one can replace the two-by-two
+ square of dots above with either
+
87 78
+76 or 85
+
to obtain a valid solution.
+ In either case, if we "look out for 2 3" as instructed, we find that
+ the 2's and 3's form the following pattern (using # for 2 and 3 and . for all
+ other numbers):
In this puzzle, one or two
+ hunters were led into a dark room, where they were seated at a table. On the
+ table were 13 wooden letters, which they were given 10 minutes to feel. Some
+ hunters memorized the letters; others wrote them on their hand. Anagramming
+ the letters gave the answer, forementioned.
Identify the locations,
+ then plot them on the map of letters.
+
Building
+ 70
+ Building 10
+ Building E51
+ Building 4
+ Building 33
+ Building 17
+ Building 2
+ Building 26
+ Building 35
+ Building 7
+ Building E25
+ Building 68
+ Building 14
The twelve names are the
+ CEOs of various companies, as follows:
+
Gregory Swienton
+ Ryder System
+
Thomas Lewis
+ Realty Income Corp.
+
John Welch, Jr.
+ General Electric
+
Jean-Pierre Tirouflet
+ Rhodia
+
Vincent Calarco
+ Crompton Corporation
+
D. Lee McCreary, Jr
+ ElderTrust
+
Jean-Marie Messier
+ Vivendi
+
Jose Collazo
+ Infonet Services
+
Ronald Turner
+ Ceridian Corporation
+
C. Michael Armstrong
+ AT&T
+
Luis Limon
+ Grupo Simec
+
Hendrik Verfaillie
+ Monsanto Company
+
Looking up the stock symbols
+ of these companies, you get the following:
+
Ryder System R
+ Realty Income Corp. O
+ General Electric GE
+ Rhodia RHA
+ Crompton Corporation CK
+ ElderTrust ETT
+ Vivendi V
+ Infonet Services IN
+ Ceridian Corporation CEN
+ AT&T T
+ Grupo Simec SIM
+ Monsanto Company MON
+
The stock symbols, taken
+ in order, spell out two names: ROGER HACKETT and VINCENT SIMMON. These two gentlemen
+ are the CEOs of two more companies: Sensory Science and Cortex Pharmaceuticals.
+ The answer to this puzzle is SENSORY CORTEX.
+
+
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+
+
+
+Solution: A Hex on You!
+
+
+
+
+
+
Solution:
+ A Hex on You!
+
Written by Eric Berlin
+
Filling in the grid, get
+ the victim names:
+
Darrin
+ Malfoy
+ Merlin
+
Along the vertical sides
+ of the grid, you find the following names:
+
Endora
+ Hermione
+ Morgan
+ Sea Hag
+
The missing name, which
+ matches Sea Hag, is POPEYE.
At any given time, the periodic
+ table shown by clicking "succeeded" differs from a correct periodic
+ table (such as the original version of this one, at http://pearl1.lanl.gov/periodic/default.htm)
+ in the entry for one particular element. Which element was so altered varied
+ frequently throughout the course of the hunt (the cron job to do this has since
+ stopped working), in the following cycle:
+
1. Au (gold) replaced by
+ Wr.
+ 2. Ag (silver) replaced by On.
+ 3. Fe (iron) replaced by Gn.
+ 4. Hg (mercury) replaced by Um.
+ 5. Sn (tin) replaced by Si.
+ 6. Cu (copper) replaced by Nw.
+ 7. Pb (lead) replaced by Ts.
+
+
Solvers could assemble this
+ list by checking the link "periodically," as instructed. There is
+ also a double-check that the list is complete and in the correct order, for
+ the more alchemically inclined solvers: The changed elements are exactly the
+ seven ancient metals, ordered by the standard correspondence between the metals,
+ the ancient "planets" (the sun, the moon, Mars, Mercury, Jupiter,
+ Venus, Saturn), and the days of the week (the sun <-> Sunday, the moon
+ <-> Monday, Mars <-> Tuesday, etc.).
+
The altered chemical symbols
+ spell out "Wrong nums in wts." Each element with an altered chemical
+ symbol had an atomic weight which was incorrect in one digit. The erroneous
+ digits, in order, formed a seven-digit phone number, which at the time of the
+ construction of the puzzle was the phone number of a local Sbarro restaurant
+ (unfortunately, this changed without our knowledge shortly before the Hunt started).
+ The solution is thus SBARRO.
Each of the four "direction"
+ webpages under the heading "The Clues" contains a list of 61 or 62
+ sets of five words. Each such set is a single clue for a phrase consisting of
+ two or (occasionally) three five-letter words, with the result that each page
+ clues 125 five-letter words (including some duplications).
+
The five webpages under
+ the heading "The Grid" each contain a "level," consisting
+ of five 5x5 grids of boxes (where each box contains five letters). These can
+ be thought of as constituting a 5x5x5x5 hypercube of boxes, with the four mutually
+ perpendicular directions being rightward within a given grid, downward
+ within a given grid (Y), through the grids on a given page (Z), and cutting
+ across the levels (W). To each direction corresponds one "direction"
+ webpage; the one-line introduction on each such page contains two instances
+ of a word ("right," "down," "though," and "level,"
+ respectively) that hints at the appropriate direction.
+
For each direction, then,
+ we have 125 five-letter words clued by the corresponding "direction"
+ webpage, and 125 straight paths through the cube in that direction, each consisting
+ of five consecutive boxes. The solver must match each word with a path such
+ that the word can be spelled out by selecting (and crossing off) one letter
+ from each box in the path, in sequence. If this is done properly (here
+ is the list of clue answers and the paths to which their words correspond),
+ four of the five letters in each box are crossed off (one by each of the words
+ in the X, Y, Z, and W directions whose paths contain that box), leaving one
+ remaining letter. The resulting grids, with crossed-out letters shown as dots,
+ are given here.
+
Note that each 5x5 grid
+ of boxes now contains 25 of the 26 letters of the alphabet, with one letter
+ remaining unused. The unused letters in the five grids on each level are as
+ follows:
The solver must, therefore,
+ run the Ouija Board program that may be found by clicking "Ouija Board"
+ on the "Welcome to Phase 4" page, and spell out on it the three words
+ THING, IHTFP, and FNORD.
+
A) When the solver spells
+ out THING on the Ouija Board, the URL "http://www.liii.com/~thomasw/bettermousetrap/thing.html"
+ appears. This page gives the specifications for the
+ Phase 4 object, a Rube Goldberg machine that rings a bell, opens a book, and
+ lights a candle.
+
B) When the solver spells
+ out IHTFP on the Ouija Board, the following changes occur to the board:
+
1) "+T" is added
+ to the lower right-hand star, and "RE" and "T" on either
+ side of the lower left-hand star. The stars have thus become rebuses for START
+ and RESTART, respectively.
+
2) A slash appears between
+ the 3 and 4, and a # appears as a superscript on the F. (The significance of
+ these changes is discussed in (C), below.)
+
3) Twelve sets of six squares
+ each appear, into which letters can be typed. (To clear all the squares, one
+ clicks the RESTART star.)
+
4) Two blank rectangles
+ appear, in which the program will be displaying text.
+
When the START star is clicked,
+ the Ouija Board pointer moves by itself in a set pattern among the squares from
+ (3); whenever it touches a square, the letter that has been typed into that
+ square appears in the rectangles in (4). (Since the motion of the pointer is
+ always the same, this procedure amounts to an animated version of an ordinary
+ double crostic; a particular square in (3) corresponds to a particular position
+ in the text the program displays.)
+
If the solver puts the twelve
+ solution words into the boxes in the following order:
SOUNDS LIKE FIRST NAME
+ OF RAYBURN WITH
+ SAME LAST NAME AS PARTNER OF MASON
+
The first name of Rayburn
+ is "Gene," and the partner of Mason was Dixon. Thus, we have the name
+ of the Phase 4 entity: Jeanne Dixon.
+
C) When the solver spells
+ out FNORD on the Ouija Board, a message box appears containing the following
+ text:
+
Still looking for those
+ Fnords? What are you afraid of, 'The
+ Man'? (Who knew?) Too much information is dangerous, so here's a
+ little: Goose Low Trickle Spruce Batter Wrap Fall Wear Run Drop
+ Buck.
+
Each of the eleven words
+ at the end of the message occurs in a phrase with UP or DOWN: Goose DOWN, Low
+ DOWN, Trickle DOWN, Spruce UP, Batter UP, Wrap UP, Fall DOWN, Wear DOWN, Run
+ DOWN, Drop DOWN, Buck UP.
+
The initial letters of
+ the twelve ordered solution words in part (B) spell out NB: UNUSED ONES. Each
+ solution word contains one letter that is not used in spelling out the part
+ (B) message; these are, in order, G F E C E F A G E D G B, which are musical
+ notes. Moreover, the 3/4 and F# that appeared on the Ouija Board in part (B)
+ specify a time signature (three-quarter time) and key signature (G major), and
+ the sequence of DOWNs and UPs seen above indicates whether each note is higher
+ or lower than the one preceding it. All of these combine to specify a melody,
+ the first two lines of the chorus of "Que Sera, Sera":
+
Que Sera, Sera!
+ Whatever will be, will be!
+
(The song was most famously
+ sung by Doris Day in The Man Who Knew Too Much; the film title appears
+ as a sequence of consecutive words in the message text, as an additional clue.)
+ These two lines, sung in the proper melody, constitute the Phase 4 incantation.
+
+
+
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+
The Braille Witch Project, Part 1
Spookiness
Rating: 5
The Braille Witch Project, Part 1
It has been said that deep within the steam tunnels of the Miskatonic Institute of
Technology lies a witch. A blind witch, driven mad by getting lost there during the
very first Mystery Hunt, years ago.
This is not her story
This is, however, Part 1 of a two-part puzzle.
When you have solved it, you will receive instructions for Part 2.
Unzip these files into a single folder of a Windows 9x PC and then run the executable file.
Oh, and by the way, that little empty space goes in the lower-right-hand corner.
\ No newline at end of file
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+
+
+
+Solution: Blood of the Creatures
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+Solution:
+
+Blood of the Creatures
+
+
Written by
+Scott Weiss
+
+Each of the six numbers was done in a different color of Del Sol's
+color-changing nail polish. There are a number of clues to this in the
+text. The journal writer's name is "Dr. D. Esoll"; if you "doctor" the
+letters DESOLL (i.e. anagram them), you get DEL SOL. The company is
+based in Santa Rosa, CA. The writer refers to "changes". The substance
+was extracted from the claws, or nails. You're told to "identify them".
+The last sentence tells you to "bring their secrets to light", i.e.
+sunlight.
+
+
+
+By doing some web research, you can identify the six polishes as:
+
+Shooting Star (9)
+Blind Date (8)
+Ruby Slipper (1)
+Duchess (5)
+Mardi Gras (2)
+Peek A Boo (4)
+
+If you take the appropriate letter from each name (the 9th from Shooting
+Star, the 8th from Blind Date, etc.), you get the answer
+streak.
+
+
The program supplied is
+ a sliding block puzzle in which all the blocks are visually identical blank
+ squares, but each has associated with it a brief snippet of audio. The solver
+ must slide the blocks around until all of these snippets, in order, form one
+ long audio excerpt from The Blair Witch Project (Heather's speech with
+ the camera pointing up her nose). When this is done, a message box pops up saying:
+
Call us about 'Braille
+ Witch 2: Book of Dimples'
+
When a team called in, they
+ were instucted to send over a group of at least two people, at least one of
+ whom either knew Braille or had a copy of the Braille alphabet. The group was
+ escorted to Lobby 7; one (call him/her A) was positioned, blindfolded, on the
+ main floor, and the rest (call them, collectively, B) on the second floor balcony
+ overlooking the main floor.
+
Cardboard boxes, each with
+ three letters written on its outside, were distributed around the main floor.
+ Solver A was handed a piece of cardboard with a Braille dimple pattern on it.
+ Then,
+
1) A had to communicate
+ to B what letter he/she had felt -- either by saying what it was (if A knew
+ Braille) or by communicating the pattern of dimples (so that B would know or
+ could look up what the corresponding letter was).
+
2) B then had to vocally
+ direct A to the cardboard box that had the given letter on it.
+
3) A would then reach into
+ the box.
+
The first five times, the
+ box contained another Braille dimple pattern, and A and B would repeat the process;
+ the sixth time, the carboard box contained slips of paper, and A took one of
+ them. A's blindfold was then removed, and A and B were dismissed.
+
The slip of paper had on
+ it a three by twelve rectangle of squares, each either empty or with a capital
+ letter delta on it. The solvers had to put the sequence of Braille letters solver
+ A had felt while blindfolded into the squares provided, and then change the
+ contents of all the squares with deltas from dot to non-dot or vice versa (capital
+ delta being the symbol for "change"). This resulted in the following
+ sequence of Braille letters:
+
+** * ** ** * *
+ * * ** *
+ * * *
+
which is Braille for the
+ solution, DOGMAS.
+
+
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+
+
+
+Solution: It's a Bug Eat Bug World
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+Solution:
+
+It's a Bug Eat Bug World
+
+
Written by
+Scott Weiss
+
+
+
+
+A solver had to come to our headquarters and won enough chips at
+the game of Renfield to "purchase" the puzzle that would lead to
+the final answer. This puzzle was the following:
+
+Solution: Each word corresponds to a different card in the game. For
+example, the curler is the 3 of tools. Take the numbers on the cards
+and add them as shown. You get the sequence 14, 21, 4, 9, 19, 20 which
+corresponds (by the code 1 = A, 2 = B, etc.) to the solution word for
+this puzzle,
+nudist.
+
+
+
+
+
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+
+
+
+Solution: Call of the Wild
+
+
+
+
+
+
Solution:
+ Call of the Wild
+
Written by Kevin Wald
+
The clues yield a sequence
+ of words, each of which differs in its last letter from a word for a type of
+ animal (hence the title of this puzzle, and the "In the end, does it matter?"
+ remark in the intro):
+
+
Ferrer -> ferre(T)
+
coats -> coat(I)
+
from -> fro(G)
+
crank -> cran(E)
+
badges -> badge(R)
+
sham -> sha(D)
+
boat -> boa(R)
+
tune -> tun(A)
+
stay -> sta(G)
+
Rhine -> rhin(O)
+
Herod -> hero(N)
+
squib -> squi(D)
+
sharper -> Shar-Pe(I)
+
Bean -> bea(R)
+
volt -> vol(E)
+
fennel -> fenne(C)
+
rabbis -> rabbi(T)
+
hippy -> hipp(O)
+
+
The letters that are changed
+ to produce the animals spell out TIGER DRAGON DIRECTO. The director of Crouching
+ Tiger, Hidden Dragon is Ang Lee. ("I keep my head down so he can't
+ see me" alludes to the "crouching" and "hidden.") If
+ the last letter of ANG LEE is changed to an R, this produces yet another animal
+ word (and supplies the missing R of DIRECTOR): ANGLER (another term for
+ the anglerfish, in addition to being a term for fisherman), which is the solution
+ to the puzzle.
+
(An additional clue to this
+ transformation is "Will he shoot me, or is that too easy": Ang Lee,
+ as a director, shoots things for a living, while an angler doesn't, because
+ it would be like shooting fish in a barrel.)
This is an encrypted list
+ of movies shown on Mystery Science Theater:
+
WEREWOLF
+ HORROR OF PARTY BEACH
+ INVADERS FROM THE DEEP
+ (THE) CRAWLING EYE
+ (THE) HELLCATS
+ TRACK OF THE MOON BEAST
+ VIKING WOMEN AND THE SEA SERPENT
+ SAMSON VS THE VAMPIRE WOMEN
+ EEGAH
+ ATTACK OF THE GIANT LEECHES
+ SANTA CLAUS CONQUERS THE MARTIANS
+ OVERDRAWN AT THE MEMORY BANK
+ NIGHT OF THE BLOOD BEAST
+
The initial letters spell
+ out WHICH SEASON. So they look up what season the episodes are from, giving
+ the numbers 9, 8, 0, 1, 2, 10, 3, 6, 5, 4, 3, 8, 7 These correspond in the same
+ code to the letters T, R, O, U, B, L, E, M, A, K, E, R, S.
+This puzzle refers to the game Cosmic Encounter. Clues
+to this are the title, the words "allies" and "offense" in the blurb,
+and the oblique aliens reference.
+
+
+
+Each clue gives a word associated with one of the powers
+in the game. For example, the first clue's answer is "curse". In Cosmic,
+the Witch has the power to curse. The answer to each clue and the
+associated power follows:
+
+"#%^$^@@#" (5) curse - Witch
+"Mooommy, I really waaant that!" (5) whine - Sniveler
+A dish best served cold (7) revenge - Grudge
+A jury's may be reasonable (5) doubt - Skeptic
+Accompany, on a more lasting basis (2 4) be with - Force
+Act frenzied or crazed (2 7) go berserk - Berseker
+Adaptation of a composition by rescoring (11) arrangement - Crystal
+Allstate does it (6) insure - Lloyd
+Alter one's structure (or the input box on your webpage?) (6 4) change form - Changeling
+Animal ___ (9) magnetism - Magnet
+Artificial thing on the end of a hook (4) lure - Siren
+Assertion of the falsity of a given proposition *(8) negation - Anti-matter
+Attaching living tissue surgically (8) grafting - Plant
+Become incorporeal (thanks to a transporter?) (13) dematerialize - Phantom
+Buried prize *(8) treasure - Dragon
+Car make from Italy *(4) fiat - Judge
+Change the fabric of existence (5 7) alter reality - Schizoid
+Cleansing of the emotions via art (9) catharsis - Vacuum
+Cliff (5) bluff - Gambler
+Combination of simultaneous notes in a chord *(7) harmony - Empath
+Contract for an apartment (5) lease - Hurtz
+Coup from within (or Nautilus 3.1?) (10) subversion - Subversive
+Cultivation (10) refinement - Connoisseur
+Declare in advance (7) predict - Prophet
+Deus ex machina *(6 12) divine intervention - Chosen
+Distribute uniformally (8) equalize - Calculator
+Disturbance of the ability to read (8) dyslexia - Mirror
+Do a doctor's job (4) heal - Healer
+Doing it may involve a siance (10) necromancy - Warpish
+Dominion; superiority (7) mastery - Warrior
+Done on request, as a performance (7) command - Dictator
+Duplicate, as an experiment (9) replicate - Clone
+Eighth Robin Cook book alphabetically (9) contagion - Disease
+Emotionally disturbed or agitated (5) upset - Loser
+Energy divided by the square of the speed of light (4) mass - Macron
+Enticement (10) temptation - Serpent
+Explosive device rigged to a teddy bear, for example *(5 4) booby trap - Terrorist
+Extend (8) protract - Prolong
+Exude, as confidence (4) ooze - Amoeba
+Facts gained through experience (9) knowledge - Mind
+Form of one's body *(5) build - Industrialist
+Formulate a product *(8) multiply - Virus
+Fourth Book (7) numbers - Symbiote
+Frighten with threats (10) intimidate - Bully
+Furnish with power or authority *(6) invest - Entrepreneur
+Gain cool traits over time (6) evolve - Pentaform
+Go from Jon Pertwee to Tom Baker, e.g.? (10) regenerate - Mutant
+Granted right, especially when attached to a specific position (9) privilege - Aristocrat
+Have a glimpse of the future (7) foresee - Oracle
+Highway robbery, for example *(5) theft - Filch
+In logic, one could be necessary or sufficient (9) condition - Pavlov
+It follows "park" and precedes "neutral" (7) reverse - Negator
+It happens when you fall for your shrink (12) transference - Trader
+It may be fielder's or Hobson's (6) choice - Will
+Lincoln or Holland (6) tunnel - Worm
+Members of the Zodiac *(5) signs - Obverse
+Obtain by force (6) extort - Extortionist
+Oft-ignored teacher (10) substitute - Sting
+One could be air or panty (4) raid - Pirate
+One could be value-added (3) tax - Assessor
+One may be issued by a court (5) order - Queue
+Own (7) possess - Demon
+Pass the buck (8) delegate - Delegator
+Place habitually frequented (5) haunt - Doppleganger
+Presenting (6) giving - Philanthropist
+Profusion, especially of cash (6) wealth - Gnome
+Property enjoyed by Sue Storm (12) invisibility - Wraith
+Pull out of the fire (7) salvage - Vulch
+Pull up by the roots (9) eradicate - Void
+Pythagorean exponent (3) two - Deuce
+Quarantine (7) isolate - Silencer
+Rebirth of a soul *(13) reincarnation - Reincarnator
+Run, as an application (7) execute - Assassin
+Samsa's story, with "The" (13) metamorphosis - Insect
+Sci-fi staple employed in Quantum Leap *(4 6) time travel - Chronos
+Self-reproach (5) guilt - Ethic
+Serve (4 4) wait upon - Butler
+Shalom (5) peace - Pacifist
+Sojourner's surname (5) truth - Seeker
+Stash or cache *(5) hoard - Miser
+Stick to (6) adhere - Fungus
+Stick your nose in another's business (6) meddle - Busybody
+Stink up the place (4) reek - Filth
+Strengthen with fresh additions (9) reinforce - Cavalry
+Strengthen with fresh additions (9) reinforce - Reserve
+Subjugate (7) enslave - Vampire
+Take someone before their time (or a painting of apples??) (5 4) steal life - Ghost
+The act of making a lot of people think they're chickens (especially in church?) (4 8) mass hypnosis - Mesmer
+The best policy? (7) honesty - Aura
+The P in ESP (10) perception - Visionary
+Turn to stone (7) petrify - Gorgon
+Type of bullet or square (5) magic - Sorcerer
+Unending existence (11) immortality - Zombie
+Uninterrupted connection or union (10) continuity - Machine
+Unlikely occurrence (13) improbability - Anomaly
+Unpleasant type of chamber (7) torture - Wrack
+What sharks do to some waters (6) infest - Parasite
+Win's opposite (4) loss - Grief
+Word following color or venetian (5) blind - Laser
+You can do this to a treaty, a check, or a turn (9) negotiate - Diplomat
+You file yours by April 15 (6) return - Boomerang
+
+The answers give the words for the complete set of
+powers from the Mayfair Games version of Cosmic (counting both the
+original and the one expansion set) save one: Spiff, the power to crash
+land. If you look at the powers associated with the starred clues, their
+first letters spell out ADJECTIVE FORM. Convert Spiff to the adjective
+
+spiffy
+
+to get the required answer.
