. Nowhere...
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A Venndredi Special!
Another Venn based puzzle from me. The three overlapping ellipses form seven curved regions. Your task is to place exactly one tile per region, so that the four tiles in any one ellipse can solve the...
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10 friends of a triangular baseball batter
"I'll do it tomorrow""Lattices and nets are my forte"The paved oneA shadowy characterA place where organic and inorganic meetOlder brother of a piece of textA job title. Do not confuse with a concept!A...
View ArticleThis bird is so popular, many countries around the world share a name with it
There's a bird, it's very popular.Several IRL Earth countries (more than 2) around the world share a name with the same bird, although the relation between the country name and the bird is not obvious....
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