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12:03 AM
@Sid could the CCCC be FREE (REEF anagrammed)?
 
there would be no anagram indicator for that
anyway, I think Rubio's guess is more than likely correct
 
I didn't see his guess, and "maybe" is an anagram indicator
 
but then you'd need something to turn "Australian" into "reef"
maybe can't do both
 
Oh, right, it would be an indirect anagram.
I see Rubio's guess now; that seems likely
 
12:29 AM
I'm not thrilled with it, but it certainly works
 
Sid said it was sketchy; that gives me more confidence that it's right
 
@GentlePurpleRain Mine's "Stellar Question". Only one on the site.
 
 
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1:39 AM
Thanks for the Bounty @Alconja!
 
@paramesis :) No worries. It makes me sad to see all your grids still unsolved. I feel like lots of people have tried to crack them (myself included) and have just not quite got over the tipping point.
 
I'm thinking it's probably well past time to edit in a hint
 
I plan on bounty-ing them one at a time until they're gorydamn solved.
But yes, hints probably wouldn't hurt either
 
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Q: Anyone know a way to solve this Logic problem?

HumbugTiffany has 14 classmates; all of her classmates have a different number of friends in the class. How many of them are friends with Tiffany? (If A is a friend of B, then B is a friend of A.)

 
2:02 AM
Hint added. It's my first hunt style puzzle, and I don't have any way of testing other than posting it here, so I guess it's not surprising that some unlikely and misleading coincidences ended up in there.
 
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Q: First whispered, then shouted

tisaconundrumI'm working on a puzzle that seems to involve capital and lowercase letters. The arrangement of the letters seems to all be unique. There are no repeating phrases or sets. I wanted to know if my approach is correct, or if I should be rethinking everything. Here is the initial passage Find adjac...

 
2:40 AM
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Q: How to Charge Our Devices in this Machine?

athinWarning: It is actually a simple "puzzle" which is silly but debatably unique as it really happens to me in real life. I'm amazed with nowadays technology. When I go to one of the shopping mall in Singapore, I found this: a public charging station with fingerprint lock system! (Well, at least ...

 
 
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4:05 AM
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Q: Dear Royal Doctor, please help save the King!

AsteriaThis is my first attempt at creating a puzzle, so it may be deemed to easy or tagged wrong, ect. You are the royal pharmacist, a brilliant doctor hired to care for the Royal Line, should they fall ill. You have been called to His Majesty's side, as he has become bed-ridden. As you enter the ...

 
 
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5:46 AM
0
Q: Integers around a circle with consecutive pairs differ to a square

Jamal SenjayaInspired by this puzzle : Integers around a circle with consecutive pairs adding to a square The integers 1 to 50 are placed around a circle in such a way that the difference of any two of them which are adjacent is a perfect square. Of these integers, some numbers are then removed. Restore them

 
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6:04 AM
@Rubio OPEN is indeed correct.
 
I feel the def is a bit naughty. But then again it's question-marked.
 
6:52 AM
0
Q: Birth problem solving

IQ WANTERA girl name Rima was born in 2012 and died in 2013, but she was alive 10 years 2 months. How is it possible? (PLEASE PROVIDE NECESSARY EXPLANATIONS)

 
oh my god, I can see so many bad answers for this
 
You could post them here, I guess
 
7:27 AM
you're going to see them soon enough
one of them is already there
 
 
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10:58 AM
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Q: Super Hard Riddle I cant Figure out

Luis felipe De jesus MunozOk, Here it goes. A prisoner runs from prison and gets to a end with 2 doors. One takes to the exit while the other one takes to death. Each door has a guardian. One of them tells the truth while the other one lies. The prisoner asks a question and takes the right door. What did he ask? I r...

 
 
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12:23 PM
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Q: A mysterious square

user_194421 I am a square, the youngest I can be, but not a baby. but not the multiplied by one. I'm not a mishearing of no. When my friends asked me, "What is your area?", I said I have none. They called me strange as a result. But, I am not only one. What am I? Complete explanation of main...

 
12:42 PM
0
Q: Just common sense

LevieuxBelow are nine ordered groups of words and phrases. Use common sense to solve the first eight. This should then tell you how to continue with the last group. objective; break; happening at night; friend; dominant; not fake; stamp; beacon; complete not before; personality; go in; trash;...

 
12:57 PM
1
Q: What word is missing?

Brent Hackers What is the missing word in the picture above?

 
1:47 PM
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Q: I can convey love or hate

user_194421 I am something. I can be seen, but sometimes cannot be read. I can convey love or hate or joy or sadness or any feeling. Sometimes, I can help you. But, sometimes, I can hurt you. But I can be stopped if my home is not asleep. If you don't stop me, I can be quite usef...

 
2:39 PM
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Q: What am I? I am a group

user_194421 What am I? I am a group. You can't blame anyone for I being in me. But I might not anyway. It depends on how you see the sixth in the third. But I wasn't invoking Godwin's Law! You are not in me. She is not, either. But the second is, if you cut it. But not the sixtieth of...

 
2:52 PM
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Q: What is the word?

FinniThis is my first puzze, I don't know if it is way too hard or way too easy for this community... I'll see

 
3:24 PM
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Q: The three rules

infinitezeroThe black rule says: The solution is easy, but not "easy". The red rule says: The solution is simple, but not "simple". The golden rule says: The solution is straightforward, but not "straightforward". What is the solution?

 
3:45 PM
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Q: T-yosc, A countdown

Karsten KöpnickA countdown: 4, 6, 6, 0, 3, 2, 0, 1, 2, ? How does it end? And why? Clarification: The "?" stands for a number. Which one? And of course the interesting part is: What's the rule behind this specific countdown?