+
Each of Parry Normal’s
+ notes refers to a Massachusetts location that is, reputedly, haunted. The places
+ are:
+
... college library, believed
+ haunted by librarian in stacks at night, watching people. Curious; why would
+ she be watching except to get information? Norton
+
... Witch called "Wonderful"
+ (17th century) appears near Swallow Cave. Apparently helped in an Indian defeat.
+ Obviously experienced with planning assaults! Nahant
+
... Ghost of a 2-year-old
+ child named Doris in St. Stephen's Cemetery, sometimes with parents. They've
+ even got the children in on this one... Attleboro
+
... lighthouse keeper of
+ Minot Lighthouse, said to haunt after lighthouse was destroyed in a storm while
+ main lighthouse keeper was gone for provisions. A shady character - why would
+ he leave his post in a storm? Scituate
+
... eight-gated "Spider
+ Gate" cemetery, considered deadly - said that no one has ever made it to
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+ the puzzle. (And, no doubt, the center of the conspiracy... Natick has its own
+ ghost, a man who, while drunk, stumbled over a cliff on the eve of St. Patrick's
+ Day, 1874. It is said that every St. Patrick's eve, he can be seen drinking
+ a bottle of whiskey ...)
+32 Across is HOLEY SYMBOLS and the entries clued with screams are names
+for the symbols above 1 through 8 on a computer keyboard, each with a
+string of 1-3 letters omitted (which is what makes them "holey"):
+
+("Many things of the sort in the previous cryptic" -- that is, vampires
+-- have fled in screaming terror from the holey symbols. They apparently
+thought they were holy symbols.)
+
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+When these missing letters are arranged in the order in which the
+corresponding symbols appear on the keyboard, they yield ATOPLARGEES;
+that is, ATOP LARGE E'S. (E, which is what the vampires overlooked,
+is indeed important.) The words (and question mark) atop the capital
+E's in the clues yield the following cryptic clue:
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+CREATURES OF THE NIGHT WILL PRODUCE SMALL YELLS?
+
+whose solution, owlets, is the solution word to the puzzle.
+
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+
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+Solution: Dialoguophobia
+
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+
+At showings of The Rocky Horror Picture Show, the audience responds
+to the happenings on screen with commentary of their own. The dialogue
+presented consists of typical audience-participation responses to
+various monologues by the Narrator in the film. Solvers must insert
+the Narrator's lines into the supplied blanks. The full exchanges go
+as follows:
+
+
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+
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+ I would like,
+
+You would, would you?
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+ if I may,
+
+You may not.
+
+ to take you
+
+Take me! Take me!
+
+ on a strange journey
+
+How strange was it? So strange, they made a movie about it.
+
+
+
+Well, I say that life is an illusion.
+
+ There are those who say that life is an illusion,
+
+Like your neck.
+
+ and that reality is simply a figment of the imagination.
+
+Also like your neck.
+
+ If this is so, then Brad and Janet are quite safe.
+
+Unlike your neck.
+
+ However,
+
+There's always a "however."
+
+ the sudden departure of their host and his
+
+Neck?
+
+ creation
+
+And his neck.
+
+ into the seclusion of his somber bridal suite
+
+Where they were necking.
+
+ had left them feeling both apprehensive
+
+And neckless.
+
+ and uneasy,
+
+And neckless.
+
+ a feeling which grew
+
+Unlike your neck.
+
+ as the other guests departed
+
+With their necks.
+
+ and they
+
+And their necks.
+
+ were shown to their separate rooms.
+
+Same room, different filter, cheap movie.
+
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+ And crawling
+
+Where?
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+ on the planet's face,
+
+What did you have for breakfast?
+
+ some insects
+
+Why is your phone bill so high?
+
+ called the human race,
+
+Where's your neck?
+
+ lost in time
+
+And what's your favorite TV show?
+
+ and lost in space
+
+And what does this movie lack?
+
+ and meaning.
+
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+The insertion of the Narrator's lines assigns letters to the numbers
+from 1 to 129; when inserted into the appropriate places in the
+number arrangement below all the dialogues, they yield the following
+message:
+
IN SWEET SONG NOTE POSITIONS (FROM START) OF SEE, MY, JUST, DOWN
+ & LAST YOU BEFORE SWEET GUY. LOOK THERE IN FILM TITLE TO GET X. MAKE
+ SOMETHING THAT WOULD HORRIFY A XPHOBE.
+In the song "Sweet Transvestite" from The Rocky Horror Picture Show, the
+first appearences of "see," "my," "just," and "down" are as the 6th, 9th, 13th,
+and 17th words of the song, and the last appearence of "you" before "candyman"
+(SWEET GUY) is the 24th word of the song. The 6th, 9th, 13th, 17th and 24th letters
+of "The Rocky Horror Picture Show" are C, H, O, C, and O. Thus, the
+required object for the Phase 3 ritual is "something that would horrify a chocophobe"
+(that is, something chocolate).
+
+
+
+
+
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+
+
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+Solution: A Disturbing Universe
+
+
+
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+
+
+Solution:
+
+A Disturbing Universe
+
+
Written by
+Scott Weiss
+
+Each set of words is a line from a Simpsons Halloween special
+(Treehouse of Horror) with a single word missing.
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+a a a alley an backseat bathroom behind camaro choose either friend's may of or porno the the theater wedding you
+
+Treehouse of Horror IX
+
+Kodos: You may choose either the backseat of a Camaro, an
+airplane
+bathroom, a friend's wedding, or the alley behind a porno theater
+
+
+
+a a and child come gotten his is it i've i've now put stop that to to using word
+
+Treehouse of Horror IV
+
+Skinner: Now I've gotten word that a child is using his
+imagination...
+and I've come to put a stop to it!
+
+
+
+a a dad dump grace in like live place princess that's this what why would
+
+Treehouse of Horror II
+
+Homer: What a dump! Why would Princess Grace live in a place like this?
+
+Lisa: Dad, that's
+Monaco.
+
+
+
+a again before heard i something soon tapping than
+
+Treehouse of Horror I
+
+Narrator: Soon again I heard a tapping something
+louder
+than before
+
+
+
+a be but cartoons gruesome i i'd if let lousy mother
+of pretty some sorry these watch you
+
+Treehouse of Horror IX
+
+Marge: Sorry; but if I let you watch one of these gruesome
+Halloween
+cartoons, I'd be a pretty lousy mother.
+
+
+
+a beware but carries curse object take terrible this
+
+Treehouse of Horror III
+
+Owner: Take this object, but beware
+it
+carries a terrible curse!
+
+
+
+a breakfast cereal for got people with you
+
+Treehouse of Horror IX
+
+Moe: [Hey, 'Pu,] you got a breakfast cereal for people with
+syphilis?
+
+
+
+a chopping hand head her kissing minute next one the they're they're woman's
+
+Treehouse of Horror VIII
+
+Marge: One minute they're kissing a woman's hand, the next, they're chopping
+off
+her head!
+
+
+
+accurate i it passed speaking so technically that was was while
+
+Treehouse of Horror VIII
+
+Frink: It passed
+noon
+while I was speaking so that was technically accurate.
+
+
+
+aides an an appearance at attributed bill clinton cryptic made morning necktie rather remarks some this tight to which
+
+Treehouse of Horror VII
+
+Brockman: At an appearance this morning, Bill Clinton made some rather cryptic remarks, which aides attributed to an
+overly
+tight necktie.
+
+
+
+ain't and be but called gonna happen hillbillies it of prefer sons the to
+
+Treehouse of Horror VII
+
+Hibbert: And Hillbillies prefer to be called "sons of the
+soil".
+But it ain't gonna happen.
+
+
+
+all america's around bugs clock dedicated exterminate now rocked that's the to to who wonderful y2k you
+
+Treehouse of Horror X
+
+Dick Clark: Wonderful; now that's dedicated to all you
+supergeeks
+who rocked around the clock to exterminate America's Y2K bugs.
+
+
+
+all and and because boy consecutive forty-six hours hundred let little me of stop three who who won't
+
+Treehouse of Horror II
+
+Announcer: Three hundred and forty-six consecutive hours, and all because of
+one
+little boy who... who WON'T LET ME STOP!!!
+
+
+
+allen an astronomers belt disturbance from have in ionic just of reported the the to van vicinity vladivostok
+
+Treehouse of Horror VI
+
+Announcer: Astronomers from
+Tacoma
+to Vladivostok have just reported an ionic disturbance in the vicinity of the Van Allen Belt.
+
+
+
+an are both by coincidence exactly languages of our same the
+
+Treehouse of Horror I
+
+Alien: By an
+astonishing
+coincidence, both of our languages are exactly the same.
+
+
+
+an can evil feel house i in this
+
+Treehouse of Horror I
+
+Lisa: I can feel an evil
+presence
+in this house.
+
+
+
+and course doomed find of the we within
+
+Treehouse of Horror VI
+
+Frink: And, of course, within, we find the doomed
+individual.
+
+
+
+and down flush for guard it's later let or sooner then time toilet you'll your
+
+Treehouse of Horror VII
+
+Bart: Sooner or later, you'll let your guard down, and then flush: it's toilet time for
+Tinytown.
+
+
+
+and eat less maybe more people should you
+
+Treehouse of Horror III
+
+Marge: Maybe you should eat more
+vegetables
+and less people...
+
+
+
+another been blood dead drained found has his his of marks on peasant teeth throat two with
+
+Treehouse of Horror IV
+
+Brockman: Another
+local
+peasant has been found dead -- drained of his blood with two teeth marks on his throat.
+
+
+
+back confined gone i've just the time to to weren't when zoos
+
+Treehouse of Horror V
+
+Homer: I've gone back to the time when
+dinosaurs
+weren't just confined to zoos!
+
+
+
+be cafeteria dangerously detention in is room serving so the the time you'll your
+
+Treehouse of Horror V
+
+Skinner: The detention room is dangerously
+overcrowded
+so you'll be serving your time in the cafeteria.
+
+
+
+behold breakthrough cat-o'-nine-tails greatest in relations since the the
+
+Treehouse of Horror II
+
+Burns: Behold! The greatest breakthrough in
+labor
+relations since the cat o' nine tails!
+
+
+
+brains broken feeding is living must of on spell the the the the until walk you
+
+Treehouse of Horror III
+
+Bart: You must walk the
+earth,
+feeding on the brains of the living until the spell is broken.
+
+
+
+but get get girls i'm know of once plenty real sure that the to you you'll
+
+Treehouse of Horror X
+
+Lucy Lawless: but I'm sure that once girls get to know the real you, you'll get plenty of
+dates.
+
+
+
+caretakers for new sir the the they're winter
+
+Treehouse of Horror V
+
+Smithers: Sir, they're the new winter caretakers for the
+lodge.
+
+
+
+children conversation couldn't i monitoring your
+
+Treehouse of Horror VI
+
+Skinner: Children, I couldn't
+help
+monitoring your conversation.
+
+
+
+don't if powers really their they they're to use why witches
+
+Treehouse of Horror VIII
+
+Lisa: If they're really witches, why don't they use their powers to
+escape?
+
+
+
+grave many offer on people ramifications reflecting sell souls the their to
+
+Treehouse of Horror IV
+
+Flanders: Many people offer to sell their souls
+without
+reflecting on the grave ramifications
+
+
+
+i not the the want weather
+
+Treehouse of Horror X
+
+Homer: I want the
+news,
+not the weather!
+
+
+
+
+
+
+Put the missing words in order "chronologically" (put the three from
+Treehouse of Horror I in order of appearance, then the ones from II,
+etc.) The first letters of the words will spell "Palmolive does this to
+one's hands." The answer is
+soften.
+
+
+
+
+
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+Solution: Here Thar Be Dragons
+
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+
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+
+
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+Solution:
+
+Here Thar Be Dragons
+
+
Written by
+Eric Berlin
+
+
+
+
+In order to obtain the answer to this puzzle, a solver had to come to
+our headquarters and win the Atari 2600 game Adventure on Level 3.
+The answer so obtained was
+ablaze.
+
+The pictures are all portions of covers from the Goosebumps series by R.L.
+Stine. The symbols are palm pilot graffiti symbols for punctuation. For
+example if you see the symbol for #, that corresponds to 3 on a keyboard,
+so you take the third letter of that book title.
+
+
+
+Column One:
+
+Vampire Breath - 3
+Stay Out of the Basement - 6
+My Hairiest Adventure - 9
+Let's Get Invisible - 8
+Say Cheese and Die - 4
+Calling All Creeps - 2
+Ledgend of the Lost Ledgend - 1
+
+Column Two:
+
+Revenge of the Lawn Gnomes - 1
+Egg Monsters from Mars - 9
+Why I'm Afraid of Bees - 5
+The Abominal Snowman of Pasadena - 4
+The Barking Ghost - 7
+The Blob That Ate Everyone - 3
+
Now that you've summoned
+ all four entities, we feel we should inform you that each of them has an unusual
+ quirk. One always tells the truth, one always lies, one alternates truthful
+ statements and lies, and one copies the truth value of the previous statement
+ (that is, if the last person to speak told a lie, the copier will also tell
+ a lie).
+
The alternator's first statement
+ may be the truth or a lie. If the copier speaks immediately after a statement
+ which it is impossible to determine the truth value of, such as "This statement
+ is false,"
+ he or she may either lie or tell the truth. The entities will be discussing
+ their quirks, and also giving you information that will help you sort out the
+ list of instructions you've just been given, which, once corrected, will help
+ you find the place you need to go next.
+
This statement is false.
+
Jeanne Dixon: The
+ Blob sometimes lies.
+ Sigmund Freud: But he doesn't lie all the time.
+ The Blob: Sigmund, under the right circumstances, you could say that
+ about anyone.
+ Jeanne Dixon: Ignore any instructions that contain the word "heel"
+ hidden within consecutive letters.
+ The Blob: Exchange instruction 23 and the second-to-last instruction.
+ Mary Shelley: Counting this statement, exactly four of the six statements
+ spoken so far have been true.
+ Sigmund Freud: Ignore instruction 6.
+ The Blob: If Mary Shelley were speaking now instead of me and claimed
+ to be the alternator, you would still not have enough information to solve the
+ puzzle.
+ Jeanne Dixon: When exchanging instructions, you should not retain the
+ instructions' original numbering. Instead, you should renumber the list so it
+ always reads sequentially from 1 to 30.
+ The Blob: Exchange the two instructions that mention non-primary colors
+ of pigment.
+ Mary Shelley: Exchange instructions 8 and 16.
+ Sigmund Freud: Ignore any instruction that contains two words that begin
+ with L.
+ The Blob: Ignore any instructions that contain the word "Onan"
+ hidden within consecutive letters.
+ Mary Shelley: Exchange the word "paper" and the phrase "a
+ can".
+ Jeanne Dixon: Reverse the initials in instruction 26.
+ Mary Shelley: Ignore any instruction that begins with a letter from the
+ second half of the alphabet.
+ Sigmund Freud: Throughout the instructions, replace the word "left"
+ with the word "right", and vice versa.
+ The Blob: Exchange instructions 17 and 26.
+ Jeanne Dixon: Exchange instructions 11 and 21.
+ Sigmund Freud: Throughout the instructions, replace the word "north"
+ with the word "south", and vice versa.
+ Mary Shelley: Ignore instruction 9.
+ The Blob: Ignore any instruction shorter than six letters long.
+ Sigmund Freud: Ignore instructions 14 and 27.
+ Mary Shelley: Exchange instructions 6 and 19.
+ Jeanne Dixon: Remove the prefix "un-" from the beginning of
+ any adjective in the instructions.
+ Sigmund Freud: Reverse the order of the set of instructions that includes
+ instruction 21 and the two instructions that precede it.
+ The Blob: Ignore instruction 18.
+ Mary Shelley: Ignore any instruction whose initial letters, in order,
+ spell a word (with no letters left over).
+ Sigmund Freud: Ignore any instruction in which the first four words are
+ in reverse alphabetical order.
+ The Blob: Exchange the two instructions that have the most commas.
+ Jeanne Dixon: Move instruction 12 to the end of the instructions.
+
Instructions
+
+
Exiting HQ, go to 4-150.
+
+
Go out into Killian.
+
At the middle of the
+ yard, turn south.
+
Take the last right,
+ and go straight, passing through a glass hallway.
+
Climb the stairs until
+ you find yourself on an uneven-numbered floor, then turn right.
+
Go up one floor at the
+ first left.
+
Go orange!
+
Go north and pass a rear
+ entrance.
+
Turn right and proceed
+ until you reach the end of the corridor.
+
Go towards the dean and
+ turn south.
+
Enter, throw something
+ away, recycle a can, recycle paper, then continue in that direction.
+
Turn left and go through
+ the last door on the right.
+
Go to the uneven side.
+
+
Get a Coke and go downstairs
+ one floor.
+
Go red!
+
Pass the elevator, and
+ take the stairway up one flight.
+
Go yellow!
+
Go towards the President.
+
+
Take the right stairs
+ and the left hallway.
+
Choose the double-digit
+ building.
+
At the east-facing window,
+ go downstairs one flight.
+
Go to a large lecture
+ hall.
+
Enter the eighth door
+ on the left after the elevator.
+
Go up one floor, and
+ do not pass the elevator when you exit.
+
Choose a single-digit
+ building.
+
Run away from S.D.
+
Go green!
+
Turn right after proceeding
+ north.
+
Go through the red door.
+
Enter the first door
+ on the right on which the first word on the door doesn't begin with a consonant.
+
Each entity, when summoned
+ correctly, did in fact appear:
+
1) The Blob appeared as
+ a goblet full of some kind of gelatinous substance;
+
2) Mary Shelley appeared
+ as a woman with a wand;
+
3) Sigmund Freud appeared
+ as a bearded man with a sword (sometimes a sword is just a sword); and
+
4) Jeanne Dixon appeared
+ as a woman wearing a pentacle pendant.
