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Avoiding Dead Rubbers
We intend to organize a round-robin tournament involving five football teams.
Each match must produce a winner. After all matches are completed, the final rankings will be determined based on the ...
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~A Hairy Riley~
My prefix is to get things done
My infix is a bit of fun
My suffix is a finders rake
My whole is a bear or snake
What am I?
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Setter's lighter
My prefix, held within, as if a horse.
My infix, brought to heel, no longer fights.
My suffix measures cost for home's resource.
My whole a Gentle Purple Rain delights.
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Beyond an imaginary line
My prefix is edgy
My infix is unseen
My suffix is unseen
My whole is beyond an imaginary line
What Am I?
Note: This doesn't quite fit the usual affix-riddles because it's not a single word (let ...
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Infinitesimal riddle
A whimsy of crumbs and sugar dreams,
Where fig-filled bars from England gleam,
And buttered beams in Germany sigh,
All whisper in one sweet reply:
What binds these treats through taste and time and ...
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What happens to her?
A nudnik says she uses Wiktionary as a thesaurus, and gets involved in a disagreement
A fishwife says she uses Wiktionary as a thesaurus, and gets involved in a clash of opinions
A scold says she uses ...
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The Royal Relay on a Chessfield
Playable Version
In the ancient Kingdom of Gridoria, a mysterious curse has frozen the entire realm: every citizen, every castle, every mountain.
The royal court's only hope lies in a sacred Relay ...
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Noble feathers?
My prefix is skilled with paint;
My infix is a bit of pain;
My suffix is the name of a hero;
My whole is the name of a hairdo.
What sort of conundrum?
HINT:
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You mean, I can't just put my space-filling curve anywhere I want??
In the making of this puzzle, I had to generate every possible space-filling curve for both the 5x8 grid and the 5x9 grid.
The 5x8 grid went as expected. No matter where my space-filling curve ...
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Double double coil trouble
If you find it tedious and annoying to coil up a garden hose after use, well, you've come to the right place.
Here's a nice quotation taken from a poem by Amy Woolard:
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Can you open the safe?
Transcription:
Pay attention. Don't miss any clues
Now, go to the list below
Find the number in disguise
It will lead you to the code
232323
1415165
1911916
1221423
Hint
Hint 2
Hint 3
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Fill in the last cell of this number matrix based on another completed matrix [closed]
We have a matrix with nine numbers relates to the other in a certain way. Work out the logic behind the numbers in the left-hand box in order to determine which number is missing from the right-hand ...
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One object, different figures
Make sense of what you see below and give me the correct answer. As usual, explain your reasoning.
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The Drunken Bishopawn’s Staggering Tour
Here’s an original version of the puzzle: this question.
Once upon a time, there was a Bishopawn: a hybrid chess piece that moves like a bishop (freely on diagonals) and, like a pawn, could step one ...
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What's the trick to this game where you roll a cube around a grid to hit blue squares?
Is there any way to play this cube game? I can't seem to find the key logic.
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