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9:46 AM

Q: Together we are? (It's not what you see that counts)

Try make sense of this little puzzle below. The full answer is twelve letters long but it's usually abbreviated. In order 237 238 358 689 995 233 972 225 1876 441534 971 1 44 598

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Sphinx

11:01 AM

Q: Alive without breath, as cold as death

Here is a very well-known riddle: alive without breath, as cold as death; never thirsty, ever drinking; all in mail, never clinking. What is the answer?

riddle

Q: What is the maximum number of turns ( needed to solve a Rubik's Cube?

This is more than normally quoted 20 since the normal maximum solution a double turn as one move. If you consider that one move can either one or two turns then what is the maximum number of turns needed to solve a Rubik's Cube?

rubiks-cube

AncientSwordRage

Quick Question, if I wanted to clue 'By the wayside', could I use 'Bestrewn regularly' to get BTW and then clue side separately, or is that too many jumps?

Jafe

11:16 AM

can't jump from playing with individual letters back to word level imo

Gareth McCaughan

11:54 AM

I agree. Also, surely BTW is usually "by the way", not "by the wayside".

Neither CIGAR nor SCALE is the intended answer to my clue.

Sphinx

12:42 PM

Q: Find the other wheel

This 17-gonal wheel is to be spun counterclockwise. Find the other missing wheel. Believe me, I needed a computer to find the wheels!

knowledge visual rebus

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Sphinx

5:47 PM

Q: English word with the longest sequence of non-vowels

Challenge Find an English word that contains at least 9 non-vowels consecutively. Winner is longest such word found or if there is more than one, the most such words found. Rules Definition of vowel: For the purposes of this puzzle, the only vowels are A, E, I, O, U. Non- vowels are all other l...