Here is my first Special Edition puzzle, and it is a little harder. The map is here. So you, being a Tokyo straphanger, was in between Hikawadai (Y05 F05) and Kotake-mukaihara (Y06 F06) on the Fukutoshin line when it shut down and all passengers were ordered to disembark. That resulted in a rath...

The following pattern puzzle problem was given to me: $$\color{red}{5}$$ $$\color{blue}{24 \quad \quad \quad \text{M}}$$ $$\color{red}{4 \quad \quad \quad \quad \quad 6}$$ $$\color{blue}{40320 \quad \quad \quad 5040}$$ $$\color{red}{8 \quad \quad \quad 3}$$ $$\color{blue}{6}$$ ,...

Here is the problem: Make expressions that equal 31, 32, 33, and 34 using the numbers 1, 2, 6, and 7. In each expression, each number must be used exactly once. You can use parentheses and the symbols for adding, subtracting, multiplying, and dividing. I have found several ways to do this for...

So I've been noticing ... lazy math puzzles. I thought it was just a fad, but clearly not .Now, I'm not trying to judge, but a lot of these questions are just in this weird gray zone where they're not very great puzzles, but aren't exactly banned in PSE. I'm not proposing that mathematics tags ...

The one thing without which humans just cant go on as humans. The one thing which unfortunately gets corrupted over the years and makes man a corrupted copy of what he originally was. The fruit of which is seen all around the world. Tragically although man has an inkling of what might be wron...

Taken from the new and black, Stripped of all its limbs. Draped over by a canvas sack, blasted by a salty wind. What is being described by the above passage? Please add reasoning for each line.

User JellicleCat posted this on linguistics stackexhange a few years ago. None of us were able to come up with a satisfying answer but most seemed to agree that it was an idiosyncratic cipher or shorthand. It means that puzzlers may be better equipped to solve it than linguists. Anyway, the ori...

Each answer is a place, landmark or attraction in Africa, one per country. The answers first traverse all countries on the mainland by crossing land borders, and then the remaining ones go around the continent by sea. Each clue is missing a country name from another clue (not the answer to that c...

I have thought up several variations of massacre chess. Massacre chess is a game where almost every single move is a capture. The idea here is that only the chosen type of piece can capture. It can only be captured itself, by the kings of course, once all other possible captures have been done. T...

Water's around, but not too much, Maybe you like it, But should not touch. What is it?

Need help with this code here: What’s in a name 10-8,14,16-5,4-2-9,6,4,10 ? It's potentially a cocktail name.

How do you get 10 and 11 liters from 3, 4, and 5 liter jugs?

I wasn't able to make a proper rhyme out of these, so any edits for it are always welcome. I don't live but all life has me. It ain't easy to destroy me, but if you do, I'll destroy you. You won't see me as me. My sibling is known as tekahaamandlakusogzogikethamopolmphamvu And....