Having competed at the American Puzzling Championships and done your state proud, you begin the long drive back home. 'This is the life' you think with music pumping out and the desert wind in your hair.'All I need is something yummy to tuck into-and since I don't have any blondes here now, I'l...

This is not the twenty-eighth instalment of the Fortnightly Topic Challenge not described here, with topics neither suggested nor voted on here. This fortnight's topic is not liars (not suggested by Jon Mark Perry), and will not span from the the 6th to the 19th of March. During this period, we w...

I'm not sure if the audit system it supposed to work like this or not, but I was reviewing the first posts queue, and was shown what appeared to be a first post by a new user. I opened the question in a new tab, and the answer given was an exact dupe of the accepted answer by a different user, ye...

Start with the phrase   I'm not a fat hen. and perform the following steps in some order to find a famous quotation: Add a letter. Remove a letter. Add a word. Remove a word. Join two words. Split a word. Change a letter. Rearrange words. Note: You can ignore punctuation, and add/remove punct...

I need your help. I... I think I'm in danger. I'm not sure what's coming, but whatever it is... I need to know. I'm scared because I don't know what going to happen... I just know that whatever it is, it will be bad. You may be my last hope. I woke up yesterday. Everything was normal... until I ...

CHAPTER ONE Alice was beginning to get very tired of sitting by her sister on the bank, and of having nothing to do: when she was overcome with the strangest sense of deja vu, and saw a 7x3 grid of letters in her mind's eye. 'Why', she declared, 'I can spell out my name, ALICE, moving orthogona...

Over the weekend I met my old friend Wayne Machkeb, so we decided to go for a coffee and had a nice little chat. He was totally excited about a trip he was going to take but didn't want to tell me where. After persisting for a while to tell me, he said: "Since you like puzzles so much, I'll giv...

You have invited $2017$ of your acquaintances to a party. But after they all arrive, you come to know from a reliable source that each of your guests is either a troll or a true friend. You don't know who is what, but you do know the following: A true friend always tells the truth in ans...

Those are the warmups. Here's the real challenge. And yes, it is uniquely solvable.

Sometimes I am very small But sometimes even tall My name is sometimes spoken with a humans name But I am not a human at all You can throw me but not If I am too heavy And even if im very light I cannot walk away What's my name? I hope this not to heavy for you ;)

When you blink, you will always blink twice No, that doesn't make sense, does it? You know that without a doubt, the sun rises daily. But what if it is cloudy and you can't see it? Look I won't be surprised if this puzzle is solved early. Unless it's harder than I think it is. Careful but qu...

I have this question as extra credit for my chemistry class. Im passed the deadline for EC so i don't even care about that, the answer is just driving me crazy! No one else has figured it out that i know of. Here's the logic problem: EC: Science Friction The science department at Rasputin High ...

As what happens in the usual puzzles, Alice had a long list of names, and that names are read loud to Bob. Bob, obviously, should find up the most (called up name. But as he had a duel with Alice just before, Bob's short term memory has gone cuckoo - He can only hold up a name in his mind. If Al...

Today, I decided to click the "new on puzzling" banner and then on the first question just out of curiosity: What questions should I avoid asking? That page contains the following text: You should only ask practical, answerable questions based on actual problems that you face. Er... no? I ...

I'm not hot if you're in me, I can be hot if I'm in you. You live like dogs if you're in me And pant like dogs if I'm in you. Kids steal cookies: they're in me; Kids make coffee: I'm in you. Who am I?

Settle down.   We are all understandably upset — once again — but this meeting is called to order.                  [Weary communal s  i  g  h.] Now that we have recited our non-denominational invocation we may proceed with this week’s award for most answers.   And it goes to...              ...

First things first, your ever so helpful nonogram. It's got what you need. That should help you sort through this to get your words for the ladder. 468704385135680749804568064260425614895005420581716231115481154603320090941024708115010761512415321030211456515101151191512104992161121210502154...

The sentence has to be grammatically correct, and probably shouldn't be too nonsensical. Here are a few examples: Is he in on it? Is it to be me? Ma, Ed is in my gi! Note: This puzzle will obviously have multiple answers, and the current "winner" will be unseated again & again o...

Start with the phrase “Aim the lasers up” and perform the following steps in some order to reveal a popular lyric: Break a word in two Change a letter Combine two words Rearrange the letters of a word Rearrange the letters of a word Remove two letters from a word