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+ Activity -- Skeet Shooting Club
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Dr. Dvd nd Lnd Rsnck (see solution)
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+ * below. This was already fixed on the copy we received.
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+# la'e dei na jitfa ijo lo danfu le salpo li pa sumji + le salpo cu lidne lo danfu ++ +
+Put together the jumbled comics to form comics in which the human says a +logical paradox. +
+ ++The titles that appear above the second panels are used for extraction. +
+ ++# Title Paradox + +1. "Ckini jufra" .i la'e di'e jitfa .i / la'e di'u jetnu + ["Related sentences"] [The next statement is false. The previous statement is true.] + +2. "zDile tcica" .i mi jifsku / dei + ["Amusing liar"] [I am lying in this sentence.] + +3. "ciPra co klesi" .i xu le selcmi be lo'i ckaji be lo ka ce'u / na cmima ri cu cmima vo'a + ["Subset test"] [Is the set of all things that aren't members of themselves a member of itself?] + +4. "samPu mupli" .i la'e dei / jitfa + ["Simple example"] [This sentence is false.] + +5. "pa loGji ke purdi pluta" .i ko pensi lo xanto / .ijo ko spoja + ["A logical garden path"] [Think of an elephant, if and only if you explode.] + +6. "flalu Be fu la .azimov." .i ko na tinbe / lo se tinbe be fi mi + ["Asimov's law"] [Do not obey my commands.] + +7. "ko ca zi Jdice" .i xu lo natfe be dei cu / danfu dei noi preti + ["Decide right now"] [Will you answer this question in the negative?] + +8. "e'o ca guSni" .i xu la cevni ka'e cupra lo bangu poi lo ni ke'a pluja ku banzu / le nu cy na ka'e tavla fo ke'a + ["Let there be light"] [Can God create a language so complicated that he can't speak it?] + +9. "frica salPo" .i da cu liste lo'i ro mrena'u .i le da / salpo poi saclu cu te sumji li pi ra'e ci de .i de zvati ma ne'i da + ["Different diagonal"] [X is a list of all real numbers. Its diagonal (which is a decimal) plus .333... is Y. Where is Y inside X?] + +10. "zmadu pa goTro" .i ma dilcu li vo / li no + ["More than a septillion"] [What is 4 divided by 0?] + +11. "cinri traji Be fo ro namcu"] .i li xo du lo cmarai be lo'i mulna'u poi lo su'e / pa mu lojbo valsi na skicu ke'a + ["Most interesting number of all"] [What is the smallest number that cannot be described in 15 Lojban words?] + +12. "ti bancu le do Jimte" .i ko pensi lo namcu poi traji lo ka barda kei fo lo'i namcu poi do ka'e pensi .i ma / sumji li pa le se go'i + ["This exceeds your limits"] [Think of the largest number you can think of. What is that plus 1?] ++ +
+The words following the panel break, when put in order, are: +
+ ++ la'e dei na jitfa .ijo lo danfu le salpo li pa sumji + [This sentence is true if and only if the answer is the sum of the diagonal and one.] ++ +
+Which is a convoluted way of saying +
+ ++ The answer is the diagonal plus one. ++ +
+When you take the letters on the diagonal of the titles -- keeping in mind that ' is a fully-fledged letter in Lojban -- you get: +
+ ++ CDPPGBJSPTBJ ++ +
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First, identify the actors:
+ +Then, notice that all of them have been featured on tv shows with at least one other... Next, notice that some of these tv shows are anagrammed below with an extra letter:
+ + +| Smash | I | Ah miss |
| Lipstick Jungle | I | Epic killing juts |
| Life Unexpected | T | Exceed left input |
| Designing Women | T | Ginseng downtime |
| Big Love | I | Give boil |
| Girls | L | Grills |
| Gilmore Girls | U | Grislier mogul |
| Cougar Town | I | Grow auction |
| Ugly Betty | S | Guy belt sty |
| Chicago Sons | I | Iconic hog ass |
| Aliens in America | T | Inertial amnesiac |
| Modern Family | N | Manly informed |
| Swingtown | H | Nth sown wig |
| Phenom | W | Own hemp |
| Parenthood | A | Panda hooter |
| Rhoda | G | Rad hog |
| Valerie | N | Real vine |
| The West Wing | O | Showing tweet |
| Lost | S | Slots |
| Veronica Mars | T | Storm variance |
| Once Upon a Time | T | Tau omnipotence |
| Sports Night | N | Thong sprints |
| Star Trek: Voyager | E | Try average stroke |
| Bewitched | W | We ditch web |
| Samantha Who? | S | Woman has hats? |
Next, reorder the people in a circle with the common show linking them.
