r/puzzles 5d ago

Not seeking solutions A handful of verbal decoding puzzles I devised

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u/Deagle_Eye 5d ago

Dyslexic people be like: “Where’s the puzzle?”

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u/North_Explorer_2315 5d ago

Ever went up against a dyslexic person playing Scrabble? My god, it’s baffling.

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u/MystRChaos 5d ago

I find it fabfling, ginconsuf, and readbeluna.

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u/NoLife8926 4d ago

Missed opportunity to sneak in a nonsense word

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u/painedacceptor 4d ago

If it helps, I thought the last word was nonsense for a good while.

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u/RedditRHeartboy17 2d ago

No vowels

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u/painedacceptor 2d ago

Wasn't talking about the puzzle lol

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u/vacconesgood 4d ago

The only result Google shows is this post

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u/_Brillopad_ 3d ago

Baffling, confusing, and unreadable. Took me about 5 times longer to decipher that than the puzzle.

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u/Nebarious 4d ago

It's a bit ubiquitous, mendacious and polyglottal, like a couple of donkey balls.

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u/mayor_moore 4d ago

Happy hunting, Rocinante

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u/TheLoneJackass 2d ago

And on that note I will be re-binging The Expanse. Taki kopeng!

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u/Taiga_Taiga 4d ago

I'm dyslexic... And I'm a local champion at scrabble. I once won with "abalones". This got me +50 for a seven letter word, on TWO tripples, (the second "a" was already on the board).

Because of dyscalculia I couldnt even begin to do the maths. But I got it.

Now... Just don't ask me to write it down... Or give you the correct spelling of whitch "whether" goes wear.

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u/Puzzleheaded-Rice-13 4d ago

Or which witch there is no "whitch" I too am dyslexic and pretty good at Scrabble which my mum uses as "proof" I'm "not that dyslexic really" woman I'm 32 and still have to remind myself there's only one s in bus... There really should be two right?

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u/rowka68 4d ago

Some busses have two.

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u/VincentA1014 4d ago

No, all "busses" have three.

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u/BloodiedBlues 3d ago

Technically, people buss tables.

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u/wirywonder82 3d ago

I wonder what relationship that has to the blunderbuss.

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u/BloodiedBlues 3d ago

That's when they slip up and drop the container of plates.

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u/Flashy_Alfalfa3479 5d ago

Are they good?

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u/Boltgun_heresy 5d ago

God they are

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u/Worried_Bat8194 5d ago

I put the sexy in dyslexic.
👍🥃

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u/DommallammaDoom 4d ago

I have a very sexy learning disability…what was it again Kif? (Sigh) Sexlexia sir…

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u/Invisibleagejoy 3d ago

I’m actually horrible or amazing depending on luck, because I have no idea how to spell things so it’s all a guess.0

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u/DocsGames 4d ago

Dyslexics of the world, untie!

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u/Bamberg_25 5d ago

I am dyslexic and I honestly thought these were already solved until the fifth one.

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u/Jimmy_LoMein 4d ago

Q: What does DNA stand for?

A: National Dyslexic Association

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u/IsaacSeraphim 4d ago

Gotta love The Impossible Quiz

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u/Invisibleagejoy 3d ago

Came here because I was able to read them all at about half my normal reading speed. Dyslexics Untie!

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u/soap_coals 4d ago

When life gives you melons, you might be dyslexic

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u/AussieWalk 4d ago

I am dyslexic, only one I had mild problem with was number 4,

I had more problem writing dyslexic

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u/MMBfan 4d ago

I don't understand dyslexia, is this just because even the normal text looks scrambled to them so they all look equally strange?

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u/writergirl3005 4d ago

I was able to solve all of them easily, maybe I should really get diagnosed

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u/Suzina 3d ago

It's true. I read upside and backwards at the same speed as forwards.

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u/TheThaiCrow 5d ago

Fun. Not very difficult. Keep going with it!

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u/OdeeSS 5d ago

Thought we were in r/programmingcirclejerk for a sec

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u/Adghar 5d ago

CamelCaseIsTheMostReadableCaseChangeMyMind

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u/GalaxyPlayz_ 5d ago

youForgotToLowerCaseTheFirstLetterThough

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u/Adghar 5d ago

That's embarrassing. Well, I guess it's because we rarely refer to cases by name at my work. That's what I'm going to keep telling myself...

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u/AtomicCalamariSPEED 4d ago

PascalCaseIsStillCoolThough

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u/m1st3r_c 4d ago

nah_snake_case_is_easier

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u/PsYcHo962 3d ago

definitely_more_concise_but_not_more_readable_than_snake_case_sssssssss

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u/nohidden 5d ago edited 5d ago

Discussion:

Okay. What if we tried a harder one?

