Hidden in this puzzle is a question. Solve the puzzle, find the question, and please answer it! I leave you with a text file: QW++ - - |\|/| - - |/|\| - - ### ### ## ## # # # ### ### ## ### # # # # # # # # ### # # #### # #### # # # # ...

I have a carpet of 240 inches by 120 inches, but my floor, which it needs to cover, is 180 inches by 160 inches. How can I do this by cutting the carpet into exactly two pieces? Source: Rational Amusement for Winter Evenings by John Jackson (Google Books link)

Find the missing number in the 3rd triangle according to 1st and 2nd.

Fatty and Skinny are two thieves, who stole gold coins and now divide them between themselves. Skinny says, “That’s unfair, Fatty, in your bag there are three times more coins than in mine.” Fatty answers, “OK Skinny, I am giving you one more coin for each year of your age.” Skinny is still not h...

I have to give Tom the opportunity for a rematch, so here's my attempt at an Anagrid (here is the first puzzle in the series). The rules: This square is composed of elements, all in the same set, written either horizontally or vertically. There is no overlap, each letter belongs to exactly one w...

On his deathbed, the great blind composer Charles Triangle composed the following remarkable piece, but his penchant for puzzles has left critics in tears searching for a deeper meaning to a piece whose significance seems, upon listening, to lie not merely in the sound. Do you have the ability t...

What are the next items of this sequence? $1101$, $31$, $21$, $15$, $13$, $\dots$

Note: This problem remains unsolved, as of 19 April 2020, so do try it out. 400 rep bounty guaranteed for a correct answer This a variation of this question by @Gamow Suppose there are $100$ lions and $100$ zebras. The lions function together as a team, and so do the zebras. The lions place t...

Can you find the 10 digit number* which contains each of the digits 0-9* exactly once, and when divided by 9 the quotient is a perfect cube which has the digit 7 in it exactly twice*? *in its base 10 representation For clarification: 1014107283 does not qualify, since although 4833=112678587 ...

Join adjacent numbers in the below grid to reveal the hidden content. The rules are: 1: Join all pairs of vertically and horizontally adjacent numbers that are the same. 2: Join all pairs of vertically, horizontally, and diagonally adjacent numbers that are next to each other in the circular s...

I've been looking at Robert Abbott's logic mazes, in particular his Dot maze, and I'm trying to understand how they can be constructed so I can write an algorithm to do this automatically for arbitrary size and colours. For now, I'm sticking to a small size with three colours. I don't yet have h...

In this image there is a pattern.. Recognise and find out the missing number

Have no clue what this is, please help!

Walking past Grandpa, who seemed to be snoozing, I saw a note in his left hand, with the name of a film I recognized on it. As I sat down opposite him, he opened his eyes. Me: "What's on your mind Grandpa?" Grandpa: "The lawn needs a trim, but I'd rather watch the film I've written down on this ...

Let $C$ be the set of (national) capital cities, and we wish to consider all pairs of cities $a, b \in C$ where $a \neq b$. Ignoring the trivial case of $n=0$, which pair(s) of cities $(a,b)$ satisfy having a surface distance between them (assuming sphericity) that is the closest to some $n\pi$ ...

While I understand that many words will fit the following, the final version should and will make sense once you get the right words. The text includes many familiar names. Thanks for the patience.

I'm gigantic and pedantic, I come in many parts. Some see me as rigorous, but I'm unspokenly ridiculous. I like to guess and play, when it's my turn to say. I'm power-law distributed, not all at once refuted. What am I?