You are a Book lender who strangely lends books of equal length and difficulty ever time. You have people who you lend your books to, but you want to find out who is the fastest reader of the group and who is the slowest reader of the group. This is the situation. There are ten people who al...

Our telephone exchange has 1000 wire-based connections. You dial a number, you get connected to the exchange and they put you through. Yesterday, vandals broke in and disconnected all the wires. Your job is to reconnect them. You can phone any number, and you get a conversation such as: Hel...

The answer is a the name of a place.

My second attempt at making a cryptic crossword using the tips I was given in my first attempt. I'm not sure if they adhere exactly to the rules, as there are a couple occurrences of homophones. Also note that where applicable, the English spelling is used as opposed to American spelling.

With great economy and without superfluous, exaggerated, flowery speech, please elucidate how to determine clearly and precisely what the beautiful, ornate, stupendous Word Of The Day is. My extreme wisdom was extracted from this common herb. A mechanic-turned-veterinarian who only works on a...

Are there any sentences that could be written on a cylinder and merge their finish into their start, such that they form a valid sentence no matter where the reader begins?

What is the next number? $$2,3,10,12,13,20,?$$

The day of the month, and the month of the year, often divide the year. Most recently it happened on January 3, 2019 because both 1 (January) and 3 divide 2019. In our era, since 1/1/1, which years have had the most such dates?

I've got five cardinals, one without its mate. My house is made of exactly four-hundred and thirty-five nice solid bricks. (I'm kidding - they're rather fluffy.) My length is about two hundred and forty-three, give or take. My chair has nine legs - really, no tricks! M...

Each year google releases a cryptic and has a prize for the solution. This year is no different at https://events.google.com/io/transmission. Unfortunately someone has already "solved" the puzzle by finding a public bucket with the intended answer, however that doesn't mean we shouldn't try and...

I have looked all over the internet but can not find answer to my question. Can someone please help me?!

Here's a variation of Discrete Peaceful Encampments: Player 3 has entered the game! (which itself is a variation of Peaceful Encampments). You have 3 white queens, 3 black queens, 3 red queens, and 3 green queens. Place all these pieces onto a normal 8x8 chessboard in such a way that no queen...

I am having a hard time with this puzzle because there are no apparent spaces in between words and it is dots and dashes like the morse code. How do I find out what the spaces are, if there are any, to start cracking the code.