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+ 19.2582 Research Solution
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+
19.2582 -- Research Solution
+
+
Known trivia answers:
+
+
According to the song, "it comes in a cup" and "it's only a
+ buck".
+ Chocolate Pudding from the song of the same name by the
+ Mighty Mighty Bosstones
+
According to the Courier, what Mama was asked to do, in "1776"
+ Look sharp
+
+
Album featuring "On My Way to Paradise"
+ Butterfly Kisses (Shades of Grace) by Bob Carlisle
+
Band who did the album "We'll Always Have Ohio"
+ Little John
+
+
BATES will rent you one
+ ?
+
Beth, who's half kender, half other stuff
+ Pageturner. Half-kender are from Dragonlance, a Dungeons
+ and Dragons game series and novel series; Beth is mentioned here.
+
+
Bob Fitch, Roy Straigis, Mike Brown, and Bill Augustine,
+ collectively
+ ? They were musicians, perhaps composers, but I don't see
+ that they ever worked together
+
+
Book whose subtitle is "Creating Virtual Worlds with REND386"
+ Playing God
+
+
Disco or Magnet
+ ?
+
+
Dominique Maillet reviewed it in Premiere (France) in
+ July 1984 (pg. 8)
+ The NeverEnding Story/L'Histoire sans fin? It was a
+ magazine for movie reviews. I couldn't find the contents of the
+ issue online, but this
+
+
+ page shows the cover for the issue, number 88, which
+ features Dune at the top, but since that movie wasn't
+ released until December 1984, it must have just been about them
+ making it. The other article featured on the cover is an interview
+ with Catherine Deneuve, which was on page 41 of the issue. So this
+ didn't help. But here
+ we can read an article from a 2023 issue of the magazine which
+ quotes her review of the movie, and this movie premiered July 20,
+ 1984 so is in the right time frame, so maybe.
+
+
Eleanor's replacement on a 70's sitcom
+ JackTripper. This is the plot of the beginning of
+ Three's Company.
+
+
"Electric Earthquake" hero
+ Superman
+
+
English name of 1996 Stefan Dorra game where "money plays no
+ part"
+ Black Market (German name Schwarzmarkt)
+
Film where Jane Fonda had a body double for her sex scene with
+ Jon Voight
+ Coming Home (1978)
+
+
Film with the quote "Don't you have the whole world to save?"
+ Mississippi Burning
+
+
First song on "Jump Up"
+ "Dear John" (album by Elton John)
+
+
Hollywood Joe's CD combining swing/jazz with rockabilly
+ Jack of Hearts (1995) is most likely the one intended.
+
+
Item A115 at Fatboyz Candy
+ chocolate kisses. I'm assuming this was a local store that
+ existed at the time of the hunt (or maybe a vending machine on
+ campus) but I can't find any trace of it. This answer makes sense
+ for the question and links other answers in a manner that becomes
+ obvious when you have enough of the answers.
+
+
It features The Seven Arits (with "the")
+ Papyrus of Ani or (Egyptian) Book of the Dead
+
+
Its tag line was "Intelligence runs in the family"
+ PalmPilot
+
+
"Key" of "Duet for Human and Narn" in a 1996 comic book
+ C Sharp. A Babylon 5 comic book from 1995.
+
+
Kombinatie tekenfilm/live action lijkt nergens op behalve op Neverending
+
+
+
+
+
+ Story (with "The")
+ ? This one is written in Dutch; it says "Combination
+ cartoon/live action not like anything but Neverending Story."
+ So possibly the Dutch title for it, except that I don't see that
+ NeverEnding Story has a cartoon portion (despite the drawings used
+ in some advertising for the film).
+
+
Laserdisc number 5720, catalogue number ID 2424 LI
+ Three of Hearts (See here)
+
+
Madonna fan page: "Something's ___"
+ Coming over (a lyric from her 1994 song "Secret")
+
+
Montag's activity in a 1966 film
+ Book burning (he's the lead character in Fahrenheit
+ 451)
+
+
Movie featuring the expression "Christopher Columbus!"
+ Little Women
+
+
Movie featuring the line "You're a very paranoid person. I like
+ that."
+ Dear God
+
+
Musical whose prologue features Frannie and Manny
+ ?
+
+
Name of "storage building" number 20 at UMD
+ Motorcycle (Here
+ you can see it labeled 020 Motorcycle Storage Building)
+
+
NASDAQ ticker symbol of group headquartered at 4200 Parliament
+ Place, Lanham, MD
+ CNET. This is tough, as it's a shared office building
+ housing many companies, but by searching for NASDAQ along with the
+ address, I found this
+ 1996 filing which shows COMNET Corporation, traded as CNET
+ on NASDAQ, was headquartered here. (It looks like their subsidiary
+ Group 1 Software trading as GSOF was also headquartered there, but
+ CNET fits in the puzzle.)
+
+ 1942 Hopalong Cassidy western
+ Undercover Man (The other possibility was Lost
+
+
+ Canyon)
+
November 2 in Mexico
+ Day of the Dead
+
+
Peruse
+ look over
+
+
Rubbing oil sold by I. Armstrong
+ ?
+
+
Song featured on CD5 single: Arista 74321-19619-2 (UK), 1994
+ "In the Navy" (the Village People song)
+
+
The domain name of HuskyLabs
+ butterfly.net
+
+
The Irish version requires fresh pig's blood and beef casings
+ Black pudding
+
+
"Trzy kobiety"
+ Three women? It's Polish for that phrase and is the title
+ of multiple movies and books.
+
+
What Mabel is doing when not listening to music or riding her
+ bicycle
+ ?
+
+
Where Tim Wilson claimed the Yeagre was on September 15, 1997
+ ?
+
+
Verse described on pg. 54-56 of More of Paul Harvey's The
+ Rest of the Story
+ "Old King Cole"
+
+
Putting it Together
+
We are making chains of phrases where either the first part or
+ the last part is the same between two consecutive phrases (bold
+ parts unattached):
+
+
mississippi burning / book burning / book of the dead /
+ day of the dead
+
Jacktripper / Jack of hearts / three of hearts
+ / three women / little women / little John / dear John / dear
+ God / playing God
+
coming home / coming over / look over / look sharp / C
+ sharp / CNET / butterfly.net / butterfly kisses / chocolate
+ kisses / chocolate pudding / black pudding / black market
+
superman undercover man
+
in the navy / old navy / old king cole
+
+ And we have these unlinked answers and 9 unsolved ones:
+
+
palm pilot
+
pageturner
+
+
motorcycle
+
+ The final answer, NAT, goes in place of old in old
+
+
+ king cole, and page in pageturner to make two
+ more unclued phrases. I assume all the phrases were meant to form a
+ loop if the two phrases with NAT were added.
+
+ I don't see clues matching them, but "day tripper" and either
+ supermarket or "in the market" could tie together some of the pieces
+ we have. very tenuously we may have two different versions of the
+ title of The NeverEnding Story.
+
+
+
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+
+Tbilisi
+
+
+
+
Tbilisi
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
8 PM
+
+
8:30
+
+
9 PM
+
+
9:30
+
+
10 PM
+
+
10:30
+
+
11 PM
+
+
11:30
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+ 6
+
+
WRGB
+
+
The Wonderful World of Disney:
+
+ Honey, I Shrunk the Kids, Rick Moranis ***
+
+
The 10 O'clock News
+
+ Hour
+
+
Siskel & Ebert at the
+
+ Movies
+
+
In the Heat of the Night
+
+ >>
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+ 8
+
+
WLTZ
+
+
Wag the Dog, 1998,
+
+ Dustin Hoffman, Robert De Niro ***
+
+
Homicide: Life on
+
+ the Street
+
+
It's Showtime at
+
+ the Apollo
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+ 20
+
+
KOCO
+
+
The Sonny and Cher
+
+ Show
+
+
The Gary Shandling
+
+ Show
+
+
The Larry Sanders
+
+ Show
+
+
The 11 O'clock News
+
+
The Tonight Show
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+ 23
+
+
KARE
+
+
The Simpsons
+
+
The Simpsons
+
+
The Simpsons
+
+
King of the Hill
+
+
The X-Files
+
+
Star Trek: The Next
+
+ Generation
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+ 26
+
+
KARD
+
+
The Waltons
+
+
Star Trek: The Wrath
+
+ of Khan, William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, Ricardo Montalban ****
+
+
Conan the Barbarian, Arnold Schwarzanegger, James Earl Jones,
+
+ 1982 *** >>
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+ 28
+
+
KOSA
+
+
The Price is Right
+
+
The Dating Game
+
+
The Oprah Winfrey
+
+ Show
+
+
Making of the
+
+ X-Files Movie
+
+
Little House on the
+
+ Prairie
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+ 30
+
+
WCBS
+
+
Star Trek: The Next
+
+ Generation
+
+
The Falcon and the
+
+ Snowman, Timothy Hutton, Sean Penn, 1985 ****
+
+
Father of the Bride, Steve Martin,
+
+ 1991 *** >>
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+ 32
+
+
WHYY
+
+
The Beverly Hillbillies
+
+
The Brady Bunch
+
+
The Wonder Years
+
+
The Love Boat
+
+
The Dick Van Dyke Show
+
+
The Mary Tyler Moore Show
+
+
The Mod Squad
+
+
The Wild, Wild West
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+ 34
+
+
WESH
+
+
<< Cry, The
+
+ Beloved Country, James Earl Jones, ****
+
+
Close Encounters of
+
+ the Third Kind, Richard Dreyfus ***1/2
+
+
Voyage to the Bottom
+
+ of the Sea, Peter Lorre, 1961 *** >>
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+ 49
+
+
WREX
+
+
Butch Cassidy and
+
+ the Sundance Kid, Robert Redford, Paul Newman, 1969 ****1/2
+
+
Return of the Jedi, Mark Hammill, Carrie Fisher,
+
+ Harrison Ford, James Earl Jones ****
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+ 53
+
+
WHO
+
+
The Addams Family
+
+
When
+
+ Dinosaurs Ruled the Earth, Victoria Vetri, Robin Hawdon, 1970 *1/2
+
+
Dennis the Menace
+
+
The Day the Earth
+
+ Stood Still, 1951, Michael Rennie **1/2
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
Archivist's Note: A hint provided to the teams at hunt time indicated that any typos in the grid above are not part of the puzzle.
These are descriptions of Course 16 classes in the style of XKCD's "Up Goer
+Five". You need to compare them with the actual descriptions in the course
+catalog, and find the original text that corresponds to the highlighted
+phrases.
+
+
16.00 (Introduction to Aerospace and Design)
+
+
Original text: The fundamental concepts and approaches of aerospace engineering are
+highlighted through lectures on aeronautics, astronautics, and design. Active
+learning aerospace modules make use of information technology. Student teams
+are immersed in a hands-on, lighter-than-air (LTA) vehicle design project where
+they design, build, and fly radio-controlled LTA vehicles. The connections
+between theory and practice are realized in the design exercises. Required
+design reviews precede the LTA race competition...
+
+
We'll start by making clear some of the easiest ideas and plans in building
+things that go up. We'll talk about things that fly, things that go to space,
+and how to get ideas to make these things good. You'll learn quickly about
+up-goers because you'll be working with computers that tell you when you're
+learning the right things. You and your team will use your hands as you come up
+with up-goers that go up because they're lighter than air. First you come up
+with them, then you build them, then you make them fly in the right direction
+by sending them the kind of waves you can also listen to. This will help you
+learn how things that are supposed to work are kind of like things that
+actually work. After we check whether your ideas are good or bad, there's a
+part where you try to make the up-goer your team made go faster than the ones
+other teams made...
+
+
Extracted phrase: CONNECTIONS BETWEEN THEORY AND PRACTICE
+
+
16.06 (Principles of Automatic Control)
+
+
Original text: Introduction to design of feedback control systems.
+Properties and advantages of feedback systems. Time-domain and frequency-domain
+performance measures. Stability and degree of stability. Root locus method,
+Nyquist criterion...
+
+
You'll learn how to make good ways to control things that watch what
+they're doing and fix it. You'll learn what these things that fix themselves
+are like and why they're good, how to tell when they're good by watching when
+things happen or how often things happen, how to tell whether things are
+staying like they're supposed to and by how much, pictures you can look at that are
+one way to tell whether things are getting staying like they're supposed to...
+
+
+
Extracted phrase: DEGREE OF STABILITY
+
+
16.110 (Flight Vehicle Aerodynamics)
+
+
Original text: Aerodynamic analysis of flight vehicles using
+analytical, numerical, and experimental techniques separately and in
+combination. Matched asymptotic expansions. Farfield behavior. Finite wing
+theory...
+
+
There are lots of ways to tell whether things that are supposed to fly are
+good at flying. You can write down a lot of things and think about them, you
+can work with a lot of numbers, you can just try things and see what works, and
+sometimes you can even do all of these at the same time. You'll learn
+how to match the way things act up close to the different way they act from
+far away, how to look at the way wind goes around flying arms from far away,
+how to understand flying arms that end instead of the ones that don't
+end that aren't real...
+
+
Extracted phrases:
+MATCHED ASYMPTOTIC EXPANSIONS,
+FINITE WING THEORY
+
+
+
16.120 (Compressible Internal Flow and Aeroacoustics)
+
+
Original text: Internal compressible flow and fundamentals of acoustics and aerodynamic sound
+with applications in turbomachinery and propulsion systems.
+Quasi-one-dimensional compressible flow (channel flow) and extensions,
+including effects of shock waves, friction, energy and mass addition, swirl,
+and flow non-uniformity. Unsteady compressible flow, theory of sound, sources
+of sound and wave propagation, Lighthill's acoustic analogy, and
+characterization and estimation of noise sources encountered in turbomachinery
+and aircraft applications.
+
+
Things that fly often have lots of stuff moving around in the things that
+make them go, and that stuff gets kind of bigger and smaller when it needs to.
