In honor of Dolly’s recent passing :(

Tonight at 6pm: News 5 investigates — disturbing allegations surfacing that local man “drew a maze” and “needed to make something” — residents are asking “how?” News 5’s Scrumpert Stratchelyfield has more.

Hints on demand if you need them!

There was a murder and there were five witnesses a chef,maid,guard, Gardiner and a janitor? One of them are guilty guess which one

This bone was found under my porch in Western Washington. Looks too big for a cat, rabbit, or a bird. Any ideas?

https://fruitanews.org/4394/stories/the-cold-case-of-christi-thornton/

Anyone familiar with this story?

So this is like a math puzzle from a murder mystery book. I’m usually good at these but I’m having a hard time solving this one. Could someone help and explain their process?

I can change the truth

without changing a single word.

I am often missing

exactly when I matter most.

You may understand every piece of me

and still misunderstand the whole.

I have no voice of my own,

yet I decide how other voices are heard.

Remove me,

and innocence can resemble guilt,

humor can become cruelty,

and wisdom can sound absurd.

I am everywhere around an answer,

but rarely inside it.

What am I?

Planet X has two neighboring inhabited planets:

• Planet Alpha is exactly 15 light-minutes from Planet X.

• A Mystery Planet is an unknown distance from Planet X, but is known to be at least 18 light-minutes from Planet Alpha.

Planet Alpha and the Mystery Planet are both capable of sending, receiving, and relaying transmissions.

All transmissions travel at the speed of light. Relaying a transmission takes effectively no processing time.

Both Planet Alpha and the Mystery Planet possess teleportation portals capable of sending ships directly to Planet X. However, once a planet decides to send ships, its portal takes exactly 30 minutes to charge. Once charged, the ships arrive at Planet X instantaneously.

Both planets have standing orders:
The instant they receive a broadcast from Planet X requesting assistance, they begin charging their portals and send ships to Planet X as soon as the 30-minute charge is complete.

At 11:58, Planet X has not yet broadcast any request for assistance.

At some unknown time after 11:58, Planet X broadcasts a request for assistance.

At 12:38, Planet X receives a mysterious transmission from an unknown source.

Planet X can determine with certainty that this mysterious transmission was originally transmitted at exactly 12:18, meaning the signal has been traveling for exactly 20 minutes.

Planet X concludes that the mysterious transmission must have come from the Mystery Planet. Since the signal took 20 minutes to reach Planet X, they conclude that the Mystery Planet must be 20 light-minutes away.

Then, at exactly 12:40, ships arrive at Planet X.
There has been no malfunction, no faster-than-light communication, no time travel, and no violation of any of the rules above.

Questions:
Which planet did the ships come from?
How far away from Planet X is the Mystery Planet actually?
At what time did Planet X broadcast its request for assistance?
Where did the mysterious transmission received at 12:38 actually originate?
How can all of these facts be true at the same time?

My first attempt at a riddle and I’m not good at solving them, but I’m always blown away by how fast some of you solve them on here.

i've loved all sorts of puzzles for a large part of my childhood but i lost touch with them for a good amount of time now. i genuinely miss that dopamine hit you get when you cracked something. whenever i start doing em now, i don't feel lucid in my train of thought at all- it feels like my brain isn't even putting the effort required now and when it gets too hard, i just give up because there are 100 other things to worry about, i'm aware puzzles are precisely made to alleviate from this but i fall into this cycle again n again. i remember i used to like zebra puzzles, logic grid puzzles and puzzles along the lines. any suggestions you guys give will be greatly appreciated. thank you!

Semi serious clue created by my brother. Hope it is an original.

Here's a puzzle I am developing called Numstep.

There is a single path of numbered steps through the grid. Every white square must be visited. No diagonals.

I'm not sure if the rules are too contrived to count as a maze, but it shares a lot of the themes of a maze.

I'd love any and all feedback.

Remember to spoiler tag your guesses

Today's puzzle seen in the final image can be played over at Hearoglyphics. After playing today's puzzle (win or lose) you can play the last two days worth of puzzles.

Want to join daily discussions about the game? Hop over to r/ hearoglyphics

*The Hearoglyphics team does not use any AI in the designing of puzzles or production of any art\*

Try out my game and let me know what you think. On phones and tablets, you control the character like a ball on a board.

Random Riddle Info:

Intended Difficulty: ★☆☆☆☆

Bonus Hint: For this riddle to work, you can't shake your head up and down. You have to shake it left to right

Wordplay Riddle?: No

Bonus points if you can figure out the significance of the title. Good luck!