Consider the following grid of streets with roadblocks: If you are facing in the direction of the arrow and want to get to the dot, the highlighted path is the shortest: This traces out an L. Let's try another one: This traces out the symbol @. Design such a grid so that: a) a...

If you think I'm lanky now, I used to be even more sinewy. They took away a part of me. Not wanting to lose more, I became an even bigger skinflint. Then they cut out my right eye—what am I now? The unkindest cut of all. I escaped, but found that while I'd once been swift, I'd los...

HAISU is a portmanteau of three Japanese words - 'hairu', to enter, 'su', number, and 'hausu', an English borrow word meaning house, of course. Together, we get a rough meaning of 'enter number house', which I have roughly translated to English as 'Room Count'. The rules are simple - draw a path...

Recently I've made a bunch of rebuses, and this is the newest lot of 6 (note that I've finally used some colour!). Hard rebuses Parts I, II and III which most of you have probably done.

It's a kind of a change. It's a kind of a chance. It's a kind of a run. It's a kind of a dance. It's a kind of escape. It's the start of a game. Yet from middle to end, it stays somehow the same. The answer is a single English word.

Start with a word. Drop the indicated number of letters from it, and rearrange if necessary, to form a set of words of decreasing length with the (probably cryptical) meanings given:       $\small\begin{array}{rl} 0&\textbf{Started a growth spurt}\\ -1&\textbf{Moved to Canada, perhaps}\\ -2&...

You can see where I am, but you can't see me. Creating me by hand you let the hand free. Creating me by tools you use the largest one. I make my cousins be more clear to everyone. The shortest valid answer would be invisible. Turn my white light off - I'm incomprehensible. Who/What...

Below is a black and white safe puzzle for you to crack. To discover the correct code, all you need to do is follow the instructions. Good luck. Underneath '6. The code is:' is a large amount of ciphertext I feel is more useful presented in text format as follows: EEQ. PGHRP YMDR. OZCD UYG...

This rebus has me stumped. Anyone have any clues to the solution. know know know know Know know Know to know

<<---First clue <---Previous clue The lights dim and you see, behind them, an etching on the wall that you had not noticed previously. You ponder what the words could mean...