+This is actually pretty much the way sound works, too, so we'll start with how
+you can talk about stuff that moves when you fly in the same way you talk about
+sound and how it hits things. When you understand sound you can use it to
+understand things that go around fast and things that go forward. One way to
+look at moving stuff is to say it's all moving back and forward on a straight
+line, like it's on a track. That's how you start to learn about other things,
+like what happens to moving stuff when you are going really fast and it
+piles up in front of you, why
+moving stuff slows down, what happens when two kinds of moving stuff get
+together and now there's more stuff that's moving more, stuff that goes around
+and around as it moves, and stuff that moves in different ways in different places.
+Next we'll talk about stuff that moves and gets bigger and smaller but you're
+not quite sure what it's going to do next, what all this sound stuff is anyway,
+where sounds and waves come from and where they go, how to pretend that all
+the noise making stuff going on inside a thing that makes you go is just a few
+things that make noise in four directions, and how to talk about all the noise
+that flying things make and how much noise there is.
Original text: Fundamentals of astrodynamics; the two-body orbital initial-value and
+boundary-value problems with applications to space vehicle navigation and
+guidance for lunar and planetary missions with applications to space vehicle
+navigation and guidance for lunar and planetary missions including both powered
+flight and midcourse maneuvers...
+
+Here we get to the easy things about things that move in space. One of these is
+the way two things in space go around each other. You can tell this from the
+way everything starts or the way things work on the outside. When you know
+this, you can use it to make space cars go in the right direction, and
+sometimes make them go in the right direction to get to that near world
+that people went to or others that people can't go to yet. Two ways to make
+space cars go in the right direction are to make them throw out lots of
+fire or to make them throw out a little bit of fire to speed up, slow down,
+or change direction after going half way...
+
+
Extracted phrases:
+GUIDANCE FOR LUNAR AND PLANETARY MISSIONS,
+POWERED FLIGHT
+
+
+
16.512 (Rocket Propulsion)
+
+
Original text: Chemical rocket propulsion systems for launch, orbital, and interplanetary
+flight. Modeling of solid, liquid-bipropellant, and hybrid rocket engines.
+Thermochemistry, prediction of specific impulse...
+
+
+
This is where we talk about the stuff you burn to go really fast. A space
+car needs parts that burn a lot of stuff to go up from the ground, go around
+the ground by going so fast to the side that you miss the ground all the time,
+and go to other worlds with their own ground. The stuff burning thing can
+burn dry stuff, two kinds of wet stuff that you mix together, or both. An
+important thing to know about this is how hot it gets when you burn the stuff
+and how much it makes you go...
+
+
Extracted phrase: LAUNCH, ORBITAL, AND INTERPLANETARY FLIGHT
+
+
Extraction
+
Filling in the labeled blanks arranges some of the letters in the phrases to
+form this message:
+
+
+THERE WAS ONCE A SPACE CAR
+THAT DID NOT GO TO SPACE
+A GUY EXPLAINED ON TV
+IT WAS BECAUSE A RING IN IT
+GOT HARDER AS IT GOT COLDER
+HE SHOWED THE PROBLEM BY
+PUTTING A RING IN ICE WATER
+CALL IN HIS FIRST
+AND LAST NAME
+
+Given the recent theft of the coin, it'd be a good idea to check up on
+the security of our town's other valuable objects, like our art.
+
+Let's start with a piece created 17 years ago specifically for the
+Mystery Hunt. Instructions for locating this piece of art are at the
+beginning of that Hunt's Puzzle 7B. You'll find a squiggly line
+composed of seaside items, sandblasted into the granite paving stones,
+to mark the original Boston Harbor shoreline (before land reclamation
+began). Among these items you will find an image of a neuron, placed
+there by artist Mary Lucking for the Hunt. If you're unlucky, you can
+repeat the 1996 Hunters' feat of shoveling through two feet of snow
+and ice to find the art.
+
+Once you find the neuron, follow the squiggly line towards the statue
+until you come across a phrase, and temporarily note its second
+digit. Continue following the squiggly line until you reach the
+concrete block identifying the park, and record the first letter of
+the commissioner's first name. Looks like the neuron is still safely
+hidden among the other seaside items, so continue to the next artwork
+on our protection list by proceeding to the Red Line T stop
+corresponding to the number you noted, counting Alewife as 1.
+
+At this T stop, you'll find several large pieces of art displayed, but
+it looks like EVIL has disabled some of them. We'll need to watch out
+and make sure this doesn't recur. Find the metal plate describing the
+art and record the first letter of the third line of the poem.
+Proceed to the MIT building whose first digit is the number of pieces
+making up this collective piece of art and whose second digit is the
+number of disabled pieces.
+
+When you get to the building, find the elevator lobby corresponding to
+the part of the building later alphabetically and you'll find a tree
+on display through January 18. Looks like it's properly cordoned off
+to keep out EVILdoers, so we should be all set here. (If the exhibit
+is gone, don't worry! Our security forces have removed it to ensure
+its safety.) Take a look at the wall above the tree (or where it
+was), and you'll find a large tool with many vertical lines on it.
+Find the repeated Greek letter on the far right, and record the
+English letter that it most looks like. Find the third row of
+numbers, and take the second and first numbers to the right of the red
+line. Go to that MIT building.
+
+In the lobby you'll find your current location highlighted in red.
+(If the building is closed, you can look through the windows.) We'll
+use this piece of art to figure out where else at MIT we need to check
+our security. Record the MIT building prefix that is represented on
+the art but mostly missing. On the wall next to the art, you'll find
+the name that the building you're in is named after, along with a
+year. Take the first and third digits of the year and proceed to the
+fifth floor lobby of that MIT building.
+
+Look for a passageway to a neighboring building, and you should find a
+non-static piece of art. It seems that we've placed this piece of art
+on a high enough floor such that EVIL won't bother coming here. Check
+the nearby sign to learn what kinds of particles interact with this
+piece of art, and what kind of particles these particles are like.
+Record the letter in the lowercase symbol corresponding to these
+latter particles.
+
+Walk to one of the other sides of the lobby and you'll find another
+piece of art. It looks like this piece of art should also be safe
+since it's all tied up. This art looks like a particular lowercase
+letter repeated many times. Record that letter. Check the
+explanations to find out what year the invasion was, and proceed to
+the large open grassy area near the MIT building corresponding to the
+last two digits of that year.
+
+There's a large red piece of art here that looks like it could be a
+swing set if you just added swings. It looks a bit heavy, so it'd be
+hard for EVIL to steal it without being noticed. Check the plaque to
+see what category of Percent-for-Art funds contributed to this art,
+and take the first letter of the last word in that category name.
+Proceed to the MIT buliding corresponding to the last two digits of
+the class year mentioned on the plaque.
+
+Next to the northwest corner of this building is a giant sculpture.
+Looks like this art is too ugly to be stolen -- plus EVIL probably
+wouldn't want a piece of art whose name seems to inaccurately describe
+it. Check the plaque to find out the name of this sculpture, and
+record the letter that is commonly appended to this name. Take the
+last two digits of the year of the art, subtract 3, and then divide by
+2. Proceed to the lobby of that MIT building.
+
+You'll find some art watching you and a yellow machine. Since the art
+is watching multiple directions, EVIL can't possibly make off with the
+art without the art's noticing. Record the middle initial of the
+subject of the statue. Take the number of letters in the his last name and
+multiply by 2/3. Proceed to that MIT buliding.
+
+If you walk back and forth through the first floor of this building,
+you should notice a sign pointing you to a colorful piece of art
+nearby. Given the placement of the art, this art should be pretty
+safe, since stealing it would have to generate a lot of noise. Take
+note of which building this art is in, and decrement the last
+character twice. Record this new character. How many sides does the
+relevant shape of this art have? Proceed to that MIT building, and
+proceed to that floor of the building.
+
+Wow, there's a lot of art here. It's a bit too complicated for EVIL,
+so we're safe. Find the interactive art with a circular disc. Record
+the first letter in the kind of shaft used. Proceed to the named
+lobby of the MIT building that is twice the large number on the art.
+
+Take a few steps up the nearby stairs to find a portrait of the person
+this lobby was named after. Except... oh no, it's gone! Is EVIL
+repeating the Isabella Stewart Gardner theft of 1990, the largest art
+theft in history? In that theft, a pair of theives dressed up as
+Boston Police officers claimed to be responding to a call and
+convinced a guard to let them in the museum. Once inside, the thieves
+lured the guard away from the only alarm button and handcuffed and
+duct-taped him and the other guard on duty. The thieves then freely
+roamed the galleries, smashing glass, cutting paintings from frames,
+and removing 13 pieces of art currently worth over $300 million from
+the galleries. To this day, the theft is unsolved, and the empty
+frames where the art once was remain on display.
+
+In any case, better check the contact information on the item left in
+the portrait's place. Take the seventh digit of the fax number, and
+record the first letter corresponding to that digit on a phone.
+
+Whew, that was lot of work. Seems that most of our art is safe, but
+we'll have to get a little more help around here to protect the rest.
+And hey, what do you know? Those last three letters confirm we've got
+the right person for the job.
+
The clues give anagrams of Mystery Hunt team names plus a letter. The
+blanks appear alphabetically by team name; you need to figure out which
+blanks go with which clues, and the extra letters in clue order spell "CALL IN A SUPERIOR CLUE FOR YOUR TEAM; DON'T ANSWER IT."
+
+
Calling in a valid clue for their team name, which we can solve at HQ and consider sufficiently good, earns the team the answer to the puzzle, GERALD J FORD.
+
+
+
[C] Montague rival = CAPULET = Up Late + C
+
[A] His superpower is that he can make anything into a terrible arrangement for unaccompanied voices = SHITTY A CAPPELLA MAN = Metaphysical Plant + A
+
[L] As the greatest competitors on Earth run, swim and bike their way around the 100-sided course, a spectator shouts "Hey!" = INTERJECTION AT THE WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP HECTAGON TRIATHLON = PART I: NON-CONTRADICTION; CHAPTER I: THE THEME 'Who is John Galt?'... + L
+
[L] Where you'll find a nebulous Zero Mostel = VAGUELY IN FIDDLER ON THE ROOF = Grand Unified Theory of Love + L
+
[I] They order a lot of food from Bertucci's and then discard whatever they don't like = PIZZA CULLERS = Cal Puzzlers + I
+
[N] When you fail to stack your dishes in the cupboard in the proper Russian way, this happens = KITCHEN TETRIS TUMBLE = Better Luck This Time + N
+
[A] Proprietary information is oozing from your nipples = LACTATING TRADE SECRETS = Galactic Trendsetters + A
+
[S] Plant lice = APHIDS = ADPhi + S
+
[U] Substantial delay, possibly due to Fezzik attempting a robbery = GIANT HOLDUP = Plaid Thong + U
+
[P] People who fucking love that stuff between floor tiles = PROFANE GROUT FANS = Fangorn Foureast + P
+
[E] At a rival school, everyone can hear you fail = CALTECH AMPLIFIES F = Metaphiscal Cliff + E
+
[R] Parent who doesn't believe in the golden tablets = NON-MORMON MOM = Om Nom Nom Nom + R
+
[I] My brain is full of thunder = STORM IN MY HEAD = Random Thymes + I
+
[O] When Goodyear's agents infiltrate Michelin = TIRE ESPIONAGE = Eigenpirates + O
+
[R] Beware of prejudice and pride = WARNING: REVERSE AUSTEN = Strange New Universe, A + R
+
[C] When that guy tells stories about adventurers over a pulsating electronic beat and a Roland supersaw, a good time is had by all = TRANCE BARD IS SO MUCH FUN = Frumious Bandersnatch + C
+
[L] Picture captioned "I CAN HAZ SPARKLINES?" = LOL-TUFTE = Left Out + L
+
[U] Your getaway boat should be as close as possible when you rob the beachhouse -- check where the shoreline is = BURGLE AT HIGH TIDE = Light Brigade, The + U
+
[E] A sometime Stooge after being knighted = SIR SHEMP = shrimps + E
+
[F] Mushrooms growing in the bottom of a building = BASEMENT FUNGI = Unseen Gambit + F
+
[O] Stay out of the way of a looney devil = AVOID TAZ = DataViz + O
+
[R] Quick summary of what happened to an overbuilt casino = TOO LARGE; TORN DOWN = Too Long; Won't Read + R
+
[Y] He's 70 years old and he's not keeping up with most of the Institute requirements = OLD MAN GENERALLY FAILING AT MIT = Illegal, Immoral, and Fattening + Y
+
[O] Garfield never had to get up and go to work, so this made no sense = HE HATED MONDAY A.M. = Death and Mayhem + O
+
[U] Be like a zombie and re-do Halloween = EMULATE ROB = Meteor Lab + U
+
[R] The Sages won't win this, and neither will the Thymes = ROSEMARY CONTEST = Setec Astronomy + R
+
[T] You can pull them out to determine distances up to this long: —— = TWO-EM TAPE MEASURES = Super Team Awesome + T
+
[E] After that, Mr. Fry realized he was actually in Istanbul = STEPHEN ARRIVED AT CONSTANTINOPLE = Providence Transplantations, The + E
+
[A] Is she a detective or a thief? I'm kind of confused by the name on the door = ROBIN BANK, P.I. = Pink Ribbon + A
+
[M] Indie hipsters already know these won't be as good as Funeral = THE NEXT RELEASES FROM ARCADE FIRE = Left as an Exercise for the Reader + M
+
[D] Sorry, MIT doesn't admit marine mammals = A DOLPHIN APPLIES = Alpha Epsilon Pi + D
+
[O] Doubtful question for American FIFA watchers = IS SOCCER RELEVANT? = Central Services + O
+
[N] Decide there is definitely no God and have a great time = ENJOY FULL ATHEISM = Family Joules, The + N
+
[T] Eh, let's solve puzzles later when round 4 comes out = PROCRASTINATE INTO INDY = Insanity Incorporated + T
+
[A] Hendrix turns his song about LSD into a less colorful song about distributed computing; what it means depends on the circumstances = CONTEXTUAL CLOUD HAZE = Codex Zouche-Nuttall + A
+
[N] One who is inexperienced at carrying things on a stage = PROP NOOB = RoboPop + N
+
[S] Organizational "system" for my desk = RANDOM PILES = Palindrome + S
+
[W] Haven't the Northern Lights looked odd these days? = SUCH CURIOUS AURORAS NOW = Raucous Raucous Rhinos + W
+
[E] "Computer, here is a declarative definition of widgets. How many wigdets are there?" "false" = PROLOG COUNTER = Control Group + E
+
[R] Mathematical assumption that there exists a 10,000 PPI display = VERY SMALL PIXEL AXIOM = Maximally Explosive + R
+
[I] Reporters in Tehran intend to give up = IRAN PRESS WILL RESIGN = Sleipnir's Wranglers + I
+
[T] You could use it to fasten a wheel on a blimp = DIRIGIBLE LUG NUT = Uglier Building + T
+
+
+
+Here are the clues sorted by team name, which is how the blanks appear in the puzzle:
+
+
+
ADPhi + S: APHIDS
+
Alpha Epsilon Pi + D: A DOLPHIN APPLIES
+
Better Luck This Time + N: KITCHEN TETRIS TUMBLE
+
Cal Puzzlers + I: PIZZA CULLERS
+
Central Services + O: IS SOCCER RELEVANT?