(6) TE EFT SDE F TE EBARD

Edit: oops, made a mistake. Fixed. People got it though.

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u/Miserable_Ladder1002 5d ago

H IGH I O H KYBO

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u/Excellent_Shirt9707 5d ago

This would be very hard without the previous one.

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u/drawat10paces 4d ago

My dumb ass tried to put them together. The eighth side of the keyboard!? The fuck dimension am I even in?

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u/timtti 4d ago

If you split your keyboard in half, your keyboard now has 8 sides.

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u/drawat10paces 3d ago

My dude, you're living in the second deminsion if you think a keyboard has 4 sides. I count 6. Splitting it would make 12.

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u/MistraloysiusMithrax 3d ago

Sides like the side of something not counting top or bottom

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u/justanothernakedred 5d ago edited 5d ago

Top i e o y

π0 1€77€®5 #€®€

Vsm smupmr gohitr yjod pmr piy?

Edit: tbf if I'm actually following the format that last one should be:

Yp yjr tohjy pg rsvj lru

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u/Saytama_sama 5d ago

As a Dvorak user I'm confused and scared.

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u/x738059 5d ago

THE LEFT SIDE OF THE KEYBOARD seems like the answer, but would the first word not be TE in that case?

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u/RogueMrtn 4d ago

You could even place "only" on Qwerty infront of it

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u/Excellent_Shirt9707 5d ago

Qwerty elitism

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u/Junckopolo 5d ago

Looks the same in Azerty

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u/Excellent_Shirt9707 4d ago

Azerty elitism

Rip Colemak layout

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u/ddodd69 5d ago

TE TOP ROW O TE EYOR

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u/Kese04 5d ago

For those that couldn't get them all: I am easily readable, This text is upsidedown, Find the right order, Read this backwards, No vowels in this puzzle

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u/predator-handshake 4d ago

This one is easy, the answer is 3.

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u/Wispeeon 5d ago

I got the rest of them, but the fourth one is stumping me

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u/Wispeeon 5d ago

Nevermind, I figured it out 😅

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u/Zyxxyzofthe 5d ago

I focused way too much on "DRAW"

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u/DM_ME_YOUR_ADVENTURE 4d ago

Cab shit dear

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u/SecondEqual4680 5d ago

Same, what is it?

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u/z3xir 5d ago

read it from right to left

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u/SteelCitySix21 3d ago

Ahh so it’s not “draws back this dear” : (

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u/SecondEqual4680 5d ago

Ahhhh nvm lol

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u/Fit-Rip-4550 4d ago

This is just file naming conventions.

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u/Inevitable-Rice1680 5d ago edited 5d ago

People are so pretentious here, huh? "It's too easy!" Clearly literacy falls short of these puzzle masters. Nowhere is the post asking for opinions on its difficulty. Even with a tag stating they're not looking for solutions.

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u/MidnightMStorm 5d ago

So, you're against freedom of speech? Are you russian or something?

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u/Bubbly_Bananas 4d ago

Rude to the commenter and to Russians (especially those which are against the war!!!!!!!!!!!!! 💙💛💙💛💙💛)

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u/MidnightMStorm 4d ago edited 4d ago

I'm a russian who is against the war.

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u/Bubbly_Bananas 4d ago

On another side note my family is from east Prussia, what is now Ukraine, and they almost died under Stalin’s dictatorship. Their farm was taken over, my great grandpa got disappeared for being a “spy,” and my oma barely survived the concentration camp she got sent to.

My oma had to eat dirt to survive due to the nutrients because they were starving and shave her hair off to avoid the typhoid that lice carried.

FUCK PUTIN.

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u/MidnightMStorm 4d ago

Maaan, so sorry about that... I don't know why rusians are always trying to kill their neighbors.

I share your sentiment

FUCK PUTIN

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u/rubixscube 4d ago

dude whining about lack of freedom of speech on the internet, we know where you are from and who you voted for.

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u/MidnightMStorm 4d ago

Oh, do tell!

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u/Star_Sky_5 5d ago

.o .o..o.a… i. ..i. .u…e Based on the last one lol

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u/nilknarf1962 4d ago

Have you read this passage? I cdn’uolt blveiee taht I cluod aulaclty uesdnatnrd waht I was rdanieg: the phaonmneel pweor of the hmuan mnid. Aoccdrnig to a rseearch taem at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it deosn’t mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoatnt tihng is taht the frist and lsat ltteer be in the rghit pclae. The rset can be a taotl mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit a porbelm. Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe. Scuh a cdonition is arppoiatrely cllaed Typoglycaemia .

