Hello darlings. I'd like your help, specifically in the form of looking at a painting and telling me if you recognize any parts of it from the city you live in, especially if that city is Boston. There's a fair amount of background in terms of what to look for, so please do bear with me. It's all relevant, I promise.
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posted by FAMOUS MONSTER
on May 14, 2013 -
185 answers
I'm looking for games available for the PlayStation 3 with (fully clothed, not overtly sexualized) female protagonists, or protagonists of unspecified gender. Ideally, the games would also be non-violent or minimally violent, and they would rely largely on puzzle-solving rather than time-sensitive and reflex-dependent jump-and-shoot strategies.
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posted by Elsa
on Apr 25, 2013 -
20 answers
I have a puzzle box...a little box with a puzzle you must solve in order to open it. The opening inside is a cylinder about 2.5" in diameter by 3" in length, so, big enough for a standard plastic gift card if you bend it a little. I want to give a gift that is more interesting than a gift card, so I need your ideas!
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posted by blnkfrnk
on Mar 29, 2013 -
4 answers
Is there any place on the internet where I can buy Rubix's cube variants and similar, non-cube puzzles? In particular, I'm looking for the silver architectural-looking cube at bottom center, the grabby-hands cube in the top-right corner, and the flat twisty picture-puzzle (two different pictures are possible and the plastic pieces are wired together in a certain way) on the right side of
this photo.
posted by serelliya
on Mar 17, 2013 -
7 answers
Are there the makings of a riddle in Isaiah 22:22? And can you help me come up with a tangible answer to it, just for kicks?
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posted by egeanin
on Mar 11, 2013 -
12 answers
Help me find a devilishly difficult online puzzle that I had worked on ~4 years ago. Difficultly: I remember a few of the levels and not much about the name. It's
not the "Impossible Quiz" flash game.
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posted by jorlyfish
on Dec 23, 2012 -
11 answers
Growing up my parents had a puzzle of an apartment building where every piece was basically the same shape. Four puzzle pieces made up the window to a room, in total there were probably 8 floors of 10 windows each. The challenge was putting the windows in the right order. So for example in one window someone would be throwing out a bucket of water, downstairs the person would remark that it's raining. In another a receptionist would say something like "you want #304, one floor up".
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posted by 2bucksplus
on Dec 8, 2012 -
3 answers
My sister and I have an annual Christmas tradition of making an elaborate treasure hunt, puzzle or game for our family. Need some help brainstorming this year's edition.
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posted by dontjumplarry
on Dec 2, 2012 -
14 answers
I recall really enjoying the book Maze by Christopher Manson when I was young. Are there any books that offer something similar in that they are slightly narrative but built with a critical thinking and/or puzzle goal in mind?
posted by sendai sleep master
on Nov 2, 2012 -
14 answers
RebusFilter: on the left, the word "giving" printed four times in a column. On the right, the word "lover" printed four times in a column. What is the solution?
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posted by mediated self
on Oct 15, 2012 -
46 answers
I'm looking for ideas for: puzzles, riddles, problems and scavenger hunt type stuff to incorporate into a gift.
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posted by jesirose
on Jul 19, 2012 -
10 answers
I'm about 95% done with my first NYT-style themed crossword puzzle, currently laid out by hand on graph paper, and I want to start looking at making a digital version of it. What are some good tools or workflow for creating well laid out crossword grids on the computer?
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posted by OverlappingElvis
on Jul 3, 2012 -
6 answers
What first-person perspective puzzle game was set in a completely white environment that you revealed by shooting blobs of paint?
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posted by metaBugs
on May 31, 2012 -
6 answers
I've been a long-time fan of the
Myst series, but up until recently with
Fez I didn't realize how much I missed atmospheric games based heavily on exploration and worldbuilding-type puzzles. Can anyone recommend more?
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posted by flatluigi
on May 2, 2012 -
17 answers
I'm looking for a website I found years ago that combined prose and pictures to create a series of puzzles, but I do not remember what it was called. The notable thing about it was that it had 12 puzzles, and they are dispensed to you weekly, with a story and master puzzle arcing across all twelve, leaving you with a 3 month interactive experience. Does this ring any bells?
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posted by shovel_mage
on Apr 11, 2012 -
4 answers
Please help me find the critical thinking textbook my grade-school class used in the early eighties.
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posted by hydrophonic
on Mar 11, 2012 -
3 answers
Hackers of MeFi, assemble! I have an undocumented serial protocol I want to reverse engineer - help me turn some mysterious bit strings into meaningful data.
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posted by larkery
on Jan 19, 2012 -
13 answers
What's online or email-based games can I play with a 10 year old who I don't see in person?
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posted by latkes
on Jan 18, 2012 -
18 answers
In fiction, an adolescent girl is imprisoned, and can only communicate with a mysterious fellow prisoner she's never met. They can only communicate in code, a plausible code that teaches the girl how to encode information into her world's predominant technology.
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posted by Sunburnt
on Dec 15, 2011 -
8 answers
What are some good strategies for searching for the image of an old puzzle? I have asked here a few times over the years and come up with nothing, unfortunately. At this point I am ready to brute force it and just look at images of puzzles until I find the image of that puzzle. Previous methodology inside.
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posted by cashman
on Oct 14, 2011 -
3 answers
Is there a (preferably free) online game like Zynga's Adventure World that
doesn't require me to hassle my friends for things to move forward?
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posted by divabat
on Sep 30, 2011 -
8 answers
Calculusfilter. A man is led to the center of a valuable field which he does not own. He coats his feet in blue paint so that his path can be traced. At dawn he begins walking. At a randomly selected time he will be told to stop walking, whereupon he will walk in a perfectly straight line back to the starting point. Then he will be given all the land that has been circumscribed by his blue path.
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posted by foursentences
on Aug 30, 2011 -
89 answers
Can anyone tell me, well, ANYTHING about a person (hypothetically) standing on the sun?
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posted by argonauta
on May 16, 2011 -
44 answers
I have an opportunity to get an new xbox for cheap, and I have a huge (really huge) library of games available for me to borrow from and play for free. If I do go this route, which games should I look at? I'm not really a gamer...
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posted by cgg
on Apr 18, 2011 -
8 answers
My friends, a software engineer and a novelist, are getting married. I want to give them a puzzle to solve as a wedding gift that requires the use of both their skills.
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posted by jewzilla
on Apr 17, 2011 -
10 answers
Odd 'writing' on a stained glass panel - can you work out what, if anything, it says?
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posted by Catseye
on Mar 23, 2011 -
6 answers
What is a good rebus puzzle, using words or pictures or a combination of both, where the answer is Leprechaun?
posted by holdkris99
on Mar 3, 2011 -
15 answers
How can I determine the optimal scenario to get through imaginary radio station contest hell and earn the fictional prize.
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posted by jpcody
on Mar 2, 2011 -
10 answers
hi, i am a beginner to creating crossword puzzles (i have only created 4) but i am wondering about some strategies to try and get published. i have emailed a number of newspapers and magazines but not sure what else i can do. i know i don't have enough puzzles at the moment to start a blog and i work full time so can't really dedicate a lot of time to creating daily puzzles. does anyone have experience with publishing crosswords and any tips on how to possibly do it as a part time gig? thanks for any advice.
posted by matt755811
on Feb 15, 2011 -
2 answers
My daughter came home from her Christmas party with a bag of treats, including a mini book of puzzles. I'd like help solving/identifying one of them.
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posted by littlegreenlights
on Dec 17, 2010 -
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