+
Codex Zouche-Nuttall + A: CONTEXTUAL CLOUD HAZE
+
Control Group + E: PROLOG COUNTER
+
DataViz + O: AVOID TAZ
+
Death and Mayhem + O: HE HATED MONDAY A.M.
+
Eigenpirates + O: TIRE ESPIONAGE
+
Family Joules, The + N: ENJOY FULL ATHEISM
+
Fangorn Foureast + P: PROFANE GROUT FANS
+
Frumious Bandersnatch + C: TRANCE BARD IS SO MUCH FUN
+
+After being cooped up at home for
+so long, I was finally ready to go exploring. Going on a cruise seemed like the
+perfect plan – ride the ocean waves and visit another part of the country.
+Although I needed to prepare myself for the long journey, I could not wait to
+go!
+I started preparing for the journey by picking up
+some of the latest technology and getting a self-defense lesson at the local
+dojo. I am pretty fortunate to live in a bustling city. Since the company has
+its headquarters right here, I always get some nice discounts.
+I then headed over to a nearby town to see my friends
+off, passing the local daycare along the way. Some kids by the pool suggested
+that I buy a nice bike to travel quickly from point to point. It was a pretty
+expensive purchase, but I sure did speed everywhere. I even jumped over ledges
+like a sweet BMXer. So cool!
+I stopped by the old abandoned power plant to try and
+find some hidden treasure. Not much luck – it took a hard swim to reach
+the plant and most of the stuff I found was fake junk. Pity I could not find
+anything – my bike light was basically useless when I tried to go through
+the really dark tunnel. It seems like every time I took a step, all of the bats
+in the cave would freak out from my light and flap in my face. I came out of
+the tunnel and saw the big memorial tower in the distance, even though it took
+me a while to actually get to the town it was in. I did not want to stay long
+because that place freaks me out so much, so I hurried back home. I was ready
+to go on my cruise!
+Once I had rested up, I biked to the port city with ticket
+in hand. However, just when I reached the docks, my mother called me. Since
+this was the first overseas trip I had ever done, she insisted that I go pay my
+respects to my ancestors before leaving. When I protested that I had just
+visited that town, she just asked me rhetorically who had control of my bank
+account. Sighing, I biked along the bridge back to the creepy old town. At
+least the weather was beautiful. I could totally see myself fishing off of the
+dock with some nice flute music in the background.
+It took me a while to find the right gravesite, but
+after pushing through Shinto priestesses for a solid 15 minutes, I found the
+right headstone, lit my incense and bolted back to the port city. What a lot of
+work for a simple cruise!
+I soon settled down in that other region, having fun studying at the local
+academy and praying with the monks. However, once another long break rolled
+around, I felt another itch for exploration. I decided to spend my break by
+taking the scenic route to the big city, even though a direct path had already
+been cleared out.
+First, I stopped by the
+old ruins that were right by my host city. I like to try and puzzle out what
+those weird hieroglyphics could possibly be saying. After doing some fishing on
+the small bridge, I headed into that spooky cave. Even though there were plenty
+of other hikers in that cave, I seemed to be the only one who heard those
+strange dinosaur-like noises echoing from deep within the cavern. Maybe there
+really is something down there?
+When I emerged from the
+cave, I arrived at a quaint little rural town. Even though they have a shiny
+new hospital with all of the latest medical equipment, most of the town still
+seems to be ignoring the progress of technology. The townsfolk still use well
+water, harvest acorns and rely on charcoal to heat their homes. I then pressed
+on through the surrounding woods, pushing past all of the knee-high bushes
+blocking the way.
+When I finally got back
+onto paved roads, I immediately saw the big city with its brand new radio
+tower. Time to party! I have never seen such a bustling metropolis in all my
+life. Even though there was supposedly shady business all around, I saw none of
+this dark underbelly and had a blast gambling at the casino, checking out the
+construction of the new train station and even got a new haircut!
+However, all good times
+must come to an end. My Mom soon called me, complaining that she did not fund
+my cruise just so I could spend all my money in a big flashy city. When I
+pointed out that she spends my money on decorative dolls all the time, she
+furiously demanded that I go right back to my studies now. Frustrated, I
+darted through the nearby bug-infested park and went straight back to the
+academy.
I
+figured that my mom was heckling me so much because she missed me, so I decided
+to catch up with the folks. My mom was so surprised to see
+me and even invited Doc to dinner. We had a great time rambling
+about old times.
+While we were talking, my
+mom told me about this new fossil exhibit over at the museum. Even though it
+was a couple of towns away, she insisted that it was simply amazing and
+encouraged me to go check it out. In the morning, I set out for the museum.
+Man, walking out of my hometown really reminds me of the days of my youth! Even
+with the help of nostalgia, I still got a little lost in the woods on my way to
+the museum. I thought I saw this massive bird in one of the trees and it really
+freaked me out. It did not help that this grouchy old man delayed me and kept
+trying to teach me common sense stuff. Someone clearly missed his coffee this
+morning.
+When I finally arrived at
+the museum, it turned out the exhibit was super lame. I am still not quite sure
+what space and moon rocks have to do with fossils, but ok. One of the
+scientists did give me a free amber souvenir, though, which more than made up
+for the steep entrance fee.
Today
+was the day of the big annual bike race! We all lined up at the top of the big
+bridge and raced down to the bottom. It is a pretty crazy race - since the
+bridge slopes downhill, once you get going, there is really no stopping. When I
+showed up, there were a bunch of bikers already there, and I could tell they
+judged me for my bike. Still, I did pretty well - I got in the top 10!
+When I got to the bottom,
+I was too worn out to go back the way I came, so I figured that I would spend
+the day at the wildlife preserve. It was pretty amazing- there were some
+incredible animals there, the kind you only hear about in stories. No pets were
+allowed on the preserve, but the warden let me fish, and the ponds there are
+stocked with all varieties of fish! A lot of parents brought their kids to the
+preserve, but they really need to learn how to control their children- some of
+them threw food at the animals, while even worse kids threw rocks at the poor
+things. I also saw a pair of gold dentures in one of the exhibits, which I am sure
+one of those bratty kids threw.
+
+In the video, a Rubik's cube is being manipulated out of sight, with pauses for the
+top to be photographed. If you repeat these moves starting with a solved cube,
+and record what the top of the cube looks like at every photo,
+you'll get the following sequence of 22 faces.
+(Moves are given in Singmaster notation.
+The exact colors don't matter for the solution.)
+
+
+
+
+
R2 F2 D L2
+
D R2 U R2
+
D' F2 U' L2 U
+
+
U D R2 F2 D' F2
+
x2 F2 R2
+
F2 D F2
+
+
L2 U B2
+
D' L2 B2
+
x2 U' F2 R2
+
+
B2 U'
+
D2 L2
+
x2 D' B2 R2 B2 D2 B2 D' F2 U'
+
+
D B2 L2 U'
+
B2 D R2 B2 D R2
+
R2 D L2 R2 D R2
+
+
x2 D' F2 L2 D L2 D2 B2 U'
+
(none)
+
x2 D F2 D' R2
+
+
D2 L2
+
D R2 L2 D B2 U
+
D B2 D' L2 D' L2 D B2
+
+
x2 F2 B2 R2 D' U2 F2
+
+
+
+
+
+Each face can be interpreted as a Braille letter:
+⠜
+⠑
+⠽
+⠳
+⠁
+⠡
+⠊
+⠇
+⠙
+⠕
+⠗
+⠁
+⠦
+⠮
+⠩
+⠑
+⠑
+⠏
+⠎
+⠁
+⠊
+⠙
+
+
+
+Translate these to English, noting that some
+Braille letters
+correspond to English ligatures or common words, and read:
+AR-E-Y-OU-A-CH-I-L-D-O-R-A-?-THE-SH-E-E-P-S-A-I-D
+
+
+
+The sentence, "'Are you a child or a teetotum?' the Sheep said," comes from
+Through the Looking Glass.
+The puzzle answer is the missing word, TEETOTUM
+
+In the video, a Rubik's cube is being manipulated out of sight, with pauses for the
+top to be photographed. If you repeat these moves starting with a solved cube,
+and record what the top of the cube looks like at every photo,
+you'll get the following sequence of 22 faces.
+(Moves are given in Singmaster notation.
+The exact colors don't matter for the solution.)
+
+
+
+
+
R2 F2 D L2
+
D R2 U R2
+
D' F2 U' L2 U
+
+
U D R2 F2 D' F2
+
x2 F2 R2
+
F2 D F2
+
+
L2 U B2
+
D' L2 B2
+
x2 U' F2 R2
+
+
B2 U'
+
D2 L2
+
x2 D' B2 R2 B2 D2 B2 D' F2 U'
+
+
D B2 L2 U'
+
B2 D R2 B2 D R2
+
R2 D L2 R2 D R2
+
+
x2 D' F2 L2 D L2 D2 B2 U'
+
(none)
+
x2 D F2 D' R2
+
+
D2 L2
+
D R2 L2 D B2 U
+
D B2 D' L2 D' L2 D B2
+
+
x2 F2 B2 R2 D' U2 F2
+
+
+
+
+
+Each face can be interpreted as a Braille letter:
+⠜
+⠑
+⠽
+⠳
+⠁
+⠡
+⠊
+⠇
+⠙
+⠕
+⠗
+⠁
+⠦
+⠮
+⠩
+⠑
+⠑
+⠏
+⠎
+⠁
+⠊
+⠙
+
+
+
+Translate these to English, noting that some
+Braille letters
+correspond to English ligatures or common words, and read:
+AR-E-Y-OU-A-CH-I-L-D-O-R-A-?-THE-SH-E-E-P-S-A-I-D
+
+
+
+The sentence, "'Are you a child or a teetotum?' the Sheep said," comes from
+Through the Looking Glass.
+The puzzle answer is the missing word, TEETOTUM
+
+In the video, a Rubik's cube is being manipulated out of sight, with pauses for the
+top to be photographed. If you repeat these moves starting with a solved cube,
+and record what the top of the cube looks like at every photo,
+you'll get the following sequence of 22 faces.
+(Moves are given in Singmaster notation.
+The exact colors don't matter for the solution.)
+
+
+
+
+
R2 F2 D L2
+
D R2 U R2
+
D' F2 U' L2 U
+
+
U D R2 F2 D' F2
+
x2 F2 R2
+
F2 D F2
+
+
L2 U B2
+
D' L2 B2
+
x2 U' F2 R2
+
+
B2 U'
+
D2 L2
+
x2 D' B2 R2 B2 D2 B2 D' F2 U'
+
+
D B2 L2 U'
+
B2 D R2 B2 D R2
+
R2 D L2 R2 D R2
+
+
x2 D' F2 L2 D L2 D2 B2 U'
+
(none)
+
x2 D F2 D' R2
+
+
D2 L2
+
D R2 L2 D B2 U
+
D B2 D' L2 D' L2 D B2
+
+
x2 F2 B2 R2 D' U2 F2
+
+
+
+
+
+Each face can be interpreted as a Braille letter:
+⠜
+⠑
+⠽
+⠳
+⠁
+⠡
+⠊
+⠇
+⠙
+⠕
+⠗
+⠁
+⠦
+⠮
+⠩
+⠑
+⠑
+⠏
+⠎
+⠁
+⠊
+⠙
+
+
+
+Translate these to English, noting that some
+Braille letters
+correspond to English ligatures or common words, and read:
+AR-E-Y-OU-A-CH-I-L-D-O-R-A-?-THE-SH-E-E-P-S-A-I-D
+
+
+
+The sentence, "'Are you a child or a teetotum?' the Sheep said," comes from
+Through the Looking Glass.
+The puzzle answer is the missing word, TEETOTUM
+
Each paragraph describes a real professional StarCraft game, except the player's names have been changed. The pool of letters forming the puzzle names of a pair of players consist of the letter bank of an actual game's players plus two additional letters. One additional letter is in the winner's name and the other additional letter is always in the loser's name. Any additional copies of the extra letter occur entirely in the same puzzle name to avoid ambiguity.
+
+
To rephrase this, the players names have been changed according to the following formula:
+Puzzle name of Player 1: (Subset of letters from real Player 1's name + Subset of letters from real Player 2's name + Extra letter) anagrammed.
+Puzzle name of Player 2: (Complementary subset of letters from real Player 1's name + Complementary subset of letters from real Player 2's name + Extra letter) anagrammed.
