Just the other day I met Sir Featherwait in the professional aviators' lounge, where he instructed me to guess his favorite anime. Unfortunately, it seems that every guess I made went further and further off the mark. In a fit of rage, Sir Featherwait banished me from the lounge, and left me with...

This sequence goes on forever, but here is the first 7 of them. The X's are just there to hide the actual digits. Can you find all the correct digits of the 8th entry? 1024, 90X1X, 25023X, 490364, X1031X0, XX1041X4, X690XXXX, ________?

You went to a Casino, and saw a quite interesting stall. The cardboard besides the stall says: You first pay \$$5$ You have to toss the fair coin. If it lands heads, you can throw again. If it lands tails, you have to stop. You throw the coin until it lands tail. The th...

My phone is unlocked using a security pattern. This is a path drawn through a 3x3 grid of dots with the following rules: The path can start at any dot The path visits neighbouring dots: horizontally, vertically or diagonally The path visits every dot exactly once and it cannot cross itself N...

Given a triangular pool 100, 120, 140 yards and three swimmers which swims at rates of 3.5, 4.0, 4.5 yards per second - place them on the edges of the pool in such way that when they start swimming at same moment towards the other locations, 1 to 2 edge position, 2 to 3 edge position, and 3 to 1 ...

The rain was still falling in Wales, and Alice and Bob were terribly bored of having to stay inside the caravan. With just a deck of cards to entertain them they had played all of the card games in their repertoire – several times over. Suddenly Alice had an idea for another game they could play...

Here are 16 words which can be divided into 4 groups of 4 each. PLASMAS HUM EPIC BENZ OBSC MUND COND HIST GRAVEST CONS EXT CAROT ARC OVERT PROF FOLDER Can you group each word into the 4 groups, and find the two-word phrase which con...

I have tried vigenere cipher's decoders but they don't work. This is what it is: Wutg iyr rhw xosw qeonf, "yhrtrid no stmot shsindy gsyr." Can someone please help me?

Inspired by the Cryptic Family Reunion Series by Jeremy Dover. The answer to this puzzle is a list of seven thematically related words or proper names or phrases. Each of these is clued cryptically, and the theme is to be determined. Since the definition part of a cryptic clue may give away th...

I'm trying to understand the solution to a puzzle named "Expelled," the link to which is here. Most of the solution to the puzzle makes sense to me, except the most important part -- how to determine what the next line looks like based on the previous line! Speaking specifically, can someone plea...

Here is a surface that resembles a snowman: Its equation has the form $f(x,y,z)=0$: if a point $(x,y,z)$ satisfies that equations it is shaded, otherwise it is "left blank". Your goal is to find $f$. Some constraints: The snowman is composed of three spheres: the "body", the "head" and the ...

I have to exercises with solutions (red) from a german assesment centre logic test which I not understand: Does anybody the logic behind them?

This puzzle was given to my 8 year old from the school. My child was struggling, so I gave it a bash, but was unable. I do sudoku regularly so know most methods of solving. I gave it to my husband and he got to the exact same point as me. Just wondering if this can be solved without guessing in a...

I created this puzzle. Find the next number in the sequence and the logic behind it. $$2, 1536, 5, 1792, 23, 1184, 53, 1168, 113, 1048, 137, 1384, 179, 1576, 311, 1268, 431, 1234, 719, 2026, 1031, 1097, 1499$$ Look closely at each number and its properties. This will help. Hint 1: Hint 2: ...

Here's a grid of shapes: Which of the following shapes should go in the missing cell, and why? There is only one correct answer, and the explanation should not be very complicated.

Stuck in this sudoku. If anyone can solve this then please share the method.