Insight Required

Interesting Linguistic Puzzles

evan — Mon, 06 Sep 2010 21:59:44 +0000

These puzzles are quite interesting. They present a variety of words/short phrases in uncommon or dying languages which model patterns typical of that language, and prompt you to deduce other related phrases in that language. There are easy, medium, hard, and ultra-hard puzzles, categorized by ski trail difficulties.

Some of them are straight-forward, but some are quite tough! I had a blast doing the first few.

nOisE Is Signal

jayant — Mon, 06 Sep 2010 04:00:00 +0000

Puzzles for September 6, 2010 - nOisE Is Signal

It’s The Destination That Counts

evan — Sat, 14 Aug 2010 14:15:00 +0000

Puzzles for August 14, 2010 - It’s The Destination That Counts

This puzzle was extremely annoying to construct.

Working Titles, Ultimately Discarded* for Numerous Reasons, Prominently Featuring Length. Conciseness Counts.

jayant — Tue, 10 Aug 2010 04:00:00 +0000

This was a fun puzzle to make.

Kmvgcm

evan — Sat, 07 Aug 2010 13:00:00 +0000

Puzzles for August 7, 2010 - Kmvgcm

A Funny Thing Happened to Me…

jayant — Wed, 04 Aug 2010 15:54:19 +0000

So I was at the climbing gym with a friend of mine, and I had the following conversation:

him: “Have you heard of this website, Insight Required?”

me: “…”

him: “It’s like this puzzle website.”

As it turned out, he found the site and was working on Twisted Word Search. Totally made my day.

Amigos

jayant — Wed, 04 Aug 2010 04:00:00 +0000

My high school Spanish was finally put to good use.

Decompressing

evan — Mon, 02 Aug 2010 22:45:00 +0000

Puzzles for August 2, 2010 - Decompressing

For legibility reasons, you should probably download the pdf.

Scuba diving can be hazardous, and everyone doing it should have proper training, unlike the character in this puzzle.

Washington Post Hunt

evan — Fri, 15 May 2009 23:22:24 +0000

This Sunday, if you are in the DC area, there is a puzzle contest sponsored by the Washington Post. Last year’s contest seems very fun and quite challenging, going by this article. I’ll be playing on a team with a friend from highschool—if anyone else is interested, let me know!

Puzzletively 4th Street

evan — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 04:00:00 +0000

Sorry that there hasn’t been a puzzle for quite some time… but I was inspired yesterday while shopping for groceries.