+
+
The goal of the puzzle is to identify the games played to get the name of the real players to determine the added letters. Sorting the professional games in the order by date played gives
SE / ND / AR / EP / LA / YW / HE / RE / YO / UB / UI / LD / CA / RR / IE / RS
+
+Upon calling in SEND A REPLAY WHERE YOU BUILD CARRIERS, teams are instructed to build a replay with carriers - either with Brood War or StarCraft 2, or as a creative re-enactment in a medium of choice. Teams are then give the answer FUNDAY MONDAY.
+
+(According to Idra's ragequit comments from a famous game, building carriers is a "Very useful talent toi have." Day9 has a popular show in which he shows replays of games with players having to play under certain constraints, like having to build carriers.)
+
+
+
Each paragraph describes a real professional StarCraft game, except the player's names have been changed. The pool of letters forming the puzzle names of a pair of players consist of the letter bank of an actual game's players plus two additional letters. One additional letter is in the winner's name and the other additional letter is always in the loser's name. Any additional copies of the extra letter occur entirely in the same puzzle name to avoid ambiguity.
+
+
To rephrase this, the players names have been changed according to the following formula:
+Puzzle name of Player 1: (Subset of letters from real Player 1's name + Subset of letters from real Player 2's name + Extra letter) anagrammed.
+Puzzle name of Player 2: (Complementary subset of letters from real Player 1's name + Complementary subset of letters from real Player 2's name + Extra letter) anagrammed.
+
+
The goal of the puzzle is to identify the games played to get the name of the real players to determine the added letters. Sorting the professional games in the order by date played gives
SE / ND / AR / EP / LA / YW / HE / RE / YO / UB / UI / LD / CA / RR / IE / RS
+
+Upon calling in SEND A REPLAY WHERE YOU BUILD CARRIERS, teams are instructed to build a replay with carriers - either with Brood War or StarCraft 2, or as a creative re-enactment in a medium of choice. Teams are then give the answer FUNDAY MONDAY.
+
+(According to Idra's ragequit comments from a famous game, building carriers is a "Very useful talent toi have." Day9 has a popular show in which he shows replays of games with players having to play under certain constraints, like having to build carriers.)
+
+
+
Each paragraph describes a real professional StarCraft game, except the player's names have been changed. The pool of letters forming the puzzle names of a pair of players consist of the letter bank of an actual game's players plus two additional letters. One additional letter is in the winner's name and the other additional letter is always in the loser's name. Any additional copies of the extra letter occur entirely in the same puzzle name to avoid ambiguity.
+
+
To rephrase this, the players names have been changed according to the following formula:
+Puzzle name of Player 1: (Subset of letters from real Player 1's name + Subset of letters from real Player 2's name + Extra letter) anagrammed.
+Puzzle name of Player 2: (Complementary subset of letters from real Player 1's name + Complementary subset of letters from real Player 2's name + Extra letter) anagrammed.
+
+
The goal of the puzzle is to identify the games played to get the name of the real players to determine the added letters. Sorting the professional games in the order by date played gives
SE / ND / AR / EP / LA / YW / HE / RE / YO / UB / UI / LD / CA / RR / IE / RS
+
+Upon calling in SEND A REPLAY WHERE YOU BUILD CARRIERS, teams are instructed to build a replay with carriers - either with Brood War or StarCraft 2, or as a creative re-enactment in a medium of choice. Teams are then give the answer FUNDAY MONDAY.
+
+(According to Idra's ragequit comments from a famous game, building carriers is a "Very useful talent toi have." Day9 has a popular show in which he shows replays of games with players having to play under certain constraints, like having to build carriers.)
+
+
+
Each paragraph describes a real professional StarCraft game, except the player's names have been changed. The pool of letters forming the puzzle names of a pair of players consist of the letter bank of an actual game's players plus two additional letters. One additional letter is in the winner's name and the other additional letter is always in the loser's name. Any additional copies of the extra letter occur entirely in the same puzzle name to avoid ambiguity.
+
+
To rephrase this, the players names have been changed according to the following formula:
+Puzzle name of Player 1: (Subset of letters from real Player 1's name + Subset of letters from real Player 2's name + Extra letter) anagrammed.
+Puzzle name of Player 2: (Complementary subset of letters from real Player 1's name + Complementary subset of letters from real Player 2's name + Extra letter) anagrammed.
+
+
The goal of the puzzle is to identify the games played to get the name of the real players to determine the added letters. Sorting the professional games in the order by date played gives
SE / ND / AR / EP / LA / YW / HE / RE / YO / UB / UI / LD / CA / RR / IE / RS
+
+Upon calling in SEND A REPLAY WHERE YOU BUILD CARRIERS, teams are instructed to build a replay with carriers - either with Brood War or StarCraft 2, or as a creative re-enactment in a medium of choice. Teams are then give the answer FUNDAY MONDAY.
+
+(According to Idra's ragequit comments from a famous game, building carriers is a "Very useful talent toi have." Day9 has a popular show in which he shows replays of games with players having to play under certain constraints, like having to build carriers.)
+
+
+
Krakens like you enjoy eating animals, so they figure heavily on our menu. Each dish is described and pictured. Try to guess how we're going to prepare it!
+
Descriptions
+
The Artist
+
Pizza covered with ooze toxic enough to make this your last supper. This dish's ingredients were all harvested from the New York City sewers.
+
The Boss
+
A maki roll with smoked salmon, cucumber, and cream cheese, and a cheesesteak. All of the ingredients for this dish were hung up like slabs of meat and pounded to tenderize them.
+
+
The FBI Informant
+
Three mojitos and two dozen yogurts. All of the ingredients for this dish were burned in Miami before being shipped here.
+
+
The Knight
+
Turnips, carried up the side of a mountain in a basket, and a piece of fish blackened to perfection. Harvested daily from the nearest river, run as fast as you can to get a taste while it's still fresh. At just nine pennies, this dish is a bargain.
+
The Midwife
+
This dish could be anything not typically found on a kids' menu. Of course, there aren't any kids around these days, so that's just about anything. The ingredients are all foreign; we're pro-immigrant here.
+
+
The Receiver
+
Richard Nixon's favorite -- the only thing he's requested specifically. The ingredients for this meal were planted in Ohio in 1960, then put back there in 1983.
+
The Trader
+
Whatever's popular in London these days. The ingredients for this dish were paid for with the proceeds from credit default swaps. The estimates for the cost of ingredients varies, from as low as $1.4 billion all the way up to $9 billion.
+
+
Pictures
+
+
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Krakens like you enjoy eating animals, so they figure heavily on our menu. Each dish is described and pictured. Try to guess how we're going to prepare it!
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Descriptions
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The Artist
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Pizza covered with ooze toxic enough to make this your last supper. This dish's ingredients were all harvested from the New York City sewers.
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The Boss
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A maki roll with smoked salmon, cucumber, and cream cheese, and a cheesesteak. All of the ingredients for this dish were hung up like slabs of meat and pounded to tenderize them.
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The FBI Informant
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Three mojitos and two dozen yogurts. All of the ingredients for this dish were burned in Miami before being shipped here.
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The Knight
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Turnips, carried up the side of a mountain in a basket, and a piece of fish blackened to perfection. Harvested daily from the nearest river, run as fast as you can to get a taste while it's still fresh. At just nine pennies, this dish is a bargain.
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The Midwife
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This dish could be anything not typically found on a kids' menu. Of course, there aren't any kids around these days, so that's just about anything. The ingredients are all foreign; we're pro-immigrant here.
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The Receiver
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Richard Nixon's favorite -- the only thing he's requested specifically. The ingredients for this meal were planted in Ohio in 1960, then put back there in 1983.
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The Trader
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Whatever's popular in London these days. The ingredients for this dish were paid for with the proceeds from credit default swaps. The estimates for the cost of ingredients varies, from as low as $1.4 billion all the way up to $9 billion.
This puzzle references famous Youtube videos which show “English lyrics” misheard from a song in a foreign language. The title references Benny Lava, a particularly famous such video. Here all the videos referenced, all by Buffalax:
Each clue, translated into English, sounds absurd. However, the misheard lyrics of the video with the same language, when taken literally, answer the clue. Here are the clues, translated, the corresponding lyrics, and the answers to the clue. We extract by indexing into the answer using the given number. (Using Google Translate to translate the clues suffices.)
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German
This master of dance summoned the fish that you invited to enjoy.
Come and dance and love the fish! Mister Disco summoned it!
MISTER DISCO
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Punjabi
The lake guard should be sued because of the sawdust and pizza for this green person.
Sue the guard, up the lake there's sawdust and pizza Yoda!
YODA
A
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Telugu
Children are prohibited from wearing this item of clothing.
Its the child no parka rule!
PARKA
K
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Tamil
You fought a man of this profession.
I fought a barber man!
BARBER
E
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Telugu
Unfortunately, this of device of yours is missing a bow.
Gosh, my old calculator ain't got no bow!
CALCULATOR
U
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German
It's time that this former ruler loses.
Castro, it's the time to lose!
CASTRO
S
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Telugu
This vehicle was eaten by a man with prominent nipples.
Nippley man I met, he ate my motorboat!
MOTORBOAT
O
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Punjabi
This strange and chunky alien is in your yard.
In your yard I am the Ferengi man, very odd and chunky
FERENGI
N
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Tamil
You should get this Hindi-speaking conifer.
You need a Hindi yew!
YEW
E
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Tamil
This was the color of the goat that I ate, though I don't know who put it there.
Who put the goat in there? The yellow goat i ate!
YELLOW
O
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Punjabi
One of the merry members of your bus group is this performer who hasn't played in a long time.
And your fiddler's very rusty, It's a very merry busfull
FIDDLER
F
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Tamil
This car part made of minor buns created the main character.
Minor bun engine made Benny Lava!
ENGINE
G
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Punjabi
Because this is somewhat hot, you should be envisioning yourself in a cold place.
All along, dude, try to imagine cold, Cuz the van is kinda hot
VAN
A
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German
My cool tight pants are made of this material in addition to animal hide.
Don't you think I'm cool in tights? 'Cause it's made of yarn and hide.
YARN
N
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Telugu
You should welcome people, with the exception of the guy who buys these.
Welcome the dude who ain't the buyer of mugs.
MUGS
G
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German
You should come into the store selling this body part, where two men are set on fire.
Enter the hymen store! Two men are scorched and burned!
HYMEN
N
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German
One should give utmost respect to this delicacy, lest they, like rangers end up pissed in tar.
Please respect the caviar! Rangers end up pissed in tar!
CAVIAR
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Tamil
We are aware of the ingredients of this buttery drink.
We know what's in butter rum!
RUM
M
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Telugu
This good is a cargo that you could do.
Salad is a cargo you could do!
SALAD
S
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Punjabi
This animal should be wrapped in a tacky coat.
Wrap the rat in tacky coat
RAT
T
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Tamil
There was an additional cost to buy this animal.
The puppy had a fee!
PUPPY
Y
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Telugu
It is requested that you do not purchase this hairless animal.
Please don't buy the bald seal.
SEAL
L
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Punjabi
You lay this animal while partying and filling me with tar.
And you fill me with tar and you party, laying bears.
BEARS
E
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The letters read MAKE US ONE OF GANGNAM STYLE. After the team does so, they are given the answer to the puzzle.
This puzzle references famous Youtube videos which show “English lyrics” misheard from a song in a foreign language. The title references Benny Lava, a particularly famous such video. Here all the videos referenced, all by Buffalax:
Each clue, translated into English, sounds absurd. However, the misheard lyrics of the video with the same language, when taken literally, answer the clue. Here are the clues, translated, the corresponding lyrics, and the answers to the clue. We extract by indexing into the answer using the given number. (Using Google Translate to translate the clues suffices.)
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German
This master of dance summoned the fish that you invited to enjoy.
Come and dance and love the fish! Mister Disco summoned it!
MISTER DISCO
M
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Punjabi
The lake guard should be sued because of the sawdust and pizza for this green person.
Sue the guard, up the lake there's sawdust and pizza Yoda!
YODA
A
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Telugu
Children are prohibited from wearing this item of clothing.
Its the child no parka rule!
PARKA
K
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Tamil
You fought a man of this profession.
I fought a barber man!
BARBER
E
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Telugu
Unfortunately, this of device of yours is missing a bow.
Gosh, my old calculator ain't got no bow!
CALCULATOR
U
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German
It's time that this former ruler loses.
Castro, it's the time to lose!
CASTRO
S
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Telugu
This vehicle was eaten by a man with prominent nipples.
Nippley man I met, he ate my motorboat!
MOTORBOAT
O
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Punjabi
This strange and chunky alien is in your yard.
In your yard I am the Ferengi man, very odd and chunky
FERENGI
N
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Tamil
You should get this Hindi-speaking conifer.
You need a Hindi yew!
YEW
E
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Tamil
This was the color of the goat that I ate, though I don't know who put it there.
Who put the goat in there? The yellow goat i ate!
YELLOW
O
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Punjabi
One of the merry members of your bus group is this performer who hasn't played in a long time.
And your fiddler's very rusty, It's a very merry busfull
FIDDLER
F
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Tamil
This car part made of minor buns created the main character.
Minor bun engine made Benny Lava!
ENGINE
G
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Punjabi
Because this is somewhat hot, you should be envisioning yourself in a cold place.
All along, dude, try to imagine cold, Cuz the van is kinda hot
VAN
A
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German
My cool tight pants are made of this material in addition to animal hide.
Don't you think I'm cool in tights? 'Cause it's made of yarn and hide.
YARN
N
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Telugu
You should welcome people, with the exception of the guy who buys these.
Welcome the dude who ain't the buyer of mugs.
MUGS
G
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German
You should come into the store selling this body part, where two men are set on fire.
Enter the hymen store! Two men are scorched and burned!
HYMEN
N
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German
One should give utmost respect to this delicacy, lest they, like rangers end up pissed in tar.