+
When the last summoning
+ was complete, all four entities then appeared simultaneously, and delivered
+ the Endgame Logic Puzzle. When this was solved,
+ the resulting set of instructions led the solving team to 6-233 (the Amdur Room).
+
At the front of this room,
+ there was a projection screen with a puzzle taped to it, involving the selection
+ and arrangement of certain letters from the four incantations. The resulting
+ message was THE SCREEN IS A RED HERRING. When the solvers raised the screen,
+ this revealed five tarot cards, at various heights and in various orientations,
+ each with either a plus or minus sign and a number on it.
+
The meaning behind these
+ cards remained mysterious until the solvers made a further discovery: When a
+ curtain on one side of the room was moved aside, it revealed (a) the screaming
+ ghost of Agatha Winchester, and (b) more tarot cards. Other tarot cards were
+ hidden in other locations, at wildly varying heights, all around the room; there
+ were 43 in all.
+
Each tarot card specified
+ a letter, as follows:
+
1) The entity for each phase
+ of the Hunt, when summoned, appeared with an item corresponding to a tarot suit
+ (The Blob was in a cup, Mary Shelley carried a wand, Sigmund Freud carried a
+ sword, and Jeanne Dixon wore a pentacle); the suit of the tarot card thus specified
+ one of the four phases.
+
2) Each phase had twelve
+ regular puzzle answers, and each phase's metapuzzle required that these answers
+ be assembled in some specific order (see the individual metapuzzle solutions
+ for details). A tarot
+ card of rank m (counting "page" as 11 and "knight" as 12)
+ specified the mth solution word in the phase from (1), in the order used for
+ that phase's metapuzzle (not the order in which the puzzles were originally
+ presented).
+
3) Each regular puzzle
+ had an associated numerical "Spookiness Rating." This rating, when
+ added to or subtracted from as specified on the tarot card, yielded some number
+ n; the letter indicated by the card was then the nth letter of the word from
+ (2).
+
The sequence of 43 letters
+ obtained in this manner formed the directions to the bloodstone, thus ending
+ the Hunt.
Phase 1, Puzzle 2, "Call of the Wild": Clue 15 should be ampere ohm, not ampere per ohm.
+
Phase 2, Puzzle 1, "A Disturbing Universe": The 23rd item was missing a "the," and has been fixed in the online puzzle.
+
Phase 2, Puzzle 11, "We Have Enough Twists Already, Thank You": Some sets of spaces were incorrect and have been fixed in the online puzzle.
+
Phase 3, Puzzle 4, "Claustrophobia": In the 11th line, the second number should be 5, not 4. This has been fixed in the online puzzle.
+
Phase 3, Puzzle 5, "Helminthophobia": There is a typographical error that may cause your answer to look incorrect. When you have this answer, call us and let us know what you think it is supposed to be. We'll confirm it if you have it correct.
+
Phase 3, Puzzle 11, "Stumpophobia": The incorrect set of instructions was accidentally posted to the web. Please reload your browser and view the new page.
+
Phase 4, Puzzle 7, "Necromancy": A set of dashed lines and numbers was inadvertantly left off the bottom of this puzzle. This has been corrected on the web page.
+
Phase 4, Puzzle 3, "Cosmic Awareness": The enumeration for "Run, as an application" should be (7) not (8). This has been corrected on the web page.
+
Phase 3, Puzzle 12, "Xenophobia": In the eleventh column of the third grid, the letters reading (vertically) AAIIT should read AAIITT. This has been corrected on the web page.
+
Phase 4, Puzzle 13, "Another Dimension": In Level 3, the second item in the third column of the first table should be EIUCR, not EAUCR. This has been corrected on the web page. Additionally, there was a missing clue in each of the X and Y sets, and an incorrect letter in the third item in the fourth column of the second table in Level 3 (should be FETTP, not FATTP). These have all been corrected on the web pages.
+
Phase 4, object: If you believe you have found the instructions for constructing the object of sacrifice, please check them again.
The executable file provided,
+ when run, shows the following:
+
The Puzzle:
+ 255 0 0
+ The Solution:
+ 0 0 255
+ The End of the World is Nigh: 2:00.
+
The last line is a clock
+ that ticks down from two minutes; the title bar reads "Tick . . . ",
+ which changes to "Tick . . . Tick . . ." at the one-minute mark.
+
The three numbers under
+ "The Puzzle" constitute a slightly disguised form of the Tower of
+ Hanoi puzzle; each number corresponds to a pole, with the nth bit of the binary
+ expansion of the number being 0 if the nth disc is not on the pole, and 1 if
+ it is. To move a disc from one pole to another, one clicks on the number that
+ is not involved in the transfer. The solver must transfer all the discs from
+ the first pole to the third (thus making the numbers for The Puzzle match the
+ numbers for The Solution) before the clock runs out; if this is not done, the
+ window disappears.
+
If the puzzle is successfully
+ solved within the two minutes (which is not difficult if the solver realizes
+ that the correct solution consists of clicking the numbers repeatedly in the
+ pattern "third, second, first"), the timer continues ticking down
+ (Galaxy Quest-style) until it reaches 1. Then the title bar changes to
+ "You Win?", and text appears reading:
+
+
Far, far away, in a sacred
+ temple, day and night, you hear only the soft 'click, click, click' of disc
+ upon disc, counting the seconds to oblivion. Tap, Tap, Tap. The pace never
+ varies, after all, who would want to hurry oblivion? You might just have accelerated
+ the process a little bit. Thanks to you, The World is now just a little more...
+
+
and there is a button marked
+ "OK." When this button is pressed, the title bar changes to "Congratulations,"
+ and the puzzle now reads:
+
The Puzzle:
+ 228 213 226
+ The Solution:
+ 193 198 197
+ the End Becomes Close, Destruction Inevitably Comes. 0:00
+
The capitalized initials
+ in the last line spell EBCDIC; the given numbers, treated as EBCDIC codes, spell
+ out the solution, UNSAFE. (Because, of course, the legend about the Tower
+ is that when the original 64-disc version in the great temple of Benares is
+ completed, the world will end; by solving the puzzle you have hastened this
+ process.)
The triangles, on transparency
+ material, must be assembled into a cube with an internal diagonal panel; this
+ diagram shows an unfolded view of the resulting cube. If the cube is turned
+ so that the edge marked 1 on the diagram is in front, and the A on that edge
+ is upside down, then when the cube is viewed at a slightly downward angle (as
+ shown below) the solution word, OZONE, appears. (This word was also hinted
+ at by the title of the puzzle; Hedora is the name of the Smog Monster in Godzilla
+ vs. the Smog Monster.)
As hinted at by "Coordinate
+ the data, both horizontal and vertical," the solution involves taking the
+ numbers in the horizontal rows as x-coordinates, matching them up with the numbers
+ in the vertical columns taken as y-coordinates, and plotting the results on
+ the supplied coordinate grid (with the origin in the lower left, indicated by
+ the circle). Specifically, for each row and corresponding column, we trace a
+ path from point to point, lifting the pen up at every color change. These four
+ sets of paths:
yield four line drawings
+ (one for each row/column pair):
+
+
+
which are the Japanese katakana
+ for the syllables HO, RI, ZO, and N respectively. (There are several hints in
+ the introductory material that something Japanese-related is going on: The reference
+ to Godzilla, a creature from Japanese films, by the original Japanese form of
+ his name; the mention of the "rising sun"; and the superficial resemblance
+ of the puzzle to a "Paint by Numbers" puzzle, a type which originated
+ in Japan.)
+
Thus, the solution, "where
+ Gojira was last sighted", is HORIZON.
Each numbered haiku briefly
+ describes a movie whose title contains the given number of letters; these are
+ (here indexed by letter for future reference):
+
A. SSSSSSS
+ B. Willard
+ C. The Birds
+ D. They Nest
+ E. A Bug's Life
+ F. Creepshow
+ G. Men in Black
+ H. Stuart Little
+ I. Arachnophobia
+ J. The Deadly Bees
+ K. Joe's Apartment
+ L. The Worm Eaters
+ M. Batman and Robin
+ N. Doctor Dolittle
+ O. Giant Space Slugs
+ P. The Killer Shrews
+ Q. The Secret of NIMH
+ R. Beginning of the End
+ S. Meet the Applegates
+ T. Kingdom of the Spiders
+ U. The Giant Spider Invasion
+ V. Monster from the Ocean Floor
+ W. On Her Majesty's Secret Service
+ X. Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom
+ Y. Cannibal Women in the Avocado Jungle of Death
+
All of these titles can
+ be traced out in the grid by moving along paths which can change direction,
+ and can go either horizontally, vertically, or diagonally, but which never cross
+ or overlap. The positions of the words (by index letter) are as follows:
+ I RRRRRR FFEEEE H HJJJ JLLLLL
+ IID RBBRF FEEE GHH JJJJLLLLKKK
+ IDDRRBBRFFFE GGGHHHH JJL KKK
+ IDDR BBRFFPPEGGGG HHOOJLLLKKKK
+ ID RBRNNNPP G HHOO OJ KKQQQ
+ IIDDIRRNNNPPP GWW O OJO KQQQQ
+ IMIIMINNNPPPVVVW W O OOOQQQQQC
+ MMMM MNNPPPPV WYYYYO OO QQQ CC
+ M MM NNPVVVVWYYYYYYXXXXXCCC C
+ MMMMASS NVVVWWYYYYYXXXXXTC T
+ AA AASSSVVVVW YYYYXX X T TTTTT
+ SAASSSVVVVWWWWYYYXXX T TTTTTTT
+ SSSVVVWWWWYYYYY XXXXXTTU UUUUU
+ SSSVWWWWWYYYYYYXXXXXXTUUUU UUU
+ S SVWWW WYYYYY XX X UUUUU UUUU
+
The unused letters in the
+ grid spell out:
+
+
Now perform sixty-four
+ breedings with the rules of Game of Life by J. H. Conway.
+
+
When the pattern of unused
+ letters is treated as a pattern of cells in Conway's Game of Life and allowed
+ to breed for sixty-four generations, thirteen cells are alive at the end of
+ this process; they cover the following letters of the original grid:
In 1701, a woman named
+ Agatha Winchester was accused of witchcraft. Townspeople had claimed to see
+ her transform into the form of snakes or spiders, and had described times where
+ she seemed to employ extrasensory perception. The "trial" was swift,
+ and the punishment was to be burned at the stake. The burning was done on January
+ 15 in what is today Lobby 7. As the flames grew around her, Agatha was heard
+ to curse the land where she was burned. Witnesses claim she threatened to have
+ her greatest revenge three hundred years hence. Throughout the history of MIT,
+ people have reportedly seen a black-clad woman staring at them as they have
+ crossed the campus. Many of these people suffered accidents a few days later,
+ and, in a few cases, some have even died. You may be even to smell the burning
+ wood as you pass through Lobby 7.
+
When the flames receded,
+ there were no ashes to be found. Instead there was left on the smoldering embers
+ a deep green stone. According to local gossip, this stone was the source of
+ Agatha's power. Unfortunately, the stone was lost, and, to this day, its whereabouts
+ are unknown. Some dismiss the tale of Agatha Winchester as legend. We do not.
+ Our research has led us to believe that unless the stone is recovered, MIT will
+ be subject to a supernatural disaster of epic proportions. With your help, this
+ catastrophe can be averted.
+
You will need to summon
+ four entities. An entity may be a real person (living or dead), or may be one
+ created by humans (say, from fiction or mythology). Once they are all present,
+ they will give you the information required to find the stone. Each summoning
+ requires you to perform a ritual in three parts:
+
+
construct an object of
+ sacrifice, and place it in the mystic circle at our headquarters
+
speak the name of the
+ entity to be summoned
+
have at least five team
+ members intone together the phrase of summoning
+
+
Each entity, of course,
+ requires a different specific object and a different specific phrase. Our research
+ has uncovered texts that provide clues necessary to determining the components
+ of the four rituals. Each ritual has thirteen associated "puzzles".
+ The thirteenth puzzle in each set, when deciphered correctly, will give you
+ complete instructions as to how to construct the sacrificial object. The other
+ twelve will be used to determine the entity's name and phrase. How these twelve
+ will be used is for you to discover. (The thirteenth puzzle may or may not be
+ used in conjunction with the twelve.) We strongly suggest working on the thirteenth
+ puzzle as soon as you receive it, since, once you solve it, you will need to
+ build something.
+
We do know that the different
+ sets of puzzles seem to be attuned to different areas of "horror":
+
+
Creatures
+
Horror Fiction
+
Phobias
+
The Supernatural
+
+
This may or may not be helpful
+ in solving the different puzzles or determining the specifics of the ritual.
+ We can also tell you that the answers to the first twelve puzzles in the first
+ two rituals are all single words. Whether this holds for the last two rituals
+ is for you to determine. We have also estimated the scariness of the different
+ puzzles. While we doubt that any of you will be harmed during the course of
+ your investigation, certain puzzles may not be for the faint of heart. Each
+ puzzle has a rating from 0 to 10, where 0 is suitable for all ages, and 10 would
+ frighten Agatha Winchester herself. Feel free to ignore the ratings ... if you
+ dare.
+
Keep us posted on your progress.
+ Only those pure of heart can perform the rituals; hence we cannot tell you solutions
+ outright. However, we can make sure you are on the right track. Good luck. And
+ keep the lights on. You don't know who ... or what ... lurks in the dark.
+
+
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+
+Solution: The Invisible Man
+
+
+
+
+
+
Solution:
+ The Invisible Man
+
Written by Eric Albert
+
Answers must be altered
+ before being entered into the grid according to the rule that a given letter
+ is only entered the first time it appears. For example, the answer to 30 Across
+ is "arrested"; the second R and the second E are omitted, and the
+ word is entered as ARESTD. (This rule is hinted at by the opening words of the
+ introduction, "First you see him, then you don't.")
+
The answers to the clues
+ are as follows:
+
ACROSS
+ 1. Pisces
+ 6. oatmeal
+ 12. weak force
+ 20. on tour
+ 21. two-time
+ 22. unselfish
+ 23. [unclued]
+ 25. simpatico
+ 26. reel
+ 27. Pope
+ 28. bad off
+ 29. how
+ 30. arrested
+ 32. moonbeam
+ 37. diddle
+ 39. street
+ 40. evacuated
+ 41. yet again
+ 44. [unclued]
+ 48. Ursa
+ 49. unsheathe
+ 52. dreamer
+ 53. starry
+ 54. sayonara
+ 55. book
+ 58. ark
+ 59. Doors
+ 60. Ararat
+ 61. coalpit
+ 64. mannequin
+ 67. item
+ 69. [unclued]
+ 73. cups
+ 74. Roman arch
+ 76. in reply
+ 78. Lou
+ 79. Orion
+ 80. civic
+ 83. Doom
+ 84. business
+ 86. suffix
+ 88. Bonnie
+ 90. rocky road
+ 91. emblem
+ 92. [unclued]
+ 96. Larry Bird
+ 98. el cheapo
+ 99. Eric
+ 103. in line
+ 104. bat boys
+ 105. radish
+ 107. ash
+ 109. Ill Met... (by Moonlight)
+ 112. huff
+ 113. cha-cha-cha
+ 114. Pecos Bill
+ 116. [unclued]
+ 122. true-false
+ 123. tolerate
+ 124. rip apart
+ 125. Hindustan
+ 126. Brer Fox
+ 127. stare
+ pisce oatmel weakforc
+ ontur twoime unselfih
+ thoruglyexcn simpatco
+ rel poe badof how
+ arestd monbea dile
+ stre evacutd yetagin
+ thedifrncgoau ursa
+ unsheat dream stary
+ sayonr bok ark dors
+ art coalpit manequi
+ item flatwrecgoy cups
+ romanch inreply lou
+ orin civ dom busine
+ sufix bonie rockyad
+ embl kindofslveray
+ larybid elchapo eric
+ inle batoys radish
+ ash ilmet huf cha
+ pecosbil angrmofilets
+ truefals tolera ripat
+ hindusta brefox stare
+
+
Each of the seven unclued
+ entries in the grid is the result of applying the same reduction rule to a clue
+ for this puzzle's solution word, as follows:
+
23 Across: THORUGLYEXCN
+ <- Thoroughly excellent
+ 44 Across: THEDIFRNCGOAU <- The Difference Engine coauthor
+ 69 Across: FLATWRECGOY <- Flatware category
+ 92 Across: KINDOFSLVERAY <- Kind of silver alloy
+ 116 Across: ANGRMOFILETS <- Anagram of "ringlets"
+ 17 Down: OFTHEGRASQULIY <- Of the greatest quality
+ 51 Down: SYTEMOFBRIHCUN <- System of British currency
Hunters were invited four
+ at a time to a play a game show ("Fear of Failure") in which a correct
+ answer earned one point, and a wrong answer lost one point (although no player
+ could ever go below zero).
+
Whenever any player reached
+ three points, whoever had the lowest score was eliminated; if there was a tie
+ for lowest score, all players with the lowest score were eliminated. This was
+ repeated, if necessary, until only one player remained, who won the round. Eventually,
+ the four players who took the least number of questions to win their round were
+ invited back for a final round, the winner of which took home The Pop-Up
+ Book of Phobias. (Congrats to Dan Katz of SETEC Astronomy, our grand prize
+ winner!)
+
To solve the puzzle, though,
+ solvers had to take the first and last letters of every trivia answer in order,
+ which revealed a list of Marilyn Monroe movies, and the answer to the puzzle
+ was Marilyn Monroe.
+
+
What company’s founder
+ invented the safety razor? Gillette
+
What famous play includes
+ the line "Hell is other people"? No Exit
+
What canine character
+ first appeared in a 1938 short story by Eric Knight? Lassie
+
What New York City thoroughfare
+ is known as the Advertising Capital of the World? Madison Avenue
+
What is the name given
+ to an alcoholic drink taken at the very end of the day? Nightcap
+
What 1998 Tony-winning
+ musical was based on a book by E.L. Doctorow? Ragtime
+
What is the name of the
+ most recent Kevin Costner movie to deal with the subject of baseball? For
+ Love of the Game
+
What celery-like vegetable
+ can also be a word meaning "heated controversy"? Rhubarb
+
What musical direction
+ means to play in a smooth, connected manner? Legato
+
What is the scientific
+ term for one billionth of a second? Nanosecond
+
The real name of the
+ hospital on St. Elsewhere was St. what? Eligius
+
What repeated demand
+ did Moses make of the Pharaoh of Egypt? Let My People Go
+
What trademarked name
+ has come to be synonymous with "petroleum jelly"? Vaseline
+
What is the chemical
+ name for laughing gas? Nitrous oxide
+
When he died in 1989,
+ it was found his heart was two and a half times larger than that of the average
+ horse. Who? Secretariat
+
What 1951 George Pal
+ movie featured astral companions Bellus and Zyra? When Worlds Collide
+
Who played the title
+ character of "Dr T." in the 2000 movie Dr. T and the Women?
+ Richard Gere
+
Who is said to have "fiddled
+ while Rome burned"? Nero
+
According to the nursery
+ rhyme, who was the Piper’s Son? Tom Tom
+
Who, with 73 electoral
+ votes, tied with Thomas Jefferson in the 1800 presidential election, in a
+ race that was ultimately decided by Congress? Aaron Burr
+
The first attempt at
+ adapting a cinematic Lord of the Rings was directed by the same person
+ who brought you Fritz the Cat, the first X-rated cartoon. Who was he?
