Questions tagged [connect-wall]
A puzzle requiring a set of jumbled items (most often words) to be partitioned into distinct groups so that the members of each group share some hidden connection, which is to be identified.
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Wall of the Week?
My first wall - so difficult to gauge how difficult it is - but I am more than sure some of you will slice through this like a hot knife!
Cat 1
Cat 2
Cat 3
Cat 4
Richard
Enya
Fire
Stone
Chief
Conan
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connections with numbers II
You are given the following 4 by 4 grid of numbers. Create four groups of four numbers such that the numbers in each group share some common property.
This puzzle is a (hopefully harder) sequel to ...
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connections with numbers
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You are given the following 4 by 4 grid of numbers. Create four groups of four numbers such that the numbers in each group share some common property.
(The placement of numbers in the ...
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A connect wall occurred to me
A Connect Wall is a set of sixteen words/proper nouns/phrases which can be broken into four groups of four related items. Once the groups are determined, there is a single word/proper noun/phrase that ...
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Help! My wall came out all wrong!
Can you fix it for me?The placement of the blocks on both sides is all wrong. Move them around until they look right. The texts on the right side take up too much space, leaving no room to drill vent ...
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A connect wall with a clear red herring group
This is a connect-wall puzzle: sort the 16 words/phrases below into groups of 4 that all share some kind of similarity.
In fact, there's a very obvious similarity between four of these, but it seems a ...
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What year was it?
Towards the end of a cold February many years ago (some time in the 2010s) I was sharing a takeaway with a friend who suddenly, mid-conversation, asked me "What year is it now?"
At first I ...
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Only Connect Word wall style problem
This is a puzzle from my local Parish magazine (small village near Bristol) that has stumped me.
The rules are as follows:
All you have to do is arrange the 24 items on our wall into six sets of four....
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Connect Wall of Flags: These letters are going backwards
I was glad to get a letter from Knockoff Gladys after their long silence. But this one is weird:
Hey, bobble!
Merry Christmas! I can’t believe it’s almost 2017. Just saw that new Star Wars spinoff ...
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PSE Advent Calendar 2024 (Day 23): 2089
This puzzle is part of the Puzzling Stack Exchange Advent Calendar 2024. The accepted answer to this question will be awarded a bounty worth 50 reputation.< Previous Door Next Door >
I hope that ...
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PSE Advent Calendar 2024 (Day 4): "Where should Declan go?" - a GCHQ word association puzzle (Christmas edition)
This puzzle is part of the Puzzling Stack Exchange Advent Calendar 2024. The accepted answer to this question will be awarded a bounty worth 50 reputation.< Previous Door Next Door >
There's a ...
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Can you compute the common connection?
Each group in this connect-wall shares a number having those properties.
Aliquot sum is a prime
Catalan
Digit sum is a cube
Exponent of isolated Mersenne prime
Fibonacci
Friendly
Hexagonal
Lucas
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I'm sorry, Dave. I'm afraid I can't solve that
Preface
You guys know the drill here; standard connect-wall rules; what are the four categories of four in the below wall?
The title should clue you in to at least one of these!
Wall
RICHARD
TOBOR
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My favourite author!
Preface
These have been pretty fun. I thought I'd throw another one out there. This is more of a softball than my other literature connect wall, but still a toughie if you don't have the knowledge!
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We're on a roll!
Preface
This'll be the last one I post for the day. This one has a little twist; for your answer to be accepted, you also need to figure out the connection between all sixteen of these words.
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