I'd like to make an embeddable flash jigsaw puzzle out of a photo. Can you point me in the right direction? [more inside]
posted by siclik on Oct 8, 2009 - 8 answers

Soundtrackfilter: Please recommend to me mostly-instrumental, sometimes dark, contemplative soundtrack albums (or even compilations or regular albums) in the vein of Michael Andrews' work for Donnie Darko or Robin Guthrie and Harold Budd's soundtrack for Mysterious Skin. [more inside]
posted by Inspector.Gadget on Sep 26, 2009 - 24 answers

Identify this game. I played it in the late 90s on the PC or the Amiga. It was an isometric puzzle/action/adventure game set in the future in a tall skyscraper where all the robots (cleaning bots, security bots etc.) had suddenly gone crazy. [more inside]
posted by gentle on Sep 26, 2009 - 4 answers

Trying to find a dark circular puzzle image. [more inside]
posted by cashman on Aug 26, 2009 - 0 answers

i've given up,
i cannot solve this rebus puzzle on the wall of the great britain hotel in richmond, melbourne, australia [more inside]
posted by compound eye on Aug 5, 2009 - 43 answers

Trying to find a picture book, it had something to do with figuring out the clues in the book.... [more inside]
posted by assasinatdbeauty on Aug 2, 2009 - 9 answers

What is this game? It belonged to my dad's cousin and she would have played with it during the 1940's, I think. [more inside]
posted by scrute on Jul 1, 2009 - 8 answers

I'm looking for a wooden spatial relations puzzle that was featured in the Alias TV Show. [more inside]
posted by CMcKinnon on Jun 1, 2009 - 5 answers

I'm creating a scavenger hunt for friends and family, and the first step for participants is to figure out what they're looking for through a series of riddles, codes, and puzzles. I'm looking for fun ways to encode or otherwise obfuscate the clues. [more inside]
posted by itstheclamsname on May 22, 2009 - 9 answers

Can you help me solve this picture puzzle from Roland Soong's Eastsouthwestnorth website? [more inside]
posted by reformedjerk on May 20, 2009 - 13 answers

MANF ANGWA RDASM ORT. What does it mean? [more inside]
posted by 0xFCAF on May 16, 2009 - 15 answers

What is the longest valid English sentence whose words are all anagrams of each other? [more inside]
posted by pmdboi on May 9, 2009 - 16 answers

Trying to find a certain monochromatic 3D / isometric puzzle game I saw a video of once... [more inside]
posted by TheTorns on Apr 12, 2009 - 3 answers

What city in Texas could be represented by the number 93711195? Or the string GECAAAABA? [more inside]
posted by gleuschk on Apr 7, 2009 - 52 answers

Is there a program that will take an already solved sudoku and create a medium difficulty unsolved puzzle? [more inside]
posted by team lowkey on Feb 27, 2009 - 7 answers

Help me remember the name of a game/puzzle from the early '70s that featured dice-sized clear acrylic cubes. [more inside]
posted by DandyRandy on Feb 27, 2009 - 6 answers

How do I solve this puzzle? [more inside]
posted by Steph1en on Jan 28, 2009 - 27 answers

So I played Professor Layton and the Curious Village on DS and I think it's one of the funnest game on the system. Which other game is similar, for older system that can be emulated, or maybe even a website with a good collection of puzzles? Hook me up! I need to satisfy my puzzle solving urges. Thanks!
posted by PowerCat on Dec 27, 2008 - 6 answers

Puzzle people, here's a challenge - what should my dear ol' dad get for Christmas? [more inside]
posted by Lesser Shrew on Dec 13, 2008 - 7 answers

Name-That-Retro-Game: top-down view, moving travellator floors, possibly color coded keys. Possibly on C64, Amiga A500/600/1200 or Atari ST/E. [more inside]
posted by dcbarker on Dec 4, 2008 - 12 answers

Looking for image of circular puzzle of a dark ocean/sea illustration from the 80's. [more inside]
posted by cashman on Nov 17, 2008 - 1 answer

What's it called where you take a group of letters and make words out of them? (Not anagram!) [more inside]
posted by 47triple2 on Nov 8, 2008 - 9 answers

I recently ran across a wonderful logic puzzle, but no solution was provided. I eventually worked out a complete solution myself, but it was rather ugly, and I would like to see if people smarter than me can come up with something more elegant. Are there any good Internet puzzle discussion forums floating around? [more inside]
posted by sappidus on Oct 11, 2008 - 13 answers

Question-Asking-Filter: What would be the best way to ASK a question on AskMeFi that I want to ask? Pre-question question-answers within. [more inside]
posted by vanoakenfold on Oct 3, 2008 - 21 answers

Help me remember a random arts-and-crafts kit from my childhood... with a German twist? [more inside]
posted by veryhappyheidi on Sep 13, 2008 - 6 answers

