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2 | 01/09/2018 9:01 AM | Tried to make a random metapuzzle today Couldn't find enough answers to get the final answer I wanted, so the final answer isn't thematic, but in exchange the words work out a little better than trying to force it TRIPLE-DOG DARE VISUAL AIDS ADD CONTEXT POW WOW LASER PRINTERS MOUNTAIN GOAT AA BATTERIES | Each feeder consists of one abbreviation and one word with the same length as one of the words in the abbreviation Take the eigenletters: drug abuse resistance educatiOn -> tripledOg -> O acquired immUno deficiency syndrome -> visUal -> U attention decifiT disorder -> contexT -> T prisoner of War -> Wow -> W light amplification by stimulated emIssion of radiation -> prInters -> I greaTest of all time -> mounTain -> T alcoholics anonymouS -> batterieS -> S The answer is OUTWITS. | ||
3 | 01/28/2018 11:13 AM | random bad/maybe-impossible meta INCH WORK ON SMALL BIG ONE UNDER SIX | |||
4 | 04/16/2018 4:11 PM | Liar phrase shift: AMERICAN STATE THAT HAS THE CAPITAL CHEYENNE | FLORIDA Every word indicates what letters it can't be (as in the opposite of a Phrase Shift puzzle), and the statement itself only has one part wrong (i.e. it is an American state that does not have the capital Cheyenne) | ||
5 | 05/04/2018 6:49 PM | Metapuzzle: TRIANGULARMENTE | "triangularmente" is the spanish word for triangularly. Take the letters in triangular positions (one, three, six, ten, fifteen) to get tigre, which is spanish for tiger. | ||
6 | 05/19/2018 2:21 PM | Mastermind puzzles: Mexico 3r Canada 2r 1w Greece 1r Tuvalu 1r Poland 2r 1w Estonia 1w Ireland Romania 3w Germany 1r 1w Hungary 1r Boise Haiti 2w Maine 2r Salem 1r 2w Texas 2w | |||
7 | 06/19/2018 3:35 PM | GRAPEFRUIT ASTATINE CAUCASIAN EPSILON PENCIL ARKANSAS PEAR DORMOUSE JAVASCRIPT | Each feeder contains another word in the same set as a substring (GRAPE)FRUIT = fruits ASTA(TIN)E = elements CAUC(ASIAN) = ethnicities E(PSI)LON = greek letters (PEN)CIL = stationery AR(KANSAS) = us states (PEA)R = produce DOR(MOUSE) = animals (JAVA)SCRIPT = programming languages Remove those words and read first letters to get FACE CARDS, which contains ACE | [jack made another meta with a similar concept a year later:] random meta ARKANSAS CAUCASIAN ELEPHANT LANGUISHED NEWTONS STRATEGO | sort by number of letters before the substring L(ANGUISHED) AR(KANSAS) NEW(TONS) CAUC(ASIAN) ELEPH(ANT) STRATE(GO) read first letters to get LANCES |
8 | 06/27/2018 2:41 PM | My first is in planets but not in pants My second is in blimps but not in pebbles My third is in batteries but not in branches My fourth is in telescopes but not in scalps My fifth is in fireworks but not in folktales My sixth is in diamonds but not in midpoints My seventh is in explosives but not in expressions My eighth is in lungs but not in songs My ninth is in sensodyne but not in donuts | Solve the puzzle normally to get LITERALLY (the first letter is in PLANETS but not in PANTS, ...) A literal interpretation of the puzzle is that it is describing a PERIODIC TABLE (Hydrogen is in planets, helium is in balloons, lithium is in batteries, etc.) | ||
9 | 07/11/2018 1:08 PM | Come search in log time for a āsā in a leaf. | Do a binary search through the message (with spaces & punctuation removed) for the first s in the string: Pos Let 16 T 8 R 4 E 6 E 5 S | ||
10 | 07/23/2018 6:12 PM | [a crossword meta with the title "Cardigan"] BRACELET STOCKINGS ANTIQUE ENGAGEMENT RING CAVALRY JACKBOOTS MITTENS (answer is 12 letters) | STRAITJACKET (answers contain ACE, KING, QUEEN, JACK, TEN: a straight in poker) | ||
11 | 09/05/2018 6:36 PM | Across 2. With 1 down, what the shape of this crossword is (4) Down 1. See 2 across (3) | N CUBE T | ||
12 | 03/03/2019 10:26 AM | Find the connection between the three pictures for each row/column | Each row/column resolves to a 3 letter word, making a word square: SPA OIL BEE | ||
