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...s lots of fun links for puzzles but the puzzles are just presented there much like I do here.
Well I'll figure it out, maybe if I'll have no choice I'll start inventing them but I guess it is the te...
I need some help. I have been trying to figure out how to get a wooden arrow through holes drilled in a bottle, or coin, etc, with the hole diameter equal to the shaft diameter.
Please can someone h
I know this isn't the typical type post here, but I figure you guys might kno. I want to make a picture puzzle board for my parents and I was trying to think of how big to make it.
It needs to be bi
...land. I recall seeing a puzzle posted here some years ago that asked for the construction of exactly that figure......
...8514768101808558827 11408487828
have something special about them, namely about their quotient. Can you figure out what it is?...
...hile attempting to wire up a new light fitting, I've had some rather bizarre results which I simply can't figure out. I've been designing plausible circuits in my head but none of them seem to fit the...
...fferent.
There are a few ways of doing this but, in order to retain some magic, do it so that the three-figure numbers formed by reading across the first row, by reading across some other row, and b...
Here is the only hint you will get for the puzzle below. A=Z T=S
Opobnf jt uif cftu qptufs pg qvaamf't.
Someone figure this one out.
...more examples of each, than I recall seeing anywhere else, even Puzzle Japan. I haven't even been able to figure out how many different kinds of puzzles they have. I don't think the URL has been poste...
If you go to this site:
http://www.allowe.com/sight/gags.htm?j=550
...and keep hitting next until you get to the image which shows 12 men - then the top of the image switches sides and there are 1
...t be spelled out using the blocks (the lists don't contain all possible three letter words).
Problem 1: Figure out the six letters which were used on each of the blocks.
Problem 2: Try to create a...
Here's a neat little puzzle I thought of, though I still haven't figured out its answer.
Suppose you're racking up 15 billiard balls in one of the standard configurations (I'm not going to try to ty
...similar brain teasers, but out of the 50 or so puzzles in the book, this is the only one that I could not figure out. So I checked the answer...and I still can't figure it out! Please help if you can....
... a sequence puzzle. I made it up. The answer might be a bit complex. I am interested to see if anyone can figure it out.
There are 40,319 numbers in this sequence. The first six are: 9, 81, 18, 81, ...
...e (actually two sentances) that used the word 'had' 11 times in a row.
I guess the puzzle is can anyone figure out how to do that. Or better yet, come up with something that uses a word more than th...
...could not let themselves ever be outnumbered by the Orks or the Orks would eat them.
Your problem is to figure out a sequence of moves that will carry all three Hobbits to the other side of the rive...
...uld all be familiar with. At the very least you will be aware of his work. I will leave
it up to you to figure out who he is but I have provided you with enough information to piece together his ide...
... for successive integers.
Today we have just one '4' and two '7's.' Using these, all three but no other figures, together with any regular mathematical signs, you have to make up expressions for the...
...imilar to the book and card sorting puzzles, but it had some restrictions that make it too hard fro me to figure out...
I'm responsible for automation for a wafer sorter in a semiconductor manufactu...
... problem, rather than trivia and he's very smug when he says it's going to take a long time for anyone to figure it out. Perhaps someone here can help put him in his place.
The question:
A times B...
The Word Wizard wants to turn CATS into MICE. He has figured out the following seven 'spells':
1. TAIL
...s.'
'Right again. What about you, Sue?
'Red, Daddy.'
'Well you all certainly are smart. How did you figure it out?
How did they figure it out?...
...'and you once told me she is 45 miles nearer to Guelph than Uncle Frank is to us. So I guess I'll have to figure out how far we are from Uncle Frank.' What do you make of it?
Please give the answer ...
...ook on the othe man's face. 'And all ages without fractions of years, of course'. Bert didn't even try to figure it out, he didn't feel that way about figures. But what do you make Pam's age?
Please...
I can't figure out how to frame this as a real _puzzle,_ but hope people will be tolerant of my posting it here. I'm _very_ curious to find out whether other people with tinted glass in their windshie
... improved). A couple of programmable calculators would speed the trick up significantly. The puzzle is to figure out how someone can encode the information that specifies the sixth card using the five...
I've been trying to figure out what I believe is a puzzle square for over a month now... I have been told it can be done in under the 36 moves I have figured out. Here is the setup:
A A A A A B A A
...hare it here. It is similar to previous puzzles in which you are only given a series of initials and must figure out the full expression.
The twist here is that each letter in each puzzle is the fir...
...nd only the leader went as far as six days each way.' Tony pondered this. 'I see,' he said at last. 'They figured it so that the last man could be out as long as possible, but without setting up a sto...
...re of the 70 candies their uncle had given them for their party, but then she is like that. Maybe you can figure out how many girls and boys shared those candies.
Please give the answer or answers a...
...ys:
- Six
And the guy replies:
- Three
And the guy is allowed to enter...
The guys from the FBI figured: 'easy!! Just say half of the value', and sent one of their agents to knock the door. ...
...r rows, packed triangularly, with a couple of gaps. The balls are numbered from 1 to 21. The puzzle is to figure out where each ball is.
You are shown to positions of the balls. But instead of showi...
...signs you may know. This includes decimals both regular and repeating, powers, and roots. Using all three figures each time, but only one of each and no other figures at all, you have to make expressi...
...roblem by J.A.H. Hunter.
It's the 'expressions' game again today. Using three 'ones,' but with no other figures at all, make an expression for 24. With the three 'ones,' of course, you may use any m...
...+ M = J p_1 = 10 - 13 = -3 = 26 - 3 = 23 = W W is the first letter of the plaintext. It should be easy to figure out how I proceeded from there!]
DQP ZLAWB XUVJNSKD FZHM WODSFY, LYDPEIRGBU, OUGBVA K...
...ormal course of gameplay, albeit slowly, or you can play a little slot machine they've setup, and I can't figure out what the optimal slot machine strategy is if I want to win 1 of each different kind...
...ething a tiling pattern versus a tessellation, or are they synonyms? Seems that the more 'prototypical' a figure, e.g. polyominoes, the more likely one is to say 'tiling'. Whereas Escher-type designs ...
Hi , When I try to 'configure' one of the downloaded utilities I get this error..
This is *not* a GNU autoconf-generated configure. Looking for perl..../configure: test: argument expected
The down
...John muttered, screwing up his eyes against the blazing sun, 'but I guess there's some reason for it.' He figured he's trudged five miles due south since leaving camp that morning, and his briefing ha...
Here is a problem by J.A.H. Hunter on expressions for successive integers.
We're back to figures today: 4, 6 and 8 - all three, but only one of each. Using these, together with any regular mathemati
...ppreciated. I have tried converting to binary (1=0 and 2=1) and grouping it into pairs, but I still can't figure it out.
Thank you,...
... a problem by J.A.H. Hunter on expressions for successive integers.
You have four 'sixes,' but no other figures at all. Using those four 'sixes', all four of them each time, and also any regular mat...
OK Anyone able to figure this one out?
If Donna has won 500 dance competitions, Patricia 102 and Charlotte 150 then how many competitions has Louise won?
I have used the normal alphabet-number rel
...structions are a bit of an oversimplification but I don't want to make this TOO easy and I'm sure you can figure out what you have to do for yourselves. P.S. The items in both groups have been muddled...
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