Puzzles (Solved)

This week’s puzzle is thematically similar to last week’s- interesting geography with key context clues removed.  How will you fare this time?  Give it your best shot.

To commemorate a weekend of heavy travel and miles and miles of walking, this week’s puzzle is related to navigation and the what one might find while exploring.  This weekend I knocked six more states, plus the DC bonus, off my 2018 checklist.

Only one day remains before the clock runs out on the puzzle #6 response window!  If no one beats the 44 letter mark, a winner will be crowned! Today’s puzzle once again changes the nature of the game.  We started with number puzzles, spent a week on a word puzzle, and now we’ve got ourselves a fresh logic puzzle!  This one puts you in the shoes of an adventurer in a strange maze.

You know how textbooks often have a knowledge check at the end of a chapter, distilling the chapter’s lesson down into just a few core questions?  This week’s puzzle is like that.  It requires using the crux of at least one of the earlier puzzles (1-4) to get to the answer.  Ready?

This week’s puzzle is a number sequence with a little twist.  What’s the twist?  If I told you that, it’d be a dead giveaway!  So have fun and good luck.  No outside knowledge required for this one.

Puzzle #3 is back to the basics.  Once again I’m asking people to reevaluate how they look at numbers.  I provide a step in the right direction by writing out the numbers in English off the bat.  Looking forward to seeing who can solve this one!

Puzzle #1 has been solved!  Though I created the puzzle from scratch, a quick web search revealed I wasn’t the first to make a riddle like this.  The solution will be added to the Puzzle #1 page. Time for a second puzzle. 

I also would like to use this blog to post puzzles for people to try.  All my puzzles will be originals, and I’m going to try to make ones that can’t be solved by entering them into Google.  I’m not pre-testing for fairness, so if you find yourself having trouble, it may be that I made the puzzle way too difficult.  Only way to know is to try!