Here are some letter sequences, following a very similar rule. The ordering of the sequences may help you solve the sequences. Good luck! 1. Y E S _ _ L _ B J _ 2. U D T C C S _ _ _ D 4. E _ T C _ C S _ N D P.S.: All errors are intended. Please comment before you edit. Thanks...

Wow, it's been a long time since I posted a puzzle here... Sorry about that! I asked a friend the other day what was his favourite film, but he'd reply only in riddles. I don't remember how he described the film as a whole, but about the first half he said: I look small, but am vast. A fir...

Joseph Story Mary Stuart Malala Yousafzai Theodore Roosevelt bill Joe red army pharaoh bullet note: capitalization or lack thereof is intentional

Find the next number in the sequence: 4,3,7,5,10,15,? Think outside the frustum here.

Watch in this example as the words PARLOUS and MANIAC pair up and unzip to produce PROSAIC and ALUMNA: PARLOUS MANIAC PARLOUS MANIAC PARLOUSMANIAC P R O S A I C A L U M N A PROSAIC ALUMNA In the example above, we will refer to PROSAIC as the firstborn child because it holds the fi...

You know these answering machines with remote inquiry facility, where you can call the answering machine and enter a 4 digit passcode into your telephone keypad, so you can listen to your messages from anywhere you like. Many of these machines are quite dumb in the way you can feed the codes. T...

Apologies if this is the wrong place to ask this question, but I'm not sure where else I might be able to get an answer. I've recently gotten into cryptic crosswords. However, one thing keeps annoying me. Even once I see answers, it's not always clear to me why they are the answers/how they we...