+ Ralph Bakshi
+
What present-day television
+ series takes place in Stuckeyville, Ohio? Ed
+
When he’s not hurling
+ racial epithets, John Rocker hurls for what baseball team? Atlanta Braves
+
What Web site shares
+ its name with a race of beings from Gulliver’s Travels? Yahoo
+
What is the name of Diana
+ Ross’s last solo #1 hit, which topped the charts in 1980? Upside Down
+
According to the song,
+ what hometown does The Music Man’s Professor Harold Hill claim
+ as his own? Gary, Indiana
+
What modern-day storyteller’s
+ monologues have been turned into films like Swimming to Cambodia and
+ Monster in a Box? Spalding Gray
+
On which Hawaiian island
+ is Pearl Harbor located? Oahu
+
What 1964 Sidney Lumet
+ film ended with the atomic bombing of New York City by the US Air Force? Fail-Safe
+
Henry Sullivan was the
+ fourth man, but the first American, to swim what body of water? English
+ Channel
+
In Bill & Ted’s
+ Excellent Adventure, the two main characters bounced around time in a
+ time machine that looked like what? Telephone booth
+
What is the one-word
+ stage name of Cassandra Peterson? Elvira
+
When keeping track of
+ baseball players in a scorecard, what fielder is designated with the number
+ 6? Shortstop
+
What actor and regular
+ on The Simpsons is about to be divorced from actress Helen Hunt? Hank
+ Azaria
+
What is the British term
+ for elevator? Lift
+
What city is the capital
+ of Alaska? Juneau
+
Billy Preston has had
+ two #1 hit singles in his career. The first was "Will it Go Round in
+ Circles." What’s the second? Nothing from Nothing
+
What Nabisco product
+ is also the name of a novel by R.D. Blackmore? Lorna Doone
+
Who is the creator of
+ both NYPD Blue and Hill Street Blues? Steven Bochco
+
What gas do cows emit
+ in large amounts, possibly contributing to global warming? Methane
+
Which John Steinbeck
+ novel focuses on the Joad family? The Grapes of Wrath
+
Who directed Bill Murray
+ in Meatballs, Stripes, and Ghostbusters? Ivan Reitman
+
What type of orbit, first
+ suggested by Arthur C. Clarke, keeps a satellite over the same spot on the
+ earth’s surface? Geosynchronous
+
What NASA spacecraft
+ was sent to Jupiter in 1989, where it has been in orbit since 1995? Galileo
+
"Or What You Will"
+ is the subtitle of what play by William Shakespeare? Twelfth Night
+
What maximum security
+ prison, formerly known as "Sing-Sing," is located about 35 miles
+ north of New York City? Ossining
+
What was Anton Chekhov’s
+ first full-length drama? Ivanov
+
What young actor co-starred
+ with a homicidal Macaulay Culkin in The Good Son? Elijah Wood
+
On The Odd Couple,
+ who was Felix Unger’s roommate? Oscar Madison
+
Charles Sherwood Stratton
+ became better known as what General? Tom Thumb
+
In what movie did Marlon
+ Brando star as an ex-boxer named Terry Malloy? On the Waterfront
+
Who wrote the novel Billy
+ Budd? Herman Melville
+
What’s the British
+ word for traffic circle? Roundabout
+
What German military
+ man inspired the nickname "The Iron Chancellor"? Otto von Bismarck
+
The spoken language of
+ what Indian tribe was used as a code by the US government in World War II?
+ Navajo
+
What snack food was invented
+ in 1893 by Louis and F.W. Ruckheim? Cracker Jack
+
What was Union General
+ William Sherman’s middle name? Tecumseh
+
What drink is traditionally
+ made from seltzer, milk, and chocolate syrup? Egg cream
+
Who is the Egyptian goddess
+ of nature? Isis
+
What foreign moviemaker’s
+ final film was La Voce della luna, or the Voice of the Moon? (Frederico)
+ Fellini
+
Who were the losers of
+ the most recent Super Bowl? Tennessee Titans
+
In a classic series of
+ murder mystery novels by Harry Kemelman, what occupation does lead character
+ David Small have? Rabbi
+
What Biblical character
+ stood six cubits and a span tall-over 9 feet high by today’s measurement?
+ Goliath
+
Which movie took home
+ the Best Picture Oscar at the 1998 Academy Awards? Titanic
+
What Italian dish is
+ traditionally made with Arborio rice? Risotto
+
Which baseball team plays
+ in Pac Bell Park? San Franciso Giants
+
In 1958, Vince DeDomenico
+ of San Francisco created what ubiquitous boxed side dish? Rice-a-Roni
+
V-E day occurred on May
+ 8, 1945. What does V-E stand for? Victory in Europe
+
What Oscar winner for
+ West Side Story also starred in the 1970s children show, The Electric
+ Company? Rita Moreno
+
What Issac Asimov novel
+ introduced Hari Seldon, psychohistory, and the successor to the Galactic Empire?
+ Foundation
+
What philosophical theory
+ states that the simplest explanation is generally the correct one? Occam's
+ Razor
+
How many planets are
+ currently inside the orbit of Pluto? Eight
+
A person with O-negative
+ blood - who can therefore give blood to any recipient - is called a what?
+ Universal donor
+
Whose predictions were
+ made while staring into a bowl of water, and consist of sections call quatrains?
+ Nostradamus
+
What is the term for
+ a unit of electrical resistance? Ohm
+
Who started his daredevil
+ career by charging $500 to jump over two cars on his motorcycle? Evel Knievel
+
On a Risk board, what
+ territory is due north of Mongolia? Irkutsk
+
What physicist is credited
+ with creating the first atomic pile, at the University of Chicago? Enrico
+ Fermi
+
What is the name of filmmaker
+ Michael Moore’s cable TV show? The Awful Truth
+
In Hebrew it’s the
+ Tanakh, but Christians call it the what? Old Testament
+
Who was nominated for
+ a Best Supporting Actor award for his work in Forrest Gump? Gary
+ Sinise
+
"Three Musketeers"
+ candy bars consist of chocolate coating over what sweet stuff? Nougat
+
While the command module
+ orbited the moon, the Apollo astronauts went to the surface in the LEM. What
+ does LEM stand for? Lunar excursion module
+
On The Simpsons,
+ what is the first name of Bart’s blue-haired best friend? Milhouse
+
On Usenet, alt.toys.lego
+ is an example of what kind of online discussion area? Newsgroup
+
What unit of currency
+ can be divided up into 100 kopecks? Ruble
+
What famous 1972 children’s
+ book and album was produced by Marlo Thomas? Free to Be, You and Me
+
What underground cartoonist’s
+ oeuvre includes the "Keep on Truckin’ Man"? R. Crumb
+
What country is completely
+ surrounded by South Africa? Lesotho
+
The first line to what
+ Beatles song is "I once had a girl, or should I say she once had me?"
+ Norwegian Wood
+
What Greek playwright
+ wrote Medea? Euripides
+
What word meaning "a
+ seducer of women" comes from a fictional character in a 1703 play? Lothario
+
Who had a voiceover on
+ Michael Jackson’s hit single, "Thriller"? Vincent Price
+
What university does
+ "the Fighting Irish" fight for? Notre Dame
+
On the television show
+ Roseanne, who played daughter Darlene? Sara Gilbert
+
What musical question
+ was the biggest hit for Frankie Lymon and the Teenagers? Why Do Fools Fall
+ in Love?
+
The Beverly Hills Hotel
+ and the Beverly Wilshire are on either end of what famous street? Rodeo
+ Drive
+
If you walked southeast
+ from the famous "Four Corners" junction, what state would you be
+ in? New Mexico
+
What term is given to
+ a wrestling match where two wrestlers take turns in the ring? Tag team
+
What 1977 war movie featured
+ Gene Hackman, Sean Connery, and Ryan O’Neal? A Bridge Too Far
+
What famous fictional
+ mongoose was created by Rudyard Kipling? Rikki Tikki Tavi
+
Vincent Price guest-starred
+ on the ‘60’s series "Batman" as what villian? Egghead
+
Whose musical "project"
+ had its biggest hit in 1982, with "Eye in the Sky?" Alan Parsons
+
What product, in a recent
+ television ad campaign, warned consumers: "Buy any other beverage and
+ you could be making a terrible mistake"? Yoo-Hoo
+
What 1997 Oliver Stone
+ movie starred Sean Penn and Jennifer Lopez? U-Turn
+
What chocolate company
+ was founded in 1926 by Joseph Draps? Godiva
+
What duet between Paul
+ McCartney and Michael Jackson went to #1 in 1983? Say Say Say
+
What hit song by the
+ Platters later went on to be the title of a 1994 movie starring Marisa Tomei?
+ Only You
+
On the periodic table
+ of elements, what is the symbol for iron? Fe
+
What is the Spanish word
+ for Spanish? Español
+
Comedy Central is presently
+ running a game show entitled Don’t Forget Your… what? Toothbrush
+
What six-letter word
+ is the motto of California? Eureka
+
What word, when taken
+ as a noun, is a kind of seafood, and when taken as a verb means to bake in
+ a sauce and cover in bread crumbs? Scallop
+
What musical instrument
+ is associated with jazz musician Toots Thielman? Harmonica
+
Fred Durst is a member
+ of what rock band? Limp Bizkit
+
Whose organization makes
+ use of the vessels Calypso, Calypso II, and Alcyon? Jacques Cousteau
+
When he went solo, Bruce
+ Wayne’s sidekick Dick Grayson dumped the name "Robin" and became
+ who? Nightwing
+
Who played actor Richard
+ Hatch’s father on Battlestar Galactica? Lorne Greene
+
What word can mean either
+ a drink made with Kahlua and cream, or a large hat? Sombrero
+
What golden oldie singer
+ had a voice that earned him the nickname, "The Velvet Fog"? Mel
+ Tormé
+
What Benjamin Hoff book
+ connected Asian philosophy to a certain children’s literary character?
+ The Tao of Pooh
+
Who is actress Isabella
+ Rosellini’s mother? Ingrid Bergman
+
What clothing company’s
+ logo consists of a question mark inside a triangle? Guess (Jeans)
+
What interjection was
+ first used during parachute jumps at Fort Benning, Georgia, in 1940? Geronimo
+
What 1999 animated film
+ was loosely based on a 1968 children’s science fiction novel by Ted Hughes?
+ The Iron Giant
+
What word can mean either
+ "remarkable" or "unresolved"? Outstanding
+
In Roman numerals, what
+ is C minus XCVI? IV
+
What boxer did Mike Tyson
+ famously bite in 1997? Evander Holyfield
+
What hunter appears in
+ the northeastern American sky in fall and winter? Orion
+
What turn-of-the-century
+ baseball player was nicknamed "The Georgia Peach"? Ty Cobb
+
What do you call a follower
+ of radical capitalist Ayn Rand’s philosophy? Objectivist
+
What is the common measure
+ for the decay or transmutation of a radioactive element? Half-life
+
In the science of sleep,
+ what does REM stand for? Rapid eye movement
+
What 1995 movie had Dustin
+ Hoffman attempting to contain the fictional "Mutaba" virus? Outbreak
+
What Japanese video-game
+ giant started its life in 1889 making playing cards? Nintendo
+
What literary genre is
+ William Gibson’s Neuromancer often credited with ushering in?
+ Cyberpunk
+
What car company made
+ the Gloria, the Spitfire, the Dolomite, and the TR7? Triumph
+
What’s the Latin
+ phrase meaning "of many, one"? E pluribus unum
+
What state borders Wisconsin,
+ Michigan, Indiana, Kentucky, Missouri, and Iowa? Illinois
+
What car company makes
+ the Testerossa? Ferrari
+
Together, Minneapolis
+ and St. Paul are known as the what? Twin Cities
+
The boxed game is called
+ Othello, but what’s the generic name for the "game of dramatic reversals"?
+ Reversi
+
According to the Bible,
+ what is Sodom’s sister city? Gomorrah
+
What movie, in theaters
+ now, has the tag line "No one gets away clean"? Traffic
+
What was the name of
+ the character played by Desi Arnez on "I Love Lucy"? Ricky Ricardo
+
What sign follows Scorpio
+ on the zodiac chart? Sagittarius
+
What children’s
+ singer’s albums include "Evergreen Everblue," "Bananaphone,"
+ and "Everything Grows"? Raffi
+
What French writer is
+ quoted as saying, "If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent
+ him"? Voltaire
+
Who played Joe Pesci’s
+ cousin, who stands accused of murder, in My Cousin Vinny? Ralph
+ Macchio
+
In Fahrenheit 451,
+ what was the occupation of Guy Montag? Fireman
+
Although it took place
+ in November, thanks to their use of the old style Julian calendar, in what
+ month do Russians celebrate the Bolshevik revolution? October
+
What country is on the
+ northeastern tip of the African continent? Egypt
+
What constellation’s
+ name translates to "the great bear"? Ursa Major
+
In Greek mythology, who
+ fell in love with his own reflection? Narcissus
+
In IBM’s OS/2, what
+ does the "OS" stand for? Operating system
+
What kind of alcohol
+ is added to gasoline to create "gasohol"? Ethynol or ethyl alcohol
+
Whether she actually
+ used it or not, what murder weapon was under Sharon Stone’s bed at the
+ end of Basic Instinct? Icepick
+
In a 1969 hit for Three
+ Dog Night, who is "coming"? Eli
+
What Norton Juster novel
+ featured Rhyme, Reason, Milo, Tock, and the kingdoms of Dictionopolis and
+ Digitopolis? The Phantom Tollbooth
+
What Elmore Leonard
+ novel was turned into a 1998 movie starring George Clooney and Jennifer Lopez?
+ Out of Sight
First, thanks to Nat Hellerstein
+ and, especially, Andy Latto for their math insights and suggestions for this
+ puzzle.
+
This is a hard puzzle to
+ solve mathematically. It probably makes much more sense to write a straightforward
+ computer program that tries every possibility. This entails going through a
+ range of possible numbers (1 to 2000, say) and, treating each number in succession
+ as the "base number," calculating its average expected score. The
+ running time of such a program is under a second.
+
You calculate the average
+ expected score by looking at the score you'd get for that base number for each
+ of the 216 possible dice rolls (216 = 6 x 6 x 6), then summing all of the scores,
+ and dividing the resulting sum by 216. You need to remember to make a special
+ case of the dice roll "6,6,6" when you're calculating for yourself
+ (but not for the Devil).
+
Once you've got the average
+ expected score for each of the base numbers, you just sort all these scores
+ to find out the best base number. It turns out that this number is 644. You
+ then read off its expected score, which you've already calculated, which is
+ 69 for each round, on average.
+
The devil always chooses
+ 666. His expected score is 69 and 17/36 each round.
+The clues in the body of the monster yield four-letter words
+which are alternate lines of a word ladder (a sequence of words
+each of which is different from the last in exactly one letter):
+
+The end words and in-between words have numbers corresponding to each of
+their letters; when these words are deduced, this will assign a letter to
+each number from 1 to 52. Using the surrounding words for each in-between
+word, the clueing to the first and last words in the opening poem (which
+is a pastiche of the first stanza of Robert Burns' To a Mouse, and
+thus hints at the Scottish LOCH NESS monster), and cross-checking between
+different occurences of the same number, the word ladder is deduced to be:
+
+
+
+
+
+LOCH -> LECH -> LEAH -> YEAH -> YEAR -> TEAR -> TEAM -> TERM ->
+GERM -> GERE -> MERE -> MARE -> MALE -> YALE -> YULE -> RULE ->
+RUDE -> RIDE -> TIDE -> TIRE -> SIRE -> SITE -> CITE -> CUTE ->
+CUTS -> CUES -> HUES -> HOES -> HOTS -> LOTS -> LOSS -> LASS ->
+LAST -> VAST -> VEST -> NEST -> NESS
+
+
+
+
+
+And the assigned letters, read out in order from 1 to 52, spell:
+
+EVIDENCE THAT SOME CREATURE USUALLY THOUGHT MYTHICAL IS REAL,
+
+which is the object that must be supplied for the Phase 1 ritual.
+
+
+
+
+
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+
+
+
+Solution: Necromancy
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+Solution:
+
+Necromancy
+
+
Written by
+Kevin Wald
+
+
+
+
+Necromancy is divination by means of the dead. The initial letters of the
+names of the dead people in each list spell out the words HENRY, PART, ACT,
+SCENE, LINE, and TY. The numbers of left over (live) people in the lists
+are 4, 1, 3, 1, 5, and 3. _Henry IV, Part I_, Act 3, Scene 1, line 53
+(5-ty 3) is "I can call spirits from the vasty deep." When this line
+is entered into the row of dashes and numbers below the lists, the numbers
+1-6 correpond to the letters N, O, M, A, D, and S, so the answer is
+nomads.
+
The small hex grid labeled
+ "EX:" on the first webpage serves two purposes: it (1) hints at the
+ rule that determines how the escape path meanders through the grid, and (2)
+ hints at the method for extracting the solution word from a grid once the path
+ is determined.
+
In order to deduce both
+ of these, it is necessary to determine the number corresponding to each hexagon
+ -- that is, the solution to the corresponding trivia question:
+
A: 22.
+ B: 4.
+ C: 5 ("Secant, cosine, tangent, sine,/Three point one four one five nine!").
+ D: 15. (He drops a tablet.)
+ E: 6. (This is, apparently, accurate cricket scoring.)
+ F: 9.
+ G: 19. (Specifically, it was patented in May, 1829, by Cyrill Demian.)
+ H: 13.
+ I: 8. (The full private name of Judiciary Pag, a character in Douglas Adams'
+ Life, the Universe, and Everything, is "Zipo Bibrok 5 x 10^8".)
+ J: 11. (WPIX-TV is New York's channel 11.)
+ K: 2. (The band is the three-member "Ben Folds Five.")
+ L: 3.
+ M: 12, of course.
+ N: 24. (Success at this task is worth 250 points.)
+ O: 14 (Don't Be a Menace to South Central While Drinking Your Juice in the
+ Hood).
+ P: 23 (on Max Headroom).
+ Q: 20.
+ R: 1.
+ S: 18. (The Hebrew numeral for 18 consists of the letters heth and yod as seen
+ here; this is of great numerological import, because they also spell chai,
+ meaning "life.")
+
When these numbers have
+ been associated with their corresponding hexagons, the solver may notice that:
+
1) If a hexagon on the escape
+ path has associated number n, the path leaves that hexagon via the side which
+ is nth after the top, counting clockwise (and circling around the hexagon as
+ many times as neccesary). The last three sentences of Mr. Suda's notes additionally
+ hint that it is "the numbers" that indicate the "way out"
+ of a room.
+ 2) The two hexagons which are not on the escape path are C and N, which have
+ associated numbers 5 and 22, which (under the usual A = 1, B = 2 code) yield
+ EX, the label for this particular hex grid.
+
On the second page (reached
+ by clicking "Go to the full puzzle"), there is a larger hex grid.
+ When the numbers associated to the hexagons are found, they will determine an
+ escape path according to rule (1) above, and the unused hexagons will determine
+ the solution word as per (2) above.
+
The answers to the trivia
+ questions on the second page are:
+
A: 16.
+ B: 27.
+ C: 17.
+ D: 22.
+ E: 14 (in the Harry Potter books).
+ F: 9 (in "Piano Man": "It's nine o'clock on a Saturday . . .").
+ G: 32.
+ H: 11. (Of the 14 increases, the only one that aren't doublings are $200 ->
+ $300, $300 -> $500, and $64,000 -> $125,000.)
+ I: 30. (The knights and bishop have none, the pawns and lances have one each,
+ the silver generals have two each, the king and gold generals have three each,
+ and the rook has six.)
+ J: 19. (One 0, and two each of the numbers 1-9.)
+ K: 3 (that is, all of them).
+ L: 1. (As it happens, 8675309 is a prime number.)
+ M: 37 (for all the aces, kings, and queens, and one jack).
+ N: 7. (The only move that is a winner for O is the center square.)
+ O: 31. (The numbers in the N column are all in the range 31-45.)
+ P: 43.
+ Q: 8.
+ R: 10.
+ S: 21 (five miners, eight scouts, six bombs, the spy, and the flag).
+ T: 23.
+ U: 15.
+ V: 12.
+ W: 5.
+ X: 28 (in seven stacks, with one through seven cards respectively).
+ Y: 49.
+ Z: 4.
+ !: 24 (two regular rounds and two Winner's Circles, with six categories each).
+ @: 38. (It's the row from C to I inclusive.)
+ #: 29. (This occurs if the hand is J555 and the turned-up card is the five of
+ the same suit as the jack.)
+ $: 26. (See Monty Python and the Holy Grail for the complete quote.)
+ %: 36. (The complete
+ list is (0, +-65), (+-16, +-63), (+-25, +-60), (+-33, +-56), (+-39, +-52), (+-52,
+ +-39), (+-56, +-33), (+-60, +-25), (+-63, +-16), and (+-65, 0).)
