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12:30 AM
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Q: Twelfth rebus to exercise your brain on

WordsterI think it would be a blast to get paid for creating rebuses!

 
1:15 AM
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Q: Riley Riddle #8: Do aliens sparkle?

flashstormMy middle, a self helper motivated I end with a space filler, overrated I start with an avatar of mischievery In my entirety, I corrupt absolutely

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Q: Rebus #13 for brain gymnastics

WordsterGiving speeches isn't as fun as making rebuses.

 
 
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2:16 AM
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Q: Rebus #14 marches on the scene

WordsterThis word cracks me up, because it seems like an oxymoron!

 
3:01 AM
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Q: What's Left? - a word puzzle

HarfatumA ship pulled into a harbor and everyone went ashore. The first person went to the pub, and after his fourth ale began to YD. The second went to a fancy store to find a EAD for his lover, and hasn't decided yet. The third picked a fight with a local - that was nearly his FIEL! The fourth was ...

 
 
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4:31 AM
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Q: Unusual Sudoku Puzzle

Bennett BernardoniFind the solution to this sudoku puzzle. The only problem is there are not any normal sudoku clues. Instead there are only some cryptic clues. What is the solution and how does the puzzle work?

 
4:46 AM
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Q: Optimize a keyboard for one-finger typing

dan04The ubiquitous QWERTY keyboard layout works well enough for ten-finger touch typing (though Dvorak proponents may disagree). But what if you're typing a text message on a mobile phone? Those fiddly little non-tactile touchscreen "keys" are impossible to touch-type on, so I have to revert to the ...

 
 
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6:17 AM
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Q: Cryptic Country 4

Xavier StantonI have northen football that can unite A flying city that will always fight Festive in the south A big man with a mouth And mistaken as the greater might Name the country

 
 
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8:17 AM
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Q: Word slice riddle #2

Shahriar Mahmud Sajid With three I am close to bottom, With four i move free, With five i go down further, With all six i am found in a tree. Tell me. what am I?

 
8:32 AM
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Q: Don't be so gloomy, Riley is back!

Shahriar Mahmud Sajid To my prefix, don't go back and forth, My suffix means to possess My infix can mean line or propel, Together I make a weird face What am I?

 
 
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11:03 AM
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Q: A Riley - Half by humans, Half by the God

prog_SAHILMy prefix is an animal, My infix is what restricts my prefix, My suffix is an expression. Made half by the humans and half by the God. What am I?

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Q: Consume me with tonic

jafe Consume me with tonic, a real superhero, along with a parent and child in a trio. Opposite letter to those stuck in bureau; when lacking in me, you may feel like a zero. What am I?

 
11:18 AM
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Q: Will Riley Riddles ever end?

user477343Maybe, maybe not — but the answer won't. My prefix is the first half of what was before. My suffix curses Scotland in red and no more. My infix is a hotshot when scrambled (what egg?). I am twice my definition; I begin with a beg. What am I?

 
 
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12:49 PM
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Q: I Think This Is Getting Outdated But I Don't Care :)

Kevin LI really like these riddles so I'm gonna post another one With the beginning, you can put me on In the middle, you can tell others your position (Even if it's only a few letters long) While in the end, you may find yourself full Hint :

 
Aargh. We've gone from being inundated with Riley riddles to being inundated with Riley riddles each prefaced with a remark about how there are too many Riley riddles but the author doesn't care.
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2:35 PM
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Q: New riddle, hot off the presses!

CarleySurely I'm the most dangerous thing you could see. But the truth is you could never live without me. I keep it simple, inside I'm mostly just one character. Half the time you don't even notice or care. I help you look but you could never view me actually. Mistake one letter and you might dec...

 
3:05 PM
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Q: Bookshelf Arrangement Dilemma

ChowzenI bought a new bookshelf yesterday, but now I have a dilemma. I've got all these books and I'm trying to figure out the most aesthetically pleasing and, of course, efficient arrangement, but I need help deciding. Here are the three configurations I've tried so far: Do you think the...

 
3:20 PM
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Q: Fond the missing entity:

DavidAo, Eo, Io, _ ? _, Uo What is the missing entity. Provide the reasoning to back up your answer. I have considered Oo already but that doesn't seem to be the required solution. Please help.

 
 
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4:21 PM
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Q: Find two words that are most similar

AnushThis was from a test for 11 year olds. Give the two words from the list that are most similar in type or meaning. success quartet political filthy nervousness But what is the answer and why?