+ +| Judith Light | Phenom | W |
| Jennifer Lien | Star Trek: Voyager | E |
| Tim Russ | Samantha Who? | S |
| Jean Smart | Designing Women | T |
| Alice Ghostley | Bewitched | W |
| Shelley Berman | Chicago Sons | I |
| Jason Bateman | Valerie | N |
| Valerie Harper | Rhoda | G |
| Mary Tyler Moore | Lipstick Jungle | I |
| Sarah Hyland | Modern Family | N |
| Julie Bowen | Lost | S |
| Emilie de Ravin | Once Upon a Time | T |
| Ginnifer Goodwin | Big Love | I |
| Tina Majorino | Veronica Mars | T |
| Krysten Ritter | Gilmore Girls | U |
| Scott Patterson | Aliens in America | T |
| Dan Byrd | Cougar Town | I |
| Matthew Perry | The West Wing | O |
| Felicity Huffman | Sports Night | N |
| Peter Krause | Parenthood | A |
| Zosia Mamet | Girls | L |
| Shiri Appleby | Life Unexpected | T |
| Britt Robertson | Swingtown | H |
| Jack Davenport | Smash | I |
| Bernadette Peters | Ugly Betty | S |
Read off the extra letters from the anagrams, and that spells out WEST WING INSTITUTIONAL THIS... which clues the episode Institutional MEMORY... and MEMORY is the answer!
+ + + +First, identify the actors:
+ +Then, notice that all of them have been featured on tv shows with at least one other... Next, notice that some of these tv shows are anagrammed below with an extra letter:
+ + +| Smash | I | Ah miss |
| Lipstick Jungle | I | Epic killing juts |
| Life Unexpected | T | Exceed left input |
| Designing Women | T | Ginseng downtime |
| Big Love | I | Give boil |
| Girls | L | Grills |
| Gilmore Girls | U | Grislier mogul |
| Cougar Town | I | Grow auction |
| Ugly Betty | S | Guy belt sty |
| Chicago Sons | I | Iconic hog ass |
| Aliens in America | T | Inertial amnesiac |
| Modern Family | N | Manly informed |
| Swingtown | H | Nth sown wig |
| Phenom | W | Own hemp |
| Parenthood | A | Panda hooter |
| Rhoda | G | Rad hog |
| Valerie | N | Real vine |
| The West Wing | O | Showing tweet |
| Lost | S | Slots |
| Veronica Mars | T | Storm variance |
| Once Upon a Time | T | Tau omnipotence |
| Sports Night | N | Thong sprints |
| Star Trek: Voyager | E | Try average stroke |
| Bewitched | W | We ditch web |
| Samantha Who? | S | Woman has hats? |
Next, reorder the people in a circle with the common show linking them.
+ +| Judith Light | Phenom | W |
| Jennifer Lien | Star Trek: Voyager | E |
| Tim Russ | Samantha Who? | S |
| Jean Smart | Designing Women | T |
| Alice Ghostley | Bewitched | W |
| Shelley Berman | Chicago Sons | I |
| Jason Bateman | Valerie | N |
| Valerie Harper | Rhoda | G |
| Mary Tyler Moore | Lipstick Jungle | I |
| Sarah Hyland | Modern Family | N |
| Julie Bowen | Lost | S |
| Emilie de Ravin | Once Upon a Time | T |
| Ginnifer Goodwin | Big Love | I |
| Tina Majorino | Veronica Mars | T |
| Krysten Ritter | Gilmore Girls | U |
| Scott Patterson | Aliens in America | T |
| Dan Byrd | Cougar Town | I |
| Matthew Perry | The West Wing | O |
| Felicity Huffman | Sports Night | N |
| Peter Krause | Parenthood | A |
| Zosia Mamet | Girls | L |
| Shiri Appleby | Life Unexpected | T |
| Britt Robertson | Swingtown | H |
| Jack Davenport | Smash | I |
| Bernadette Peters | Ugly Betty | S |
Read off the extra letters from the anagrams, and that spells out WEST WING INSTITUTIONAL THIS... which clues the episode Institutional MEMORY... and MEMORY is the answer!