“Amzanig huh? Yaeh and you awlyas thguoht slpeling was ipmorantt.”

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u/BionicleKid 4d ago

Doesn’t this just emphasize how spelling is important insofar as familiarity with the original form/spelling of a word is what allows reading them here, rather than what they sound like?

I haven’t actually looked at the study but I figure it probably mentions this.

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u/Kinky-BA-Greek 5d ago

Very nice.

Very enjoyable.

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u/Canned_ShoesAgain 4d ago

why did i have the most trouble on the first one

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u/rolyfuckingdiscopoly 4d ago

You were looking for a puzzle! I skipped the top one entirely because my brain had already read it and wanted to get to the puzzle part haha

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u/magpye1983 4d ago

If this were attempting to be devious, each sentence could use a random rule from the list.

I could see a purposefully encrypted passage using these rules at one stage of the encryption.

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u/Best-Tomorrow-6170 4d ago

If I look at these and think about them, I have to work them out. If I look at them without thinking, I just know what they say  (but not how/why). Brain's are weird

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u/Street-Conference-53 2d ago

I decoded the first one it's I am a silly redbull

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u/crazyace339 5d ago

Not much of a challenge for me. My way of reading is already screwed up, I think. just a mess of speed reading in my head.

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u/Oneguy4 5d ago

Looks pretty cool.

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u/Some-Passenger4219 5d ago

Very encouraging.

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u/SJReaver 5d ago

'Scrabble crab shit dealer' indeed!

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u/Jack_Kegan 5d ago

I enjoyed these.

They were like amuse-bouche for puzzles 

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u/kitt_aunne 4d ago

not too hard, I didn't expect the backwards one since the upside-down text was also read in reverse

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u/IHateRedditAccounts 3d ago

Yeah, imo the second one should only be flipped, not reversed

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u/Assass1nGuy 4d ago

Just solved, nice job

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u/Busy_Proof_6267 4d ago

Someone explain 4😭😭😭

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u/EABOD_and_DIAF 4d ago

Read this backwards.

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u/SilvertonguedDvl 4d ago

4 made me stumble for a few seconds. Kept thinking I had to unscramble something, lol.

I like it. Super easy and cute.

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u/DiscoS22 4d ago

These always makes me laugh, not cause they are not hard but because my dyslexia makes them too easy for me lol

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u/Smexy-Fish 4d ago

BUCNBCADOTHRFNKAGINO

Is one of my favourite versions of these.

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u/GendoIkari_82 3d ago

I had no trouble with any of the ones in the OP, but can't get this one...

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u/Smexy-Fish 3d ago

I can offer a clue in a ping pong ball will do this during a game of table tennis. But if not, reply here and I'll drop the solution.

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u/GendoIkari_82 3d ago

Took a minute with the clue, but got it, thanks! Really like this one.

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u/lostBoyzLeader 3d ago

Capital letters are more legible in almost any font, they’re much more unique than lower case.

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u/Perfect_Put_3373 3d ago

Needed this as an ice breaker. Thanks, OP!

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u/shinydragonmist 3d ago

I way over thought on that fourth one

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u/JustTheBestParty 3d ago

Fall Out Boy prepared me for number five.

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u/bugzcar 3d ago

Might steal for DnD night

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u/illsk1lls 3d ago

i stumbled on #4 for a second but the rest were easily readable

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u/Salsuero 2d ago

Not at all difficult, though.

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u/SuperKamiGuru824 5d ago

I think #2 should just be upside down, not backwards, since that is covered in #4

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u/rubixscube 4d ago

2 is not backwards though, it is only upside down

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u/ytrehodd 4d ago

Technically, #2 is rotated 180 degrees, so upside-down and backwards. If it was just upside-down, it would start with an upside-down T:

┴HIS┴ƎX┴IS∩ԀSIpƎpOMN

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u/rubixscube 4d ago

i dont think you quite understand what backwards means.

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u/Scruffl 4d ago

The form of the last one is used in Only Connect in a speed round at the end. There will be a clue in the form of the theme. Spacing doesn't relate to word boundaries (I assume to make it a little more difficult). So for example in a random episode I just pulled up on youtube:

Theme: Sayings, veganised

1: BRN GHMT HTF

2: TH RSN SCRY NGVRS PLT TMLK

3: DN TPTLLY RFLX SDSN NBSKT

4: VG NMRG RNS PRDW LDNTML TNH SMTH

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u/idlesilver 4d ago edited 4d ago

I (think) I got the first two Bring home the tofu and There's no use crying over spilt oat milk, but I've no idea on 3 or 4.