Please respect the caviar! Rangers end up pissed in tar!
CAVIAR
A
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Tamil
We are aware of the ingredients of this buttery drink.
We know what's in butter rum!
RUM
M
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Telugu
This good is a cargo that you could do.
Salad is a cargo you could do!
SALAD
S
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Punjabi
This animal should be wrapped in a tacky coat.
Wrap the rat in tacky coat
RAT
T
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Tamil
There was an additional cost to buy this animal.
The puppy had a fee!
PUPPY
Y
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Telugu
It is requested that you do not purchase this hairless animal.
Please don't buy the bald seal.
SEAL
L
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Punjabi
You lay this animal while partying and filling me with tar.
And you fill me with tar and you party, laying bears.
BEARS
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The letters read MAKE US ONE OF GANGNAM STYLE. After the team does so, they are given the answer to the puzzle.
by Iolanthe Chronis, Travis Hance, Brian Hamrick, Tiffany Dohzen, and Andrea Hawksley
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Answer: ENCHANTED PANACEA
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Each of the five answers clues a transformation on words. For each transformation, one word is the result of said transformation applied to a disease.
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Answer
Transformation
Disease
Word in grid
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ANAL BLEEDING
Append A, B, AB, or O to the end.
FLU
FLUB
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BLINDNESS
Remove all I’s
POLIO
POLO
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DISLOCATED TAILBONE
Move last letter somewhere else.
AIDS
SAID
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Remove the first three letters.
MALARIA
ARIA
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VOICELESSNESS
Replace voiced consonants with their unvoiced counterparts.
COLD
COLT
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JAR
DIME
VAIN
ARIA
SIGNATURE
BLUR
EXIST
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NETWORK
COLT
CAKE
HITS
FRIEND
GAG
ALUMINUM
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BLACK
GUARD
NEBULA
ISLAND
CLOTHING
COMB
FLUB
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DIGGER
STARLET
OPERATING
COMMISSION
TRANQUIL
ELAPSE
SCAR
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SUBLET
PALMS
REIGNS
DOME
IDIOT
BAIT
FLAMING
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SAID
PROFILE
OUGHT
AMPLE
NOD
CHIEF
ANTIQUITY
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META
CANDLE
EMPIRE
STORIES
DIARIES
POLO
ACHE
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This grid shows all words transformed, with patient zero in bold.
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TIME
FEIGN
ARIA
NATURE
BLURB
EXIST
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NETWORK
COLT
CAKE
HITS
END
GAGA
ALUMINUM
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PLAQUE
CART
NEBULA
AND
THING
COMBO
FLUB
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TICKER
STARTLE
RATING
MISSION
TRANQUIL
ELAPSE
SCARAB
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SUBTLE
PSALM
RESIGN
DOME
DOT
BAT
FLAMINGO
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SAID
PROFILE
TOUGH
AMPLE
NOD
CHEF
ANTIQUITY
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MEAT
CANDLE
EMPIRE
STORES
DARES
POLO
ACHE
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Note that in some cases a word is vulnerable to a transformation (for example, TRIPLE DECAPITATION could have affected PROFILE, leaving FILE) even though we do not show the word affected above. A word has to be adjacent to an infected word to become infected itself, as the transformation spreads like a disease. If the solver identifies all words vulnerable to a transformation, they will notice that most belong to one connected component.
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There are sixteen “survivor” words which are unaffected. To see how they survived, metaphorically speaking, read off their first letters to get the answer, ENCHANTED PANACEA.
by Iolanthe Chronis, Travis Hance, Brian Hamrick, Tiffany Dohzen, and Andrea Hawksley
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Answer: ENCHANTED PANACEA
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Each of the five answers clues a transformation on words. For each transformation, one word is the result of said transformation applied to a disease.
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Transformation
Disease
Word in grid
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ANAL BLEEDING
Append A, B, AB, or O to the end.
FLU
FLUB
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BLINDNESS
Remove all I’s
POLIO
POLO
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DISLOCATED TAILBONE
Move last letter somewhere else.
AIDS
SAID
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TRIPLE DECAPITATION
Remove the first three letters.
MALARIA
ARIA
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VOICELESSNESS
Replace voiced consonants with their unvoiced counterparts.
COLD
COLT
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The transformed word is “patient zero” for the transformation; the solver must apply that transformation to the adjacent words, and words adjacent to them, and so on, as far as it can spread. The below grid is the original puzzle, for reference:
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JAR
DIME
VAIN
ARIA
SIGNATURE
BLUR
EXIST
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NETWORK
COLT
CAKE
HITS
FRIEND
GAG
ALUMINUM
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BLACK
GUARD
NEBULA
ISLAND
CLOTHING
COMB
FLUB
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DIGGER
STARLET
OPERATING
COMMISSION
TRANQUIL
ELAPSE
SCAR
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SUBLET
PALMS
REIGNS
DOME
IDIOT
BAIT
FLAMING
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SAID
PROFILE
OUGHT
AMPLE
NOD
CHIEF
ANTIQUITY
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META
CANDLE
EMPIRE
STORIES
DIARIES
POLO
ACHE
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This grid shows all words transformed, with patient zero in bold.
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TIME
FEIGN
ARIA
NATURE
BLURB
EXIST
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NETWORK
COLT
CAKE
HITS
END
GAGA
ALUMINUM
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PLAQUE
CART
NEBULA
AND
THING
COMBO
FLUB
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TICKER
STARTLE
RATING
MISSION
TRANQUIL
ELAPSE
SCARAB
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SUBTLE
PSALM
RESIGN
DOME
DOT
BAT
FLAMINGO
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SAID
PROFILE
TOUGH
AMPLE
NOD
CHEF
ANTIQUITY
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MEAT
CANDLE
EMPIRE
STORES
DARES
POLO
ACHE
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Note that in some cases a word is vulnerable to a transformation (for example, TRIPLE DECAPITATION could have affected PROFILE, leaving FILE) even though we do not show the word affected above. A word has to be adjacent to an infected word to become infected itself, as the transformation spreads like a disease. If the solver identifies all words vulnerable to a transformation, they will notice that most belong to one connected component.
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There are sixteen “survivor” words which are unaffected. To see how they survived, metaphorically speaking, read off their first letters to get the answer, ENCHANTED PANACEA.
by Iolanthe Chronis, Travis Hance, Brian Hamrick, Tiffany Dohzen, and Andrea Hawksley
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Answer: ENCHANTED PANACEA
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Each of the five answers clues a transformation on words. For each transformation, one word is the result of said transformation applied to a disease.
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Answer
Transformation
Disease
Word in grid
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ANAL BLEEDING
Append A, B, AB, or O to the end.
FLU
FLUB
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BLINDNESS
Remove all I’s
POLIO
POLO
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DISLOCATED TAILBONE
Move last letter somewhere else.
AIDS
SAID
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TRIPLE DECAPITATION
Remove the first three letters.
MALARIA
ARIA
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VOICELESSNESS
Replace voiced consonants with their unvoiced counterparts.
COLD
COLT
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The transformed word is “patient zero” for the transformation; the solver must apply that transformation to the adjacent words, and words adjacent to them, and so on, as far as it can spread. The below grid is the original puzzle, for reference:
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JAR
DIME
VAIN
ARIA
SIGNATURE
BLUR
EXIST
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NETWORK
COLT
CAKE
HITS
FRIEND
GAG
ALUMINUM
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BLACK
GUARD
NEBULA
ISLAND
CLOTHING
COMB
FLUB
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DIGGER
STARLET
OPERATING
COMMISSION
TRANQUIL
ELAPSE
SCAR
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SUBLET
PALMS
REIGNS
DOME
IDIOT
BAIT
FLAMING
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SAID
PROFILE
OUGHT
AMPLE
NOD
CHIEF
ANTIQUITY
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META
CANDLE
EMPIRE
STORIES
DIARIES
POLO
ACHE
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This grid shows all words transformed, with patient zero in bold.
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CHAR
TIME
FEIGN
ARIA
NATURE
BLURB
EXIST
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NETWORK
COLT
CAKE
HITS
END
GAGA
ALUMINUM
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PLAQUE
CART
NEBULA
AND
THING
COMBO
FLUB
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TICKER
STARTLE
RATING
MISSION
TRANQUIL
ELAPSE
SCARAB
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SUBTLE
PSALM
RESIGN
DOME
DOT
BAT
FLAMINGO
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SAID
PROFILE
TOUGH
AMPLE
NOD
CHEF
ANTIQUITY
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MEAT
CANDLE
EMPIRE
STORES
DARES
POLO
ACHE
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Note that in some cases a word is vulnerable to a transformation (for example, TRIPLE DECAPITATION could have affected PROFILE, leaving FILE) even though we do not show the word affected above. A word has to be adjacent to an infected word to become infected itself, as the transformation spreads like a disease. If the solver identifies all words vulnerable to a transformation, they will notice that most belong to one connected component.
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There are sixteen “survivor” words which are unaffected. To see how they survived, metaphorically speaking, read off their first letters to get the answer, ENCHANTED PANACEA.
by Iolanthe Chronis, Travis Hance, Brian Hamrick, Tiffany Dohzen, and Andrea Hawksley
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Answer: ENCHANTED PANACEA
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Each of the five answers clues a transformation on words. For each transformation, one word is the result of said transformation applied to a disease.
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Answer
Transformation
Disease
Word in grid
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ANAL BLEEDING
Append A, B, AB, or O to the end.
FLU
FLUB
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BLINDNESS
Remove all I’s
POLIO
POLO
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DISLOCATED TAILBONE
Move last letter somewhere else.
AIDS
SAID
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TRIPLE DECAPITATION
Remove the first three letters.
MALARIA
ARIA
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VOICELESSNESS
Replace voiced consonants with their unvoiced counterparts.
COLD
COLT
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The transformed word is “patient zero” for the transformation; the solver must apply that transformation to the adjacent words, and words adjacent to them, and so on, as far as it can spread. The below grid is the original puzzle, for reference:
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JAR
DIME
VAIN
ARIA
SIGNATURE
BLUR
EXIST
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NETWORK
COLT
CAKE
HITS
FRIEND
GAG
ALUMINUM
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BLACK
GUARD
NEBULA
ISLAND
CLOTHING
COMB
FLUB
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DIGGER
STARLET
OPERATING
COMMISSION
TRANQUIL
ELAPSE
SCAR
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SUBLET
PALMS
REIGNS
DOME
IDIOT
BAIT
FLAMING
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SAID
PROFILE
OUGHT
AMPLE
NOD
CHIEF
ANTIQUITY
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META
CANDLE
EMPIRE
STORIES
DIARIES
POLO
ACHE
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This grid shows all words transformed, with patient zero in bold.
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CHAR
TIME
FEIGN
ARIA
NATURE
BLURB
EXIST
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NETWORK
COLT
CAKE
HITS
END
GAGA
ALUMINUM
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PLAQUE
CART
NEBULA
AND
THING
COMBO
FLUB
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TICKER
STARTLE
RATING
MISSION
TRANQUIL
ELAPSE
SCARAB
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SUBTLE
PSALM
RESIGN
DOME
DOT
BAT
FLAMINGO
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SAID
PROFILE
TOUGH
AMPLE
NOD
CHEF
ANTIQUITY
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MEAT
CANDLE
EMPIRE
STORES
DARES
POLO
ACHE
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Note that in some cases a word is vulnerable to a transformation (for example, TRIPLE DECAPITATION could have affected PROFILE, leaving FILE) even though we do not show the word affected above. A word has to be adjacent to an infected word to become infected itself, as the transformation spreads like a disease. If the solver identifies all words vulnerable to a transformation, they will notice that most belong to one connected component.
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There are sixteen “survivor” words which are unaffected. To see how they survived, metaphorically speaking, read off their first letters to get the answer, ENCHANTED PANACEA.
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Use the word lengths to help solve the clues. As a check, the answers are in alphabetical order. Recognize that there are some commonalities and sort the answers into groups of 3. As hinted with the title, title font, and copyright notice, each grouping matches the theme of a Monday New York Times crossword from 2014. Each of these crosswords has a “theme revealer” answer. Order the theme revealers from oldest to newest and index in by the numbers given to yield ROBBERIES, the answer.
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PRESSURE COOKER
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REC CENTER
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2/10/2014
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CULTURE CLASH
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SPARE CHANGE
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MUDDY
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DIRTY WORDS
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3/24/2014
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7
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GROSS
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DUSTY
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NECK
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BODY DOUBLES
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4/28/2014
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TOE
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ELBOW
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BLUE BOOK
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B-TEAM
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6/16/2014
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BACK BURNER
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BAD BLOOD
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GAME HIGHLIGHTS
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BEAUTY PARLOR
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7/7/2014
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2
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TEMP
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PHONE
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NO EXIT
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AIRPLANE SEATS
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8/4/2014
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3
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R
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MALCOLM IN THE
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OUT THE WINDOW
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LIVIN LA VIDA
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MISSIN G
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10/6/2014
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5
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I
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JUMPIN JUMPIN
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STAYIN ALIVE
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OTHELLO
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GAME SEVEN
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10/13/2014
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4
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CRANIUM
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OLD MAID
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ALANIS
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TWINS
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11/17/2014
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5
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S
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ELVIS PRESLEY
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SCARLETT
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+ Solution to A Case of the Monday Crosswords — MIT Mystery Hunt 2015
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Use the word lengths to help solve the clues. As a check, the answers are in alphabetical order. Recognize that there are some commonalities and sort the answers into groups of 3. As hinted with the title, title font, and copyright notice, each grouping matches the theme of a Monday New York Times crossword from 2014. Each of these crosswords has a “theme revealer” answer. Order the theme revealers from oldest to newest and index in by the numbers given to yield ROBBERIES, the answer.