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14 | 06/10/2019 6:45 AM | JPZ IVT VTCPTA RVGA OXYYHAQ PL MJA QMCHA PL MJAQA MZP QATMATIAQ? QAARQ MP RA TPM VM VHH RVTVNAVWHA MP IJAIG MJVM MJA OXYYHA JVQ PTHC NPM PTA ZVC MP QPHFA. | It's a cryptogram where "OXYYHA" can resolve to either PUZZLE or RIDDLE | ||
15 | 06/20/2019 7:15 AM | Here's a random meta NE'ER 'TIS DON'T WE'D SHE'S WE'VE | Each apostrophe can be replaced with a letter to make another word: NEWER OTIS DONUT WELD SHEDS WEAVE Reading the new letters in order yields WOULDA | and also some related thoughts Is the apostrophe in "Mighty morphin' ninja turtles" a E or a G The contraction i'd'nt can become the word indent | |
16 | 06/22/2019 12:10 PM | Another random meta REVOLUTION OXENFREE TETRIS PLATTER INTERSECTION AFTER GRANDFATHER SOCIAL CLUB LAND GONE READ ALL ABOUT IT WINE | Each feeder can be preceded by a repeated word: DANCE OLLY PUYO PU LINE EVER GREAT ANTI NEVER GOING EXTRA RED First letters spell DOPPLEGANGER | more interesting things (spoiling the solution) interesting result on qat was einst.einst.heoryofrelativity and I saw lots of programming results on google like object object or list list. | |
17 | 10/15/2019 11:37 AM | I was thinking about making a hunt for my school, made one puzzle (about 3 years ago), and then completely forgot about it until now So here's a puzzle: (The answer includes the name of a building there just fyi) | Each of the words on the right can be answered by the word on the left with a 'BE' added to the beginning: LONG BECOME FORE BESIDE TRAY BEHEADS CAUSE BEFORE COME BELONG TWEEN BECAUSE SIDE BETWEEN HEADS BETRAYS Drawing lines between the answers, the only letters not crossed off (read from the top to the bottom) are HINDSUE; including the bees, the final message is BEHIND SUE B (short for Behind Susan B Anthony Hall, the first-year residence at University of Rochester) | ||
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19 | 10/24/2019 6:07 PM | tiny easy meta don fae MIT ore SOS | Solfege notes with one additional letter added Sort in ascending order: doN Ore miT faE soS to get NOTES | ||
20 | 11/18/2019 12:52 PM | silly meta: Awesomer Bottom Early Spring Squinter (The answer is 9 letters) | Each word phonetically ends with the name of a season Sort by season and read the remaining bits aloud: AW + summer B + autumn SK + winter EARLY + spring to get OBSCURELY | ||
21 | 12/06/2019 6:17 AM | Here's a fun pure unordered meta I just made instead of all the productive things I could have been doing OVERUSING UNGUARDED ASHAMES OVERCOMPENSATING PREARRANGED ABOUNDS UNEMPLOYMENT ADEEMING PRETEXTUALLY OVERREFINEMENT PREFACING (answers not put in alphabetical order because I don't want to put the two most questionable words right at the top of the list...) | Each feeder has a prefix, infix, and a suffix Sort alphabetically by infix: PRE + ARRANGE + ED A + BOUND + S OVER + COMPENSATE + ING A + DEEM + ING UN + EMPLOY + MENT PRE + FACE + ING UN + GUARD + ED OVER + REFINE + MENT A + SHAME + S PRE + TEXT + UALLY OVER + USE + ING Interpret prefix/suffix lengths as tap code to get MASKING TAPS | ||
22 | 12/16/2019 6:46 AM | Silly easy meta (might be a fun style of meta for people being introduced to puzzles?) TALL GRASS TASTE BUD THAT'S DOPE THIGH JOINT TOO BLUNT TUMBLE WEED | Each feeder consists of a word beginning with T and slang for marijuana So the answer is TEAPOT (t pot) | ||
23 | 01/08/2020 6:04 PM | overconstrained meta (given alphabetically): ER SAN YI | Chinese numbers 1, 2, 3: YI ER SAN Sort in ascending order and read YES in the first letters | ||
24 | 06/28/2020 6:06 PM | Made a meta for no reason ALLIUMS CARROTS GRACKLE LETTUCE MUSTARD PIMPLES SADNESS | Each of the words is associated with a color in the ROYGBIV color set; sorting by their colors and diagonalizing gives the answer PASTELS. R PIMPLES O CARROTS Y MUSTARD G LETTUCE B SADNESS I GRACKLE V ALLIUMS | ||
