Questions tagged [geography]
A puzzle centered around geographical features, such as countries, continents, cities, mountains, rivers, and climate.
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In Open Air – fill the blanks
This is part 76 of the puzzle series Around the World in Many Days. Each part is solvable on its own.
Dear Puzzling,
Today I have travelled in open air, under the scorching sun, to see a small ...
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Compass and Straightedge
This is part 75 of the puzzle series Around the World in Many Days. Each part is solvable on its own.
Dear Puzzling,
You’re going to need a compass and straightedge for this one. After filling the ...
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Seafront Metropolis
This is part 74 of the puzzle series Around the World in Many Days. Each part is solvable on its own.
Dear Puzzling,
Today I have enjoyed the views over a seafront metropolis from the observation ...
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Otherworldly – Numberlink / Marching Bands
This is part 73 of the puzzle series Around the World in Many Days. Each part is solvable on its own.
Dear Puzzling,
The grey numbers here form a Numberlink puzzle. Draw lines in the grid using ...
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What happened to my connecting wall?! (I suspect vowel play...)
Having devised some rather tricky connecting walls for you all in the past, I thought it was about time I made a nice, normal, easy one for a change. Just the standard basic rules - sixteen items, ...
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Fjord Explorer – a Nagareru crossword
This is part 72 of the puzzle series Around the World in Many Days. Each part is solvable on its own.
Dear Puzzling,
This is a Nagareru puzzle. Draw a single, non-intersecting, directional loop in ...
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Bazaars and Bananas
This is part 71 of the puzzle series Around the World in Many Days. Each part is solvable on its own.
Dear Puzzling,
The black letters in this grid form a Hitori puzzle. Shade some cells in the grid ...
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I have an illness
I have an illness.
It all started one day, although I only remember so much.
I remember I was in a nation which you'll recognize from a symbol of red and black, a legacy of what it left behind. Then I ...
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The Master Tetrist
This is part 70 of the puzzle series Around the World in Many Days. Each part is solvable on its own.
Dear Puzzling,
This is a diagramless crossword with Tetris mechanics. Fill the grid by placing ...
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I can't hear you
Solve on Penpa+
Across
3. Honda vehicle unaffected after U turn (5)
8. Nick who sang "Into My Arms" and "Surrender" (4)
9. Broadcast contains no salmon (3)
10. Send home "...
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Which school is it?
Determine the hidden school thanks to:
1747 PB-OR-NI-TD-.G-.E
1st is the entry
2nd is related to 1848
3rd is a library
4th is related to 26
5th is financial
6th ...
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The heroine's travel
The riddle below tells the story of a travel.
A travel starts, for our hero
From a spot, where the time is zero
To fantasy land she'll go first
Though only water, she'd die of thirst
Then east or ...
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Largest natural things by order of magnitude [closed]
Example of 5 largest natural things that are order of magnitude larger than second largest?
Note:
"natural" means they are on the Earth, and their size was not determined by humans
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At the Crossroads
This is part 69 of the puzzle series Around the World in Many Days. Each part is solvable on its own.
Dear Puzzling,
Eleven clues in this crossword contain an extra word, which must be removed before ...
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How much is USA - Brazil?
Given that:
France - China is 4
Morocco - USA is $+\infty$
And
Laos - India is 1
Preliminary question
Can you give the value of USA - Brazil?
Puzzle question
What is the highest finite value that ...
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Tombs of Ancients
This is part 68 of the puzzle series Around the World in Many Days. Each part is solvable on its own.
Dear Puzzling,
The top grid here is a Yin-yang puzzle. Shade some cells in the grid so that ...
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Worship and Wandering
This is part 67 of the puzzle series Around the World in Many Days. Each part is solvable on its own.
Dear Puzzling,
This is a direction-agnostic cryptic crossword. Instead of writing top-down, left-...
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66: Luftballons
This is part 66 of the puzzle series Around the World in Many Days. Each part is solvable on its own.
Dear Puzzling,
This is a Dosun-Fuwari puzzle. Place some balloons (white circles) and anvils (...
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Motion in the Ocean
This is part 65 of the puzzle series Around the World in Many Days. Each part is solvable on its own.
”It’s not the size of the crossword that counts.” – unknown
Dear Puzzling,
Today I have dived ...
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Mapping Jack's Chicken
Clues:
Map of world with numbers 1, 2, 2, 3, 3, 5, and 9 strategically placed.
Portrait of man with numbers 1x2, 2, 3, 5, and 5 strategically placed in hair.
Instructions: Name That Film
_ _ _ _ E _ _ ...
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Bare Bones – a semi-DIY crossword
This is part 64 of the puzzle series Around the World in Many Days. Each part is solvable on its own.
Dear Puzzling,
This is a semi-DIY crossword. Shade some cells in the grid so that the grid has ...
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You can't tell me the US lacks –
Solve on Penpa+
Across
1. Wyoming national park managed only wee slot (11)
9. Florida public housing clerk in Springfield mart (3)
10. California city cops regularly dropped somewhere in Southeast ...
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When in Rome... – a deconstruction sudoku
This is part 63 of the puzzle series Around the World in Many Days. Each part is solvable on its own.
Dear Puzzling,
This is a sudoku deconstruction puzzle. Draw eight non-overlapping rectangular ...
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Restricted – a cryptic crossword
This is part 62 of the puzzle series Around the World in Many Days. Each part is solvable on its own.
Dear Puzzling,
Every clue in this cryptic crossword contains one extra word, which must be ...