1. Sudoku unit
+4. Shampoo additive
+7. "The kid ___ my son"
+(Michael Jackson lyric)
+11. Runs into headfirst
+15. Soba alternative
+16. Puzzling hero created by Patrick
+Merrell
+17. Signed
+18. Vex
+19. "Dirty Jobs" star Mike
+20. Eclipse, somewhat ironically
+22. Horn in on?
+23. Chinese for "grandmother"
+25. Cheated on a check
+26. With 76-Across, important song
+28. Tedious
+30. City west of Daytona Beach
+32. "Ziegfeld Follies"
+Broadway star Ruth
+33. Sound in Gateway commercials, once
+34. Shore-to-ship callers
+38. Eritrea borders it
+42. Early Linux distribution
+44. Mother of the Titans
+45. Prosecutorial helpers: Abbr.
+48. Teammate of Pedroia
+49. Garage sale caveat
+50. "Frozen" reindeer
+51. Post on a ship's deck
+52. Glen of Edinburgh
+53. Tabloid's stock-in-trade
+54. WSW's opposite
+55. "Yeah, right!"
+56. Scopes trial org.
+57. Frequent "Happy Days"
+setting
+58. Manipulator
+59. 52-Across, e.g.
+60. One for whom black is the new black
+61. Gypsy ___ (burlesque icon)
+63. Pay homage to
+65. Be behind
+67. "___ Handle" (Black
+Crowes breakout hit)
+71. Minor planet discovered in 2003
+73. Ottoman Empire coins
+76. See 26-Across
+79. Certain security interests
+81. Touched down
+82. "Danny Boy" verb
+83. Source of gnus?
+86. "___, This Is the Place"
+(state song)
+
1. Prepare, as a listicle
+2. Descendant of Esau
+3. Kitsch
+4. Russian town with a namesake body
+of water
+5. Prefix with "-cyte"
+6. Bests
+7. "___ Shoes"
+(Collette/Diaz comedy-drama)
+8. Snowmobile brand
+9. Reality TV star Leakes
+10. City near Kiev: Var.
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+11. Legendary Viking king Lodbrok
+12. Wide-eyed
+13. Thomas who promotes St. Jude
+Children's Research Hospital (which was founded by her father)
+14. "The Feast of Saint
+Nicholas" painter
+21. British submachine gun
+24. Visitors to probate court
+27. Most unctuous
+29. PlayStation maker, on a ticker
+31. Philip and Ira Glass, e.g.
+33. Placemat puzzle, perhaps
+35. Goes
+36. Taunting word
+37. More clearheaded
+39. Infamously strict legislator of
+Athens
+40. It's so veiny
+41. German article
+43. Word after "yes" or
+"no"
+45. Indiana-Illinois border river
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+46. Studio 54, and others
+47. Army meal
+52. "Amen"
+53. Big name in fashion
+57. "Farscape" oath
+58. ___ del Sol (Madrid plaza)
+62. Bonnie one, maybe
+64. Willow twigs
+66. Solidarity bigwig
+68. Symbols of change
+69. Emergency prioritization procedure
+70. Like some justifications
+72. "Rama Lama Ding Dong"
+group, with "the"
+73. Lite-Brite piece
+74. Musical liability
+75. Elroy's animated pet
+76. Nudge, in a way
+77. Robotic dog
+78. Stranger
+80. Like many airports: Abbr.
+84. Mass unit
+85. "___ be my pleasure"
+
by Megan Russell, Arshia Surti, Heather Sweeney, and Hosea Siu
+
Answer: Click here to reveal
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+ The first step is to discover that all of the cities are home
+ to IPV4 DNS root servers. The interactive map
+ at http://www.root-servers.org/
+ can be used to find server information. For example, Quezon
+ City hosts a DNS root server at 192.58.128.30.
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+
+ The next step (still using Quezon City as an example) is to
+ apply the indexing instructions
+ "4(4+1)_(1-6)(1-6)3" to the root server ip
+ address. Taking it as "digit 4, digit 4 + digit 1, digit 1 -
+ digit 6, digit 1 - digit 6, digit 3" gives 5, 6, 0, 0, 2 for
+ room 56-002.
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+ Upon going to building 56 and visiting room 56-002, the solver
+ will see a marked pipe exiting the room. That pipe continues
+ on to one of the non-numbered rooms, in this case room 16-065
+ corresponding to Fussa. The marker on the pipe end in 56-002
+ indicates the subway lines (on the map) used to connect the
+ two cities. In this case the list is red, blue, orange, pink,
+ red.
+
+
+ Tracing out a route between Quezon City and Fussa on the
+ subway map by following those five colored lines in order
+ draws the letter O.
+
by Megan Russell, Arshia Surti, Heather Sweeney, and Hosea Siu
+
Answer: Click here to reveal
+
+
+
+ The first step is to discover that all of the cities are home
+ to IPV4 DNS root servers. The interactive map
+ at http://www.root-servers.org/
+ can be used to find server information. For example, Quezon
+ City hosts a DNS root server at 192.58.128.30.
+
+
+ The next step (still using Quezon City as an example) is to
+ apply the indexing instructions
+ "4(4+1)_(1-6)(1-6)3" to the root server ip
+ address. Taking it as "digit 4, digit 4 + digit 1, digit 1 -
+ digit 6, digit 1 - digit 6, digit 3" gives 5, 6, 0, 0, 2 for
+ room 56-002.
+
+
+ Upon going to building 56 and visiting room 56-002, the solver
+ will see a marked pipe exiting the room. That pipe continues
+ on to one of the non-numbered rooms, in this case room 16-065
+ corresponding to Fussa. The marker on the pipe end in 56-002
+ indicates the subway lines (on the map) used to connect the
+ two cities. In this case the list is red, blue, orange, pink,
+ red.
+
+
+ Tracing out a route between Quezon City and Fussa on the
+ subway map by following those five colored lines in order
+ draws the letter O.
+
Go left as far as you can go even going out of bounds and start in the square directly above a purple bar and partially left of an orange line. Move right until you're just left of a shaded square.
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Jump right and stop in the second square above a pink bar.
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Jump left and stop at the square just before you would cross a red line.
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Jump left and stop on the square just after crossing the second yellow line. Move right until you are in the next set of shaded squares and stop in the last one in that group.
+
Jump down and stop on the square immediately after passing over a white bar. Move left until until you are in the next set of shaded squares and stop in the last one in that group.
+
Jump right past a light blue line and stop in the square just past a yellow line.
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Jump down and stop in the first shaded square.
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Jump right and stop in the first square that is a different shade than the square you jumped from. Move up and stop in the square just after passing a pink line.
+
Jump left and stop in the first shaded square. Move up and stop in the square before passing a pink bar.
+
Jump left and stop in the second square partially under a green bar. Move down and stop in the first square that is two squares left of a shaded square.
+
Jump left and stop in the square that is just under the left end of a teal bar. Move up and stop as soon as there is one square between you and a white bar.
+
Jump right and stop in the first square entirely above a light blue bar.
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Jump left and stop in the first square immediately after crossing a blue line.
+
Jump left and stop in the first square partially above a pink bar. Move left until you are in the square just above the left end of a pink bar.
+
Jump diagonally down and left and stop when you are in a square just under the right end of a light blue bar. Move down until you are just above a yellow bar.
+
Jump up and stop when you are in a square directly under both an orange and a green bar.
+
Jump right and stop in the first square between two shaded squares.
+
Jump left and stop in a square partially above a yellow line.
+
Jump down and stop in the first square after passing a pink bar. Move down until you are in the first square just right of a shaded square.
+
Jump right and stop when you are in the first square you reach so that there is one square between you and the yellow line. Move right until you are in the first square above both an orange and green bar.
+
Jump right and stop in the third shaded square. Move right until you are in the first square just left of a shaded square.
+
Jump right and stop in the first square fully above a red bar.
+
Jump up and stop on the second square you come to that is under a shaded square.
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Jump up and stop in the square just after passing a white bar. Move right and stop in the last square completely above this white bar.
+
Jump right and stop in the first square partially above a blue bar.
+
Jump diagonally down and right and stop when you are in a square directly under a blue bar. Move down and stop just after passing a green bar.
+
Jump left and stop in the first square partially under a teal bar. Move up and stop in the square just after passing a pink line.
+
Jump left and stop in the first square partially under a light blue bar. Move down and stop in the square just before you would pass a white bar.
+
Jump left and stop in the first square directly above a red bar. Move right and stop in the first square partially above a blue bar.
+
Jump diagonally down and right and stop in a square partially above a white bar. Move up and stop in a square just past a red line.
+
Jump right and stop in the first square partially below a yellow bar. Move up and stop in the last square completely left of a red line.
+
Jump right and stop in the first square partially under a yellow bar. Move down and stop in the first shaded square.
+
Admire your work but make sure to take into account what you're missing.
Go left as far as you can go even going out of bounds and start in the square directly above a purple bar and partially left of an orange line. Move right until you're just left of a shaded square.
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Jump right and stop in the second square above a pink bar.
+
Jump left and stop at the square just before you would cross a red line.
+
Jump left and stop on the square just after crossing the second yellow line. Move right until you are in the next set of shaded squares and stop in the last one in that group.
+
Jump down and stop on the square immediately after passing over a white bar. Move left until until you are in the next set of shaded squares and stop in the last one in that group.
+
Jump right past a light blue line and stop in the square just past a yellow line.
+
Jump down and stop in the first shaded square.
+
Jump right and stop in the first square that is a different shade than the square you jumped from. Move up and stop in the square just after passing a pink line.
+
Jump left and stop in the first shaded square. Move up and stop in the square before passing a pink bar.
+
Jump left and stop in the second square partially under a green bar. Move down and stop in the first square that is two squares left of a shaded square.
+
Jump left and stop in the square that is just under the left end of a teal bar. Move up and stop as soon as there is one square between you and a white bar.
+
Jump right and stop in the first square entirely above a light blue bar.
+
Jump left and stop in the first square immediately after crossing a blue line.
+
Jump left and stop in the first square partially above a pink bar. Move left until you are in the square just above the left end of a pink bar.
+
Jump diagonally down and left and stop when you are in a square just under the right end of a light blue bar. Move down until you are just above a yellow bar.
+
Jump up and stop when you are in a square directly under both an orange and a green bar.
+
Jump right and stop in the first square between two shaded squares.
+
Jump left and stop in a square partially above a yellow line.
+
Jump down and stop in the first square after passing a pink bar. Move down until you are in the first square just right of a shaded square.
+
Jump right and stop when you are in the first square you reach so that there is one square between you and the yellow line. Move right until you are in the first square above both an orange and green bar.
+
Jump right and stop in the third shaded square. Move right until you are in the first square just left of a shaded square.
+
Jump right and stop in the first square fully above a red bar.
+
Jump up and stop on the second square you come to that is under a shaded square.
+
Jump up and stop in the square just after passing a white bar. Move right and stop in the last square completely above this white bar.
+
Jump right and stop in the first square partially above a blue bar.
+
Jump diagonally down and right and stop when you are in a square directly under a blue bar. Move down and stop just after passing a green bar.
+
Jump left and stop in the first square partially under a teal bar. Move up and stop in the square just after passing a pink line.
+
Jump left and stop in the first square partially under a light blue bar. Move down and stop in the square just before you would pass a white bar.
+
Jump left and stop in the first square directly above a red bar. Move right and stop in the first square partially above a blue bar.
+
Jump diagonally down and right and stop in a square partially above a white bar. Move up and stop in a square just past a red line.
+
Jump right and stop in the first square partially below a yellow bar. Move up and stop in the last square completely left of a red line.
+
Jump right and stop in the first square partially under a yellow bar. Move down and stop in the first shaded square.
+
Admire your work but make sure to take into account what you're missing.
We wanted a vacation to liven our boring lives, and did we ever get it! Murder, robbery, and life on the run followed. We blew up a fuel truck, and ended up at the Grand Canyon, where we decided not to surrender, and go out our own way.
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Although I had a child with your predecessor you were my one true love. Getting into your home was no easy task, for I had to present myself rolled into a gift. Forever we will be remembered on stage, screen, and in history. Our worlds collided however our empires did not. We could have taken over the world.
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You broke us free from that cage and led us on so many adventures together. Narf. I don't know why we spent so much time doing all those things. Oh... That's right, you wanted to take over the world.
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Your parents disowned you, but you married me anyway and we settled down for a normal life. We raised two kids together, stayed together more than eighty years, and through it all you never got fat on those big sandwiches.
+
I was a rabbit, and you were human, but we were both Toons, and that was good enough in our town. You cheated on me, and then I got framed for your lover's murder, but it all worked out in the end.
+
You were my cousin, but who cares! We were to be married the moment we met. It was the Golden Age and we would rule together. Funding the travels of many explorers who one day would have a holiday named after them.
+
We started in the burlesque scene with our skit comedy. We performed on the radio and that's when the real show started. They called us the "Kings of Comedy" and even gave us some movie contracts. Including one really weird comic version where we meet a big green monster! We will go on to be the early pioneers of episodic television.
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My fairytale began when I met you, you were my sister after all. We went for a stroll through the woods only to find the home of our dreams, a house made entirely of candy! Little did we know we would end up being the meal.
+
You were wounded in battle, and I healed you. Later I had to marry your uncle, though I did and would always love you. Our story was as everlasting as our love, and was retold through the ages, including in a 2006 film.
+
My twin, you and I were the sons of a god. After restoring our grandfather to the throne, we chose to start a new city. Too bad you could not see eye to eye with me on where to place it; I had to kill you for that, and name the city for myself.
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I really thought you loved me. So we had a fight? So what, couples fight. But you had to do the worst thing, you had to find someone else. The worst part? You let me catch you in the act. I did what any woman would do, I ended your life! The music was written first in 1904 but our story would be eventually told and recorded over and over throughout the century.
+
You loved chasing and tormenting me, though I always got away and sometimes retaliated violently. Even though your job was to keep pests like me out of the house, once in a while we made up and acted like good friends.
