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Unscramble these, please

By James Dow Allen on Sun May 17 06:36:53 2026

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ESC

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Missing Person

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Time Travel

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Song Lyrics

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A Mathematical Excursion

By David Entwistle on Sat May 9 16:20:29 2026

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Sequence

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Optimum Track

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Odd One Out

By David Entwistle on Sun May 10 07:12:17 2026

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Better Late Than Never

By David Entwistle on Tue May 5 07:26:30 2026

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40. Names (GCHQ Puzzle)

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New Scientist Tap Question

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Rotten Question

By David Entwistle on Wed Apr 29 07:01:00 2026

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What actually killed the drive-in theater? -- List 5 factors.

By HenHanna@NewsGrouper on Wed Apr 29 19:30:09 2026

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reddit= Readers' Electronic Digest & Discussion of Interesting Topics

By HenHanna@NewsGrouper on Fri May 1 04:17:37 2026

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(Lexical Bridge) -- (Don't post answers) -- (Give me more problems)

By HenHanna@NewsGrouper on Sat Apr 25 01:52:41 2026

Latest reply by David Entwistle on Wed Apr 29 06:19:17 2026
(let ((myLoc 50) (fenceLoc 100)) (dotimes (Distance 0 101) (if (Distance > fenceLoc) ...))

By HenHanna@NewsGrouper on Sun Apr 26 23:56:16 2026

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surprising Relations ------- meeting many US presidents -- Parsing

By HenHanna@NewsGrouper on Thu Apr 23 18:06:30 2026

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Find the Counterfeit Coin

By James Dow Allen on Thu Apr 2 05:24:45 2026

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GCHQ Monday Puzzle

By David Entwistle on Mon Apr 6 10:58:03 2026

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By HenHanna@NewsGrouper on Fri Apr 10 16:48:16 2026

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=?UTF-8?Q?You_aren=E2=80=99t_genetically_related_to_all_your_anc?= =?UTF-8?Q?estors.__---_really=3F=3F=3F?=

By HenHanna@NewsGrouper on Thu Apr 9 16:26:37 2026

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Tin-eared --- ( Tin-man and Thin-man related ? )

By HenHanna@NewsGrouper on Wed Apr 1 16:52:50 2026

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Starting on Feb2 ---- Recycling words at WORDLE (NY Times). Noooo...

By HenHanna@NewsGrouper on Thu Apr 9 17:14:27 2026

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--- For GroupA, ......., but for GroupB.........

By HenHanna@NewsGrouper on Thu Apr 9 16:57:33 2026

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Squares of 1 to 10 are spelt out in Ndom language . . . nif, sas, [ "mer abo ithin" ]

By HenHanna@NewsGrouper on Fri Mar 6 01:13:05 2026

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Re: sequence puzzle

By HenHanna@NewsGrouper on Mon Mar 9 17:03:47 2026

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Chess: Checkmate in Twenty-five moves

By James Dow Allen on Tue Mar 24 10:34:37 2026

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His soul swooned slowly as he heard the snow falling faintly through the universe

By HenHanna@NewsGrouper on Thu Apr 2 18:19:19 2026

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Dark / Far side of the Moon -- (low freq. in 1900-1940)

By HenHanna@NewsGrouper on Thu Apr 2 15:53:47 2026

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Australian police shoot dead suspect in officer killings

By HenHanna@NewsGrouper on Wed Apr 1 16:45:35 2026

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What's special about these eight places?

By James Dow Allen on Tue Mar 17 16:30:55 2026

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Two distances among Four Points

By James Dow Allen on Tue Mar 17 19:14:20 2026

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Cryptic Clues to the Authorship Puzzle

By James Dow Allen on Mon Mar 2 06:20:28 2026

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Ben Blatt's statistical Analysis of (Medals won in) 2026 Milan-Cortina Winter Olympics

By HenHanna@NewsGrouper on Sun Mar 15 16:40:47 2026

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(Ling. Puzzle) (who is fondly remembered by fans of ...)

By HenHanna@NewsGrouper on Tue Mar 10 00:27:39 2026

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Re: Mangled Message Matrix

By HenHanna@NewsGrouper on Mon Mar 9 03:14:00 2026

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(real Life Puzzle) -- The Uber driver's violence was excessive. What do you think?