+ + + +The puzzle consists of various descriptions of couch gags from the + Simpsons. The first letter of each block of text spells MARTERS DR + WHO CHARACTER, which is the fake answer SULLIVAN. In addition, each + couch gag also features a catch phrase or unique description of one + of the first 12 Dr. Who doctors. To solve the puzzle identify the + Simpson's episode in which this particular couch gag first aired. + Either + this + site or + this + one should help you out. (You'll notice that the gags are + arranged alphabetically by episode title to help you know that + you're on the right track.) Then index into the title given the + number of the Doctor that is referenced. Rearrange into + chronological order by Simpsons episode air date and receive the + message, NIMOY KEEP BLANK THE SKIS. In the Simpsons episode "The + Springfield Files", Leonard Nimoy says "Keep watching the skis". WATCHING is the title.
+ +In puzzle order here are brief gag descriptions, episode titles, and doctor +references:
+ +| Gag Description | Episode No. | Episode | Doctor Reference | Doctor Number | Letter |
| Sgt. Pepper remake | 158 | Bart after Dark | Old man with a wooden cane | 1 | B |
| Simpsons sit in midair, couch builds itself on top | 104 | Bart of Darkness | "Brilliant!" | 10 | K |
| Eyeballs go to couch by themselves in dark | 89 | Boy-Scoutz 'N the Hood | Frilly shirt | 3 | Y |
| Bayeux Tapestry | 410 | E. Pluribus Wiggum | From the North | 9 | S |
| Robbers are carrying the couch away | 45 | Flaming Moe's | Scarf | 4 | M |
| Alien escapes down trap door | 40 | Homer Defined | "Fantastic!" | 9 | I |
| MC Escher parody | 115 | Homer the Great | gummy candies (Jelly Babies) | 4 | E |
| Couch spins behind wall leaving another couch | 62 | Homer the Heretic | Stovepipe hat | 2 | O |
| Jump the shark | 293 | How I Spent My Strummer Vacation | Celery | 5 | S |
| Floor is hot coals | 245 | Kill the Alligator and Run | "Grandfather" | 1 | K |
| Couch springs them into ceiling | 111 | Lisa on Ice | Leather jacket | 9 | E |
| Gravity reversed | 160 | Lisa's Date with Destiny | Forgets surnames | 1 | L |
| Simpsons flushed down drain | 139 | Marge be not Proud | "Geronimo!" | 11 | P |
| Grandpa folded up into couch | 165 | Mountain of Madness | Brightly-colored coat | 6 | A |
| Chess pieces | 344 | Pranksta Rap | Cricket ball | 5 | K |
| Couch is slot machine | 275 | She of Little Faith | "Oh my giddy aunt!" | 2 | H |
| Walk like Egyptians | 15 | Simpson and Delilah | Playing the spoons | 7 | N |
| Harlem Globetrotters | 179 | The City of + New York vs Homer Simpson | Converse sneakers | 10 | N |
| Living room is giant fishbowl | 255 | The Great Money Caper | Amnesia | 8 | T |
| Blue Man Group | 282 | The Old Man and the Key | Yellow car | 3 | E |
| Couch on conveyer belt | 369 | The Seemingly Never-Ending + Story | "Physician, heal thyself" | 8 | I |
| Gag Description | Episode No. | Episode | Doctor Reference | Doctor Number | Letter |
| Sgt. Pepper remake | 158 | Bart after Dark | Old man with a wooden cane | 1 | B |
| Simpsons sit in midair, couch builds itself on top | 104 | Bart of Darkness | "Brilliant!" | 10 | K |
| Eyeballs go to couch by themselves in dark | 89 | Boy-Scoutz 'N the Hood | Frilly shirt | 3 | Y |
| Bayeux Tapestry | 410 | E. Pluribus Wiggum | From the North | 9 | S |
| Robbers are carrying the couch away | 45 | Flaming Moe's | Scarf | 4 | M |
| Alien escapes down trap door | 40 | Homer Defined | "Fantastic!" | 9 | I |
