One day in late November, Alice was talking to her adorable black kitten. She began, "Let’s pretend—” (and here I wish I could tell you half the things Alice used to say, beginning with her favorite phrase "Let’s pretend") "—Let's pretend that we're Americans celebrating Thanksgiving Day. We'l...

PF, during one of its itineraries around the world, staged five concerts, one in each of the five major cities Mecca, Doom, Blast, Chaz and Hungry. In each of the concerts they performed all their five biggest hit numbers – Coming back to life, Wish you were here, Echoes, Shine on you crazy diamo...

Some background: I was going through some old photos of mine, and I came across old doodles I had made during algorithms class (while getting my bachelor's in computer science). I remember these scribbles being some attempt at inventing some kind of magic system that works like programming, for...

Having a new try on "where do I want to go next" questions", hope you enjoy it. I have visited: 1: Regulations on the internet in an adventure 2: A shirt for sports I just bought 3: A part of the former USSR or What's that always-learning monkey called? 4: Better put them toge...

Entry into Fortnightly Topic Challenge #41: Short and Sweet Riddle me this: My prefix is able in aluminum, My suffix asks for the reason. My infix it neither or nor xand, And I should please you all!

I'm searching for the name of an anime. Knowledge from the anime is required so maybe if you havent seen it you cant figure it out. I hope you have fun :) Arrrgh and a roman goddess are trying magic together with splash woman and the 28-year-old grandpa, the lightning and fire freaks an...

The basis for this problem is that you did to make an optimal pattern so that all inputted sequences will be "accepted" if they fit the rules of the problem and "rejected" if they break any of them. . Above are some examples of functions that can be performed. (A) shows a machine that will...

See here for basic rules on problem. Input/Output Problem #1 Problem #2 Make a machine that accepts any letter combination that begins with a consonant and alternates vowel consonant from then on. ("Y" is considered both vowel and consonant)

See here for basic rules on problem. Input/Output Problem #1 Problem #3 Make a machine that accepts sequences of digits from 1-4 that have a product that is a square number.

See here for basic rules on problem. Input/Output Problem #1 Problem #4 Make a machine that accepts sequences of digits 1-3 that contain a 1,2,3 in each triple of numbers and has no repeating number. E.g accepts 123123, 132321 but rejects 121323, 123321.

See here for basic rules on problem. Input/Output Problem #1 Problem #5 Make an optimal machine that accepts sequences of Rock Paper Scissors games where first input is Player 1 and second input is Player 2 etc and all the outcomes of the games are the same. E.g. The following are acceptable s...

Al Diner is from ________ Don Shura is from ________ Meg Ryan is from _______ Please do not use computer or the net. Becomes too easy.

See here for basic rules on problem. Input/Output Problem #1 Problem #6 Make an optimal machine that accepts sequences of integer digits 1-4 such that all 1s are at the beginning and all 4s are at the end. Also there has to be exactly one of either the 2 or the 3. There doesn't actually have t...

Once raided by someone who sounds like five hundred, or something that crashed on Armenian highlands, like luminous city's triumphant landmark, a 40's gun disjoined by queen saying "aah". Iberian grapes go through long fermenation, adapted in order to run on some system, so ta...

Well, we're all in trouble, yet again. The fabled Faerie Army has come to take over our dimension. This is the battlefield: However, their soldiers don't work quite like ours... Their pawns move as ours, but they capture the same way (one space in front of them). They can't capture with...

See here for basic rules on problem. Input/Output Problem #1 Problem #7 Make an optimal machine that accepts sequences of integer digits 1-4 such that each triplet contains three different numbers. Accepted examples; 123124234, 231123. Rejected example; 122341 You do not need a route for fail...

See here for basic rules on problem. Input/Output Problem #1 Problem #8 Make an optimal machine that accepts sequences of letters A-F and integer digits 1-2 such that the total of the digits is divisible by 3. You do not need a route for failed sequences.

I want to pose some kind of puzzle which I haven't found here yet. The task is completely posed by the following video: https://youtu.be/52YcaavO9Z8 As a solution, you are looking for a word listed in the Oxford English Dictionary. Everything you need, is given by the video. You have to interpr...

you are finally here! We need your help, a group of terrorists have been talking to each other on their newly developed "HackerChat" app and we think they are up to something. Here are the logs: Turn on logging... DONE Pre-initializing... LC: SET PROTOCOL... HTTPS. AC: Encryption: OFF. [Your net...

It's been a while since I've posted a riddle of any kind, and I figure I'll post an easy one. As always, good luck to all of you and I hope you enjoy it! Oh, and happy holidays! Jasmin, or juniper, the suffix is one. Obscured and unseen, until we are done. Next is the prefix, for su...

I wondered how to properly upload puzzles which are based on audio/sound/video analysis. I found the following contributions on the meta page on embedded audio and embedded Youtube videos which basically say that hosting audio via soundcloud might be possible and embedding youtube does not work (...

An entry into Fortnightly Topic Challenge #41 : Short and Sweet. On aliens and mediums, the mathematician _______ said, 'There is __ _____ and __ __', __ scientific view did not accept them. Inspiration from DEEM's : Same word fills all the blanks (2)

Seeed 113020002 Grove - 125KHz RFID Reader UART or Wiegand Outputs The Grove 125KHz RFID Reader by Seeed gives two outputs. I am using this unit to create a RFID switch by using a relay to on/off a motor contactor. When I present the tag i get a 1 second pulse of approx 0.2v, measured across the ...

The artist in the market is giving this painting for free (the last one on his rack). I asked him if I can take it but he replied "Why should I give it to you?" The frame could be useful but I dont want to tell him that so I ask him why should he give it for free. He answered "because I miss to...

My friend uploaded this to her page, i am watching it for some time now and can not crack it, maybe there is nothing but i am not sure. first words are making (OSVIA) which is twitter account and spacing is also weird, on each line is 19 19 18 19 and 18 letters but i don't know, i am new to this...

Just as bit of background I'm working on an image processing task, which is to reveal the following image (not actually identify its location). Applying the Fourier transform and performing a low-pass filter by eliminating the off centre white dots and reversing the transform, plus histogram equa...

An entry into Fortnightly Topic Challenge #41: Short and Sweet The classic evil supervillain has built a superlaser. He has you tied up while he is monologuing about his evil plans. However, you have managed to sneak your phone in with you. You've managed to purchase 16 mirrors that are str...

This was from a Wikipedia article. Guess which one! In 1979, he was elected to the Ypsilanti City Council, the first Muslim and the first native of India to win elected office in Michigan, and one of the first in the nation.

A well-known game show comes up on TV. They have acquired some expensive coats; A winner chosen at random will receive five coats, leaving one which will go to charity. The host reads out his script. He says: "And here are the prizes! Exquisite coats! We are giving away ___. ____ ___ ____ __ ___...

This is a first part in a series of puzzles I will be making for this riddle. Answer this part, and I will make the second part! You wake up. Eyes wide open, you sit up, with a terrible pain in your stomach. You're inside a dark room, and you see a light above a light switch. You get up, walk...