The portrait cannot tell whether fragment X or Y belongs at the ? question mark.   Can you? How is it a “self-portrait”? Let’s say this painting is encountered amid the shadows of Mortin Myes’ Second Cryptic Gallery but, despite its caption, is not a likeness of the artist. The maze-lik...

Now twenty sixteen has faded away: A terrible year, I really must say. People dying, relationships up messed, Elections and politics dividing the West. I turn over on my side, For all is upside down. I piss again and again, But really, why bother? Just west of north, I exist, but backwar...

Inspired by this question, I created this puzzle. I was walking down a street, I see a star club with a security guarding the entrance door. A man approaches him, and the guard flips a middle and a thumb on him. The man replied by showing his fore finger. The guard allowed him to pass. Anoth...

Let me remind you, in case you haven’t read my previous puzzle, that a cryptic rebus is a rebus that has the form of a cryptic clue. That is to say, there are two parts to a cryptic rebus: a definition of the answer a subsidiary indicator of the answer. A definition can take the form of a pic...

If I stand up, I am balancing nothing. If I split in the middle, my left would phonetically talk like a parrot, and my right would be lifted as a cube. If I lie down, I can wait forever. What am I?

The teacher of my nephew (15y) proposed the following puzzle to the students. I solved it, but I found it extremely difficult, in particular for teenagers. Perhaps there is a simpler solution than mine. Additionally, I suspect that the puzzle is not original, but I was unable to find one with t...

The genius discovered that the egg could stand In front of the sons of Jacob, I promptly admit my wrongdoings. Benjamin was never one of them, but two of his name brothers was. The little boy was hard as metal! Disney wedding for real! Bollinger and Salinger invited to a party, But since...