If you like snakes, beg for square brackets. If you are a black key, beg from "in". If you are another black key, beg for curly brackets. If you are fully functional, beg square brackets in a bar. If you like coffee, beg parentheses with two dots. Don't forget the filter. ...

Mark? Take aim Action? Misnamed Usage? Explain Replace? Fair game P.S. "This question body does not meet our quality standards. Please make sure that it completely describes your problem - including what you have already tried - and is written using proper grammar." How about ...

You are given one use of a time machine, you may choose to go back to any point in the past and either return to the present or stay. No future. You currently have exactly $100 in your possession, nothing more, and can only take with you what you can carry on a dolly, let's say 250 lbs. The thing...

Your quirky Math teacher comes with a new Math operation called "@" and wants to see if you can figure out what it does. She writes the following examples on the blackboard: 8@5 = 31340 9@3 = 61227 10@9 = 11990 What's the answer to 7@6?

Mary has a password-protected smartphone, but she is not very good at remembering numbers. She decided to come up with a simple mnemonic, "My favorite things are MILK and EGGS." Her password is 4-digits long. What is it?

Everyone has one but sometimes you can doubt it. If you lose me, you must be crazy! You can do me and you can don't, but the negative is the positive. Surprisingly, I can also blow up! But no harm is done, on the contrary.

Done in Princeton with disgust. Or, basically, to cover floors. A blot or smudge, Or anything up to C. Eighty percent luck, Or in sound by sight. In a public lavatory Or a house of ill repute. Together, what are we?

So I have this Cipher: Here are three facts about Mr and Mrs Smith: 1) They got married on July 7, 1977 2) They had 634 guests on their wedding 3) Their wedding took place in Ireland This is what was written on the floor in blood: PUZWILUZAVRLS Wedding a) Decode the message. I have tried all ...

In the capital of the grand country of Appelhaken there is a plane garden containing four magnificent monuments. So magnificent are they that the country has a Law requiring that there must be a clearly marked carpeted path all the way from each monument in the garden to each other monument, and ...

Upon traveling the world, I found myself in a peculiar place which was called Gauss. The locals there were a peculiar people, as I soon found out. I stopped to grab a bite to eat and learn about the culture. Whereupon I found a man starved for hunger. With sympathy in my heart, I purchased a m...

This puzzle is part of the ‘Twelve Labours’ series, but can be solved independently. Previous instalments can be found here: Prologue | 01 | 02 | 03 | 04 | 05 | 06 | 07 | 08 | 09 The next stop on Hercules’ tour of the neighbourhood was the butchers’ shop, Meat Monster, run by the well-travell...

This is in the spirit of the What is a Word/Phrase™ series started by JLee with a special brand of Phrase™ and Word™ puzzles. If a word conforms to a special rule, I call it a Horsethorn Word™. Use the following examples below to find the rule. And if you want to analyze, here is a CSV versio...