A bit easier this time:

Once you get what the middle picture is for this one, use it again in Gray-T’s puzzle below (Mannekin Pis) and the answer should be clearer

Here’s a neat logic-type puzzle that we haven’t put up before; it’s known as an ‘ABC Puzzle’:

Place the letters A,B,C and 2 spaces in each row and column. Each row and column must contain that exact combination-kind of like sudoku.

The letters around the square indicate what must be the 1st letter to appear in that row or column. So the ‘C’ above the last column means that ‘C’ appears 1st in that column, so you know the 1st cell in that column must be a ‘C’ or a space.

Feel free to enter your answers in the comment section below. As always, will unmask in a couple days, thanks.

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Many of you will remember Gray-T and the colorful comments he used to leave on the site. Haven’t heard from him in a while, but last week he surprised me with this picture riddle/puzzle: (click on picture for high resolution version)

The 3 pictures combine to produce one word. Can you figure it out? Feel free to submit your answers in the comment section below. We have 3 hints, which we’ll put up over the next 1-2 days. Answers to be unmasked sometime over the weekend.

Hint 1: Some basic mathematical logic needed

Hint 2: A Beatles song: Baby you can drive my…

Hint 3: Normally WE talk about US, but if WE see HER, Tom “Tiger” Jones would sing: ….is a lady.

Hint 4: First Letter: What is the Mannekin Pis doing?

Hint 5: look for a logical / mathematical term / sign that looks similar

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He said I was beautiful, he did, I assure you; and I know he was right, for my skin was as soft as satin, and white like ivory, my figure slender and elegant.

Our first meeting was in a shop, and he made no attempt to disguise his admiration. He praised me up to the skies and called me “very dear.” From that day and for many months we were inseparable. I occupied all his thoughts.

Again and again he gazed with indescribable affection at my wonderful complexion, my graceful figure, and pressed me to his lips.

His embrace was tenderness itself, and whenever some trifling accident marred my beauty-if only for a day-his anxious solicitude knew no bounds. At night I rested on velvet pillows, and by day I accompanied him wherever he went.

He always enjoyed my society, even when nothing else afforded him pleasure.

He would turn to me, and not in vain, for comfort and relief when all other friends proved faithless. Oh! why was it not fated to be ever thus?

Alas! one day in a public thoroughfare I had a heavy fall, and, though it was through his fault, I was never the same to him as before. This cruel misadventure fairly broke me down. True, he endeavored afterwards to make amends for his harsh treatment.

He treated me with the greatest consideration and loaded me with silver; but the light of former days had gone out.

He tried to leave me as before, but in vain; his feelings had undergone a complete change, and now I am nothing but a miserable wreck of my former self.

Here I lie, all alone in my sorrow, a forsaken, broken —-?

This story can be completed by the use of one word. How many of you can figure it out? (submit your answer in the comment section below; will unmask in a day or 2!)

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A hundred and one by fifty divide,

And next let a cipher be duly applied

And if the result you should rightly divine,

You’ll find that the whole makes but one out of nine.

This one is a bit of a challenge, so won’t unmask any submitted answers until Wednesday or Thursday.

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Just equal are my head and tail,

My middle slender as can be,

Whether I stand on head or heel,

‘Tis all the same to you or me.

But if my head should be cut off,

The matter’s true, although ’tis strange,

My head and body, severed thus,

Immediately to nothing change.

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My body’s taper’d fine and neat

I’ve but one eye, yet am complete;

You’d judge me, by my equipage,

The greatest warrior of the age;

For when you have survey’d me round,

Nothing but steel is to be found;

Yet men I ne’er was known to kill,

Though ladies’ blood I often spill.

What Am I? If you can figure it out, post your answer in the comments section below. Will reveal submissions/answers on Wednesday.

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These Riddle Poems can be difficult, so figured it’s a good time to try something a little different. Instead of keeping answers masked for a couple days, submitted comments will appear live immediately (no moderation). This way, the puzzle can be worked out in real-time.

The troop arranged for battle

Without my first would fly;

And whether good or bad,

Without it you would die.

 

 

Go seek the earth and ocean,

For smallest things you guess;

Yes, bring the atom from the air,

And still my second’s less.

 

 

The traitor, when condemn’d to die,

May calm his cares and pray;

Yet when the axe sounds "dust to dust,"

My whole he’s borne away.

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I have no head, and a tail I lack,

But oft have arms, and legs, and a back;

I inhabit the palace, the tavern, the cot-

‘Tis a beggarly residence where I am not.

If a monarch were present (I tell you no fable),

I still should be placed at the head of the table.

What am I?

[as always, will unmask submitted answers in 24-48 hrs, thanks!]

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My first is a lie; my second is a lie; my whole is the emblem of innocence.

What am I?  

(The answer is 1 word consisting of 2 syllables)

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A riddle poem:

I go, but never stir,

I count, but never write,

I measure, and divide, and, sir,

You’ll find my measures right.

I run, but never walk,

I strike, but never wound,

I tell you much, but never talk,

In my diurnal round.

What am I? 

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If a well known animal you behead,

Another one you will have instead.

What will you have?

(To understand this word beheading puzzle a little better, see this earlier example.)

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I am born on the gale in the stillness of night;

A sentinel’s signal that all is not right.

I am not a swallow, yet skim o’er the wave;

I am not a doctor, yet patients I save;

When the sapling has grown to a flourishing tree

It finds a protector henceforward in me?

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We are seven busy brothers

Laboring every day.

Always helping others

In everything they say.

The first in the Amazon doth dwell,

The second in Egypt has a cell,

The third in Ireland makes his home,

The fourth of us resides in Rome,

The fifth and seventh are in you,

The sixth is everywhere in view.

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What animal am I?

My first is said to lead a busy life,

 (a)

My last some men have done to get a wife

(b)

Hint:

a=noun

b= verb

a+b=an animal

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My first is seen in pillared halls,

Where kings and princes dwell;

‘Tis found in every woodland vale,

In every sunny dell.

Upon the yellow sandy beach,

The ocean billows roar,

My next-you’ll find it in the foam,

Rippling upon the shore.

Within the dark and gloomy cave,

Hid from the sun’s bright glare,

Precious jewels line the walls,

And my third is always there.

My fourth and last is found in France,

But never seen in Spain;

It has always been in England’s clime,

In every monarch’s reign.

My whole from Jupiter’s court on high,

Descends to cheer the earth;

Without his presence there would be

Of happiness a dearth.

What am I?

Answers submitted will be revealed in a day or 2…

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