 
 
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5:04 PM
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Q: Find Four Pins of 50 in this Image! -- A Hidden Object Puzzle

athinTonight, my friends and I went to the mall. We planned to buy some shirts and pants, but suddenly... we found this! These are number/size pins. They are typically used in hanger to denote the size of the clothes. We then decide to play some kind of Hidden Object puzzle, where we have to find at ...

 
5:23 PM
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Q: A Strategy Game Involving Conquering of Areas

Weijun ZhouThis is a game that I saw from a book long ago. Unfortunately I cannot find the book now, and even if I can as I recall it does not provide a strategy. I will be very grateful if you can provide me a link to the rules of the game (and verify that I didn't remember any part wrong), but of course I...

 
 
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6:54 PM
Not entirely here at the moment, but my favorite badge is "populist," even though it isn't rare:
(Up there, "Not entirely here at the moment" means "I'm not entirely here at the moment." My native Suomi/Finnish rarely uses explicit pronouns. I shun them in English because they feel just a little too personal. But in English it's ambiguous.)
 
People who closed this - is the edit now sufficient to make it clear, and reopen-worthy? How is it impossible
 
There are so many keyboard configurations, and the telephone keyboard answer is a fun variation!
 
I liked that answer a lot, in fact - given that it actually proves, quite well I thought, the thing mean to be disproved
 
There are adding machine keyboards!
Calculator keyboards!
Piano/clavier/klavichord/harpsichord/organ keyboards!
 
7:09 PM
Those don't have all the "alphabets" on them, generally.
A phone keypad does.
 
well, it's not unclear
borderline a math problem
and definitely not an interesting puzzle
 
@Rubio , You're right about adding machine and calculator keyboards, but the others have, implicitly. Every note on a musical keyboard as a letter association.
 
oh, I agree it's downvote worthy if the answers it's drawn are the intended solution (and I have little doubt they are)
But I think closing as unclear is now no longer justified.
 
It needs yet another clue.
 
@humn While not absolutely explicit, the puzzle says "The English alphabets" which tells me the intention was all the English letters, not merely A-G or other subset.
 
7:13 PM
Ooops sorry to miss the initial clue: 3 rows. That reduces it to organ. (Or something other you can think of. All the other keyboards mentioned have fewer or more rows.)
I take that back. Other keyboards mentioned only include alphabet on 3 rows.
 
CCCC: A mean swear, half untamed. (7)
 
"Cursory"? (No idea how.)
 
(Me neither. hehe)
 
It has seven letters and includes "curse." I have NOT caught on to CCCCs.
 
@Rubio AVERAGE = AVER (swear) + [-sav]AGE
 
7:18 PM
!!!!!!!!!!!!!
 
SAV AGE
don't think you can do it without the space
And yes, that's correct
 
Hot diggity donuts, I haven't gotten any of these in months
 
That was ... really fast. :)
 
(But you have to admit that "cursory" = "partial" even if not half.)
(I haven't caught on to how CCCCs are built from blocks.)
(But when i do, watch out.)
 
7:33 PM
here, have a cursory cookie
 
7:45 PM
Yum!
 
Alright, I haven't done this in a while, but I think this works...
CCCC: Diligent supporter rids curious of scoundrel. (8)
 
STUD + [-cur]IOUS ?
 
@ffao Yes, that was fast!
 
 
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9:09 PM
Just skip to 3:23 for an impressive imitation of speech (and don't let up until 3:44:
(Make that until 4:24.)
 
9:31 PM
For you, JAK, who just told me, "it's quality more than quantity." Everything you've done i've wanted to, weren't i such a wastrel. We've been friends since 1974, and now you have terminal cancer:
^ sorry about that, everyone else, i'm letting out the grief in many outlets. (I did help make parts of JAK's career, and it was a great one.)
JAK is one of the main who taught me we can be impressive in a classroom but even more clever under cover of night.
While chairing a university engineering department, he was leading midnight trespasses everwhere, counting on me to do the most daring stuff. Worked every time.
Didn't quite work as planned every time. Many times others didn't follow and just waited for me to return.
But at least they waited!
Trespass puzzles are easy, when taught by the best. CCCCs seem to be the only beyond my reach, even though taught by the best.
(Hint: if you want to go out at night and solve trespass puzzles, you have nothing to worry about as long you don't break or steal anything. Whoever cares might catch you, on a bad night, but will release you because you did no harm. That's just an inconvenience all around.)
My favrite line: "I/we was/were just leaving anyway."
(Even when entering. Has worked every time so far.)
 
10:09 PM
. . . losing steam . . . back in an hour or more after i find out what song's been balming JAK . . . I said, "don't be embarrassed by the effects of brain cancer. We got to know each other while simulating it. This is like old times." . . .
 
10:23 PM
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Q: I need help solving this coded message

Derek MDont know what to do need help S2VlcGluZyBkYXRhIHNhZmUgaXMgb25lIG9mIHRoZSBnb2FscyBvZiBlbmNyeXB0aW9uLgpBbGwgZW5jcnlwdGlvbiBhbGdvcml0aG1zIGFyZSBub3QgY3JlYXRlZCBlcXVhbC4KVGhpcyBtZXNzYWdlIHdhcyBub3QgZW5jcnlwdGVkLCBpdCB3YXMgZW5jb2RlZCBvbiBodHRwczovL2djaHEuZ2l0aHViLmlvL0N5YmVyQ2hlZi8gaW50byBCQVNFNjQuC...

 

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