Recently there was a television game show in which this was one of the problems: This appeared on SIC, a Portuguese television network. The only clues were: You have to add all the numbers without using the common addition operation ("some todos os números, sem usar a soma normal") The answe...

I surround men on all sides, I make them deaf, and I escort them to oblivion—and yet they love me. They have shed the blood of others to obtain me. I appear harmless and yet pierce those who approach me. Only come for me when all is hot and dry, or all will be lost.

Seems as if I've left you all a little puzzle for today. It's a simple cipher that I'm sure you can all deduce. Everything you need is provided in the image. Have fun everyone!

John being his usual self forgot the name of his favourite painter. He went to the Oracle for assistance but inadvertently walked in on her while she was busy eating pie. Angry at the interruption, she threw these numbers at John instead of helping him: 888006 2327 5961 697109420 5961 50774...

A new tag has been created on this site - find-the-tag - currently containing 6 questions at the time of writing. It intends to be for questions where a certain Puzzling SE tag is required as the final answer to some kind of pattern. A tag wiki and tag wiki excerpt proposal was made when there w...

Given 6 horses and you can race any 5 of them and after every race you get the 2nd and 3rd fastest horse how would you find the fastest horse in minimum number of steps. Well the minimum number of step here is important.Eariler i asked something similar and found that it was not possible so i am ...

I am a Russian ay, ah, in the English way! For many is to say, the booty's ours, hooray! I am an English ay, ah, in the Russian way! For many not to say, and all is quite okay! Looking for a mythological answer.

I am thinking of 2 integers $x$ and $y$ which follow the following; $$2≤x≤y$$ $$x+y≤47$$ I then write the sum $S = x+y$ and the product $P=xy$ on two separate cards. I pass the sum card to player A and the product card to player B. Neither player knows what is on the other person's card or what...

You and your friend are put in two different rooms with just a coin and no way to communicate. You both toss the coin at the same time. Your task is for at least one of you to guess correctly what the other one has tossed. You may think ahead of a strategy that will help you. note: The coins a...

There are $2$ dice: An $11$-sided die, valued from $-5$ to $5$, A $41$-sided die, valued from $-20$ to $20$. You pick one, and I'll take the other one. We roll the dice, and whoever rolled the larger number wins (if tied, we re-roll again.) Which die will you choose to maximize your winning ...

Problem Statement: 188 - 4, 432- 0, 100- 2, 765 -1 Recognise the logic such that your program should print the correct number when any natural number is given as input the maximum number of digits in the number will not be greater than 10 I am unable to understand the logic please help me to und...

Do it really be like it do? Or do it not be like it do? I need to know.

Seriously, why would the chicken do such a foolish act? I asked a friend for his insight, he just sent me this: T̵̻͎̟͕͕̅ͩ̏͊̊ͯ͑͒ͣ̃͊̐ͤ̚͘o̡̞̪͚͎̭ͣͬ͂̓̋̐̅ͯ͆͒̾̒̄̓̀̚q̛̮͔̹̙͉̭͖̮͕͕̞͈̼͕̭̬̯̊̍ͪ̓͆̏ͫ͊ͧ͌̅͌ͧ̚͜6̸̱̯̥̭̻͓͉͍͕͕̗̼̤͒́̿̅̃̅ͩͪ̄͒̍̀͡ͅͅF̵̗̘̠̬̥͕͈̠͓̭̯̹͌ͨ͂̔ͫ̃̑ͤ̂̄͛ͪ̃̚̚ͅͅͅͅ What does the message from my friend me...