+ ^: 20.
+ &: 18. (The film is 18 Again.)
+ *: 7. (That is, this is book #7 in the Hardy Boys series.)
+ (: 2. (One would not need mirror-image versions of the L and S pieces.)
+ ): 6 (S, E, A, R, C, and H).
+ ?: 25.
+
Thus, starting from the
+ center hexagon (S) the escape path goes S -> Z -> # -> Y -> V ->
+ O -> L -> I -> C -> A -> B -> H -> D -> G -> K ->
+ R -> U -> @ -> ^ -> ( -> ? -> ) -> $ -> * -> % ->
+ X -> ! -> T -> P -> M -> J -> outside. The unused hexagons
+ are E, F, N, Q, W, and &, whose associated numbers are 14, 9, 7, 8, 5, 18,
+ so the solution is NIGHER (which is additionally hinted at by "Oh,
+ but you're getting closer . . . closer . . .").
M31 Andromeda
+ Sun Sagittarius
+ Saturn Taurus
+ NGC 1313 Reticulum
+ Horsehead nebula Orion
+ Little dumbbell nebula Perseus
+ M13 Hercules
+ "no image available" Y (J, K, Q, W, X, Z would also be possible)
+ Trifid nebula Sagittarius
+ IC 5152 Indus
+ Antennae Corvus
+ Stingray nebula Ara
+ Mars Libra
+
There is no constellation
+ that begins with Y. First letters spell the answer (astrophysical).
+
+Once cut out and assembled, the 6 shapes form pieces of a 6-piece burr
+puzzle. The pieces fit together in only one way. Once the burr is
+solved, the message "BRING 2 HUNT HEADQUARTERS" is easily read.
+
+
+
+
+
+
+Assembled Pieces
+
+
+
+
+
+
+Solved Burr
+
+
+
+
+
+
Although not necessary
+ for solving this puzzle, there in an online interactive
+ applet on IBM's web site than can be used to solve 6-piece burr puzzles.
+ When the solved puzzle was brought to hunt headquarters, the answer word orthohydrogen
+ was given to the team.
+
+
+
+
+
+
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+
+
+
+Solution: Parts is Parts
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+Solution:
+
+Parts is Parts
+
+
Written by
+Eric Berlin
+
+
+
+
+The trigrams (three-letter groups) can be arranged to form a list of
+monsters (most of them familiar, and all of them findable in the
+AD&D Monster Manual.) Each monster, however, is missing one letter.
+The correct order of trigrams is as follows:
+
+The missing letters, taken in order, spell ONE AFTER FIFTH. The answer to
+the puzzle is thus
+sixth.
+
+
+
+
+
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+
+
+
+Solution: Phase 1 Metapuzzle
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+Solution:
+
+Phase 1 Metapuzzle
+
+
Written by
+Kevin Wald
+
+
+
+
+In Phase 1, each of the first twelve puzzles has (in addition to the
+numerical Spookiness Rating mentioned in the Hunt introduction) a
+"Puzzlement Rating" which is a sequence of three letters (or "trigram").
+These trigrams, when ordered properly, read:
+
+BUI LDI NTH ISO RDE RAN ONS QUA REW ORD SQU ARE,
+
+that is,
+
+BUILD IN THIS ORDER A NONSQUARE WORD SQUARE.
+
+So the solvers must take the solution words to the twelve puzzle
+and arrange them, in the order determined by the above ordering of
+the trigrams, into a "nonsquare word square"; that is, a diagonally
+symmetric figure consisting of intersecting words, with the same words
+across and down (as in an ordeinary word square), but which is not
+actually square. (One of the "solving references" pages actually goes
+into more detail about such figures, which are called "diagamorphs,"
+but this is not necessary information for solving the puzzle.)
+
+
+It turns out that to build the "nonsquare word square" out of the
+given words, three additional lines must be incorporated, as indicated
+by the arrows below:
+
+
+
+
+ ABBA
+ BLENCH
+-> BE GOO
+ ANGLER
+ COEDIT
+ HORIZON
+-> TO US
+ NUDIST
+ SIXTH
+ STREAK
+-> THE BLOB
+ ABLAZE
+ KLAXON
+ OZONE
+ BENES
+
+
+
+
+Thus, the entity to be summoned is The Blob, and the incantation is
+"Be goo to us."
+
+The grid that looks like a wordsearch is in fact
+really a wordsearch. It contains the names of twenty-six horror novels
+(mostly taken from the bestseller list at amazon). The twist is that
+each title has a mistyped letter. The list of the 26 titles appears below:
+
+BGYSLIFE (Boys' Life)
+BTGOFBONES (Bag of Bones)
+CRAZLEANDALL (Cradle And All)
+DIFQERENTSEASONS (Different Seasons)
+DRJEKALLANDMRHYDE (Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde)
+EYEOFTHESTOFM (Eye of the Storm)
+HANNYBAL (Hannibal)
+HAUNDED (Haunted)
+HEARTSINVTLANTIS (Hearts in Atlantis)
+HOMSEOFLEAVES (House of Leaves)
+IPMLEGEND (I Am Legend)
+MAGICTERRCR (Magic Terror)
+MIDNIGHTENCHANTOENT (Midnight Enchantment)
+MISEIY (Misery)
+MOSNFALL (Moonfall)
+NIGHTLHADE (Nightshade)
+RALSEMEMORY (False Memory)
+SEIZETHENIGKT (Seize The Night)
+THEETAND (The Stand)
+THEGWEENMILE (The Green Mile)
+THETBENCH (The Trench)
+TURNXFTHESCREW (Turn Of The Screw)
+UERRICK (Merrick)
+VITTORIJTHEVAMPIRE (Vittorio The Vampire)
+WITHEH (Wither)
+YOUCNMEWHENICALLYOU (You Come When I Call You)
+
+
+
+
+Note that each of the incorrect letters in the list above is
+different. Take the letters that should be there, and arrange them in
+reverse alphabetical order of the incorrect letters. You will get the
+directions DIORAMA OF FAMOUS HORROR STORY.
+
+
+
+Look at the unused letters in the wordsearch from top to bottom,
+left to right (down the first column, then down the second, etc.) You
+will get the following sequence:
+
+Each piece of that long string is the middle part of the name of
+a horror author (according to Amazon,
+anyway). For example, the first one is RLANELLISO, which is the middle
+of HA(RLAN ELLISO)N. Now look at those twelve answer words. One is
+HA(MA)N. So RLANELLISO encodes the bigram MA. Here's the complete encoding:
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+String:
+
+
+Answer Word:
+
+
+Author:
+
+
+Bigram:
+
+
+
+
+
+RLANELLISO
+
+
+HAMAN
+
+
+HARLAN ELLISON
+
+
+MA
+
+
+
+
+
+PHENK
+
+
+STERLING
+
+
+STEPHEN KING
+
+
+RL
+
+
+
+
+
+PYZBRIT
+
+
+POPEYE
+
+
+POPPY Z BRITE
+
+
+EY
+
+
+
+
+
+HOMASHAR
+
+
+TSURIS
+
+
+THOMAS HARRIS
+
+
+SU
+
+
+
+
+
+ATHKIN
+
+
+DEBTS
+
+
+D E ATHKINS
+
+
+BT
+
+
+
+
+
+RAMSTOK
+
+
+BITER
+
+
+BRAM STOKER
+
+
+IT
+
+
+
+
+
+BARAHAMBL
+
+
+BARLEY
+
+
+BARBARA HAMBLY
+
+
+LE
+
+
+
+
+
+TEVEAL
+
+
+SOFTEN
+
+
+STEVE ALTEN
+
+
+OF
+
+
+
+
+
+UYDEMAUPASSA
+
+
+GHENT
+
+
+GUY DE MAUPASSANT
+
+
+HE
+
+
+
+
+
+SHINGTONIRV
+
+
+WARNING
+
+
+WASHINGTON IRVING
+
+
+RN
+
+
+
+
+
+LIVEBARK
+
+
+COVER
+
+
+CLIVE BARKER
+
+
+OV
+
+
+
+
+
+OHNSAU
+
+
+JELL
+
+
+JOHN SAUL
+
+
+EL
+
+
+
+
+
+YSHEL
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+We've got MARLEY SUBTITLE OF HER NOVEL. So the entity is Jacob Marley,
+right? Nope. ("A Christmas Carol" isn't a novel, has no subtitle, and
+wasn't written by a woman.) Take that last string YSHEL, and swap it for
+the "empty" string in the middle of MARLEY. You'll get:
+MARY SHELLEY SUBTITLE OF HER NOVEL.
+
+
+
+So the entity is Mary Shelley, and the incantation is the subtitle of
+her only well-known horror novel, Frankenstein: The Modern Prometheus.
+
Each of the 12 puzzle solutions
+ has a distinct first letter. If the solutions are arranged in alphabetical order,
+ the non-initial portions of the solutions form a 12 by 12 square:
+ A STROPHYSICAL
+ B RINKSMANSHIP
+ D AUGHTEROFEVE
+ F OREMENTIONED
+ I NSTRUMENTALS
+ M ARILYNMONROE
+ O RTHOHYDROGEN
+ P UBLICAFFAIRS
+ S ENSORYCORTEX
+ T ROUBLEMAKERS
+ U NCEREMONIOUS
+ W HENCEFORWARD
+
One diagonal of the square
+ spells SIGMUND FREUD, the entity for this round, and the other diagonal
+ spells the incantation LIE ON MY COUCH.
The first letters spell
+ out BASE XXXVI. The decimal number 153919328873341503865 converted to base 36
+ spells out WHENCEFORWARD (just like decimal 3243 is CAB in hex).
In this cryptic crossword,
+ there are two peculiarities in the entry of answers into the grid:
+
+
For any square where
+ an across entry has a W, there is a down entry crossing it that has a V in
+ that square, and vice versa. (No across answer has any Vs, and no down answer
+ has any Ws.)
+
Except in the unclued
+ middle row (where the "ravenous creature" is hidden), all A's, B's,
+ and O's are omitted from all down entries. (In fact, each down answer is either
+ intact, missing only A's, missing only B's, or missing only O's, and there
+ are equal numbers of each, as it happens.) Since
+ no across answer has any A's, B's or O's in the first place, this means that
+ those letters appear nowhere in the grid other than the middle row.
+
+
The answers to the clues,
+ with brief explanations, are as follows:
Thus, the creature hiding
+ in the middle row is COUNT DRACULA, who cannot be seen because he is mirror-reflected.
+ He can be heard in the identification of V and W, and his victims have been
+ drained of their blood-group letters (A, B, and O).
+
The hidden group of his
+ prey, who can also be seen by looking down, were "each ensnared by the
+ sound of his voice". The eight V/W squares come in four vertical pairs,
+ which surround ("ensnare") the following vertical strings of letters:
+ GNETHA, ENNY, NNIFRID, and JORN. These are just the members of the musical group
+ ABBA (Agnetha, Benny, Annifrid, and Bjorn), who (through Dracula's feeding outside
+ his lair) have lost their initial A's and B's (from which the group's name is
+ derived, as a matter of fact). The group "couldn't hide the way he does"
+ because its name is a palindrome -- mirror-reflecting it has no effect.
+
Thus, the solution is ABBA.
+
+
+
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+
+
+
+Solution: Reading the End Trails
+
+
+
+
+
+
Solution:
+ Reading the End Trails
+
Written by Francis
+ Heaney
+
For now, we need only consider
+ the first six statements. Sigmund Freud cannot be the liar. If Sigmund Freud
+ is the liar, then, by statement 2, The Blob does in fact lie all the time. In
+ other words, The Blob is the liar. But we don't have two liars.
+
Suppose Sigmund Freud is
+ the truthteller. Then statement 3 is incorrect. (The truthteller cannot claim
+ that the liar doesn't lie all the time.) So The Blob is lying. The Blob can't
+ be the liar, since we know he doesn't lie all the time from statement 2. He's
+ not the copier, since he would copy Sigmund Freud's true statement. Therefore
+ he must be the alternator (choosing to start with a lie).
+
Therefore Jeanne Dixon's
+ first statement (that The Blob sometimes lies) is truthful; she would then be
+ the copier (starting with the truth), and Mary Shelley the liar. Jeanne Dixon
+ second statement would be a lie (copying The Blob's false statement), and The
+ Blob's second statement would be true (alternating with his original lie). So
+ far we have, as statements go: true, true, false, false, true. This is followed
+ by Mary Shelley's statement, which is therefore false, and Mary Shelley is the
+ liar, so this is consistent, so we have one possibility for the four entities:
+ The Blob = alternator, Mary Shelley = liar, Sigmund Freud = truth-teller, Jeanne
+ Dixon = copier.
+
But what if Sigmund Freud
+ is either the alternator or the copier?
+
This makes statement 3 true.
+ (Sigmund Freud can make statement 2 falsely about the liar and truthfully about
+ everyone else.) That means The Blob is telling the truth. So The Blob is not
+ the liar. So The Blob doesn't lie all the time, which means statement 2 is true.
+
+
Let's try to figure out
+ if Jeanne Dixon is lying in statement 1. If so, then, by statement 1, The Blob
+ in fact never lies. The Blob must be the truthteller. Since statement 2 is true,
+ Sigmund Freud must be the alternator. (If he were the copier, he'd copy Jeanne
+ Dixon's lie in statement 1.)
+
Now some cases. Jeanne Dixon
+ is either the copier or the liar. Suppose Jeanne Dixon is the copier and Mary
+ Shelley is the liar. That means Jeanne's second statement is true, copying The
+ Blob's truthful statement. So the first six statements are: false, true, true,
+ true, true, false. But that means Mary Shelley's statement that four statements
+ have been true so far is actually true! So that is not the case. If Jeanne Dixon
+ is the liar and Mary Shelley is the copier, then Jeanne Dixon's second statement
+ is a lie, and Mary Shelley copies The Blob's truthful second statement, giving
+ us: false, true, true, false, true, true -- which is consistent. This gives
+ us a second possibility: The Blob = truth-teller, Mary Shelley = copier, Sigmund
+ Freud = alternator, Jeanne Dixon = liar.
+
But Jeanne Dixon may be
+ telling the truth in statement 1. The first three statements are then all true,
+ which means that the liar must be Mary Shelley (since The Blob, Sigmund Freud,
+ and Jeanne Dixon can apparently utter true statements). From 1 and 2 being true,
+ we know The Blob can make both true and false statements. Therefore The Blob
+ is not the truthteller. For this hypothetical we are assuming that Sigmund Freud
+ is either the alternator or the copier, and we know Mary Shelley isn't the truthteller.
+ Therefore Jeanne Dixon is the truthteller.
+
Now, if Sigmund Freud is
+ the copier and The Blob is the alternator, then the truth-values of the first
+ six statements are: true, true, true, true, false, false -- leading once again
+ to a contradiction in that Mary Shelley's statement about there being four true
+ statements so far is true, but Mary Shelley is the liar. So Sigmund Freud can't
+ be the copier. If Sigmund Freud is the alternator and The Blob is the copier,
+ though, the first six statements come out as: true, true, true, true, true,
+ false -- which leads to no contradiction. So we have a third possibility: The
+ Blob = copier, Mary Shelley = liar, Sigmund Freud = alternator, Jeanne Dixon
+ = truth-teller.
+
So here are our three possibilities:
+
+
The Blob = alternator,
+ Mary Shelley = liar, Sigmund Freud = truth-teller, Jeanne Dixon = copier
+
The Blob = truth-teller,
+ Mary Shelley = copier, Sigmund Freud = alternator, Jeanne Dixon = liar
+
The Blob = copier, Mary
+ Shelley = liar, Sigmund Freud = alternator, Jeanne Dixon = truth-teller
+
+
Now let us consider The
+ Blob's hypothetical. In possibility 1, Mary Shelley could say "I am the
+ alternator"; she would be lying. In possibility 2, Mary Shelley would be
+ copying Sigmund Freud's previous statement, which is a lie (as Sigmund Freud
+ is the alternator, and his previous statement was truthful), so, again, she
+ could make the statement; she would be lying. In possibility 3, as in possibility
+ 1, she could make the statement, again, as a lie. So if Mary Shelley were to
+ make that statement, it would not help us distinguish between the three possibilities.
+ Therefore The Blob's statement that, if Mary Shelley were to say such a thing,
+ we would not have enough information to solve the puzzle is true.
+
The Blob in possibility
+ 1 could not make a true statement there, being an alternator who had told the
+ truth in his previous statement. Neither could The Blob in possibility 3 make
+ a true statement there, because he is a copier following Sigmund Freud's statement,
+ which must be false (as Sigmund Freud is an alternator whose previous statement
+ was true). The only possibility that remains is possibility 2, in which The
+ Blob can clearly tell the truth because he is a truth-teller. Therefore The
+ Blob is the truth-teller, Mary Shelley is the copier, Sigmund Freud is the alternator,
+ and Jeanne Dixon is the liar.
+
+
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+
+
+
+Solution: The Realm of Unspeakable Chaos
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+Solution:
+
+The Realm of Unspeakable Chaos
+
+
Written by
+Kevin Wald
+
+
+
+
+The text under the flags describes them in some unknown language;
+from this, the vocabulary and grammar of the language can be determined
+to a considerable extent.
+(Here is a dictionary and grammar for the language.)
+
+
+Only one flag is not described -- the flag that has been displaced
+from the array of flags. It can be found further down the page,
+as the white box with the horizontal black bar. The description
+of this flag is
+
+Nastare dryl prasu ut
+
+(That is, "on a white background, one black horizontal bar"). This
+description has eighteen letters; when these are entered in the
+eighteen numbered boxes (nth letter in box n), they spell
+
+
+
+
+UDYRU
+STARLET
+PAN - SAR
+
+
+
+
+Since a duru is an inverted T-shape, an udyru is an inverted
+inverted T-shape -- that is, a right-side-up T. A starlet (small
+star) is a wodel (woda, "star", with the diminutive suffix).
+Finally, pan (7) minus sar (4) equals tas (3). Thus, in
+the boxes on the right we enter
+
+
+
+
+T
+WODEL
+TAS
+
+
+
+
+which, read in order with appropriate spacing, is TWO DELTAS.
+A single capital-delta shape is an uta, so two of them are
+unte am, and the solution to this puzzle is (appropriately
+to the scenario described) unteam.
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
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+
+
+
+Solution: The Roads Through Hell
+
+
+
+
+
+
Solution:
+ The Roads Through Hell
+
Written by Tara Holm
+ and Justin Legakis
+
The given text is the result
+ of interleaving, sentence by sentence, three different riddle trails. Each of
+ these trails spends much of its length in a single geometrical plane P, consisting
+ of the Infinite Corridor, the corresponding corridors above and below it, and
+ the elevators and stairways connecting them, as shown here:
+
+
+
+
The three trails all converge
+ at the end in Killian Court. Some portions of the trails overlap (as hinted
+ at by "We couldn't believe we hadn't run into each other"). When the plane P
+ is viewed from the Killian Court side ("Pondering where we had been, we stopped
+ to admire the view"), these overlapping segments, shown here:
When the link to this puzzle
+ is clicked, what seems to be a "Not Found" error message appears.
+ In fact, this is a fake, and the listing of the alleged URL that wasn't found
+ contains a clickable link. When this link is clicked, another fake "Not
+ Found" message appears, with the new message "Oh, go to hell"
+ at the bottom. When "go to hell" is clicked, the puzzle finally appears:
+ a long string of sixes, each of which is either "6," "VI,"
+ or "Six."
+
This string is a simple
+ substitution cipher; when the sixes are divided up into sets of three, each
+ triplet stands for a letter, according to the following rule: Each letter has
+ been translated into a number (by the rule A = 1, B = 2, etc.), and this number
+ has been expressed in base 3 (with "6" = 0, "VI" = 1, and
+ "Six" = 2). When the string is decoded and "played backwards"
+ (that is, reversed) to find the Satanic message, it consists of seven "dictionary
+ entries":
+
Advertising: An industry
+ combining the good taste of convenience stores with the morality of cabaRETS.
+ AErobics: Exercises that make your heart beat like a ferRET'S.
+ AEgis: Protection from attack by eagles and men in beRETS.