| MC Escher parody | 115 | Homer the Great | gummy candies (Jelly Babies) | 4 | E |
| Couch spins behind wall leaving another couch | 62 | Homer the Heretic | Stovepipe hat | 2 | O |
| Jump the shark | 293 | How I Spent My Strummer Vacation | Celery | 5 | S |
| Floor is hot coals | 245 | Kill the Alligator and Run | "Grandfather" | 1 | K |
| Couch springs them into ceiling | 111 | Lisa on Ice | Leather jacket | 9 | E |
| Gravity reversed | 160 | Lisa's Date with Destiny | Forgets surnames | 1 | L |
| Simpsons flushed down drain | 139 | Marge be not Proud | "Geronimo!" | 11 | P |
| Grandpa folded up into couch | 165 | Mountain of Madness | Brightly-colored coat | 6 | A |
| Chess pieces | 344 | Pranksta Rap | Cricket ball | 5 | K |
| Couch is slot machine | 275 | She of Little Faith | "Oh my giddy aunt!" | 2 | H |
| Walk like Egyptians | 15 | Simpson and Delilah | Playing the spoons | 7 | N |
| Harlem Globetrotters | 179 | The City of + New York vs Homer Simpson | Converse sneakers | 10 | N |
| Living room is giant fishbowl | 255 | The Great Money Caper | Amnesia | 8 | T |
| Blue Man Group | 282 | The Old Man and the Key | Yellow car | 3 | E |
| Couch on conveyer belt | 369 | The Seemingly Never-Ending + Story | "Physician, heal thyself" | 8 | I |
| Puzzle | Answer | Index | Letter |
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| Callooh Callay, World! | ACTIVE USER | 10 | R |
| Sledgehammered | HAND TOOL | 2 | A |
| Campus Art from Z to A | BAD BOYS | 4 | B |
| Marking Territory | HOSPITAL BEDS | 9 | B |
| Eggsam | PENSIVENESS | 5 | I |
| SAT III | MILLSTONE | 6 | T |
| Stalk Us Maybe | FIRE HOSE | 5 | H |
| 1! 2! 3! 4! 4649! | SMASH HIT | 7 | I |
| Crosswalks | DERRICK | 1 | D |
| Gone with the Wind | ENGULF | 1 | E |
| Venntersections | SPUR | 1 | S |
| Kroskuro | HOBO BOBO | 3 | B |
| The Revenge of Yuki Nagato Episode 00 | ENERGY BEAM | 6 | Y |
| The Duck Konundrum VI: Now... Pepper | GLUTEN FREE | 7 | F |
| You've Got Some Nerve | SANE | 2 | A |
| The Circle of Life | SQUIGGLES | 4 | I |
| SKI Trees | MOUNTAINEER | 11 | R |
| WAT? | CONFRONT | 1 | C |
| Some Nutty Lines | FLUSHOT | 5 | H |
| The Great Collapse | OVOID | 4 | I |
| Saturdy & Sundy | VALIANT | 3 | L |
| Hole Wizard | CUTTING EDGE | 9 | D |
| Crow Facts | BIRD OF PREY | 1 | B |
| Magic Mushrooms | SLUGGISH | 3 | U |
| Compose Yourself | FELINE | 4 | I |
| Time Flies | APPLE | 4 | L |
| A Mad Cocktail Party | ED WYNN | 2 | D |
| Thank Heaven for Little Girls | BABY WIPE | 6 | I |
| Modern Cubism Artist | GENIUS | 3 | N |
| Let's Meet in the Middle | JINGOIST | 4 | G |
| A Curious Incidence | UTENSIL | 2 | T |
| Crossed Wires | ECHO | 4 | O |
| Cruciform Heraldry | TRAIN TRACK | 2 | R |
| Wandering Stars | G RING | 4 | N |
| Directions in Writing | AZIMUTH | 1 | A |
| Diplomatic Victory | ARCHDUKE OTTO | 5 | D |
| Filed Erector | CAPS LOCK | 6 | O |
| Indie Audio Productions | DARK OMEN | 6 | M |
| Growth and Fixed Costs | SECONDARY | 7 | A |
| Glazing Over | CERAMICS | 1 | C |
| Walk Across Some Dungeons | DEN CHAI | 5 | H |
| Top Shelf | REPUBLICAN | 7 | I |
| Family Ties | CLEAN SWEEP | 5 | N |
| Covert Tops | TEETOTUM | 2 | E |


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There are 26 types of fish in the large image. Each fish represents a letter, and we can deduce which fish is which letter based on the frequencies of letters in English (up to ambiguities for fish whose numbers are identical).
