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  • You are 100% encouraged to post your answer(s) in the comments.
  • Most of these puzzles are about the process as much as they are about the solution. You are not to explain in the comments how to solve the puzzle (and ruin the fun for everyone else). However, you may give hints and lead others in the right direction.
  • I reserve the authority to remove any comments, without providing any reason. This is not to prevent the answer from being revealed (since that would defeat the purpose), but to keep this site a place for creative and friendly discussion.
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6 15 35 77 ? ?

Let’s get back to number sequences.

By the way, this series can technically go on forever.

Posted 26 July 2009. No Comments Yet.

abcdeeeeeghhhhiilnnooorsstttuwwy

  • 10 words, 2 words repeat.
  • Quote of aaaadghhimmnt
  • Not directly related to design.
Posted 19 July 2009. Tags: , . No Comments Yet.

aaabbeeeeghiiiiklllmmmnnooppprssssssstttu

This is going to be a toughie. Here are some hints:

  • This is actually a variation of the quote, since there is no exact quote.
  • It is a quote of abeeeiilnnrstt.
  • There are two words that are the same, and there are two words that are almost the same.
  • There is a comma.
  • Final hint for now: this puzzle doesn’t really fit the spirit of the quote.
  • (Added hint 7/17/09): 9 words, 2 words repeat.
Posted 12 July 2009. Tags: , . No Comments Yet.

cfffillmnnoooorstuw [Solved]

Unscamble the letters to form a quote.

cfffillmnnoooorstuw

Hint: 3 words.

Posted 05 July 2009. Tags: , . 2 Comments.

100 500 1 50 ? ? ?

No hints. (The three question marks mean three separate values.)

Posted 21 June 2009. No Comments Yet.

Flowers

Person A has one bunch of flowers. Person B has twice as many: two bunches. Person C has four.

This repeats all the way to Person Z, where the number of bunches of flowers that each person from B to Z has is twice that of the person before him/her.

If you combined all of their flowers, how many bunches do you get?

Posted 14 June 2009. No Comments Yet.

Typeface Rearrange [Solved]

We’re going to do an easier puzzle this week. This is mainly for design nerds, but anyone can play. The following is a list of the names of twenty commonly used typefaces for designers, but the letters of each name have been sorted alphabetically. Unscramble them to get the names.

  1. aBeekillrsv
  2. aBCgilnos
  3. Bdinoo
  4. Cenrtuy
  5. acFGhiiklnnort
  6. eFgirrut
  7. aFrtuu
  8. aadGmnor
  9. aeGgior
  10. aillnGSs
  11. dGouy
  12. aceeHiltv
  13. aacdiiLnSsu
  14. adiMry
  15. aimOpt
  16. aainloPt
  17. ceklloRw
  18. aahomT
  19. einrsUv
  20. aadenrV

(Let me know if I might have left out a letter.)

Posted 07 June 2009. Tags: . 2 Comments.

Find the Letters/Sentence

Examples of Group 1: M, T, V, U.
Examples of Group 2: B, E, C, K.

Find all the letters that belong in both Group 1 and Group 2, and create a very short sentence that doesn’t make sense, realistically.

Posted 31 May 2009. No Comments Yet.

B F J P ? [Solved]

No hints. Sorry.

Posted 23 May 2009. Tags: . 4 Comments.

3 3 5 4 4 3 5 5 4 ?

Hint: it’s not related to the previous puzzles.

Posted 22 May 2009. 6 Comments.
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