Help the evil word splitter has been cleaving words in two with an evil curse! Fortunately the word split in two can be reunited by saying its name correctly. But unfortunately, each half of the word can only talk about its own name and can only tell you what it is by a short riddle. Also we don'...
Nine is Three Tripled
This puzzle is part of the "Piece de Resistance" series. Go back to Part 1 (Ace) for the story.Ace Two Three Four Five Six Seven Eight Nine...
Here is the transcription of the card...
Phase I - Truly. Tribond.
Bubonic
Egypt
Dogs
Phase II - Insert! Interpretati...
he fed three sheep when we went where steep creeks end
(just off the top of my head)
wow that puzzle series must have taken a serious amount of time - did you make all 13 before you started?
I appreciate the desire for comment discussions without ruining the puzzle for the general audience, but I really wish there was a "automatically decrypt rot13" option for the site :P copy-pasting to rot13.com and then keeping a notepad with all the translated comments gets a bit cumbersome
You have to determine a way to cut a circular cake into exactly three portions of equal size. The only marking on the cake is a candle in the very center.
All you have to work with is a knife that is at least as long as the diameter of the cake, and your hands. No other equipment is available..
...
I got this riddle (and a few more) from an old video game. I had a few ideas but none fit the entire riddle perfectly...
“The quicker I go up
The sooner I’ll go down.
I’m a weave of edges,
A center of wholes.
I’ll die of exhaustion,
Some say a love immature,
And color the cheeks
In a pass...
Well then, I guess it’s time for ... Today’s Bad C4 “Solution”™️!
PELL is an obsolete Scottish verb meaning to strike or thump violently. So “Fight some of” is obviously PEL(l). If you are organizing things by type or rank or sort, you might also say you’re organizing by TIER. Putting these together we have PELTIER, a kind of lamp.
You’ll have to do better than that to fool me, sirrah!
some "sort" obviously means some "order" - now we could interpret this as an anagram of lamp, but that doesn't work, so it's obviously order as in an online order of a lamp. Amazon is the obvious culprit here, due to its online order empire. But what from Amazon would we be fighting? Alexa, of course - fighting to make her understand us - and the technology she comes in, the "Echo" - but since we're fighting with it, we can assume it's the smaller, dumber version - the "ECHO DOT"
I'm given the cipher ESELUBRKXDBWTHARE and am told that it's a J. Bond quote. The only cryptography techniques I know are caesar ciphers and substitution ciphers. I learnt the vignere cipher after encountering this problem but am stuck as I do not know the key word.
How would I go about sol...
@Rubio On a serious note, there are no obsolete Scottish words here. Every component and the whole is a word that I've known for years with the relevant meaning (though obviously I can't speak for others).
I like finding just barely plausible, but clearly not intended, “solutions” - obviously with zero expectation they’re in any way correct. If you were using obsolete Scottish I’d be pelling you :)
My first is in Britain, which once was called Great,
My second's in Boris, who's for sealing its fate.
My third is in Europe, where patience wears thin,
My fourth is in taxes, but not European!
My fifth is in Ireland, but not in the South
My sixth is in parliament, kept out of their house.
My who...
@Sphinx Almost every colourblind person seeing this would distinguish the colours just fine because of how distinct they are - sincerely a deuteranope. Appreciate the thought though!
I usually try colour based puzzles out here: https://www.color-blindness.com/coblis-color-blindness-simulator/ The protanopic filter seems to make it difficult to distinguish red/green although the deuteranopic filter seems to make the distinction between white and yellow most difficult. Is that accurate?
White minus yellow = blue. Actually everyone is pretty weak at blue; if you've ever e.g. tried to read stuff written in yellow pen on a whiteboard this will be no surprise.
Yellow light is a mixture of green and red light. If you have trouble seeing green, then red and yellow will look similar. And if you have trouble seeing red, then green and yellow will look similar.
In the spirit of the What is a Word™/Phrase™ series started by JLee, a special brand of Phrase™ and Word™ puzzles.
If a word conforms to a special rule, we call it a DD Word™.
Use the examples below to find the rule.
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\def\Pad{\P{0.0}} \def\Title{\textbf{ DD }}
\def\S#1#2{\Space{#1}{20px}{...
Getting diagnosed is hilarious. It got to a point where I couldn't see any number in the images but then it got to the last one where I was like "Aha! You thought I couldn't see it was a 2!". That one solidified my colourblindness because it was a special image where colourblind people see a different number
I’ve not a clue wether this is something my friends have made up between them but they call it the notty noto store game. Basically, they know what they can and can’t buy from this imaginary store. I have to ask them can they buy this. You are supposed to guess what the whole object of the store ...
Nine is Three Tripled
This puzzle is part of the "Piece de Resistance" series. Go back to Part 1 (Ace) for the story.Ace Two Three Four Five Six Seven Eight Nine...
Here is the transcription of the card...
Phase I - Truly. Tribond.
Bubonic
Egypt
Dogs
Phase II - Insert! Interpretati...
I got this riddle (and a few more) from an old video game. I had a few ideas but none fit the entire riddle perfectly...
“The quicker I go up
The sooner I’ll go down.
I’m a weave of edges,
A center of wholes.
I’ll die of exhaustion,
Some say a love immature,
And color the cheeks
In a pass...
Can you find the missing number? This number has a single digit
8 -> 7
7 -> 3
3 -> 5
5 -> ?
Good luck!
I'm given the cipher ESELUBRKXDBWTHARE and am told that it's a J. Bond quote. The only cryptography techniques I know are caesar ciphers and substitution ciphers. I learnt the vignere cipher after encountering this problem but am stuck as I do not know the key word.
How would I go about sol...
What will be the missing tile?
The colorblind version is available here.
In the spirit of the What is a Word™/Phrase™ series started by JLee, a special brand of Phrase™ and Word™ puzzles.
If a word conforms to a special rule, we call it a DD Word™.
Use the examples below to find the rule.
$$
\def\Pad{\P{0.0}} \def\Title{\textbf{ DD }}
\def\S#1#2{\Space{#1}{20px}{...