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19-year old me was into geography
My mother recently found an old puzzle I made over 20 years ago. It's a Finnish-language word search with a geography theme. (Note that we have a precedent for allowing non-English puzzles here.) ...
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Top of the World
This is part 61 of the puzzle series Around the World in Many Days. Each part is solvable on its own.
Dear Puzzling,
Today I have travelled to admire another massive mountain peak from a very safe ...
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This bird is so popular, many countries around the world share a name with it
There's a bird, it's very popular.
Several IRL Earth countries (more than 2) around the world share a name with the same bird, although the relation between the country name and the bird is not ...
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Connect the dots x Crosswords
About the puzzle:
This puzzle is a crossover of "connect the dots" puzzles and crossword puzzles. It requires the solver to place dots on the graph using crossword-like clues. Then, dots ...
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Breaking New Ground
This is part 60 of the puzzle series Around the World in Many Days. Each part is solvable on its own.
Dear Puzzling,
This crossword is a combination of straight crosswords clues, cryptic clues and ...
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An Alien Lands - where?
This is a question of general knowledge though if anyone gets it without investigative effort I would be mightily impressed. All you need is in the text and you will then require some intuitive, ...
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Plumbing Issues
This is part 59 of the puzzle series Around the World in Many Days. Each part is solvable on its own.
Dear Puzzling,
This is a Pipes puzzle (also known as Net, FreeNet and NetWalk). Rotate some cells ...
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Cover me, I'm going in!
This is part 58 of the puzzle series Around the World in Many Days. Each part is solvable on its own.
Dear Puzzling,
This is a diagramless checkerboard crossword. Empty cells are either blue or white;...
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Riverboat Soufflé
This is part 57 of the puzzle series Around the World in Many Days. Each part is solvable on its own.
Dear Puzzling,
This is a bicolour Masyu puzzle. Draw two separate loops in the grid, one red and ...
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Burial Traditions
This is part 56 of the puzzle series Around the World in Many Days. Each part is solvable on its own.
Dear Puzzling,
The answers to these twelve rebuses are single words in alphabetical order. Your ...
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Australian landmarks
I'm trying to make a list of prominent Australian landmarks, but I'm having real trouble with one entry. Could you help me out? Here's my list so far.
Brisbane: Stranahan's Distillery
Canberra: Mob ...
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A puzzle about ERIC
This is a puzzle about (7, 8, 8), or ERIC for short. Can you decode them?
IM[K]N, OPQFR
ABNP, AC
V R[K]T, U R[K]T
HIJK L, HIJK
JPFH, SFH
NPFJ L, NP[J]F
V D, EF GF
ERIC = ??P??[K] [J]?GFP ?[N]??[K]R
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Mercury in Centigrade
This is part 55 of the puzzle series Around the World in Many Days. Each part is solvable on its own.
Dear Puzzling,
This is a non-consecutive thermo sudoku. Fill the grid so that each row, column ...
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An impossible A to Z journey
An impossible A to Z journey
I was chatting with my uncle Van Wetherall and his wife Wanda when VW burst out with
"You know, we did the whole VW thing. We followed the A-Z map in the VW and ...
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Anyone Seen My Snorkel?
This is part 54 of the puzzle series Around the World in Many Days. Each part is solvable on its own.
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Unchained Again
This is part 53 of the puzzle series Around the World in Many Days. Each part is solvable on its own.
Dear Puzzling,
The black and white circles in this grid form a Masyu puzzle. Draw one continues ...
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Aquatic Giants – Heyawake / Marching Bands
This is part 52 of the puzzle series Around the World in Many Days. Each part is solvable on its own.
“One, two, three, four, five, I love marine wildlife.” – unknown
Dear Puzzling,
The grid on the ...
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Winetasting Far from Home
This is part 51 of the puzzle series Around the World in Many Days. Each part is solvable on its own.
Dear Puzzling,
I hope you are well. My journey continues with another exciting destination. Today ...
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Yes, but... where am I?
Emergency services recently received a puzzling distress call from someone claiming to be lost:
Hint A:
Caller: Hello? Can you hear me?
Responder: Yes, I can hear you. What's your situation?
Caller: ...
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Orange on Turquoise
This is part 50 of the puzzle series Around the World in Many Days. Each part is solvable on its own.
Dear Puzzling,
This is a Beaches puzzle (or tricolour Aquariums, if you prefer). Shade some cells ...
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Towering Above – a jigsaw crossword
This is part 49 of the puzzle series Around the World in Many Days. Each part is solvable on its own.
Dear Puzzling,
This is a jigsaw crossword. Fill every row and column of the grid using the given ...
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Wreck Exploration
This is part 48 of the puzzle series Around the World in Many Days. Each part is solvable on its own.
Dear Puzzling,
The larger grid here is a Takuzu puzzle (also known as Binairo). Fill the grid ...
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PSE Advent Calendar 2023 (Day 15): Finding Father Christmas
This puzzle is part of the Puzzling Stack Exchange Advent Calendar 2023. The accepted answer to this question will be awarded a bounty worth 50 reputation.< Previous Door Next Door >
Today, in ...
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A phone call from Derek
Today I got a phone call from my Australian mate Derek and it went something like this:
D: Help!! Things have gone real fzfzfz during the holiday trip to Thailand!!
Me: Oh!!! How can I help and what’s ...
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Breathe, breathe in the air
This is part 47 of the puzzle series Around the World in Many Days. Each part is solvable on its own.
Dear Puzzling,
This time I have a jigsaw puzzle for you. You need to first solve a crossword, and ...
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