+
Our love was doomed from the start, by the stars, some said, as our families hated each other and neither would ever allow us to marry. You thought I had died, and took your own life, and when I discovered this, I took mine as well.
+
I from Roxbury, and you from New York, got together and made great art for the masses. We were such a part of American culture that they wrote our names into a Christmas song decades after our deaths.
+
I was sworn to a divine oath before I was even born, and because of it, I could not be beaten. But I fell in love with you, let my secret slip, and you took my locks, my strength, and everything.
+
Working all those years at that power plant just to know that I had you to come home to. You with that beautiful blue hair, and our amazing kids who never age. How could you have left me after all those years? Doh!
+
I wrote great words, and you wrote great music. The stage shows we wrote, about everything from pirates to three little Japanese maids, kept Victorian audiences (and those for generations to come) in stitches.
+
It was a dream come true, I have met my partner in crime. Literally! We went on that tremendous road trip together, too bad we were being chased. I tried to save us by firing off that first shot but unfortunately we were surrounded. We did die doing what we love, robbing banks!
+
I operated a crane, and drove our foot-powered car, and you took care of our stone house and our daughter. We had great fun, sometimes with our neighbors, whose son eventually married our daughter.
+
Did you know that your kiss was on my list? I mean for a man eater you really did steal the scene. Who knew that day when we first met we would be inducted into the hall of fame of Rock n Roll?
+
I was a billionaire, rich enough to afford my own cave. You were an acrobat, but we were both orphans. We made a great duo, fighting the evils around us. For more than 70 years our stories have appeared in print and on the big and small screens.
+
I was not a good father to our child, and had run-ins with the law, a crocodile, a ghost, or even the devil, but the tall stick I carried always beat them all down. "No strings attached" is a phrase that didn't really apply to us, though in later times those sticks and strings were replaced by hands.
We wanted a vacation to liven our boring lives, and did we ever get it! Murder, robbery, and life on the run followed. We blew up a fuel truck, and ended up at the Grand Canyon, where we decided not to surrender, and go out our own way.
+
Although I had a child with your predecessor you were my one true love. Getting into your home was no easy task, for I had to present myself rolled into a gift. Forever we will be remembered on stage, screen, and in history. Our worlds collided however our empires did not. We could have taken over the world.
+
You broke us free from that cage and led us on so many adventures together. Narf. I don't know why we spent so much time doing all those things. Oh... That's right, you wanted to take over the world.
+
Your parents disowned you, but you married me anyway and we settled down for a normal life. We raised two kids together, stayed together more than eighty years, and through it all you never got fat on those big sandwiches.
+
I was a rabbit, and you were human, but we were both Toons, and that was good enough in our town. You cheated on me, and then I got framed for your lover's murder, but it all worked out in the end.
+
You were my cousin, but who cares! We were to be married the moment we met. It was the Golden Age and we would rule together. Funding the travels of many explorers who one day would have a holiday named after them.
+
We started in the burlesque scene with our skit comedy. We performed on the radio and that's when the real show started. They called us the "Kings of Comedy" and even gave us some movie contracts. Including one really weird comic version where we meet a big green monster! We will go on to be the early pioneers of episodic television.
+
My fairytale began when I met you, you were my sister after all. We went for a stroll through the woods only to find the home of our dreams, a house made entirely of candy! Little did we know we would end up being the meal.
+
You were wounded in battle, and I healed you. Later I had to marry your uncle, though I did and would always love you. Our story was as everlasting as our love, and was retold through the ages, including in a 2006 film.
+
My twin, you and I were the sons of a god. After restoring our grandfather to the throne, we chose to start a new city. Too bad you could not see eye to eye with me on where to place it; I had to kill you for that, and name the city for myself.
+
I really thought you loved me. So we had a fight? So what, couples fight. But you had to do the worst thing, you had to find someone else. The worst part? You let me catch you in the act. I did what any woman would do, I ended your life! The music was written first in 1904 but our story would be eventually told and recorded over and over throughout the century.
+
You loved chasing and tormenting me, though I always got away and sometimes retaliated violently. Even though your job was to keep pests like me out of the house, once in a while we made up and acted like good friends.
+
Our love was doomed from the start, by the stars, some said, as our families hated each other and neither would ever allow us to marry. You thought I had died, and took your own life, and when I discovered this, I took mine as well.
+
I from Roxbury, and you from New York, got together and made great art for the masses. We were such a part of American culture that they wrote our names into a Christmas song decades after our deaths.
+
I was sworn to a divine oath before I was even born, and because of it, I could not be beaten. But I fell in love with you, let my secret slip, and you took my locks, my strength, and everything.
+
Working all those years at that power plant just to know that I had you to come home to. You with that beautiful blue hair, and our amazing kids who never age. How could you have left me after all those years? Doh!
+
I wrote great words, and you wrote great music. The stage shows we wrote, about everything from pirates to three little Japanese maids, kept Victorian audiences (and those for generations to come) in stitches.
+
It was a dream come true, I have met my partner in crime. Literally! We went on that tremendous road trip together, too bad we were being chased. I tried to save us by firing off that first shot but unfortunately we were surrounded. We did die doing what we love, robbing banks!
+
I operated a crane, and drove our foot-powered car, and you took care of our stone house and our daughter. We had great fun, sometimes with our neighbors, whose son eventually married our daughter.
+
Did you know that your kiss was on my list? I mean for a man eater you really did steal the scene. Who knew that day when we first met we would be inducted into the hall of fame of Rock n Roll?
+
I was a billionaire, rich enough to afford my own cave. You were an acrobat, but we were both orphans. We made a great duo, fighting the evils around us. For more than 70 years our stories have appeared in print and on the big and small screens.
+
I was not a good father to our child, and had run-ins with the law, a crocodile, a ghost, or even the devil, but the tall stick I carried always beat them all down. "No strings attached" is a phrase that didn't really apply to us, though in later times those sticks and strings were replaced by hands.
We wanted a vacation to liven our boring lives, and did we ever get it! Murder, robbery, and life on the run followed. We blew up a fuel truck, and ended up at the Grand Canyon, where we decided not to surrender, and go out our own way.
+
Although I had a child with your predecessor you were my one true love. Getting into your home was no easy task, for I had to present myself rolled into a gift. Forever we will be remembered on stage, screen, and in history. Our worlds collided however our empires did not. We could have taken over the world.
+
You broke us free from that cage and led us on so many adventures together. Narf. I don't know why we spent so much time doing all those things. Oh... That's right, you wanted to take over the world.
+
Your parents disowned you, but you married me anyway and we settled down for a normal life. We raised two kids together, stayed together more than eighty years, and through it all you never got fat on those big sandwiches.
+
I was a rabbit, and you were human, but we were both Toons, and that was good enough in our town. You cheated on me, and then I got framed for your lover's murder, but it all worked out in the end.
+
You were my cousin, but who cares! We were to be married the moment we met. It was the Golden Age and we would rule together. Funding the travels of many explorers who one day would have a holiday named after them.
+
We started in the burlesque scene with our skit comedy. We performed on the radio and that's when the real show started. They called us the "Kings of Comedy" and even gave us some movie contracts. Including one really weird comic version where we meet a big green monster! We will go on to be the early pioneers of episodic television.
+
My fairytale began when I met you, you were my sister after all. We went for a stroll through the woods only to find the home of our dreams, a house made entirely of candy! Little did we know we would end up being the meal.
+
You were wounded in battle, and I healed you. Later I had to marry your uncle, though I did and would always love you. Our story was as everlasting as our love, and was retold through the ages, including in a 2006 film.
+
My twin, you and I were the sons of a god. After restoring our grandfather to the throne, we chose to start a new city. Too bad you could not see eye to eye with me on where to place it; I had to kill you for that, and name the city for myself.
+
I really thought you loved me. So we had a fight? So what, couples fight. But you had to do the worst thing, you had to find someone else. The worst part? You let me catch you in the act. I did what any woman would do, I ended your life! The music was written first in 1904 but our story would be eventually told and recorded over and over throughout the century.
+
You loved chasing and tormenting me, though I always got away and sometimes retaliated violently. Even though your job was to keep pests like me out of the house, once in a while we made up and acted like good friends.
+
Our love was doomed from the start, by the stars, some said, as our families hated each other and neither would ever allow us to marry. You thought I had died, and took your own life, and when I discovered this, I took mine as well.
+
I from Roxbury, and you from New York, got together and made great art for the masses. We were such a part of American culture that they wrote our names into a Christmas song decades after our deaths.
+
I was sworn to a divine oath before I was even born, and because of it, I could not be beaten. But I fell in love with you, let my secret slip, and you took my locks, my strength, and everything.
+
Working all those years at that power plant just to know that I had you to come home to. You with that beautiful blue hair, and our amazing kids who never age. How could you have left me after all those years? Doh!
+
I wrote great words, and you wrote great music. The stage shows we wrote, about everything from pirates to three little Japanese maids, kept Victorian audiences (and those for generations to come) in stitches.
+
It was a dream come true, I have met my partner in crime. Literally! We went on that tremendous road trip together, too bad we were being chased. I tried to save us by firing off that first shot but unfortunately we were surrounded. We did die doing what we love, robbing banks!
+
I operated a crane, and drove our foot-powered car, and you took care of our stone house and our daughter. We had great fun, sometimes with our neighbors, whose son eventually married our daughter.
+
Did you know that your kiss was on my list? I mean for a man eater you really did steal the scene. Who knew that day when we first met we would be inducted into the hall of fame of Rock n Roll?
+
I was a billionaire, rich enough to afford my own cave. You were an acrobat, but we were both orphans. We made a great duo, fighting the evils around us. For more than 70 years our stories have appeared in print and on the big and small screens.
+
I was not a good father to our child, and had run-ins with the law, a crocodile, a ghost, or even the devil, but the tall stick I carried always beat them all down. "No strings attached" is a phrase that didn't really apply to us, though in later times those sticks and strings were replaced by hands.
This puzzle requires you to identify a philosopher of each classification whose surname/mononym
+is “capped” by a word (some quantity of its consecutive first letters welded to some quantity of
+its consecutive last letters) that satisfies the rest of the clue. The flavortext provides an
+example of “scholastic blues”, referring to the famous scholasticist [Thomas] AQU(in)AS, where
+AQUAS = a“blues”. I did my best to be inclusive of both genders, a mix of religions, and a blend
+of Eastern and Western philosophers, but had to fit the extraction mechanism limitations.
+
+
The blanks in front of each clue indicate the length of the capping word, and the ? represents
+a letter to extract.
+
+
Most if not all of the names used can be found very handily in the time-ordered Wikipedia List
+of Western Philosophers and List of Eastern Philosophers. Any others were added with a quick
+Google search by religion + philosophy. The solver should have noted that the answers were being
+assembled alphabetical order, making the hunt for philosophers a lot more efficient.
+
+
For the second step, put the philosophers in birth date (era) order (or just follow the given
+order in the Wikipedia pages identified above), and the extracted "?" letters yield the final
+message:
+
+
+
+
+
A
+
+
+
384-322BC
+
+
+
ARIS(totl)E - A teleologic surface
+
+
+
+
+
N
+
+
+
320-230BC
+
+
+
T(im)ON - A pyrrhonist weight
+
+
+
+
+
U
+
+
+
99-55BC
+
+
+
LUC(ret)IUS – An epicurean death eater
+
+
+
+
+
B
+
+
+
400's
+
+
+
B(hartrh)ARI - A grammarian Adriatic city
+
+
+
+
+
E
+
+
+
1079-1142
+
+
+
ABE(lar)D - A universalist snoozing
+
+
+
+
+
R
+
+
+
1126-1198
+
+
+
AVER(roe)S - Monopsychist states
+
+
+
+
+
M
+
+
+
1135-1204
+
+
+
MAIM(onide)S – Apophatic wounds
+
+
+
+
+
E
+
+
+
1225-1274
+
+
+
BON(aventur)E - A scholastic matter
+
+
+
+
+
N
+
+
+
1300-1358
+
+
+
BU(rida)N - Nominalist breadstuff
+
+
+
+
+
S
+
+
+
1477-1531
+
+
+
ERA(smu)S – Humanist time periods
+
+
+
+
+
C
+
+
+
1509-1564
+
+
+
CA(lvi)N - A reformational ass
+
+
+
+
+
H
+
+
+
1588-1679
+
+
+
HO(bb)ES - Realist tools
+
+
+
+
+
P
+
+
+
1632-1677
+
+
+
SP(inoz)A - A rationalist resort
+
+
+
+
+
L
+
+
+
1694-1778
+
+
+
VOL(tair)E - A deist rodent
+
+
+
+
+
A
+
+
+
1758-1797
+
+
+
W(ollstonecr)AFT - A feminist drift
+
+
+
+
+
C
+
+
+
1845-1879
+
+
+
C(liff)ORD - An evidentialist line
+
+
+
+
+
E
+
+
+
1848-1923
+
+
+
B(os)ANQUET - An idealist feast
+
+
+
+
+
This philosophic message clues NI(ETSZ)CHE, giving NICHE as the final cap-word answer. This is
+disambiguated from NIETSZCHE as the final answer by the fact that my blanks for the rest of the
+puzzle only enumerate the endcap words.
+
+
Note: It is not mere coincidence that Nietszche would be last on the ordered list based on his
+birth date. I was simply being a conformist.
This puzzle requires you to identify a philosopher of each classification whose surname/mononym
+is “capped” by a word (some quantity of its consecutive first letters welded to some quantity of
+its consecutive last letters) that satisfies the rest of the clue. The flavortext provides an
+example of “scholastic blues”, referring to the famous scholasticist [Thomas] AQU(in)AS, where
+AQUAS = a“blues”. I did my best to be inclusive of both genders, a mix of religions, and a blend
+of Eastern and Western philosophers, but had to fit the extraction mechanism limitations.
+
+
The blanks in front of each clue indicate the length of the capping word, and the ? represents
+a letter to extract.