25 | 07/16/2020 5:55 PM | [meta using only words from this tweet https://twitter.com/nick_ramsey/status/1283892566698729472] OUR CANDIDATES|THEIR CANDIDATES ______________|________________ 3 ABSURD|SCHOOL 4 2 EARLY|KARL 1 4 HATE|GOYA 3 6 LGBT|RUSSIA 6 1 LIES|HATCH 2 5 WINS|REOPEN 5 Our sides oppose each other on a lot of issues. Given the candidates on our side and on their side of the ballot, along with my voting ranking preferences, determine how I'd describe my candidates and how I'd describe theirs. | Each feeder on OUR CANDIDATES side has an antonym with the same length as the feeder on the THEIR CANDIDATES side Take eigenletters and order by either the left or right side to get HALOES or A-HOLES ABSURD -> NORMAL / SCHOOL -> L EARLY -> LATE / KARL -> A HATE -> LOVE / GOYA -> O LGBT -> CISHET / RUSSIA -> S LIES -> TRUTH / HATCH -> H WINS -> LOSSES / REOPEN -> E | ||
26 | 05/31/2022 7:54 PM | Random puzzle: Empress Topiary Tracery Petrarch Cereza St Frusquin Homeward Bound Rock Sand Sainfoin | Trace back the each horse in the pedigree of the horse Morse Code and interpret it as morse code (. for sires and - for dams) Empress: --.- = Q Topiary: ..- = U Tracery: .. = I Petrarch: -.-. = C Cereza: -.- = K St Frusquin: -.. = D Homeward Bound: .- = A Rock Sand: ... = S Sainfoin: .... = H | ||
27 | 12/26/2022 10:22 AM | A meta idea that was on my mind this morning (unordered meta, answers ordered lexicographically) 209458 420 5280 80386 | Each number can be associated with a word of the same length Sort by increasing number of digits and extract the letter at the 0 420 = POT 5280 = MILE 80386 = INTEL 209458 = OSIRIS The answer is TENS. | ||
28 | 12/31/2022 10:55 AM | [linking to this one instead for obvious reasons] https://discord.com/channels/379129452203999242/379130640903176215/1058820835227488376 | |||
29 | 01/03/2023 12:53 PM | Hi, here's a meta-meta To simulate solving like in a puzzle hunt, I've removed some of the answers (don't try to backsolve) (And the answers for the submetas are all mixed together.) A JACOB SHERRY MOVIE BLADDER'S BODILY BYPRODUCT MR., DO THREAD A SHED... AS HABERDASHERS DO. QR PER EACH TRAIN WEEPS "I LONG FOR FOXX, IVAN" WORST BUBBLE-CHEW ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? There's also a shell for the metameta, which I have omitted (the team you are simulating hasn't unlocked it yet). This may be unfair for obvious reasons, feel free to work together. | 36 feeders and 6 given feeders -> likely 6 submetas with 6 feeders each -> 6 letters per submeta answer each feeder indicates a letter and a number, indicating the position of the extracted letter in the feeder A JACOB SHERRY MOVIE: Two Juliets is a move by jacob sherry 2,J -> ?J???? BLADDER'S BODILY BYPRODUCT each word starts with b and the clue resolves to pee 2, P -> ?P???? MR., DO THREAD A SHED... AS HABERDASHERS DO. mrDOThreaDASHeDASHaberDASHersdo = .--- = J there are 5 periods in the clue -> 5 dots is 5 in morse code J, 5 -> ????J? QR PER EACH TRAIN anagram of CATHERINE PARR+Q catherine parr was the 6th of henry viii's 6 wives 6, Q -> ?????Q WEEPS "I LONG FOR FOXX, IVAN" weEPSILONgforfoXXIVan epsilon is the 5th letter of the greek alphabet xxiv = 24 = X 5,X -> ????X? WORST BUBBLE-CHEW rhymes with FIRST DOUBLE YOU 1,W -> W????? Weird letters suggests that these are all names of native american tribes Read off the first letters in some order to get BOWMAN: BILO(X)I O(J)IBWE (W)ASHOE MIKMA(Q) A(P)ACHE NAVA(J)O | ||
30 | 01/10/2023 3:01 PM | Solution: Each of the four words is a single letter change from a season. Reading the new letters in season order starting from summer (or just from left to right) gives a word related to "the time of year" mentioned in the flavor text | hummer, full, winner, string = HUNT (posted a few days before the mit mystery hunt) | ||
31 | 02/14/2023 4:35 AM | The first ever R.T.3 Riddle Search is in one month. :) Here's a silly warm-up, just because I wanted to make something (and also remind people that it's coming soon!) | apple = 6 beer = 3 onion = 2 lemon = 8 sugar = -4 => lemon square + root beer + sugar cube = ā3 | ||
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