What relationship do the following songs have with each other: Nineteenth Nervous Breakdown (1965) Refugee (1979) Stairway to Heaven (1971) Black Magic Woman (1970) Band on the Run (1973) Walk This Way (1975) Tequila Sunrise (1973) [more inside]
posted by webhund on Sep 9, 2008 - 108 answers

Puzzle filter: I'm looking for the name of this puzzle involving a cube... [more inside]
posted by puloxor on Aug 27, 2008 - 6 answers

Where can I find information about the winner of and solution to Mike Wilk's Ultimate Noah's Ark contest? The contest ended in 1995, but there's surprisingly little info on the intrawebs. [more inside]
posted by lord_wolf on Jul 22, 2008 - 5 answers

Please help me make a cheap but kick ass version of the amazing Mystery on 5th Avenue apartment for a friend. (recently on Mefi). [more inside]
posted by ClarissaWAM on Jun 17, 2008 - 8 answers

In the mid-eighties, there was some "event" on television. It was a (crappy) movie, but embedded within it was a contest and/or puzzle. [more inside]
posted by not_on_display on May 17, 2008 - 5 answers

Are there any FPS-type games other than the early levels of Portal which would be appropriate for my 5-year old? [more inside]
posted by QuantumMeruit on Mar 1, 2008 - 21 answers

Help me solve this riddle.... "There's something special about Washington, and the heart sometimes rules the head which can often affect ones health, but thats not all, discover and calculate the end result." It's possible that the answer is one word. Please help.... [more inside]
posted by foodybat on Jan 7, 2008 - 34 answers

My geometry teacher in high school in 1984 showed us this puzzle. I was only half paying attention, but I believe the goal was to draw a line that intersected each segment only once. [more inside]
posted by mecran01 on Jan 6, 2008 - 15 answers

I am looking for brain teasers and puzzles like the ones here http://stores.brilliantpuzzles.com/ But I would like to actually look at them and feel them before buying. So I prefer if there is a store that sells them in the bay area. I am in mountain view. Even if the place is expensive, at least I can see what I like and order it online from somewhere cheaper. Thanks
posted by convex on Dec 26, 2007 - 1 answer

I'm trying a dry run with this wine puzzle (the metal wine caddy version) that I plan to give as a gift, and I'm having a tough time assembling it via the enclosed instructions. I may just give up and drink this wine instead. Do any of you have any firsthand experience assembling that puzzle and could offer a few pointers?
posted by emelenjr on Dec 7, 2007 - 0 answers

PuzzleFilter: I flew Southwest earlier this month and they had this really fun puzzle in their in-flight magazine. Anyone know where I can find more of these online?
posted by rezaman on Oct 26, 2007 - 11 answers

How do I solve this puzzle mathematically, rather than programmatically? [more inside]
posted by anomie on Sep 13, 2007 - 12 answers

What are some (easy to moderate difficulty) math problems with integer answers ranging from 0-18? I'm making mathematical seating cards where guests will solve a problem to find their table number. [more inside]
posted by Alison on Aug 30, 2007 - 25 answers

Math puzzle filter. How do you go about solving this puzzle? [more inside]
posted by batcrazy on Aug 28, 2007 - 25 answers

What if someone broke into your house and killed your fish? [more inside]
posted by fcummins on Aug 11, 2007 - 44 answers

What does a person mean when they say they want to 'trade puzzles'? [more inside]
posted by thelongcon on Jul 26, 2007 - 39 answers

Please help me steal my own trousers... [more inside]
posted by Blazecock Pileon on May 4, 2007 - 34 answers

Lost book question: When I was a kid, our upstairs neighbors lent me a book of wild fantasy illustrations that contained a hidden puzzle. There was a sizable prize for whoever figured out the riddle. [more inside]
posted by hydrophonic on Apr 6, 2007 - 12 answers

What encoding is this source code? Alternately, any ideas on this puzzle? [more inside]
posted by provolot on Mar 31, 2007 - 23 answers

Every heard of a non interlocking "jigsaw" puzzle using tetris-like pieces? [more inside]
posted by ALongDecember on Dec 11, 2006 - 5 answers

Help me solve a chess problem, please? [more inside]
posted by vytae on Dec 11, 2006 - 33 answers

What's the best plays-fair, all-clues-on-the-table mystery? [more inside]
posted by jbickers on Nov 29, 2006 - 20 answers

I'm making a hundred or so iterations of a word puzzle type for my class and crave contributions. [more inside]
posted by argybarg on Nov 25, 2006 - 17 answers

Looking high quality puzzle for San Francisco. [more inside]
posted by jmd82 on Nov 7, 2006 - 3 answers

I've invented my own type of unique, newspaper-publishable, word game. I would like to either make weekly editions of it to sell to weekly newspapers... [more inside]
posted by vanoakenfold on Nov 5, 2006 - 6 answers