Puzzles for Adults and Children
The puzzle Toe Touches has been out for a week now. If you are stuck on solving it, check out the hint below.
Once you’ve finished that, check out this week’s new puzzle, Triple Rhyme Time.
Can you make a word ladder spanning from HAND to FOOT, changing only one letter at a time?
The hint for Toe Touches, the puzzle from last week, is now available, as is the solution to Secret Agent Recruitment from two weeks ago.
The new puzzle for this week is Triple Rhyme Time. It’s prime time to rhyme!
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Each of the clues leads to a phrase beginning with the name of a card, given in order from ace to king:
The cards given with each clue are the length of the answers, not counting the card names. This allows solvers to create a cipher key based on the answers. For example, the first row of cards spells out VENTURA, so the ace of diamonds must represent V, the two of clubs is E, etc.
Applying this cipher to the unclued cards at the bottom spells out the phrase A TWO SLANGILY. A slang term for two, used most commonly when referring to cards, is DEUCE.
The puzzle Secret Agent Recruitment has been out for a week now. If you are stuck on solving it, check out the hint below.
Once you’ve finished that, check out this week’s new puzzle, Toe Touches.
Would-be solvers might find it helpful to brush up on their NATO alphabet.
The hint for last week’s puzzle, Secret Agent Recruitment, is now available, as is the solution to What a Card.
The new puzzle for this week is Toe Touches. Just how flexible are you?
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Each of the rows is missing all of its vowels. Once the words are reconstituted, they look like this:
Indexing into each of the full answers by the given numbers reveals the phrase I’d like to what a vowel, Pat. This is a reference to a commonly spoken phrase on Wheel of Fortune, where contestants must buy vowels. The answer is BUY.
The puzzle What a Card has been out for a week now. If you are stuck on solving it, check out the hint below.
Once you’ve finished that, check out this week’s new puzzle, Secret Agent Recruitment.
Each of the answers is missing something relevant. Each card stands for a specific letter.
The hint for last week’s puzzle, What a Card, is now available, as is the solution to Missing Vowels.
The new puzzle for this week is Secret Agent Recruitment. Can you understand this officer’s speech?
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This puzzle consists of seven very simple mazes, each with a single yellow line through it. Solving the mazes and paying special attention to where the path intersects with that line gives the following:
The flavor text of the the puzzle references both Samuel and telegraph, suggesting that Morse code is necessary to get the answer. Reading the path/yellow line overlaps as dots and dashes gives . ... -.-. .- .--. . ... which translates to ESCAPES, the answer to the puzzle.
Each of the words can be preceded by either TRUE or FALSE to make a common phrase. (In certain cases, the reverse can also be a phrase, but it is always quite rare.):
Converting these True/False answers to binary (TRUE=1, FALSE=0) gives 01000111 01110010 01101001 01110100. The flavor text clues ASCII which can turn eight-bit binary numbers into characters. Translating these four numbers gives Grit. The answer is GRIT.