Questions tagged [knowledge]
A puzzle whose solution relies on external sources such as tables, dictionaries, Wikipedia, or specifics that may not be common knowledge.
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In the rims of hell, A river flows
In the rims of hell,
A river flows
Upon it, a growl forms
Two brothers, fighting for lost cause
Loved one another
Could not look in the eye
For he was on fire
He screamed liar
to his lover
Before he ...
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Hold out to the bitter end
The answer to this puzzle is a description of the puzzle.
|| 1. Staff without preamble have yen to make candy (5) ||
| 2. Bardic women have the Trojan and wizard gaining two aces, losing one (6,3,6) |...
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"Shining Composer"
The answer to this simple puzzle is a name. Explain your reasoning.
WEAK C: 223357
STRONG C: 572235
2233575722---35
Who Am I?
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A Professor's Presentation
Me and my three rich programmer friends who also happen to be very clever have these real life puzzle games from time to time. This time I am the creator.
I told them to visit a different country ...
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Find the missing animal
What is the missing animal in this list:
dog
ostrich
snake
monkey
bull
cow
peacock
Hint:
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Rectangular representation (ignore the nonsense)
As the title says, ignore the nonsense, there's quite a lot of it too. Try look beyond the nonsense and give me the answer which is an image.
Hint 1
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xkcd 2957 - A Crossword Puzzle
The latest xkcd is a crossword puzzle. I thought it might be of interest to this community.
Solve it on Penpa+
Clues:
Across
1 Famous Pvt. Wilhelm quote (10)
11 IPv6 address record (4)
15 “...
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Family reunion crossword: The case of the missing letters
This is a crossword version of the "cryptic family reunion" puzzle type introduced by Jeremy Dover. Ten thematic clues have had their definition part replaced by a term for a family member.
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Tombs of Ancients
This is part 68 of the puzzle series Around the World in Many Days. Each part is solvable on its own.
Dear Puzzling,
The top grid here is a Yin-yang puzzle. Shade some cells in the grid so that ...
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What is a Very Frighteningly Dangerous Word™?
This puzzle is based off and inspired by the What is a Word™ series started by JLee.
The puzzle:
If a word conforms to a special rule, I call it a Very Frighteningly Dangerous Word.
Here is a list of ...
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Worship and Wandering
This is part 67 of the puzzle series Around the World in Many Days. Each part is solvable on its own.
Dear Puzzling,
This is a direction-agnostic cryptic crossword. Instead of writing top-down, left-...
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Words in my bookshelf
I like to put words in my bookshelf. This is a very special bookshelf though, because books don't fit in there.
My bookshelf has 3 layers, and different words can fit on different layers. Here are ...
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