Welcome to Research Havoc! This puzzle is mainly based on research (hence the title), more specifically on characters. You will be looking up various characters by using a description and a creator of that character. The number next to the creator name is also important, but I’ll let you figure that out on your own. Good luck!
1: “Exactly what you run from, you end up chasing.” – Tyler, The Creator (4)
2: “I cannot see with my left eye.” – Someone Fishy (5)
3: “My tail is mutated by length.” – Flinnora (4)
4: “I resemble aggression and hatred.” – MxLTEN (3)
Once you find the answer, please type it in the comments.
Hey guys! I recently made a little puzzle game called Orthecarr (play it at orthecarr.netlify.app for free, full version is at pythonperson.itch.io/orthecarr), and I just wanted to talk a bit about it here.
Orthecarr is a fun game where you follow simple numerical rules (described at http://orthecarr.netlify.app/rules) to create the highest-scoring loop you can in a grid of 5×5 numbers. It’s easy to learn but very tricky to master – I haven’t even gotten a perfect score myself. (Who knows, maybe you can be the first!)
I had an idea for a dozenal (base 12) version of the game, so let me know if that would be interesting. Also I’d love to get some general feedback on it here, so thanks in advance.
I send out a monthly newsletter to software developers and as part of the newsletter I attempt to include a puzzle in each edition. I would not consider myself much of a puzzle-master but I do try to come up with original puzzles each month. For the November newsletter I was thinking of sending this puzzle:
It happened a while ago that a census taker was proceeding along a street gathering census information. He finished with number 19 and moved on to the next house. A lady responded to his knock on the door.
“Good afternoon Ma’am. I’m gathering information for the census. Can you please tell me the occupations of yourself and your spouse?”
She responded: “He is a postman. I am a professor of mathematics.”
“Oh, I have some background in math!” said the census taker. “Do you have children?”
“Yes we do!”
“How many of each?”
“If you factor our house number, the larger factor is the number of males in our home and the smaller factor is the number of females (including me) in our home!”
“Excellent! Thank you so much for your time ma’am!” He took a moment to look at the next house to be counted and jotted down both the number of males and females in the math professor’s home.
How many daughters live in the home?
I was hoping for some feedback from the folks here. Is there sufficient information to solve this (I believe it’s called a “minimum information”) puzzle? Any wordsmithing you might do on this? I can share my solution as well; I want to ensure that I haven’t come up with an incorrect solution to the problem I’ve posed 🙂
Any suggestions or comments would be greatly appreciated!
Looking for a new daily puzzle game that’s quick, clever, and free? Meet Lineup — a mix of trivia, brain teasers, and logic puzzles that challenges you to put the world in order.
Every day you get a new puzzle with 5–8 items. Your task? Arrange them in the correct order based on the clue. It could be “books by copies sold,” “planets by size,” or “wars by start date.” Sometimes it’s obvious, sometimes it’s sneaky — but it’s always fun.
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It’s a free puzzle with no ads (finally!)
No signup needed for the first 4 puzzles
Takes only 1–2 minutes to play — perfect with your morning coffee or work break
Track stats, streaks, and rankings once you sign up
Unlock the archive and play past puzzles whenever you like
Lineup is the kind of logic and reasoning puzzle that feels satisfying whether you nail it on the first try or puzzle it out move by move. Think of it as a “matching puzzle meets trivia quiz” — simple, smart, and refreshingly addictive.
If you’re into Wordle, crosswords, or quick online puzzle games, give Lineup a try. A fresh challenge drops every single day.
I’m taking part in a treasure hunt with 16 puzzles divided into 4 groups:
4 photo locations to find
4 text riddles to solve
4 coordinates to decipher
4 coded texts to decode
After solving all 16 we received extra clues in PDF form — a sequence of numbers and cubes, plus symbols for “dot above”, “dot below”, and a slash, exactly in the order shown in the image.
Important clarification: the clues shown in the image refer to the number of the puzzle we solved. For example, a cube indicates puzzle #1, meaning it comes from the first group of four puzzles. Each cube corresponds to the index of the puzzle it came from (so “cube” = puzzle 1, another cube = puzzle 2, etc., mapped to the 1–16 ordering).
We have a theory: by plotting the coordinates of the four locations where we found the same-index clue (for example, the four places where we found clue #1 — one from each group) and then finding the midpoint/centroid of those four points, each set led us to a spot where we found what looks like a fifth poneglyph. At one of those spots we scanned a QR code that said: “find the right moment to capture emotions”.
We think the photo we attached (below) might encode a date and time — i.e., we may need to scan or photograph the QR code at that specific date/time shown in the photo. But we can’t figure out how the remaining part of the code (the numbers, the dot-above / dot-below markers, and the slash) maps to a usable date/time or action.
Our problem: we don’t know how to convert the sequence of numbers + dots + slash into whatever final step is required (date/time, coordinates, or something else).
Any ideas from puzzle solvers or One Piece fans? Any decoding approaches we should try, or examples of similar puzzles where dots mean “AM/PM”, or slashes separate date components, etc.? Thanks in advance — we’ll post the photo and the PDF snippet below.
Ηow can you and the knight pass through all the squares of the board, but using only once each checker, starting from the first square in the left corner?
This problem was created by Leonhard Euler. (15 April 1707 – 18 September 1783) was a Swiss polymath who was active as a mathematician, physicist, astronomer, logician, geographer, and engineer.