+ AErial: A device which gives cable TV executives most of their regRETS.
+ AEon: The amount of time SETI will have to spend searching foR ETS.
+ AEsthete: A poseur privy to imagined secRETS.
+ AErosol: Hairspray designed to give us longlasting holed.
+
Overlapping each adjacent
+ pair of entries is the letter sequence RETSAE (shown in capital letters above);
+ when this is "played backwards" (that is, forwards with respect to
+ the original ciphertext) it becomes the solution, EASTER. (Apparently,
+ if earthly records played backwards reveal hidden Satanic messages, conversely
+ infernal records played backwards reveal hidden Christian messages.)
These can be grouped into
+ pairs in which one member has an X where the other has a Y; the two graphs corresponding
+ to this pair give the X and Y coordinates, as a function of time, of a point
+ writing out a short piece of English text. (The reference to an Etch-a-Sketch
+ is a clue to this, since one draws on an Etch-a-Sketch by separately adjusting
+ the X and Y coordinates of the point that draws on the screen.) These pieces
+ are, in alphabetical order by word-pair:
+
BO-X/Y: Come to
+ FLA-X/Y: Hunt HQ
+ LO-X/Y: Ask to
+ MAR-X/Y: use the
+ MA-X/Y-IM: E-meter
+
When solvers arrived at
+ Hunt headquarters and asked to use the E-meter, they were seated in front of
+ a mysterious box (the "E-meter") and handed two soda cans that were
+ attached to it with string. They then would guess words, and were told what
+ numerical "E-meter" readings they generated thereby; they had to figure
+ out that the E-meter reading was "indistinct" for anything that wasn't
+ a six-letter word starting with E, and otherwise was the number of letters their
+ word had in common with the solution word. Playing "Jotto" in this
+ way, they would eventually discover that the solution was ENGRAM.
+
+
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+
+
+
+Solution: Shadow of a Doubt
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+Solution:
+
+Shadow of a Doubt
+
+
Written by
+Scott Weiss
+
+The list of words has been encoded in a standard substitution cipher.
+After decoding, you get:
+
+All are, of course, Hitchcock films; he is the "master of horror"
+referred to in the blurb. The title is the name of an obscure Hitchcock
+film, as well.
+
+
+
+Take the given letter from each title, and you get SETTEE BEDS. Again,
+reduce it to its component letters and anagram; you get the word
+debts.
+
+
+
+By the way, since Hitchcock made an appearance in each of his films, I
+made an appearance in my puzzle. If you read the fourth letter of the
+first six encoded "words", you get "squonk", which is my nom de plume in
+the National Puzzlers' League.
+
In this puzzle, hunters
+ had to come to headquarters to play the Buffy the Vampire Slayer board game
+ against us. If they won, we gave them the answer, BITER.
+The first step is to figure what is going on. The arrow and "exit to
+Miskatonic St" and the description of a human presence below ground
+are supposed to clue the subway. The text at the front
+is supposed to clue Davis Square station. 1984 is the year that the
+red line extension was opened. Porter is the deepest station and is
+supposed to be clued by "far, far beneath the ground". "headed for
+the wilderness... a short trip" is supposed to clue the next station
+outward, which is Davis.
+
+
+At Davis Square there are tiles with pictures made by children on the
+wall in the patterns shown, except that the different sets are
+side-by-side rather than one atop another. There is a sign that says
+"exit to College Avenue". The childrens' names are given on the
+tiles, and the numbers give the position within the name to take a
+letter (or in one case 2 letters). The letters for each set of tiles
+make a word, and the words are
+
+"It chases female student to modify as group"
+
+which is a cryptic clue for
+coedit.
+
+
+
+
+
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+
+
+
+Solution: The Chimera
+
+
+
+
+
+
Solution:
+ The Chimera
+
Written by Kevin Wald
+
The languages of the texts
+ below the picture are, in order:
+
Klingon
+ Dutch
+ Tocharian A
+ Esperanto
+ Tagalog
+ German
+ Welsh
+ Catalan
+ Anglo-Saxon (or Old English)
+ Latin
+ Norwegian
+ Greek
+ Thai
+ Chinese
+
Each of the items pointed
+ to in the picture has a name that can be produced by joining the "head"
+ of one language name to the "tail" of another; from left to right
+ these are:
This eliminates twelve
+ of the languages, leaving only KL[ingon] + [Anglo-S]AXON = KLAXON, which
+ is the solution to the puzzle (and which is also hinted at by the reference
+ to the picture as "alarming").
The words below the grid
+ can be divided into 25 sets, each of which consists of three members of a four-member
+ group. The groups, along with the missing fourth members, are:
+
JONES, NESMITH, TORK ->
+ DOLENZ (last names of the Monkees)
+ CLUB, DIAMOND, HEART -> SPADE (card suits)
+ BASSES, TENORS, SOPRANOS -> ALTOS (choral sections)
+ FIRST, THIRD, HOME -> SECOND (baseball bases)
+ LEVI STUBBS JR, RENALDO BENSON, ABDUL FAKIR -> LAWRENCE PAYTON (the Four
+ Tops)
+ MUNSTER, LEINSTER, ULSTER -> CONNAUGHT (provinces of Ireland)
+ SUE, RUDY, KELLY -> RICH (the "alliance"/"final four"
+ on _Survivor_)
+ MATTHEW, LUKE, JOHN -> MARK (Gospels)
+ PARSLEY, ROSEMARY, THYME -> SAGE (refrain of Scarborough Fair)
+ MCCARTNEY, STARR, HARRISON -> LENNON (last names of the Beatles)
+ B AND O, PENNSYLVANIA, SHORT LINE -> READING (Monopoly railroads)
+ EDGE, BONO, ADAM -> LARRY (first names of U-2 members)
+ MALLORY, JENNIFER, ANDREW -> ALEX (kids on Family Ties)
+ WAR, PESTILENCE, DEATH -> FAMINE (Horsemen of the Apocalypse)
+ ADENINE, THYMINE, CYTOSINE -> GUANINE (DNA bases)
+ LIQUID, GAS, PLASMA -> SOLID (states of matter)
+ COMPRESSION, POWER, EXHAUST -> INTAKE (strokes of a 4-stroke engine)
+ BOREAS, EURUS, NOTUS -> ZEPHYRUS (the four winds)
+ JIANG QING, WANG HONGWEN, ZHANG CHUNQIAO -> YAO WENYUAN (the Gang of Four)
+ MEENY, MINEY, MO -> EENY (the universal decision method)
+ DECAY, SUSTAIN, RELEASE -> ATTACK (ADSR envelope characteristics)
+ HEART, HEAD, HANDS -> HEALTH (the four H's of 4-H)
+ PLOP, FIZZ, FIZZ -> PLOP (the universal relief technique)
+ CHOLERIC, MELANCHOLIC, PHLEGMATIC -> SANGUINE (humors/personality types)
+ JACK, KING, ACE -> QUEEN (honors)
+
To fit the extra words into
+ the grid, the missing quarter of it must be filled in. When this is done, it
+ looks like this:
+
L K I H T F Z M W P U Y L T Z G
+ D W H Q P U A I V D B A Z M M E
+ A R R C I K E M P X L O R G I S
+ Q T V A M N G N R Z D W A T I R
+ L E L S E J N E I P H E E H N T
+ S R Z B O F P Y N N Y N F Y O Q
+ E L W R I G X H S I A Y M Y H U
+ I J D W E N A E O N M U O N E E
+ D G K O X A U M L T S A G E A E
+ R M E M D Y D I I A U N F E L N
+ L O I Z L S Z I D K R A M K T I
+ F Z R T S E Q A N E Y R I C H U
+ H L D C O N N A U G H T Y A P G
+ M B L A W R E N C E P A Y T O N
+ H F F J X E D N O C E S O T L A
+ E A K I I D O L E N Z E D A P S
+
The letters in the positions
+ marked with asterisks are SEINFELDKRAMERCOSTANZA -- that is: SEINFELD, KRAMER,
+ and COSTANZA, the last names of three of the gang on SEINFELD. The missing element
+ is therefore BENES, Elaine's last name. (And the picture linked to by
+ the title is appropriate, because the Fantastic Four consists of three men and
+ an invisible woman.)
Except for a few letters,
+ the grid is randomly generated, so there may be more words hiding in there,
+ but hopefully nothing meaningful.
+
Off to the maze you go.
+ Start at the spot marked with X, always turn right, and you'll come up with
+ the following path:
+
+
+
Now, back to the grid.
+ There is only one X in the whole grid and it corresponds to the spot marked
+ with X in the maze (see below). If you map the maze to the grid and take the
+ letters corresponding to the cul-de-sacs in the maze in the order in which you
+ encountered them:
+
+you will get THE BOOK OF ESTHER
+VILLAIN, which is HAMAN.
+
+
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+
+
+
+Solution: The Two Faces of Evil
+
+
+
+
+
Solution:
+ The Two Faces of Evil
+
Written by Julie Bzostek
+ and Scott Weiss
+
At the costume party, take
+ the first letter of the costume worn by the person who matched the following
+ pieces of trivia:
+
+
+
Once got robbed
+ in Brighton (Babe the Big Blue Ox)
+
Once woke up to
+ find a chimney had fallen on them (Albania)
+
Lived surreptitiously
+ for a month in their college's theater building (Rubik's Cube)
+
Once woke a teacher
+ up at 6:30am Sunday morning to study for an AP test (Leeloo, from The
+ Fifth Element)
The headache clinic at
+ Faulkner Hospital is named after their great-uncle (Yo-Yo)
+
+
+
Answer:
+ BARLEY
+
+
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+
+
+
+Solution: We Have Enough Twists, Thank You
+
+
+
+
+
+
Solution:
+ We Have Enough Twists, Thank You
+
Written by Andy Latto
+ and Cally Perry
+
The
+ puzzle gives 51 answers. Each one of these answers a question posed in the lyrics
+ of a song.
+
Step 1. Find the titles
+ of these songs.
+
Solution: (Question follows
+ title, when it is different)
+
Because she lacks a Y chromosome,
+ and therefore produces less testosterone and more estrogen; cultural conditioning
+ plays a large role as well.
+ A Hymn to Him (Why can't a woman be more like a man?)
+
No; my current mood is
+ realistic, perhaps even a bit cynical.
+ A wand'ring Minstrel I (Are you in sentimental mood?)
+
Sure, it's easy; just put
+ your arms around me and sway back and forth a little in time to the music.
+ American Pie (Can you teach me how to dance real slow?)
+
Yes; In fact, Tuesday would
+ be fine regardless of the weather.
+ Another Hundred People (Can we see each other Tuesday if it doesn't rain?)
+
Of course; just go north
+ on Highway 101.
+ * Do you know the way to San Jose?
+
Forty-two.
+ Blowin' in the Wind (How many roads can a man walk down? -- See the end
+ of Hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy to see why this is an appropriate answer)
+
I don't know what it can
+ mean; now stop trying to cheer me up and let me get back to sleep.
+ Daydream Believer (Cheer up, sleepy Jean, Oh, what can it mean?)
+
Any change in your terpsichorean
+ abilities is not relevant to my feelings for you.
+ Do you love me (...now that I can dance?)
+
No; some photographs are
+ utterly devoid of narrative content.
+ Every Picture tells a Story (Don't it?)
+
Non; je suis réveillé
+
+ Frère Jacques (Dormez-vous?)
+
My bouts of seasickness
+ are indeed very rare, though if you insist, I must admit they are not completely
+ nonexistent.
+ I am the captain of the Pinafore (What never?)
+
Just politely thank him
+ for his compliments, and decline his amorous advances; spitting in his eye would
+ be a bit much.
+ I Cain't Say No (Whatcha gonna do when he talks like that? Spit in his
+ eye?)
+
None of the above; Cheer
+ him up, be quiet, don't say a word about love, and hide how you feel.
+ I Don't Know How to Love Him (Should I bring him down Should I scream
+ and shout Should I speak of love Let my feelings out?)
+
Because I was so anxious
+ to hear you say that, that it caused me to overlook your lifelong reputation
+ for mendacity.
+ *How Can You Believe Me When I Say I Love You, When You Know
+ I've Been A Liar All My Life?
+
Actually, I believe we met
+ at home of the second assistant director.
+ I Know What I Know (Didn't I meet you at the cinematographer's party?)
+
They always are; they're
+ just obscured by clouds sometimes.
+ I Only Have Eyes for You (Are the stars out tonight?)
+
It's none of your business
+ who locates it, as long as I pay it by the first every month.
+ *Lady Madonna (Who finds the money when you pay the rent?)
+
Yes; if you really wanted
+ me to travel to Mali, I would go.
+ I'd Do Anything (Go to Timbucktu?)
+
Because you have no artistic
+ talent whatsoever.
+ If (If a picture paints a thousand words, then why can't I paint you?)
+
No; There's more.
+ Is that All There Is?
+
The Lord strong and mighty,
+ the Lord mighty in battle.
+ Lift Up Your Heads, O Ye Gates (Who is this King of Glory?)
+
No. I'm lousy at geography,
+ so I thought we were on the Orient Express.
+ Marrakesh Express (Don't you know we're riding, on the Marrakesh Express?)
+
No; I'm too tired to dance
+ any more, and the moon's about to set anyway.
+ Moondance (Can I enjoy one more Moondance with you, my love?)
+
No, I haven't seen her,
+ Mr. Gibb.
+ New York Mining Disaster 1941 (Have you seen my wife, Mr. Jones?)
+
No-one told her, because
+ nobody ever saw any days of the week talking on a telephone.
+ *She Came in Through the Bathroom Window (Didn't anybody tell her?)
+
Actually, if you get up
+ early enough, you can usually hear them sing anywhere in the entire city.
+ On the Street Where You Live (Can you hear a lark in any other part of
+ town?)
+
Yes, it's la Coeur de la
+ Mer.
+ Oops I Did It Again ("Oh, it's beautiful, but wait a minute, isn't
+ this...?")
+
No; I prefer hardcovers.
+ Paperback Writer (Dear Sir or Madam, will you read my book?)
+
I guess you ought to go,
+ since it'll only cause half as much trouble.
+ Should I Stay or Should I Go?
+
Yes, it's quite warm and
+ cozy.
+ Side by Side by Side (Isn't it warm, isn't it cozy)
+
It's right there in the
+ first four letters of the word.
+ Sincere (Where is the good in good-bye? or Where is the fair in farewell?)
+
Because they all describe
+ taboo practices.
+ Sodomy (Sodomy, Fellatio, Cunnilingus, Pederasty,
+ Father, why do these words sound so nasty?)
+
No-one; it's inexplicable.
+ Some Enchanted Evening (Who can explain it?)
+
How can I tell him to hurry
+ up and follow you, when you don't even know who it is yet?
+ Someone to Watch Over Me (won't you tell him please to put on some speed,
+ follow my lead...?)
+
I have no objection to a
+ sign, regardless of whether it reflects.
+ Spinning Wheel (Would you mind a reflecting sign?)
+
Turn right on Rosemary Drive,
+ go two blocks, then turn left on Caraway Avenue, and take that to the end. You
+ can't miss it.
+ Sunny Day (Can you tell me how to get, how to get to Sesame Street?)
+
Could it be...SATAN?
+ Sympathy for the Devil (what's my name?)
+
Sure, but that won't help
+ unless you can persuade all the impostors to remain seated.
+ The Real Slim Shady (Will The Real Slim Shady please stand up?)
+
Actually, since it's inside
+ the Smithsonian, it doesn't really wave any more.
+ The Star Spangled Banner (Oh say does that Star Spangled Banner yet wave
+ o'er the land of the free and the home of the brave?)
+
No; I'm just wandering
+ aimlessly about.
+ Theme from Mahogany (Do you know where you're going to?)
+
With a stone, of course;
+ can't you figure anything out without asking me?
+ There's a Hole in the Bucket (With what shall I sharpen it?)
+
Don't let him pilot a supertanker.
+ *What Shall We Do with a Drunken Sailor?
+
No; The game is no fun,
+ so we cannot be truly happy until we stop playing it.
+ This Masquerade (Are we really happy in this lonely game we play?)
+
Melinda; Bill; Yes, much,
+ much, more so than you.
+ Time of the Season (What's your name? Who's your daddy? Is he rich like
+ me?)
+
Just boring stuff that I
+ need for this stupid MCAS test.
+ What Did You Learn in School Today?
+
I don't know, but maybe
+ you could ask Jim Croce; he wanted to put some in a bottle.
+ Who Knows Where the Time Goes?
+
Because the asphalt would
+ chafe.
+ *Why Don't We Do It in the Road?
+
Maybe someone who wanted
+ to help them escape from Cruella De Vil.
+ Who Let the Dogs Out?
+
The Edsels.
+ Who Put the Bomp (Who put the Ram in the Ram-a-lam-a-Ding-dong?)
+
Because you can keep it
+ up longer when you're sober.
+ Why Don't We Get Drunk and Screw?
+
Because you don't do enough
+ sit-ups and ab crunches.
+ You Can Call Me Al (Why am I so soft in the middle, when the rest of
+ my life is so hard?)
+
Step 2: Fill these into
+ the grid provided. (They are not in order, but all the enumerations are
+ different.) Read the starred letters down, to spell "twelfth letter in
+ answers not in alphabetical order by title."
+
Step 3: Find the 6 titles
+ in the above list not in alphabetical order. (They're marked with a star.)
+
Spaces are significant in
+ alphabetization.
+ All words are used in alphabetization, including initial "I" and "The".
+ Contractions are alphabetized as though spelled out.
+
+
Step 4. Take the twelfth
+ letter of each of the 6 starred titles to form
The given "poem"
+ consists of 36 words that each appear only once in Edgar Allan Poe's The
+ Raven, and then the instruction "Look ahead!". Follow this instruction;
+ for each word, find the word following it in The Raven:
+
Denser -> PERFUMED
+ Desert -> LAND
+ Gaunt -> AND
+ unseen -> CENSER
+ countenance -> IT
+ hear -> DISCOURSE
+ Reply -> SO
+ Horror -> HAUNTED
+ Fiery -> EYES
+ black -> PLUME
+ answer -> LITTLE
+ Head -> AT
+ distinctly -> I
+ lifted -> NEVERMORE
+ violet -> LINING
+ desolate -> YET
+ Meaning -> LITTLE
+ lonely -> ON
+ Ancient -> RAVEN
+ dying -> EMBER
+ air -> GREW
+ Land -> ENCHANTED
+ merely -> THIS
+ discourse -> SO
+ Thou -> I
+ forgotten -> LORE
+ syllable -> EXPRESSING
+ Such -> NAME
+ purple -> CURTAIN
+ being -> EVER
+ louder -> THAN
+ once -> UPON
+ Wandering -> FROM
+ further -> THEN
+ Mortals -> EVER
+ doubting -> DREAMING
+
The initial letters of the
+ words thus obtained spell out PLACID SHE PLAINLY LORE GET SILENCE TUFTED, each
+ of which is again a word that appears exactly once in The Raven. We "look
+ ahead" again, but this time we advance from each word by the number of
+ letters in that word:
+
6th word after PLACID =
+ WORD
+ 3rd word after SHE = AH
+ 7th word after PLAINLY = RELEVANCY
+ 4th word after LORE = NEARLY
+ 3rd word after GET = INTO
+ 7th word after SILENCE = NO
+ 6th word after TUFTED = GOD
+
The initial letters of the
+ words thus obtained spell out the solution word, WARNING.
