xkcd #2869: Puzzles

QAnon: “Looks like sound reasoning to us.”

Now, I don't want to be the asshole that shits on a nearly 40 year old classic movie... but why would the Goonies' map, written in Spanish, rhyme when translated to English? And why would it translate into "Olde English" with a bunch of "ye" this and "ye" that?

Batman forever: Something like "It was left by a Mr E.... Mystery! And another word for mystery? Enigma!.... Mr E. Nigma...Edward Nigma!"

Futurama did a great take on this with their Da Vinci Code parody episode.

I remember a book I read in elementary school (in the Cam Jansen series, IIRC) where the main conflict was a mean older brother put a password on the new family computer (a huge deal in the early 90s), and the younger hires the kid detective to find the password. The password is “hot dog”, ultimately determined because the desktop BG was a picture of ketchup and mustard.

I recall being not super satisfied with that ending.

This is what it's like to watch Detective Conan in America. They will even have commercial segways where they say "hey, remember this important clue!" And then not even use that clue in the English dub's edit. They still present it as a mystery the viewer can solve, but then the solution is always some convoluted BS using clues the audience was never shown lol

"Alright kids. Who wants to dig up grandma?"

Why couldn't the amulet have been hidden by Aunt Alice, who understands modern key exchange algorithms?

Did she want for only to Biker Bob to find it, but Cop Charlie found it first?

I had one friend who was obsessed with these idiotic "lateral thinking" puzzle books, because she'd read them to us and then pretend like she had figured out the completely ridiculous scenarios from the start.

https://explainxkcd.com/2869

Are ExplainXKCD links like https://explainxkcd.com/2869 okay here?

Encyclopedia Brown had some decent ones, but a lot were pretty shit in retrospect

Similar situation: https://youtu.be/LKTGPz0n0cM?si=-r8JrPWilL0h0tGs

See also: experts solving problems in Roland Emmerich movies

Sounds like Reacher Season 2

Read the Redwall books if that's what you're looking for. Or even if it's not.

The next clue is in the White House!

(This was a reference for, like, maybe 10 people. 10 awesome people.)

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Firefox when I click on the address bar and start by typing 'm': Oh, I know! You probably want xkcd.com/2869 — that's got an 'm' in it!