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You have a metal water bottle entirely filled with a vacuum and a rubber party balloon (lets make it red). How can you use only the bottle to inflate the balloon with the air surrounding you. (The balloon does not have to inflate in the normal shape)
This is the riddle of the star-crossed lover,
His insignia etched forever,
Whose name foretold unhappiness,
Proving that the ends justify the means,
To the North: Round like an empennage orb,
To the East: Half delta, anyhow a pair I was,
To the South: A dual neb, I render hue ...
These are three-dimensional yajilin puzzles. In each puzzle, the four squares depict the layers of a $4\times4\times4$ cube.
Shade some cells on each layer. The numbered cells show how many shaded cells (not including numbered cells) are in the direction of the arrow.
Diagonal arrows...
If a word conforms to a special rule, I call it an R-complete Word™.
Use the examples below to find the rule.
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You recently registered in RRPG game example YOWORLD to make random friends, you have changed the gender of your avatar to female but in actual you are male. It is not possible to identify your gender until and unless you tell them by yourself in-game chat. you also gave you avatar a girl name "...
Here is the puzzle:
(Click on the image to see a larger image.)
Overview:
This is a word graph. The nodes are short words, the edges are long words.
Whenever an edge (i.e., a long word) connects two nodes (i.e., two short words) it means that the long word can be reversed and decompose...
Solve this Cryptarithm
$GIVE$
$+$$MORE$
$---------$
$ MONEY$
Referenced from the Britannica Encyclopaedia No. 25 - "Number Prague"
This is a Toroidal Heyacrazy puzzle.
Rules of Heyacrazy:
Shade some cells of the grid.
Shaded cells cannot be orthogonally adjacent; unshaded cells must be orthogonally connected.
When the puzzle is solved, you must not be able to draw a line segment that passes through two borders, a...
This puzzle is a level from the game Chessplode; I found this level pretty challenging and thought I would share it. If you’ve never played Chessplode and are a fan of chess, you should give it a try.
The rules are just like normal chess with the following add ons:
Capturing a piece removes al...