Things that live far,
+ far beneath the ground are better left undisturbed, but humans don't always
+ heed this advice. In 1984 a regular human presence disturbed its lair,
+ and when it decided that the humans could no longer be tolerated, it headed
+ for the wilderness to seek a new home. After a short trip it saw
+L K I H T F Z M W P U Y L T Z G
+D W H Q P U A I V D B A Z M M E
+A R R C I K E M P X L O R G I S
+Q T V A M N G N R Z D W A T I R
+L E L S E J N E I P H E E H N T
+S R Z B O F P Y N N Y N F Y O Q
+E L W R I G X H S I A Y M Y H U
+I J D W E N A E O N M U O N E E
+D G K O X A U M * *
+R M E M D Y D I * * * * *
+L O I Z L S Z I * * * * *
+F Z R T S E Q A * *
+H L D C O N N A
+M B L A W R E N * *
+H F F J X E D N * * *
+E A K I I D O L * * *
+
+
+
+ABDUL FAKIR ACE ADAM ADENINE ANDREW
+B AND O BASSES BONO BOREAS CHOLERIC
+CLUB COMPRESSION CYTOSINE DEATH DECAY
+DIAMOND EDGE EURUS EXHAUST FIRST
+FIZZ FIZZ GAS HANDS HARRISON
+HEAD HEART HEART HOME JACK
+JENNIFER JIANG QING JOHN JONES KELLY
+KING LEINSTER LEVI STUBBS JR LIQUID LUKE
+MALLORY MATTHEW MEENY MELANCHOLIC MCCARTNEY
+MINEY MO MUNSTER NESMITH NOTUS
+PARSLEY PENNSYLVANIA PESTILENCE PHLEGMATIC PLASMA
+PLOP POWER RELEASE RENALDO BENSON ROSEMARY
+RUDY SHORT LINE SOPRANOS STARR SUE
+SUSTAIN TENORS THIRD THYME THYMINE
+TORK ULSTER WANG HONGWEN WAR ZHANG CHUNQIAO
+
The following is
+ an excerpt from the journal of Dr. D. Esoll of Santa Rosa, CA:
+
My experiments on
+ the creatures progress slowly. I am still perplexed by the changes that
+ come over them. I have managed to extract a small sample of blood from
+ their claws. Maybe this will help me identify them. In any case, I vow
+ to someday bring their secrets to light.
+
[Then there's a series
+ of scrawled numbers in color.]
Much of what we know
+ about ancient monsters must be pieced together from a variety of sources,
+ from around the world. For instance, the following alarming picture has
+ been painstakingly reconstructed by assembling the veritable library of
+ resources quoted below it:
Het hierbij afgegeelde
+ diertje, in de volksmond genaamd
+ "wentelteefje" of "rolpens", tracht dus in een diepgevoelde
+
+ behaefte te voorzien. Biologische bijzonderheden zijn nog
+ schaars: is het een zoogdier, een reptiel, of een insekt?
+
+
+
+
+
+
Kapagka ang baya'y
+ sadyang umiibig
+ Sa kanyang salitang kaloob ng langit,
+ Sanglang kalayaan nasa ring masapit
+ Katulad ng ibong nasa himpapawid.
+
+
Der Riesen ragend
+ Geschlecht,
+ Fasolt und Fafner,
+ die Brüder -- fielen nun beide.
+ Um verfluchtes Gold,
+ von Göttern vergabt,
+ traf ich Fasolt zu Tod:
+ der nun als Wurm
+ den Hort bewachte,
+ Fafner, den letzten Riesen,
+ fällte ein rosiger Held.
Els Lestrígons
+ i els Cíclops,
+ El feroç Posidó, mai no serà que els topis
+ Si no els portes amb tu dins la teva ànima,
+ Si no ès la teva ànima que els dreça davant teu.
+
+
+
+
+
Centauri in foribus
+ stabulant, Scyllaeque biformes,
+ et centumgeminus Briareus, ac belua Lernae
+ horrendum stridens, flammisque armata Chimaera,
+ Gorgones Harpyiaeque et forma tricorporis umbrae.
+
+
Hvilken stillhet omkring!
+ Ja, de landlige gleder, --
+ ubegripelig nok at jeg vraket dem før;
+ at man lukker seg inne i de store stæder,
+ blott for å rennes av pakket på dør
+ Nei; se hvor firbene vimser omkring,
+ snapper og tenker på ingenting.
Having defeated the
+ villainous Hedora, Gojira meanders off into the rising sun. Coordinate
+ the data, both horizontal and vertical, to see where Gojira was last sighted.
+
To earn the answer
+ to this round, you must win enough money playing the card game Renfield.
+ This game was designed by James Ernest and E. Jordan Bojar of Cheapass
+ Games. (If you really enjoy the game, you may purchase your own copy by
+ going to http://www.cheapass.com.)
+ Games will begin one half-hour after the beginning of the Mystery Hunt.
+ Please read the rules given below then send one or two team members to
+ our headquarters to play. (If you send two people, they will play as a
+ team.) You will start out with $100 in chips. Once you have $150 in chips,
+ you may purchase the puzzle that leads to the final answer. You are welcome
+ to play as much as you like even after you have $150 in chips. (Representatives
+ of the Hunt organizers will only play if there aren't enough participants
+ to make at least a 4-person game.)
+
The object of each
+ hand of Renfield is to take the fewest points but at least one. Points
+ in the game are represented as yummy bugs. (So, instead of taking points,
+ you eat bugs.) You get points by taking cards in tricks.
+
The Renfield deck
+ is made up of 54 cards ranging from 0 to 17 in three suits (Parts, Stones,
+ and Tools). The 0's are the Key Cards, and are only used to set up trump
+ for a hand. Each other card also has Bugs (i.e. how many points the card
+ is worth) and a Dollar Cost (i.e. how much you have to pay to the pot
+ when you take the card in a trick). The 2's and the 12's are slightly
+ different in that they are Doublers. The 2's double the cost of a trick
+ (they have a D in place of a dollar amount). The 12's double the number
+ of bugs you have "eaten" for the entire hand (due to a misprint,
+ the word "Double" is written in faint orange on the side of
+ the card).
+
Everyone starts the
+ hand with six cards. Starting to the left of the dealer, everyone makes
+ one bid for the right to choose the relative ordering of the three suits
+ (i.e. what suit beats what). If you wish to bid, you must bet more than
+ the current high bid. If no one bids, the dealer must take the lead for
+ $5. Whoever wins the bid pays the money to the pot. Then he or she takes
+ the 0's (also called the Key Cards) and orders them so that the highest
+ suit is on top and the lowest is on the bottom. (Suppose, for example,
+ that Parts is on top, then Tools, then Stones.)
+
Six tricks are then
+ played. The winner of the bid leads to the first trick. You must follow
+ suit if you can, otherwise you may play whatever you like. If you have
+ eaten at least one bug, you may choose to fold instead of play a card.
+ You are then out of the hand, and cannot win the pot this hand. (Note
+ that you may only fold when you have the opportunity to play a card. You
+ can't fold, for example, after you realize you have won a trick.)
+
If you played the
+ highest card in the trick, you take it. The "highest card" is
+ the highest ranked card of the highest suit according to the ordering
+ of the Key Cards. (So, in the example above, the 7 of Parts beats the
+ 5 of Parts, which, in turn, beats the 12 of Tools, which beats the 15
+ of Stones.) You would then pay the pot the total cost of all cards in
+ the trick (not forgetting doublers, if they're there). Since you won the
+ trick, you lead the next trick. If you choose to fold instead of play
+ a card, the lead passes to the left. After all six tricks, those players
+ still in the game compare their scores (not forgetting doublers). Whoever
+ ate the smallest number of bugs, but at least one, wins the pot. If there
+ is a tie, split the pot, leaving any odd coins for the next hand. Deal
+ passes to the left for the next hand.
+ No answers found on this page. Please report this to${" "}
+ puzzle@mit.edu.
+
`;
+
+ return html`
+
+
+
+ ${open &&
+ html`
+
+
+
${feedback}
+
${body}
+
+
+ `}
+
+ `;
+};
+
+const data = await getData();
+const prompts = getAnswers(data, document.URL);
+render(html`<${CheckButton} prompts=${prompts} />`, container);
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+
+
+
+
+Parts Is Parts
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
Spookiness
+ Rating: 1
+
+
+
+
+
Puzzlement
+ Rating: ONS
+
+
+
+
+
Parts is Parts
+
"Igor! What is
+ all this stuff??"
+
"Sorry, master.
+ They were having a big sale down at the Mad Scientist Guild. I just grabbed
+ whatever I could. Some of it might be defective, but I thought you could
+ do something with this stuff..."
+
AMI AMP AUG AYE DUS ELE ERE ETA HIM HMI IEC IRC KER
+LLS NDL NOT ONM ONW RAT REE RIE RIF RRO TSK URV ZMB
There is a ravenous
+ creature about, hidden so that he cannot be seen -- only heard. When away
+ from his lair, he feeds wherever he can, so you can see numerous victims
+ of his hunger; just look down. If you do so you may in addition spot one
+ group of his prey who, though also hidden, were each ensnared by the sound
+ of the creature's voice. (Alas, they couldn't hide the way he does . .
+ .)
+
+
+
ACROSS
+
1. Second-born has
+ right to act snobbish (5)
+ 6. Sad film depicting tart? (6)
+ 10. Pair of topless clones is good for everyone (3-3)
+ 11. Beheaded one bad actor in Jurassic Park (5)
+ 13. Kinnear has near-perfect woman over for springtime activity (8)
+ 14. Soft wintertime nuisance (4)
+ 15. Fool like Anaïs? (5)
+ 16. Lunatic she'd hit doth gossip? (7)
+ 17. Psychic power needed to start cable channel (4)
+ 20. Irreverent, loud backtalk (4)
+ 22. Those people from the club (4)
+ 23. He rubs skin of that woman (4)
+ 25. Putting away doughnuts, grow to full heft (2, 2; abbr.)
+ 27. A clown named Bill appears in their window (5)
+ 29. Crossing time, I jinx fin-de-siècle Japan (5)
+ 33. Thinks of W. Shakespeare's evenings (5)
+ 34. Sound used to be noise (5)
+ 35. One's new shirt doesn't exist (3'1)
+ 36. Source of yours truly (4)
+ 37. Alien investigators will surround Neptune's foremost hotels (4)
+ 39. Overturning cans in anger (4)
+ 40. Selection of pitches you and I intoned for New Zealander (4)
+ 41. See sign-off starting (7)
+ 44. Referred to on-location report (5)
+ 47. Supplied endless instances of viral infection (4)
+ 48. Left to avoid after-school activity plan (8)
+ 50. Tilts in jousting arenas (5)
+ 51. Wild about carbon steel picks (6)
+ 52. About eight hours after one conversation between Pythonian knights
+ and librarian? (6)
+ 53. They beat the deuce out of platters, noisily (5)
+
DOWN
+
2. No folks from the
+ Emerald Isle like The Maltese Falcon?
+ 3. Exactly one actress in Scream is upset
+ 4. Smart when one drops saline
+ 5. You finally note and identify lair without being asked
+ 6. "Austria's capital" -- writing "A" for that is how a word-puzzler is
+ known
+ 7. For example, penetrating energies for brain scans (abbr.)
+ 8. Endlessly begged to remain an underclassman
+ 9. Study of the beautiful antennaed superhero almost gets suppressed by
+ SMERSH's leader
+ 10. Something one can't achieve: victory over a bad alien poet
+ 12. Daughter of Agamemnon is one cooking hag in pie
+ 18. Pure, wild country
+ 19. Seen in bronchi as minor anatomical intersection
+ 20. Scared of a strong attack
+ 21. Plant extract a vehicle carried north for native of southwest
+ 24. After a bit of bridge that woman is less agitated
+ 26. Jabba's employee captures five playful fungi enjoying themselves
+ 28. Vets scan an incomprehensible void
+ 30. Soles besmirched with loamy soil
+ 31. Dry champagne masks one anatomical noise
+ 32. School conducted one-on-one by a Muse
+ 34. Very one to be, presently, barely there!
+ 38. Coward timidly, gutlessly keeps opposing whatever is new
+ 42. Overturned bread container to make a point
+ 43. Supersonic jets ship tons (abbr.)
+ 44. Also upset about bit of animation showing carnivorous beast
+ 45. One who waits with jittery bride
+ 46. Trash-dumping Rhode Island socialites
+ 49. British brainthumper involves a hyperbolic trig function
Even the people you
+ trust most have their secrets. The inward secrets of six attendees of
+ the costume party appear below. Determine who they are and what they are.
+
+
+
+
Once got
+ robbed in Brighton
+
Once woke
+ up to find a chimney had fallen on them
+
Lived surreptitiously
+ for a month in their college's theater building
+
Once woke
+ a teacher up at 6:30am Sunday morning to study for an AP test
+
Owns Clinton/Gore
+ temporary tattoos
+
The headache clinic
+ at Faulkner Hospital is named after their great-uncle
The voices. They
+ won't leave me alone. They keep asking me questions. But no matter how
+ many times I answer, they keep asking.
+
Why do they keep asking
+ me these questions? Why won't they let me be?
+
If only I knew their
+ names, maybe they would leave me in peace.
+
Won't you please,
+ please help me?
+
+
Because she lacks
+ a Y chromosome, and therefore produces less testosterone and more estrogen;
+ cultural conditioning plays a large role as well.
+
No; my current mood
+ is realistic, perhaps even a bit cynical.
+
Sure, it's easy; just
+ put your arms around me and sway back and forth a little in time to the
+ music.
+
Yes; In fact, Tuesday
+ would be fine regardless of the weather.
+
Of course; just go
+ north on Highway 101.
+
Forty-two.
+
I don't know what
+ it can mean; now stop trying to cheer me up and let me get back to sleep.
+
Any change in your
+ terpsichorean abilities is not relevant to my feelings for you.
+
No; some photographs
+ are utterly devoid of narrative content.
+
Non; je suis réveillé
+
+
My bouts of seasickness
+ are indeed very rare, though if you insist, I must admit they are not
+ completely nonexistent.
+
Certainly not! Surely
+ you can find a more polite way to decline his amorous advances, even if
+ you find it impossible to do so in the conventional straightforward manner.
+
None of the above;
+ Cheer him up, be quiet, don't say a word about love, and hide how you
+ feel.
+
Because I was so
+ anxious to hear you say that, that it caused me to overlook your lifelong
+ reputation for mendacity.
+
Actually, I believe
+ we met at home of the second assistant director.
+
They always are; they're
+ just obscured by clouds sometimes.
+
It's none of your
+ business who locates it, as long as I pay it by the first every month.
+
Yes; if you really
+ wanted me to travel to Mali, I would go.
+
Because you have
+ no artistic talent whatsoever.
+
No; There's more.
+
The Lord strong and
+ mighty, the Lord mighty in battle.
+
No. I'm lousy at geography,
+ so I thought we were on the Orient Express.
+
No; I'm too tired
+ to dance any more, and the moon's about to set anyway.
+
No, I haven't seen
+ her, Mr. Gibb.
+
No-one told her, because
+ nobody ever saw any days of the week talking on a telephone.
+
Actually, if you
+ get up early enough, you can usually hear them sing anywhere in the entire
+ city.
+
Yes, it's le Coeur
+ de la Mer.
+
No; I prefer hardcovers.
+
I guess you ought
+ to go, since it'll only cause half as much trouble.
+
Yes, it's quite warm
+ and cozy.
+
It's right there in
+ the first four letters of the word.
+
Because they all describe
+ taboo practices.
+
No-one; it's inexplicable.
+
How can I tell him
+ to hurry up and follow you, when you don't even know who it is yet?
+
I have no objection
+ to a sign, regardless of whether it reflects.
+
Turn right on Rosemary
+ Drive, go two blocks, then turn left on Caraway Avenue, and take that
+ to the end. You can't miss it.
+
Could it be...SATAN?
+
Sure, but that won't
+ help unless you can persuade all the impostors to remain seated.
+
Actually, since it's
+ inside the Smithsonian, it doesn't really wave any more.
+
No; I'm just wandering
+ aimlessly about.
+
With a stone, of course;
+ can't you figure anything out without asking me?
+
Don't let him pilot
+ a supertanker.
+
No; The game is no
+ fun, so we cannot be truly content until we stop playing it.
+
Melinda; Bill; Yes,
+ much, much, more so than you.
+
Just boring stuff
+ that I need for this stupid MCAS test.
+
I don't know, but
+ maybe you could ask Jim Croce; he wanted to put some in a bottle.
+
Because the asphalt
+ would chafe.
+
Maybe someone who
+ wanted to help them escape from Cruella De Vil.
+
The Edsels.
+
Because you can keep
+ it up longer when you're sober.
+
Because you don't
+ do enough sit-ups and ab crunches.
T N E O T N A H C N E T H G I N D I M
+ U K L Y N M W R A T D A T L A M R E A
+ R E G U E R R I C K E S H M R I J R Y
+ N D L I K O I A T E M H E O C S E I R
+ X A I H N A F M R H A I T S R E K P O
+ F H D A P E N T A V E N B N R I A M M
+ T L N U Y S H S H E U H E F E Y L A E
+ H T E N Z H O T H E P G N A T L L V M
+ E H G D B A M T E A S T C L C L A E E
+ S G E E R R S O A Z A T H L I A N H S
+ C I L D I A E K M L I O O I G D D T L
+ R N M B T G O F B O N E S F A N M J A
+ E A P P T T F B B U S N S V M A R I R
+ W S I T N A L T V N I S T R A E H R U
+ Y O U C N M E W H E N I C A L L Y O U
+ L A B Y N N A H L Y S I R E R Z D T Y
+ R N S H H H V E F I L S Y G B A E T S
+ T H E G W E E N M I L E V B K R O I H
+ L E O E O K S T H E E T A N D C H V E
+ S N O S A E S T N E R E Q F I D N S L
Presented for your
+ enjoyment is a list of thirty lines from some classic works of horror.
+ We've removed such inconsequentials as punctuation, capitalization, and
+ useful word order. We're sure that won't bother you in the slightest.
+
+
+
a a a alley an
+ backseat bathroom behind camaro choose either friend's may of or porno
+ the the theater wedding you
+
a a and child come
+ gotten his is it i've i've now put stop that to to using word
+
a a dad dump grace
+ in like live place princess that's this what why would
+
a again before
+ heard i something soon tapping than
+
a be but cartoons
+ gruesome i i'd if let lousy mother of one pretty some sorry these watch
+ you
+
a beware but carries
+ curse object take terrible this
+
a breakfast cereal
+ for got people with you
+
a chopping hand
+ head her kissing minute next one the they're they're woman's
+
accurate i it passed
+ speaking so technically that was was while
+
aides an an appearance
+ at attributed bill clinton cryptic made morning necktie rather remarks
+ some this tight to which
+
ain't and be but
+ called gonna happen hillbillies it of prefer sons the to
+
all america's around
+ bugs clock dedicated exterminate now rocked that's the to to who wonderful
+ y2k you
+
all and and because
+ boy consecutive forty-six hours hundred let little me of stop three
+ who who won't
+
allen an astronomers
+ belt disturbance from have in ionic just of reported the the to van
+ vicinity vladivostok
+
an are both by
+ coincidence exactly languages of our same the
+
an can evil feel
+ house i in this
+
and course doomed
+ find of the we within
+
and down flush
+ for guard it's later let or sooner then time toilet you'll your
+
and eat less maybe
+ more people should you
+
another been blood
+ dead drained found has his his of marks on peasant teeth throat two
+ with
+
back confined gone
+ i've just the time to to weren't when zoos
+
be cafeteria dangerously
+ detention in is room serving so the the time you'll your
+
behold breakthrough
+ cat-o'-nine-tails greatest in relations since the the
+
brains broken feeding
+ is living must of on spell the the the the until walk you
+
but get get girls
+ i'm know of once plenty real sure that the to you you'll
+
caretakers for
+ new sir the the they're winter
+
children conversation
+ couldn't i monitoring your
+
don't if powers
+ really their they they're to use why witches
+
grave many offer
+ on people ramifications reflecting sell souls the their to
+
And so it came to
+ pass, by wild coincidence one fine day, that four witches all encountered
+ their foes at the same time in the same place. The ensuing hellbroth of
+ spells and magic brought about the results seen here -- witches and victims
+ alike, all caught in the same towering wall of hexes. One would-be victim,
+ however, escaped. Who?
Bring us 30 of the
+ 50 items below, including at least 5 elements from each of the four categories.
+
+
Phobias
+
+
an original Shakespearean
+ sonnet about fear of flying, written in the first person (scansion counts!)