 
Please vote to close. This is already attracting answers which are just guesses each as correct as the next.
 
4:41 PM
On reflection, I think I have a nonstandard opinion about that sort of question: the Correct thing to happen with it is that (1) someone posts an answer of the form "There are multiple equally good answers: A, B, and C" and (2) that answer is accepted. After all, that's what tends to happen with questions like this one.
That doesn't mean that such questions aren't bad questions, especially if they are posed without any sort of acknowledgement that there might be multiple answers.
I'd distinguish between questions where there are, say, three equally good answers, and ones where there are thousands ("What is an adjective containing the letter E?") or where good answers just shade vaguely into bad answers ("I am scary and found in the dark. What am I?"). Note: I have made no attempt to think of actual answers to either of those questions.
I'm not a big fan of closing merely-bad questions (as opposed to non-questions or non-puzzle questions); I prefer to see them survive but with negative scores.
 
I'd think that too broad fits, at least the latter case
 
I warmly endorse "too broad" for questions with hugely many answers or no clear distinction between acceptable and unacceptable answers. Not so keen on it for questions with a modest number of fairly well-identifiable acceptable answers.
(Even when the intention seems to be that there should be only one answer.)
 
Makes sense. What case is this question though?
 
I think you can make a reasonable case for pairing up the abstract nouns, or the adjectives. I don't currently see any other pair that yields a genuinely credible answer to the question as quoted.
(Maybe there's some subtlety that we're all missing, of course. But I'd bet against it.)
[AFK for at least a few minutes, sorry]
On an entirely different matter, does anyone have useful thoughts about Eric's C4 clue? The best I can come up with is the observation that CAESAR was a Roman historian (among other things) and his name begins with C and CA, both of which can signify "about". I can't get the rest of the wordplay to work if that's the answer, though.
"turned Roman" could be VERSUS, VERSUM or VERSA but none of those is plausibly useful
[AFK for at least a few minutes again]
 
5:51 PM
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Q: What name(s) can be created with all the letters of the alphabet?

James R.Recently been thinking of this little problem. Thought of "cyrus bartholomew joaquin alexander rozier" with 5 letters left (f, g, k, p, v) before I wanted to see if anyone could come up with something better.

 
6:07 PM
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Q: Traveler's note

DuckThere was once a traveler that wanted to travel the globe, and one day he sent me this weirdly written note ME IN LA, CA, OK? Where did the traveler go?

 
6:22 PM
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Q: Rebus #15 is a bilingual one

WordsterThis is the French spelling of an English word.

 
 
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7:23 PM
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Q: Rebus #16 is a cousin to a previous one

WordsterYou can get a hint of what this one is from this one.

 
7:35 PM
@GarethMcCaughan I haven't given the current C4 much attention. Lately, I don't seem to be too good at either solving or setting them. I've briefly pondered to make something of Pliny, but that got me nowhere. For what it's worth, I don''t think Eric uses Latin translations in his C4s.
(And I'd like a standardisation of Rmoan names where they either all have the -us siffix or they don't. English somethines includes the suffix and somtimes it doesn't. German does the same, but with different names. Pliny is Plinius in German, but Catulls is Catull.)
 
C4 hint: The -us suffix convention is irrelevant
 
Hintus inutil est.
 
Wiktionary says that's spanish; latin is "inutilis" :P
 
Well, my Spanish is definitely better than my Latin. (The next thing you're going to tell me is that Biggus D***us isn't correct Latin, either :>)
 
d-what-us?
 
7:47 PM
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(Google autocomplete should help you with that.)
 
8:17 PM
Wiki tells me that there's a historian called APPIAN, where APP could mean approximately or about, but unfortunately, NAI is not a prominent aristocrat, but a Romanian diatonic pan-flute.
 
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Q: Rebus #17 Needs Deciphering

WordsterClean freaks are keen on this property:

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Q: My first rebus!(Inspired by Wordster)

Yout RiedThis is my first rebus. Inspired by Wordster!

 
9:08 PM
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Q: Rebus #18 was in a hurry to get posted

WordsterThis one might drive you up a wall... ;)

 
9:38 PM
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Q: Rebus #19 is here

WordsterI'd rather play it or listen to it. ;)

 
10:18 PM
@MOehm I was trying to be helpful without ruining the cryptic
 
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Q: Rebus #20 is ready for your solution

WordsterThis is one word that can be a noun or a verb.

 

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