Mystery The Giant Stone Spheres of Costa Rica Nobody Can Fully Explain
More than 400 carved stone balls, some weighing 26 tonnes, made by hand over a thousand years ago. We know who made them and roughly how. Nobody can say why.
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Mystery More than 400 carved stone balls, some weighing 26 tonnes, made by hand over a thousand years ago. We know who made them and roughly how. Nobody can say why.
Part five of five. What changed after the christening, what did not, and the two times Sandra stood on the step in the rain.
A heavy glass dome with a hole in the top, found in sideboards and attics everywhere. Three plausible answers, and one that is correct.
Quiz Ten countries, three clues each, getting easier as they go. No maps, no flags, just geography, borders and the occasional oddity.
Countdown Fifteen very specific objects, sounds and rituals from a 1990s childhood, from the tape-deck pause button to the phone cord that reached exactly nowhere.
Countdown Circling before lying down, herding children, digging up the lawn and staring at nothing. Ten everyday dog behaviours traced back to the work the breed was shaped for.
Countdown Ten documented pieces of animal biology and behaviour that read like a wind-up, with the sources attached and the shaky ones left out.
Myth or Fact Film sets generate legends faster than any other workplace. Eight of the most repeated stories, sorted into the documented, the disputed and the invented.
A grid of identical arrows with exactly one impostor. The answer is generated from the puzzle data before the picture is drawn, so there is no argument about where it is.
Part five of five. The move was right. That turned out to be the complicating factor rather than the ending.
Guess It Not exact prices, which nobody remembers reliably, but the comparisons: which of two things cost more at the time, and what that says about the period.
Mystery A 240-page medieval book written in an unknown script, illustrated with plants that do not exist. Here is what is actually established about it, and what is not.
Twelve pieces of household know-how from before the cupboard filled with sprays, sorted honestly into the ones with real chemistry behind them and the ones that are folklore.
A short ordering puzzle with a single provable answer. Every clue is needed, and a solver checks that only one arrangement fits before it is published.
Myth or Fact Purring, kneading, slow blinking and the noise aimed only at humans. Nine cat behaviours, separated honestly into the well evidenced and the still uncertain.
Countdown The deep ocean is the largest habitat on Earth and the least visited. Nine of its residents, and the specific problem each one has evolved to solve.
Explainer The quiz, the soap, the sitcom, the makeover and the panel show. Where each format came from, and why almost every one of them arrived from radio.
Quiz Eight comparisons where the obvious answer is wrong, and the reason is almost always the same: maps distort, and mental maps distort more.