+
+
a photograph of
+ a team member with their hair standing on end
+
some food item
+ (commercial or homemade) that looks horrible but is actually quite tasty
+ (item must be left with the judge)
+
a valid death certificate
+
+
a color photograph
+ of a team member completely (OK, mostly) covered in blood (or something
+ that looks an awful lot like it)
+
the precise phrase
+ that was the answer to the 2000 Boston Globe Halloween Hunt
+
an authentic airplane
+ "flight distress" bag
+
a photograph of
+ a team member delivering a speech to an audience of 50 or more people
+
+
a photograph of
+ a team member naked in front of an audience of 10 or more people
+
a live, unharmed
+ spider in an adequate container that's transparent
+
a photograph of
+ a team member in a very confined or a very wide open place
+
a picture, book,
+ videotape, or other entertainment item that depicts an evil clown or
+ clowns
+
something that
+ goes bump in the night
+
+
Horror Fiction
+
+
+
a Harry Potter
+ book in a language other than English.
+
a book that contain
+ the word "horrifying" on either the front or the back of the dust jacket/cover
+ (the word cannot be part of the title)
+
a photograph of
+ a team member underneath a razor-sharp pendulum
+
a William Shatner
+ mask
+
a truly horrible
+ poem (poems provided as Hunt puzzles are not acceptable)
+
a bottle of amontillado
+
+
a 5-to-10-minute
+ original horror film titled The MIT Mystery Hunt Project, of
+ appropriate style and content, on a VHS videotape
+
five limericks,
+ each summarizing the plot of a different famous horror novel (scansion
+ counts!)
+
a horror novel
+ and a videotape that have the same title (it's OK if one is based on
+ the other)
+
a vinyl copy of
+ the album Thriller by Michael Jackson
+
two words or phrases
+ that are related to horror and that are anagrams of each other (example:
+ "monster" and "ten ROMs"; except "ten ROMs" is not horror-related, or
+ even particularly meaningful)
+
a commercial book,
+ comic book, videotape, or other such entertainment item that depicts
+ the interaction of at least two monsters, creatures, or well-known horror
+ figures such as Dracula, with the two beings being from different original
+ sources (for example, a battle between Frankenstein and the Mummy)
+
an original cartoon
+ drawn in the style of Edward Gorey or Charles Addams (the judge should
+ be able to tell which)
+
+
Creatures
+
+
+
an origami model
+ of a bat
+
a wind-up/electric
+ skull that clicks its teeth together
+
an original drawing
+ or painting of a succubus or incubus at work
+
a complete skeleton
+ made up of real bones
+
a photograph of
+ a team member holding a live snake that is at least as long as the team
+ member
+
a creature (or
+ a model of a creature) that glows in the dark
+
a signed photograph
+ of Boris Karloff, Bela Lugosi, or Lon Chaney
+
a (living) black
+ cat
+
a commercial stuffed
+ animal that is a cockroach, a praying mantis, a centipede, a spider,
+ or a tarantula (cuteness counts!)
+
a URL to a collection
+ of at least 10 pieces of vampire porn (art or fiction)
+
a superhero comic
+ book where the cover shows a picture of a costumed superhero fighting
+ a vampire, werewolf, mummy, or zombie
+
a doll made from
+ pieces of other dolls
+
+
The Supernatural
+
+
+
a photograph of
+ a team member in a cemetery after dark
+
a voodoo doll
+
a copy (or photocopy)
+ of a short ghost story that you think is really scary (the story should
+ be 10 pages or less)
+
a real business
+ card that has "666" (together) on it somewhere
+
a 200-word essay
+ explaining what you would be willing to sell your soul for (be convincing!)
+
+
a cross of silver
+
+
a deck of 25 Rhine-Zenner
+ ESP testing cards
+
an X-rated graphic
+ novel that contains a scene in which a horrible beast is summoned in
+ an occult manner and then has sex with someone
+
a commercial Wiccan
+ product that makes an explicit claim that it is for use in a magic potion
+ of some sort
+
a Ouija board
+
an original-cast
+ recording of Damn Yankees (RIP, Gwen Verdon)
+
a three-dimensional
+ piece of art representing la Catrina of el D�a de los Muertos
+
First you see him,
+ then you don't -- it's the Invisible Man! He first (dis)appeared in H.
+ G. Wells' eponymous 1897 novel, and a century later he's still going strong,
+ the subject of the recent documentary Hollow Man. In between, he
+ was not seen in a wide variety of scenes, ranging from the sublime (the
+ classic 1933 film starring Claude Rains) to the ridiculous (the 1951 film
+ Abbott and Costello Meet the Invisible Man). But despite all this
+ publicity, a fascinating part of his personality has remained unrevealed:
+ his considerable skills as a crossword constructor. We hereby remedy this
+ oversight with the example below.
+
(This puzzle is also
+ available in Across Lite format. Introductory
+ text is visible through the Notepad option under the View menu.)
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+ 1 Cancer companion
+ 6 Thick, mushy food
+ 12 Beta decay cause
+ 20 In a roadshow
+ 21 Stab in the back, in a way
+ 22 Generous
+ 23
+ 25 Like-minded
+ 26 Stagger about
+ 27 Inquisition figure
+ 28 In a horrible situation
+ 29 With what meaning
+ 30 Stopped the spread of
+ 32 Shaft in the night
+ 37 Make a victim of
+ 39 Elm, for one
+ 40 Got rid of all the people from
+ 41 Once more
+ 44
+ 48 Major precursor
+ 49 Draw, as a dagger
+ 52 Nightmare visitee
+ 53 Like a certain night in 1889
+ 54 Last word, perhaps
+ 55 Dracula, say
+ 58 See 60-Across
+ 59 Lizard King's group
+ 60 Final resting place of 58-Across
+ 61 It's "dark as a dungeon"
+ 64 Lifeless body
+ 67 Thing
+ 69
+ 73 Minor arcana members
+ 74 Semicircular support
+ 76 When answering
+ 78 McGrew's lady
+ 79 He may have been killed by a scorpion
+ 80 Of the people, by the people, or for the people
+ 83 One of its sections is "Inferno"
+ 84 Opposite of takeout
+ 86 Put an end to
+ 88 Criminal Parker
+ 90 Ice cream flavor
+ 91 Sign of something
+ 92
+ 96 Celtic killer
+ 98 Cruddy
+ 99 Yours truly
+ 103 Under control
+ 104 "Hit men" helpers
+ 105 Pungent root
+ 107 Funeral pyre remains
+ 109 Mac Liammoir ghost story title start
+ 112 Come to blows?
+ 113 Mambo relative
+ 114 He used a rattlesnake for a lasso
+ 116
+ 122 Test type
+ 123 Allow
+ 124 Tear into tiny pieces
+ 125 The republic of India
+ 126 Tar-Baby creator
+ 127 Long look
+
+
DOWN
+ 1 Meat dish served in its own body fluids
+ 2 Existing forever in someone
+ 3 "Love Potion #9" coauthor
+ 4 Worthless, unfriendly beast
+ 5 Break out in a rash
+ 6 The Savage Innocents actor
+ 7 "Begone!"
+ 8 Directly confronting
+ 9 Put ingredients together
+ 10 Patter provider
+ 11 First name in spy novels
+ 12 1970 Newman / Woodward movie
+ 13 Author Bagnold
+ 14 King of the demons
+ 15 Stay healthy
+ 16 Ala. abutter
+ 17
+ 18 Anti-racketeering act: abbr.
+ 19 Beast with a blue-black tongue
+ 24 Exclamation of horror
+ 28 Meat-eating mammal
+ 31 Joe Fulks helped kill it
+ 32 DCLXVI + CCCXL
+ 33 Clumsy, stupid creature
+ 34 Business equipment co.
+ 35 Old pro-Nazi organization
+ 36 And the like
+ 38 Half a French painter?
+ 40 Midnight: GMT :: 8 pm: ?
+ 41 Tuberous root
+ 42 Med. country
+ 43 Drescher role
+ 45 Therefore
+ 46 Husky thing?
+ 47 Pokemon provider
+ 49 Former frequent flier
+ 50 Storyteller
+ 51
+ 53 Any moment now
+ 55 Talk indiscreetly
+ 56 Make a choice
+ 57 Flightless bird
+ 59 Bracero's work, e.g.
+ 62 Mohammed's master
+ 63 Country singer who starred in one of HBO's "Tales from the
+ Crypt"
+ 64 Ladybug sheepdog
+ 65 Story start part
+ 66 Let out
+ 68 Mr. Manson
+ 70 Over
+ 71 Champion of the Gobbos
+ 72 Polished stone
+ 75 Small water sprite
+ 77 Plant with sword-shaped leaves
+ 80 Larvae envelope
+ 81 Seeing red?
+ 82 It has strings attached
+ 85 Hit high
+ 86 She has her faults
+ 87 Les Miserables actress Thurman
+ 88 Make an offer
+ 89 Bring about
+ 90 Auto pioneer's initials
+ 92 Chopped flesh stuffed in an intestine
+ 93 "Out, damned Spot!"
+ 94 Eric's tormentor
+ 95 They're a heartbeat away: abbr.
+ 97 Supremely happy
+ 100 Leaves of grass
+ 101 She descended to the underworld
+ 102 Like a sacrificial virgin
+ 105 Thing that gripped necks
+ 106 They grow horns on people
+ 107 "... will beat ____ ..."
+ 108 Goosebumps, for example
+ 110 Gross of The Ghost and the Guest
+ 111 Boris's film bride
+ 112 War of the Worlds, originally
+ 115 Crypt for dead words: abbr.
+ 116 Up
+ 117 "... ____ gloom of night..."
+ 118 Kind of club
+ 119 Enforcer, of a sort
+ 120 1983 comedy film
+ 121 Light, swingy rhythm
It was late one night
+ at MIT. I was looking for my two friends. The three of us were together
+ just a minute before, but suddenly they were gone. I set off in search
+ of the others. I didn't know where to begin; they seemed to have vanished
+ into thin air. I wasn't sure if I'd be able to find them. I decided not
+ to follow the coyote through the tunnel. I heard myself facing chemistry.
+ I was standing under a sail, facing a bulding that was the same color
+ as my shirt. Walking away, I went through a door on my right with a square
+ window. Over my right shoulder, in the distance, I spied a squat concrete
+ wall behind a bush. I walked to the nearest emergency phone to call the
+ campus police, but the line was dead. I took my first right, and then
+ went out another door with a square window. Jumping over a small cement
+ bench to get there, I then leapt over the bush and wall in a single bound.
+
+
Beginning to worry,
+ I walked towards some wooden stairs, turned left, and walked straight
+ under Dreyfus. I took my first left and slid down magenta, straight into
+ the place where it all began. Passing through a set of doors and climbing
+ a few stairs, I found myself at an intersection. In the distance, I saw
+ what may have been one of my friends jump over a large bush and wall,
+ and I ran to catch up. This was the designated meeting place, but I don't
+ think my friends had been here at all. Looking in every direction, I saw
+ no signs of my friends. Jumping the same hurdle, I ran inside and came
+ to an intersection, but found no sign of anyone. From here I set off down
+ the longest corridor I could see. Liking no choice in front of me, I went
+ up, passing something new under the sun. I set off in the direction of
+ a sign naming the color of my shirt. I realized it would take forever
+ to search this hallway, so I went down the first set of stairs I came
+ to. I continued up until the stairs narrowed. Following George's nose,
+ I reached the Dean of Science, but still saw no sign of my friends. Halfway
+ down, I noticed that the wall was the same color as my shirt. I took a
+ right towards a square building.
+
Thinking this must
+ be the wrong way, I turned right to go downstairs, passed through some
+ yellow doors and turned left. I stopped to make some copies, then turned
+ left as I exited. Once inside, I followed a dotted black line to an exit.
+ Realizing that I was on the wrong track, I started running, passing through
+ some more yellow doors. I realized this corridor was just as long as the
+ previous, so I went up the next stairs, and up and up and up and up and
+ up and up and up. I went down to ,
+ and followed another black dotted line. I glimpsed a sign pronouncing
+ YPOCSORTCEPS as I ran past. I stopped to warm my hands while pondering
+ where my friends might be, and then walked down the hallway to my right.
+ Spying a great dome through a tall narrow window, I turned left, and reached
+ an understanding of computer storage media. I wondered what that meant.
+
+
I reached a pair
+ of elevator doors, and I entered the second one, pushing the button to
+ the left of the ``1.'' OK, enough fooling around, I needed to find my
+ friends. I went under a yellow arch, and headed down a corridor, passing
+ the foundry. Upon exiting, there was no sign of anyone. From here, I continued
+ in the only accessible path I had not yet travelled. Able to see down
+ the next hallway before I got there, I saw no one, and decided to go up
+ two flights, and then walked off to the right. I realized that I was closer
+ than ever before to the end of the long hallway. I went from principles
+ to properties. I should have known that my friends wouldn't be here, planning
+ gifts for me or the 'Tute. This time I walked the rest of the way there.
+ I went down an orange staircase until I saw Bill. After passing the sound
+ of music on my right, I went down some stairs. At the end, I decided to
+ go ever deeper, and headed towards the street of a college. After listening
+ to the soothing sounds of campus radio, I turned to my left and walked
+ down the hallway. I thought I heard someone swallow to my left; I turned,
+ but saw no one. I followed three red signs, but not the fourth. I passed
+ a mathematician, a physicist, and a general.
+
To infinity, and
+ beyond!
+
Then, passing a set
+ of stairs, I entered another elevator and pressed the top right button.
+ But I didn't pass a single one of my friends. Not looking for a career,
+ I went the other way, and took the orange door on the right. I discovered
+ a sign for "Main Campus." I turned away from the Sheraton, walked
+ through some ornate doors, and down a crooked hallway. I exited the building,
+ followed the sidewalk to the right, and after walking over a manhole,
+ I continued for 14 more paces. My friends must surely be there, so I went
+ in that direction. I went through a white door halfway down some stairs.
+ I turned left, crossed the street, and went through a pair of black metal
+ doors that were on my left. I turned right after the sand trap, and stopped
+ for a refreshing drink of water. I walked up as far as I could without
+ turning, then turned around. I descended into the depths, followed the
+ narrow path between some cages, and after a short walk, I came to a fork
+ in the path and went straight. Just after passing a corrosion laboratory,
+ I went up some stairs, greeting Einstein halfway. I walked up as far as
+ I could without turning, then turned around. I was sure my friends wouldn't
+ be caught dead down here, so as soon as I saw some stairs to my right,
+ I climbed up, and went through a door.
+
Walking away from
+ signs of fruit mutilation, I was amazed to discover that MIT had allied
+ with a foreign country. I walked up as far as I could without turning.
+ I went up again, and out a door that was the same color as my shirt. I
+ was sure my friends had nothing to do with either. Then I exited through
+ an off-white door. I made two quick lefts, and went down a hallway with
+ green to my left and blue to my right. I took the stairs at the end of
+ the hallway to the bottom. Turning towards the wall that was the color
+ of my shirt, I passed through a pair of doors, and down a short flight
+ of stairs. I turned again in the same direction, and followed a wall as
+ it changed colors: first green, then blue, then green again. There I saw
+ a sign for a pair of even buildings. I went through a pair of wooden doors.
+ Before it turned back to blue, I turned right, passed through some doors
+ and went down a slight slope. Interested in neither, I continued straight.
+ I hiked up a purple mountain, and down the other side. I followed a path
+ past some neon lights, and found myself surrounded by strange images,
+ passing a bullet, an owl, some milk, a golf ball and football, and a banana.
+ I passed a corrosion lab of lower altitude and higher temperature. Going
+ through an exit, I came to a passage with a low curved ceiling, and walked
+ down it. Not sure if I should be here, I went down until I felt more welcome.
+ Turning away from the best coffee (my friends drink tea), I descended
+ and turned right. Waving to the Chancellor, I turned right and came to
+ a window.
+
You can call me Al.
+ I passed the A-Zone. Out the window, I saw a tree not unlike the one under
+ which Newton pondered gravity, and so I ascended for a better look. I
+ turned away from William's labs, then away from an optical link, and went
+ down a hallway. Thrice. I then continued to the left, passing Peggy's
+ exclusive room. I stopped in a lounge, thinking my friends might be inside,
+ but was kicked out for discriminatory reasons. Eventually I took the first
+ left into the cold night. I went up the next stairs, and then made a machine
+ nervous. After saying hi to Emma, I turned right and took the right elevator,
+ pushing the fourth button below 8. Could my friends possibly be here?
+ Turning right, I walked until I found an even better view of the tree.
+ I got out of the elevator with high hopes of finding one of my friends,
+ but, alas, found no one, so I started searching once more. I went up a
+ few stairs, followed a path, and then down a set of stairs. Satisfied,
+ I turned around and descended one level. Admiring the skyline to my right,
+ I walked forward and took the 1st stairs on the right, as far as they
+ went. Returning to the warmth, I was surprised to learn that this courtyard
+ could not be split into smaller parts.
+
Onwards to find my
+ friends! Exhausted, I bought some ice cream, then looking for a place
+ to sit, I consulted the nearest map, and found a bench behind my coach's
+ office. I went through yellow doors, turned right, and came to some yellow
+ stairs. Again, I took the path that I had not yet travelled. Eventually,
+ a door opened in front of me, and inside, I pushed the button to the right
+ of the "1". All this yellow was a sure sign of my friends. Turning my
+ back on Ms. Rogers, I took the right elevator up one floor. I entered
+ a lobby, again went in the direction George's nose was pointing, passed
+ a large candle, and came to some doric columns in front of one center.
+ I ascended into a jungle, where I spied an elephant, then turned in my
+ tracks and ran the other way between two strange square white trees. Passing
+ -475, I went down before I reached a well-lit alley. Here I decended,
+ and came to another, and saw my friends' footprints on the floor heading
+ to the right. I stopped to read up on Tartaglia's contributions to mathematics.
+ I went down 57 steps and followed an engraved arrow. Hot on the trail,
+ I followed the footsteps up some stairs, after passing through a Tinky
+ Winky arch, and ascended until I came to a doorless window. Enlightened,
+ I continued until I saw Ellen, and then exited through her lobby. I passed
+ some fine fellows, came to the first of two brown sliding doors, and went
+ to the star floor. Walking away from some ionic columns, I then took my
+ first left, passed 10 fluid mechanics laboratories, and took the first
+ stairs down.
+
I zipped up my jacket
+ and walked down some steps. I exited some glass doors, saw some people
+ in front of me, and wondered if they could be my friends. I went through
+ the nearest exit, though some double doors, and out into the cold to finally
+ meet my friends! At last, I saw both of my friends walking towards me!
+ I saw them converging in front of me, and I ran to join them. We were
+ relieved to all be together again. We discussed where we had been when
+ we were looking for each other. We couldn't believe we hadn't run into
+ each other. Pondering where we had been, we stopped to admire the view.
+
Fighting evil sometimes
+ requires teamwork. To gain the keyword for this round, you must join with
+ members of other teams to counter the dark forces that threaten the town
+ of Sunnydale, California. Send one or two team members to our headquarters.
+ They will compete against us in the Buffy the Vampire Slayer board
+ game. They will receive further instructions when they arrive.
Building
+ 70 
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+ 
+ 46-14-17-42
+ Mr. Walesa
+ 29-1-11-37
+ You betcha
+ 40-24-51-18
+ Rip asunder
+ 12-50-20-39
+ Time period
+ 36-5-18-39
+ Dr. T actor
+ 15-8-49-1
+ She-horse
+ 39-28-52-19
+ Eli's school
+ 31-22-46-8
+ Regulation
+ 49-27-4-50
+ Travel on
+ 41-3-4-16
+ Grow weary
+ 13-47-23-5
+ Web locale
+ 7-43-9-50
+ Appealing
+ 44-25-12-48
+ Pool sticks
+ 10-35-16-26
+ Garden tools
+ 33-14-32-13
+ An abundance
+ 52-34-26-48
+ Scottish gal
+ 30-45-13-21
+ Really huge
+ 2-19-48-38
+ Egg holder
+ 6-24-26-13
+ 
+
+ 
,
+ and followed another black dotted line. I glimpsed a sign pronouncing
+ YPOCSORTCEPS as I ran past. I stopped to warm my hands while pondering
+ where my friends might be, and then walked down the hallway to my right.
+ Spying a great dome through a tall narrow window, I turned left, and reached
+ an understanding of computer storage media. I wondered what that meant.
+ 
