12-year-old Andy's mum has been bugging him (as mums are wont to do) after having found his notebook doodled over with little hearts and flowers, and his pocket money being spent on a lot of cologne...
'But when your little sister got a crush, she told us who it was...'
Yes, repeatedly. If he h...
A Matryoshka doll is a set of wooden dolls of decreasing size placed one inside another. We're gonna do the same thing with words. Let's call it a Matryoshka Word. A solution to this puzzle should contain every word in the chain. Each word in the chain adds a letter to the previous word's letters...
The six cards shown below were turned face down, "shuffled" (i.e.. re-arranged), and
put in a pile, one on top of each other. Each card has an obvious numeric value. In
addition, the "J", "Q", and "K" have values of 11, 12, and 13 respectively. make use
of the information provided in the sp...
Your brother has been forcing you to some read some of his frankly ridiculous poetry, so, knowing that he was never a numbers man, you decide to vex him with a Number Slope puzzle. In fact, you are so confident that he won't be able to solve it that you bet all your PSE rep on it.
The next day, ...
You are given N coins which consists of only 1 fake coin. You also have a sensitive old-fashioned Pan Balance Scale.
You are asked to find the fake coin in totally 5 times weighing on the Pan Balance Scale among given N coins:
You know that all genuine coins have the same weight but you do n...
Inspired by this puzzle, you decide to visit your local library in the hope of checking out a copy of Ximenes on the Art of the Crossword.
Upon entering, you ask the librarian whether the library has a copy, at which point she hands you an index card from the catalog.
With the location of the b...
Related: Connect 4 Recursive
We have a mega tic tac toe grid. Each of the nine cells of the mega grid has a smaller tic tac toe grid. In total we have 81 cells that can be filled. (Maybe imagine a Sudoku grid)
Alice starts by playing in any of the 81 squares. Now the grid in which the next play...
Interesting story I stumbled upon:
Aymara is South American language spoken by more than 2 million people in the area around Lake Titicaca. Among the speakers of Aymara are the Uros, a fishing people who live on artificial islands, woven from reeds, that float on the surface of Lake Titicaca.
B...
So I woke up this morning to find a most peculiar e-mail from Rubio. It went like this:
Skip and hop throughout the land,
every other is far too bland.
Every fourth is far too grand,
to skip and hop within this land.
The hare was no hero. However, driving she and guard...
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[redacted], you say, and instantly a panel slides aside in the wall ...