+
+
Most if not all of the names used can be found very handily in the time-ordered Wikipedia List
+of Western Philosophers and List of Eastern Philosophers. Any others were added with a quick
+Google search by religion + philosophy. The solver should have noted that the answers were being
+assembled alphabetical order, making the hunt for philosophers a lot more efficient.
+
+
For the second step, put the philosophers in birth date (era) order (or just follow the given
+order in the Wikipedia pages identified above), and the extracted "?" letters yield the final
+message:
+
+
+
+
+
A
+
+
+
384-322BC
+
+
+
ARIS(totl)E - A teleologic surface
+
+
+
+
+
N
+
+
+
320-230BC
+
+
+
T(im)ON - A pyrrhonist weight
+
+
+
+
+
U
+
+
+
99-55BC
+
+
+
LUC(ret)IUS – An epicurean death eater
+
+
+
+
+
B
+
+
+
400's
+
+
+
B(hartrh)ARI - A grammarian Adriatic city
+
+
+
+
+
E
+
+
+
1079-1142
+
+
+
ABE(lar)D - A universalist snoozing
+
+
+
+
+
R
+
+
+
1126-1198
+
+
+
AVER(roe)S - Monopsychist states
+
+
+
+
+
M
+
+
+
1135-1204
+
+
+
MAIM(onide)S – Apophatic wounds
+
+
+
+
+
E
+
+
+
1225-1274
+
+
+
BON(aventur)E - A scholastic matter
+
+
+
+
+
N
+
+
+
1300-1358
+
+
+
BU(rida)N - Nominalist breadstuff
+
+
+
+
+
S
+
+
+
1477-1531
+
+
+
ERA(smu)S – Humanist time periods
+
+
+
+
+
C
+
+
+
1509-1564
+
+
+
CA(lvi)N - A reformational ass
+
+
+
+
+
H
+
+
+
1588-1679
+
+
+
HO(bb)ES - Realist tools
+
+
+
+
+
P
+
+
+
1632-1677
+
+
+
SP(inoz)A - A rationalist resort
+
+
+
+
+
L
+
+
+
1694-1778
+
+
+
VOL(tair)E - A deist rodent
+
+
+
+
+
A
+
+
+
1758-1797
+
+
+
W(ollstonecr)AFT - A feminist drift
+
+
+
+
+
C
+
+
+
1845-1879
+
+
+
C(liff)ORD - An evidentialist line
+
+
+
+
+
E
+
+
+
1848-1923
+
+
+
B(os)ANQUET - An idealist feast
+
+
+
+
+
This philosophic message clues NI(ETSZ)CHE, giving NICHE as the final cap-word answer. This is
+disambiguated from NIETSZCHE as the final answer by the fact that my blanks for the rest of the
+puzzle only enumerate the endcap words.
+
+
Note: It is not mere coincidence that Nietszche would be last on the ordered list based on his
+birth date. I was simply being a conformist.
This puzzle requires you to identify a philosopher of each classification whose surname/mononym
+is “capped” by a word (some quantity of its consecutive first letters welded to some quantity of
+its consecutive last letters) that satisfies the rest of the clue. The flavortext provides an
+example of “scholastic blues”, referring to the famous scholasticist [Thomas] AQU(in)AS, where
+AQUAS = a“blues”. I did my best to be inclusive of both genders, a mix of religions, and a blend
+of Eastern and Western philosophers, but had to fit the extraction mechanism limitations.
+
+
The blanks in front of each clue indicate the length of the capping word, and the ? represents
+a letter to extract.
+
+
Most if not all of the names used can be found very handily in the time-ordered Wikipedia List
+of Western Philosophers and List of Eastern Philosophers. Any others were added with a quick
+Google search by religion + philosophy. The solver should have noted that the answers were being
+assembled alphabetical order, making the hunt for philosophers a lot more efficient.
+
+
For the second step, put the philosophers in birth date (era) order (or just follow the given
+order in the Wikipedia pages identified above), and the extracted "?" letters yield the final
+message:
+
+
+
+
+
A
+
+
+
384-322BC
+
+
+
ARIS(totl)E - A teleologic surface
+
+
+
+
+
N
+
+
+
320-230BC
+
+
+
T(im)ON - A pyrrhonist weight
+
+
+
+
+
U
+
+
+
99-55BC
+
+
+
LUC(ret)IUS – An epicurean death eater
+
+
+
+
+
B
+
+
+
400's
+
+
+
B(hartrh)ARI - A grammarian Adriatic city
+
+
+
+
+
E
+
+
+
1079-1142
+
+
+
ABE(lar)D - A universalist snoozing
+
+
+
+
+
R
+
+
+
1126-1198
+
+
+
AVER(roe)S - Monopsychist states
+
+
+
+
+
M
+
+
+
1135-1204
+
+
+
MAIM(onide)S – Apophatic wounds
+
+
+
+
+
E
+
+
+
1225-1274
+
+
+
BON(aventur)E - A scholastic matter
+
+
+
+
+
N
+
+
+
1300-1358
+
+
+
BU(rida)N - Nominalist breadstuff
+
+
+
+
+
S
+
+
+
1477-1531
+
+
+
ERA(smu)S – Humanist time periods
+
+
+
+
+
C
+
+
+
1509-1564
+
+
+
CA(lvi)N - A reformational ass
+
+
+
+
+
H
+
+
+
1588-1679
+
+
+
HO(bb)ES - Realist tools
+
+
+
+
+
P
+
+
+
1632-1677
+
+
+
SP(inoz)A - A rationalist resort
+
+
+
+
+
L
+
+
+
1694-1778
+
+
+
VOL(tair)E - A deist rodent
+
+
+
+
+
A
+
+
+
1758-1797
+
+
+
W(ollstonecr)AFT - A feminist drift
+
+
+
+
+
C
+
+
+
1845-1879
+
+
+
C(liff)ORD - An evidentialist line
+
+
+
+
+
E
+
+
+
1848-1923
+
+
+
B(os)ANQUET - An idealist feast
+
+
+
+
+
This philosophic message clues NI(ETSZ)CHE, giving NICHE as the final cap-word answer. This is
+disambiguated from NIETSZCHE as the final answer by the fact that my blanks for the rest of the
+puzzle only enumerate the endcap words.
+
+
Note: It is not mere coincidence that Nietszche would be last on the ordered list based on his
+birth date. I was simply being a conformist.
+ The events are in chronological order (this helps resolve some ambiguities, others can be resolved in following steps)
+
+
March 13, 1610: Galileo's Sidereus Nuncius published
+
Jan 17, 1706: Ben Franklin born
+
Dec 17, 1903: Wright Brothers flight
+
April 15, 1912: Titanic sinks
+
Oct 4, 1957: Sputnik
+
Oct 1, 1958: NASA opens (not the "founded" date, so some ambiguity here. In the next step the "founded" date gives an "X" which may help)
+
May 7, 1966: Big Sail dedicated
+
May 18, 1969: Apollo 10
+
July 20, 1969: Armstrong walks on moon
+
May 22, 1980: Pacman
+
July 14, 1983: Mario Brothers
+
April 20, 1993: Tewhey resigns
+
Jan 26, 1997: Super Bowl 31
+
March 23, 1998: Oscars Ceremony
+
Jan 15, 2001: Wikipedia starts
+
Aug 30, 2006: XKCD "Grownups"
+
Oct 5, 2011: Steve Jobs dies
+
Sept 14, 2015: Ahmed Mohammed takes clock to school
+
+
+
Calendar Letters, First Pass
+
+ These dates point to squares in the calendar pages. Take those to spell, in
+ the above order:
+
+
NEEDS A TAD MORE LOCAL
+
+
The Local Tie-In
+
+
You now may imagine that some local happenings are associated with these events.
+
+
Since two of the events are MIT-specific your searches may lead you to
+ encounter the information (or you might guess) that there have been
+ MIT Hacks associated with each of the events.
+
+
Of course you then repeat the process of looking up the dates for the events.
+
+Sort the hack dates into chronological order (as the initial events were given). As you did before, take the letter for the hack date on the matching
+calendar page. This gives:
+
+
+ May 8, 1993 = O
+ May 21, 1996 = L
+ January 27, 1997 = D
+ March 24, 1998 = F
+ September 12, 1998 = E
+ July 20, 1999 = R
+ December 17, 2003 = D
+ December 14, 2005 = I
+ May 14, 2007 = S
+ October 4, 2007 = T
+ January 17, 2008 = E
+ October 1, 2008 = A
+ May 17, 2009 = K
+ March 16, 2010 = H
+ January 15, 2011 = O
+ October 6, 2011 = U
+ January 10, 2013 = S
+ September 18, 2015 = E
+
+
+
Given "OLD FERDI STEAKHOUSE", various MIT hacking histories will tell
+you that Ferdi, the fiberglass cow in the MIT Museum, was originally
+from a Hilltop Steakhouse.
+
+
+ The events are in chronological order (this helps resolve some ambiguities, others can be resolved in following steps)
+
+
March 13, 1610: Galileo's Sidereus Nuncius published
+
Jan 17, 1706: Ben Franklin born
+
Dec 17, 1903: Wright Brothers flight
+
April 15, 1912: Titanic sinks
+
Oct 4, 1957: Sputnik
+
Oct 1, 1958: NASA opens (not the "founded" date, so some ambiguity here. In the next step the "founded" date gives an "X" which may help)
+
May 7, 1966: Big Sail dedicated
+
May 18, 1969: Apollo 10
+
July 20, 1969: Armstrong walks on moon
+
May 22, 1980: Pacman
+
July 14, 1983: Mario Brothers
+
April 20, 1993: Tewhey resigns
+
Jan 26, 1997: Super Bowl 31
+
March 23, 1998: Oscars Ceremony
+
Jan 15, 2001: Wikipedia starts
+
Aug 30, 2006: XKCD "Grownups"
+
Oct 5, 2011: Steve Jobs dies
+
Sept 14, 2015: Ahmed Mohammed takes clock to school
+
+
+
Calendar Letters, First Pass
+
+ These dates point to squares in the calendar pages. Take those to spell, in
+ the above order:
+
+
NEEDS A TAD MORE LOCAL
+
+
The Local Tie-In
+
+
You now may imagine that some local happenings are associated with these events.
+
+
Since two of the events are MIT-specific your searches may lead you to
+ encounter the information (or you might guess) that there have been
+ MIT Hacks associated with each of the events.
+
+
Of course you then repeat the process of looking up the dates for the events.
+
+Sort the hack dates into chronological order (as the initial events were given). As you did before, take the letter for the hack date on the matching
+calendar page. This gives:
+
+
+ May 8, 1993 = O
+ May 21, 1996 = L
+ January 27, 1997 = D
+ March 24, 1998 = F
+ September 12, 1998 = E
+ July 20, 1999 = R
+ December 17, 2003 = D
+ December 14, 2005 = I
+ May 14, 2007 = S
+ October 4, 2007 = T
+ January 17, 2008 = E
+ October 1, 2008 = A
+ May 17, 2009 = K
+ March 16, 2010 = H
+ January 15, 2011 = O
+ October 6, 2011 = U
+ January 10, 2013 = S
+ September 18, 2015 = E
+
+
+
Given "OLD FERDI STEAKHOUSE", various MIT hacking histories will tell
+you that Ferdi, the fiberglass cow in the MIT Museum, was originally
+from a Hilltop Steakhouse.
+
+
+ The events are in chronological order (this helps resolve some ambiguities, others can be resolved in following steps)
+
+
March 13, 1610: Galileo's Sidereus Nuncius published
+
Jan 17, 1706: Ben Franklin born
+
Dec 17, 1903: Wright Brothers flight
+
April 15, 1912: Titanic sinks
+
Oct 4, 1957: Sputnik
+
Oct 1, 1958: NASA opens (not the "founded" date, so some ambiguity here. In the next step the "founded" date gives an "X" which may help)
+
May 7, 1966: Big Sail dedicated
+
May 18, 1969: Apollo 10
+
July 20, 1969: Armstrong walks on moon
+
May 22, 1980: Pacman
+
July 14, 1983: Mario Brothers
+
April 20, 1993: Tewhey resigns
+
Jan 26, 1997: Super Bowl 31
+
March 23, 1998: Oscars Ceremony
+
Jan 15, 2001: Wikipedia starts
+
Aug 30, 2006: XKCD "Grownups"
+
Oct 5, 2011: Steve Jobs dies
+
Sept 14, 2015: Ahmed Mohammed takes clock to school
+
+
+
Calendar Letters, First Pass
+
+ These dates point to squares in the calendar pages. Take those to spell, in
+ the above order:
+
+
NEEDS A TAD MORE LOCAL
+
+
The Local Tie-In
+
+
You now may imagine that some local happenings are associated with these events.
+
+
Since two of the events are MIT-specific your searches may lead you to
+ encounter the information (or you might guess) that there have been
+ MIT Hacks associated with each of the events.
+
+
Of course you then repeat the process of looking up the dates for the events.
+
+Sort the hack dates into chronological order (as the initial events were given). As you did before, take the letter for the hack date on the matching
+calendar page. This gives:
+
+
+ May 8, 1993 = O
+ May 21, 1996 = L
+ January 27, 1997 = D
+ March 24, 1998 = F
+ September 12, 1998 = E
+ July 20, 1999 = R
+ December 17, 2003 = D
+ December 14, 2005 = I
+ May 14, 2007 = S
+ October 4, 2007 = T
+ January 17, 2008 = E
+ October 1, 2008 = A
+ May 17, 2009 = K
+ March 16, 2010 = H
+ January 15, 2011 = O
+ October 6, 2011 = U
+ January 10, 2013 = S
+ September 18, 2015 = E
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Given "OLD FERDI STEAKHOUSE", various MIT hacking histories will tell
+you that Ferdi, the fiberglass cow in the MIT Museum, was originally
+from a Hilltop Steakhouse.
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