By HenHanna@NewsGrouper on Sat Feb 21 21:56:19 2026

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(more Analogies pls) -- LENIN : PSEUDONYMOUS :: LENINGRAD : ?

By HenHanna@NewsGrouper on Sat Mar 7 01:38:40 2026

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What do these three sets have in common?

By James Dow Allen on Sat Feb 21 17:18:17 2026

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SH returned the Reichenbach Falls

By HenHanna@NewsGrouper on Wed Feb 25 00:04:04 2026

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Radius of This Circle? -- (Her Accent?)

By HenHanna@NewsGrouper on Sun Feb 22 19:29:57 2026

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Re: Family tree

By HenHanna@NewsGrouper on Sat Feb 21 22:06:23 2026

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Grid Problem

By David Entwistle on Wed Feb 18 09:25:19 2026

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Teaser #N2 -- I was quoted 12 cents for one, 24 cents for > 50, and 36 cents for 144.

By HenHanna@NewsGrouper on Sat Feb 21 22:02:43 2026

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Dice Game

By David Entwistle on Sun Feb 15 10:50:13 2026

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AI-generated Video Clip -- Jp PM (Takaichi) as a Super-Hero

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Re: Why 'dog collar' for the clergy? -- Pope's nose

By HenHanna@NewsGrouper on Fri Feb 13 16:33:56 2026

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Ducks in a Row

By Carl G. on Tue Feb 10 14:06:58 2026

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(Using a Cannon aiming at the snow) ----------- (Sand-surfing)

By HenHanna@NewsGrouper on Fri Feb 6 11:17:13 2026

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Test your (Latest- TV-Show) IQ

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Re: Oh boy! Vonich Manuscript in the news!

By HenHanna@NewsGrouper on Tue Feb 3 21:55:26 2026

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Girl was (in danger of) being Electrocuted --- the Man's quick thinking saved her

By HenHanna@NewsGrouper on Thu Jan 22 21:51:09 2026

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National Puzzle Day?

By David Entwistle on Fri Jan 30 10:53:42 2026

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Circle and Discs

By David Entwistle on Tue Jan 27 15:29:43 2026

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By HenHanna@NewsGrouper on Fri Jan 23 03:05:00 2026

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Alan Turing Cryptography Competition and Mathsbombe, 2026.

By David Entwistle on Tue Dec 16 19:33:31 2025

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Actress

By David Entwistle on Sun Jan 25 09:18:47 2026

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Mrs =?UTF-8?B?UGVya2luc+KAmXM=?= quilt

By David Entwistle on Fri Jan 16 09:43:08 2026

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in Spanish, Press and Oppress are the same verb. -- FR, GER

By HenHanna@NewsGrouper on Sat Jan 24 19:34:32 2026

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41. A Square Family

By David Entwistle on Sat Jan 24 11:27:20 2026

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Re: was was etc.

By HenHanna@NewsGrouper on Fri Jan 23 03:01:12 2026

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nice Tesla car in PRC -- (vs. Big Truck)

By HenHanna@NewsGrouper on Mon Jan 12 19:29:15 2026

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(Don't post the answer) -- What Obstacle is an anagram of an antonym of a homophone of an anagram of TEAM?

By HenHanna@NewsGrouper on Wed Dec 31 06:32:31 2025

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"For those who like this sort of thing, this is the sort of thing they like."

By HenHanna@NewsGrouper on Thu Jan 8 02:52:09 2026

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230. FIND THE TRIANGLE

By David Entwistle on Sun Dec 28 19:04:43 2025

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(real-life Puzzle) -- Auto accident -- Which Car is at fault?

By HenHanna@NewsGrouper on Mon Jan 12 17:54:59 2026

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PTD -- (Peter T. Daniels) -- Why did he stop posting in AUE, Sci.Lang ?

By HenHanna@NewsGrouper on Thu Jan 8 19:11:47 2026

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By HenHanna@NewsGrouper on Thu Dec 18 07:24:42 2025

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Ten Count (a logic puzzle)

By Carl G. on Tue Jan 6 08:52:09 2026

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QI (UK TV) with Stephen Fry, Gyles Brandreth, ...

