⠀⠀⠀￰⠀⠀⠀I have an old puzzle I half-remember. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀It was a great puzzle, and I remember the solution. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀I could not for the life of me remember how the solution worked. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀I must have been forgetting part of the question... ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀Well, here's my attempt at posting the riddle. ...

So, birds eat bread I toss. One romantic kiss in the rain's too nice, methinks. Untidy notes disrupted a student in a study period. Deodorant on to end an odor. The wisdom of anagrams fathoms a game in words. False hope helps a foe. I may be in prison for decades ...

This is in the spirit of the What is a Word/Phrase™ series started by [JLee][2] with a special brand of [Phrase™][3] and [Word™][4] puzzles. If a word conforms to a special rule, I call it a Southpaw Word™. Use the following examples below to find the rule. And, if you want to analyze, her...

I’m hoping to begin a mini-series where you will have to figure it’s the entire notation list of a game being given a few moves, a few cryptic hints, and the number if if moves, and which side gets checkmated or stalemated. Sometimes the riddle will start from the starting position, and sometimes...

As summer break is coming up, you have started to misbehave in school, getting sent to detention quite often. On June 20th, something interesting happened, and made detention a little more fun. You noticed that one of the tiles on the floor was loose, and that a small piece of paper was stickin...

You are a detective in the city of Aklahp, which has had some problems with crime in the past. It used to be just simple burglary or breaking an entering, but things have been getting worse recently. Today is no different. As you enter the crime scene in the back alleyway, all that’s left after t...

What am I? This is very abundant The most that you'll see And its group and number Is what you will need Now somewhat repetetive For you who are us You may now start the task From now, not before You use this to move Or choose where to go How much am I spotty? You need to know Some think this...

Grandpa is a foodie. Does not mean that he likes everything though. He likes Crab but not Lobster He likes Roti but not Naan He likes Apricot but not Plum Why is that? He also said that his likes are related to him (also) liking the following words Obituary Quixotry...

This is this a small puzzle for you all until I come out with a big one for #2. Number Of Moves: 6 Checkmater: White Given Game (Regular Chess Notation): ? ? ? ? bxa3 g6 ? Ne7 ? ? Nh6# Cryptic Clue: Sometimes trying to keep the king safe doesn’t keep the king safe! You must logically decu...

Two mathematicians were discussing their recent holdays. The first mathematician exclaims I was on an all inclusive trip to lanserote for two weeks. The second mathematician, slightly ashamed, didn't want to disclose where he went after that, so he wrote a puzzle for his colleague to solve...

New month, new password, but I've already forgotten! Help! What is my phone's password this month? Hint #1: Hint #2:

This was given as an assignment to a group of sixth graders, who were told they could use calculators. Beyond that, no real assistance was provided. They were not working on it as a group, so independent effort was presumably expected. MAGIC SQUARE Place the numbers provided into the...

I have invented a new puzzle called Intersection. Let's find out what it is! Intersection You are given an $n\times n$ grid with circles and boxes inside arbitrary squares. A circle cannot be in the same grid square as another box; there must always be at least two circles, but at least one b...

All in one piece, we mend holes in your socks. Minus a head, we're yours, skewed. Minus a tail, we hold drinks on the rocks. Minus another, we're you. Minus our next head, we're nothing but us. Minus our last tail, we're twice what you're just. What are we?

I have decided to make a little bit of theme for this next chess question. And that theme is foxholes in war. Makes sense to me since chess is a technically a war-themed game. I have two puzzles for you centralizing around this theme. They are both different. Puzzle 1: Assuming that both sides...

So the other day, I was in a pharmacy and I saw that they had a "cold 'n' cough" medicine. The alliteration caught my eye, and I wondered it would be possible to create alliterative names with other ailments. "Fever 'n' flu" was the obvious next choice. Well, of course there was a puzzle in the ...