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Find out this Christmas word with this clue: I am in France, without I.

M marbles are placed in N buckets which are arranged in a circle. One move consists of choosing a bucket, taking all the marbles within that bucket and placing them one by one in the next bucket in clockwise order. Given two placements A and B of marbles in buckets, tell if we can reach B startin...

A bit of light relief to round out the year. No special genius required :-)

Can you crack the code? 8 6 4 1 6 - 3 numbers correct in the right position, and 1 number correct in the wrong position 8 6 0 1 4 - 4 numbers correct in the right position 6 4 1 4 6 - 4 numbers correct in the wrong position 1 6 4 8 6 - 1 number correct in the right position, and 4 numbers correct...

I created this "crack the code" puzzle. I hope the members here like it.

I'm a european country, can you find me? I share a border with France I'm bigger than Belgium I have red in my flag I'm smaller than Poland I'm south of Denmark I have no cross in my flag I have access to the Atlantic ocean I have a "R" in my name I'm not Portugal And of course, I lied only once.

A murderer was on trial facing the death penalty. The trial was confusing in many ways. There were four judges ... or maybe there were twenty four. That's confusing on it's own. The accused made a plea to be released. The judges rejected it. The really strange thing is that the judges invoked the...

Imagine: You have a group of people in a room that is completely dark. Half of the group has red t-shirts and the other half blue t-shirts. The group gets told to think about a strategy to solve the following task: When you leave the darkroom and enter a bright room one after the other, you shoul...

I There I Underneath I More Make All I There And Underneath I There Santa With I More Make All I I And Underneath I To I To etc. Question Can you remind me who had a hit with this song? It's about time to listen to it again.

I am the protector during a fright. But you are not going to find me in any sight. I am the protector during a fight. But you will find me a little heavier than light. I am the protector during a flight. But you will not find me flying like a kite. Your body will beat more as soon as you face ...

An entry in Fortnightly Topic Challenge #45: Flags In this cryptic crossword, there is something funny going on with the shaded squares. Lengths are not included with the clues. The final answer, which can be obtained by combining the shaded squares in an appropriate fashion, is the flag of some...

This number sequence has numbers rounded to the nearest tenth. 1, 2, 4.5, ?, 26, ? Find the pattern and the answers to the question marks rounded to the nearest tenth.

Here's another one: My prefix is Harry's son, My suffix exchanged with o is a relative. My infix is just two letters, But reversed an example. My whole is a topic, which I really like (and everybody who read my profile knows it.)

If you give me a 5, I give you a 21. If you give me a 6, I give you a 2. If you give me a 7, I give you a 12. If you give me a 10, I give you a 101. What am I processing to get the result? Hint 1 Hint 2

For instance, banana, excess, giggit, voodoo, pullup, myrrhy are six six-letter words that don’t share any letters with each other. This isn’t a heterogram puzzle: repeated letters within a single word are fine. Can anyone find a larger set, or a set of longer words? Full disclosure: this list ma...

Since The last sequence I posted was solved, I will post this new sequence that the same friend gave me. You need to find what number goes instead of the question marks. Have fun. ?, 36, 36, 18, 16, 14, ?

We have quite a few sub-tags of mathematics: geometry arithmetic probability combinatorics etc. etc. Now, these tags are useful. They allow filtering based on the specific type of mathematics involved. They are also all sub-tags. Puzzles involving geometry, for example, all also involve mathema...