Johnny vs. Vinny As brothers, these two are competitive in every aspect of life. Just check out some of my other puzzles, and you'll see my brothers in action. Today is a classic Marble Battle! The brother's played a series of 3 games: The Game Series Summary Note: Not a real game. Bored a...

I came up with this one many moons ago but just now got around to sharing it. You're going out to brunch with your polyglot friend, and, when you ask him what he would like, he says, "I'll have the forty seven point one two four." What is it he wants?

Given a grid of dimensions A*B with values between 1-9, find a sequence of B numbers that maximizes the minimum number of values matched when compared with A rows. Describe the certain steps you would take to maximize the minimum score. Example Grid Dimension A = 5 , B = 10 Grid Values 9 3 ...

A rook is in a corner of a two by two board and wants to get to the opposite corner in 100 moves. In how many ways can the rook perform this?

One day Nasrudin went to a candy store where the owner had mistakenly mixed the lids of three candy jars, leaving each one wrongly labeled. One contained peppermint candies, another contained chocolate candies, and the remaining contained peppermint candies and chocolate candies mixed. All the ...

Mr Physicson has a good day in his lab today, so he went back home a bit tired but in joy in the afternoon. His little son wanted him to sing a song, so Mr Physicson gladly started chanting: A quintet of primates, with a size less than the arbitrary reader's conception of average, were performin...

Create a Nonogram / Picross which cannot be solved uniquely without giving at least one clue. That is, without prefilling at least one field in the puzzle there exists multiple valid solutions. The above shouldn't be too difficult for those that have already solved many nonograms. For added diff...

Which would be the last digit for $3^{2019}$ ? You can And afterwards

After solving it for days i am exhausted with patterns.

There are many words hidden inside this puzzle. Find them all.

First, beg for the most positive among the stables. Now you can do the second, beg for the independent. Now you can do the third, beg for the overlappable. Now you can do the fourth, beg for the informations. The first made you do the fifth, beg for the individual. The...

I am puzzling over a sequence starting F, T, S, O, _, _ I have tried Morse code, substituting numbers for letters, days of week, months of the year.

This is a novel cipher that I devised, try to break it. I'll even give you the key Key: A Blemished Orange Encrypted Phrase: 7PRLJ-dc*+:S?;:Z?pHp)n4SFR}z8Qng-< :4K:W/zf96x,tv=1Z(CS.Oq#fBm4KF9kW2fZuGMW9zqO%:6[FxV$%4Gk!F\*IR]OzA5Z|eB0Bya+M)(,q

I make you turn against yourself From the inside out And I take your life as I slowly spread about Some are trying to beat me With this thing called "chemistry" But they haven't found the cure

Five long time friends whose given names were Johnny, Vinny, Frankie, Mickey, and Bobby, and whose last names in one order or another were Morino, Bucci, Orsini, Palmacci, and Galino, although living in the same small town had through the years become more or less estranged until finally the fo...

The little town of Stackville is exactly like hundreds of other little communities in every respect but one. Its scenery, its stores, its churches all have their counterparts at every crossroads in America, but as the home of the Morino boys the town is quite different. These "remarkable" b...

Do you know these puzzles? https://scontent-vie1-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/92965814_10213218954107724_453110945124712448_n.jpg?_nc_cat=100&_nc_sid=110474&_nc_ohc=KdMuigSQJDwAX_rYdgw&_nc_ht=scontent-vie1-1.xx&oh=1b3e8868c91cdfca55bb80e7e74c1517&oe=5EB4521F Yes. You are right. It's boring. Now, th...

Last week when I visited Ernie he complained that his trousers had shrunk in the wash. I suggested an alternate possibility – he was putting on weight. So he decided to go on a diet and to support him, I agreed to diet with him. Of course, Ernie (who never does things by halves), organised most o...

How can you measure 9 minutes with a 7-minute hourglass and a 4-minute hourglass?

The Discovery One day while on an adventure, a great treasure was found in the Tenretni Cave by an Adventure Group known as Tenehtfrus. The treasure chest had beautiful diamonds in it. It was a tremendous find! The Adventure Group decided to donate the diamonds to a local group of fewer than ...