By HenHanna@NewsGrouper on Thu Jan 1 21:17:18 2026

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A crossword puzzle: HCE + ALP

By HenHanna@NewsGrouper on Fri Jan 2 01:44:58 2026

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Serial Prefixes --- chain of length- 4

By HenHanna@NewsGrouper on Thu Dec 25 20:52:11 2025

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ACCOMMODATING SQUARES 2

By Charlie Roberts on Thu Dec 18 11:48:48 2025

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Bridge Over Troubled Waters...

By David Entwistle on Mon Dec 8 07:29:48 2025

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Re: St Peterburg Paradox

By richard on Thu Dec 11 17:16:41 2025

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Clue: High Level Lights Rhythm

By Byrl Raze Buckbriar on Thu Nov 20 23:16:25 2025

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Re: Off is the new on

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198. ACCOMMODATING SQUARES

By David Entwistle on Sun Dec 14 13:06:41 2025

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I played this Sudoku until it was available at [URL], but . . .

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A puzzle which is easy, but not simple

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GCHQ Christmas Challenge 2025

By David Entwistle on Wed Dec 10 10:06:36 2025

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114. Factorizing

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Seating Arrangements

By David Entwistle on Sun Nov 30 08:31:05 2025

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Clue: The Word is in the Image

By Byrl Raze Buckbriar on Sun Dec 7 10:43:29 2025

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7. The Perplexed Banker

By David Entwistle on Wed Dec 3 15:53:38 2025

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cancel

By richard on Wed Dec 3 19:27:35 2025

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NPR (CarTalk) (100 passengers lined up to board an airplane) -- The Last Seat

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(Spiral Codewords) -- your first few Moves ?

By HenHanna@NewsGrouper on Sat Nov 29 17:23:11 2025

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SurrounDoku

By Richard Heathfield on Wed Nov 26 23:34:49 2025

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=?UTF-8?Q?The_phrase_=E2=80=9Ca_CH_over_six_foot=E2=80=9D_likely?= =?UTF-8?Q?_refers_to_a_=22CH=22_being_a_shorthand_for_...?=

By HenHanna@NewsGrouper on Sun Nov 16 07:23:43 2025

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(Prefix, Suffix) --- (Don't Post THE answer)

By HenHanna@NewsGrouper on Tue Nov 18 04:07:06 2025

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Re: (German) Wahrschau, from Dutch verb Waarschuwen (to Warn)

By HenHanna@NewsGrouper on Sun Nov 16 18:48:41 2025

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Ngram for (Sake, Sakes) Singular is much more common in Am-Eng and Br-Eng

By HenHanna@NewsGrouper on Sun Nov 16 19:32:26 2025

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(German) Wahrschau, from Dutch verb Waarschuwen (to Warn)

By HenHanna@NewsGrouper on Sun Nov 16 07:27:13 2025

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IQ test (Mensa) -- (Seek Whence) -- 2 puzzles.

By HenHanna@NewsGrouper on Fri Nov 14 02:28:47 2025

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IQ test (What comes next) -- (Welk figuur moet het vraagteken vervangen ... ?)

By HenHanna@NewsGrouper on Fri Nov 14 01:01:51 2025

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( Spazy Croonerisms ) -- (Don't post Answers) -- Pls give me a few more problems

By HenHanna@NewsGrouper on Tue Nov 11 09:37:06 2025

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Re: ( Spazy Croonerisms ) -- (DON'T give me the answers!) -- Pls give me a few more problems like these!

By HenHanna@NewsGrouper on Tue Nov 11 09:32:56 2025

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Re: Sums of consecutive positive integers

By Ilan Mayer on Sat Nov 8 03:23:20 2025

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Widget Sampling ...

By David Entwistle on Wed Nov 5 08:38:37 2025

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Re: Number Sequences

By Phil Carmody on Thu Nov 6 11:55:37 2025

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Palindromic primes

By David Entwistle on Mon Nov 3 09:42:55 2025

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How many (sea)water molecules (from the previous scoop) are in this glass?

By HenHanna@NewsGrouper on Tue Nov 4 09:37:57 2025

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54. How many fish are in the pond?

By David Entwistle on Tue Nov 4 08:58:45 2025

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(Beatty's theorem) 2-D fractal pattern ? -- (grouping into 2 int. groups)

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Re: Sums of whole numbers

By David Entwistle on Mon Nov 3 08:47:37 2025

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Re: Word Play Chemistry

By HenHanna@NewsGrouper on Sun Nov 2 22:01:29 2025

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