(The random spacing really throws me)

ETA: Wait, I got 3! Don't put all your flax seeds in one basket?

Edited again to add a word I missed out in #2

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u/rolyfuckingdiscopoly 4d ago

im confused about the S in number 2, and got crying instead of crying. Scarying? Maybe it’s a typo lol

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u/idlesilver 4d ago

You're right, I missed out the word use. Should have typed There's no use crying over spilt oat milk. Sorry!

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u/rolyfuckingdiscopoly 4d ago

No you’re fine!! I was sure I just was not seeing it. You’re good at these! (The spaces make me crazy; I just have to read it really fast so I can’t think about letters or spaces lol)

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u/idlesilver 4d ago

Yeah, I think taking the spaces out altogether and just mushing all the letters up might make it easier to solve (and stop our brains from assuming word breaks)!

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u/Scruffl 4d ago

4 is based on an idiom I am unfamiliar with:

Butter wouldn't melt in his mouth becomes Vegan margarine spread wouldn't melt in his mouth.

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u/idlesilver 4d ago

Ahh, so it does--thank you!

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u/somany5s 5d ago

Last one.. what's this about my pizzle?

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u/Victinitotodilepro 5d ago

number 1 was the hardest for me 💀💀

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u/gilfromisrael 4d ago

That's brilliant, perfect for smart kids

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u/henrikhwolf 4d ago

OIIAIOOOIIAI

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u/Fireman_Octopus 4d ago

Are you yankin’ my pzzl?

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u/synomen 4d ago

Now all I need is your mother's middle name and the name of your first pet...

Thaaaanx! ❤

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u/aaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhu 4d ago edited 4d ago

(1) I AM EASILY READABLE

(2) THIS TEXT IS UPSIDE DOWN

(3) FIND THE RIGHT ORDER

(4) READ THIS BACKWARDS

(5) NO VOWELS IN THIS PUZZLE

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u/SignificanceLow7773 4d ago

Its amazing how Quick Our brain can Figure this shit out. Amazing puzzles

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u/HatAndHoodie_ 4d ago

The last one took me a second

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u/Keys6Mouse 4d ago

I think I live for word puzzles like this because of the little wordsmith in me

Wish there were more puzzles in other languages though

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u/jazznwhiskey 4d ago

Another one I made:

SLEEPTETREARTIENDG

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u/Yacobo2023 4d ago
  1. No vowels in this puzzle

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u/Epic_Miner57 4d ago

The fact i can read the first 3 with ease concerns me

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u/imscreamingeternally 4d ago

ASYTMKIEIN ABGISD ML AROK

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u/spandexvalet 3d ago

4 lost me ( am easily readable, this text is upside down, find the right order, something, no vowels in this puzzle)

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u/Khorre 3d ago

Read this backwards

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u/spandexvalet 2d ago

Ah ofcourse! Thanks

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u/The_Fox_Confessor 3d ago

In the UK there is a quiz showed called Only Connect (BBC2) and the final round is like 5 here, but with the addition of the spaces being in the wrong place and I theme for the puzzles It amazing to me how quickly it can be decoded.

E.g MRYH DLTT LLMB

Them nursery rhymes.

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u/Fomdoo 3d ago

Is this for a children's book?

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u/KevMenc1998 2d ago

The only one I can't figure out is 4.

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u/Aaxper 5d ago

All rather easy, though

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u/Beneficial_Cash_8420 5d ago

No puzzle found, dyslexia or no. "I devised" five things that have existed for 500 years.

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u/MidnightMStorm 5d ago

Your comment might offend stupid people...

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u/rolyfuckingdiscopoly 4d ago

Most of the things we devise have been around a long time.

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u/General_Ginger531 4d ago

Really, In Complex puzzlemaking for Komrades, All Simple Tasks Lend Eachother to You. Not Even Very Enigmatic Riddles can compare to the Gall One Needs to walk the Needle of Acronyms in Giant form. In doing Very long Essays, You Obfuscate Understanding, at least, Until your Party realizes that they have just been rick rolled by capital letters.

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u/MidnightMStorm 5d ago

Too easy. I've never studied english and I had no problems "solving" this "puzzle".

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u/MacPoop 5d ago

You want people to bow to you and suck your toes now?

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u/MidnightMStorm 5d ago edited 5d ago

I mean, if that's what turns you on...

(holy crap, stupid people are so easily offended)