+ +| Number of fish | Letters |
| 20 | E |
| 14 | T |
| 12 | A |
| 11 | O |
| 10 | I, N |
| 9 | H, R, S |
| 6 | D, L |
| 4 | C, M, U, W |
| 3 | F, G, P, Y |
| 2 | B |
| 1 | J, K, Q, V, X, Z |
From this, we can determine that the answer, written at the bottom in fish, must match [CMUW][HRS]A[HRS][HRS]E[HRS]. One can deduce that the only plausible English word match is CRASHER.
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There are 26 types of fish in the large image. Each fish represents a letter, and we can deduce which fish is which letter based on the frequencies of letters in English (up to ambiguities for fish whose numbers are identical).
+ +| Number of fish | Letters |
| 20 | E |
| 14 | T |
| 12 | A |
| 11 | O |
| 10 | I, N |
| 9 | H, R, S |
| 6 | D, L |
| 4 | C, M, U, W |
| 3 | F, G, P, Y |
| 2 | B |
| 1 | J, K, Q, V, X, Z |
From this, we can determine that the answer, written at the bottom in fish, must match [CMUW][HRS]A[HRS][HRS]E[HRS]. One can deduce that the only plausible English word match is CRASHER.
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+ +| 1976 - BOLDFORBES | KD, BS |
| 2014 - CALIFORNIACHROME | KD, PS |
| 1999 - CHARISMATIC | KD, PS |
| 1967 - DAMASCUS | PS, BS |
| 1991 - HANSEL | PS, BS |
| 1953 - NATIVEDANCER | PS, BS |
| 1984 - SWALE | KD, BS |
We reorder the answers by the year in which the horse competed and take the name of the horse that won the leg of the Triple Crown that the answer horse failed to win:
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Each rebus clues a winner of exactly two of the three legs of the Triple Crown of Thoroughbred Racing: The Kentucky Derby, Preakness Stakes, or Belmont Stakes.
+ +| 1976 - BOLDFORBES | KD, BS |
| 2014 - CALIFORNIACHROME | KD, PS |
| 1999 - CHARISMATIC | KD, PS |
| 1967 - DAMASCUS | PS, BS |
| 1991 - HANSEL | PS, BS |
| 1953 - NATIVEDANCER | PS, BS |
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We reorder the answers by the year in which the horse competed and take the name of the horse that won the leg of the Triple Crown that the answer horse failed to win:
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CO: Singer (8)
+FR: Quality of yielding nothing to sustain life (10)
+AU: Abnormally high body temperature (12)
+NO: British industrial action (2 words) (6)
+RU: Self torturer (9)
+EE: Common post-MIT destination (7)
+TL: Seats reserved for clergy (7)
+NG: Fitting (9)
+TR: Learned individual (6)
+RU: Noted linguist (7)
+IT: Instrument to measure atmospheric pressure (9)
+JP: Cary Grant, originally (9)
+FI: Around 6% of a cup (10)
+FR: Relation based on similarities and differences (10)
+IN: Sweet smelling (8)
+BE: Evergreen conifer (7)
+SN: Timbrel cousin (10)
+IQ: Hamster alternatives (7)
+ZM: Venetian attractions (8)
+TN: One who takes advantage of circumstances (11)




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+The Beatles (in the Sgt. Pepper's album cover outfits)
+John Lennon, Ringo Starr, Paul McCartney, George Harrison
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+My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic
+Twilight Sparkle, Fluttershy, Applejack, Rainbow Dash, Rarity, Pinkie Pie
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+Pokemon (TV)
+Jessie, James, Meowth, Brock, Ash, Misty, Pikachu
+* = Misty
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+Justice League (TV)
+Martian Man Hunter, Green Lantern, Wonder Woman, Superman, Batman, Flash, Hawkgirl
+* = Batman
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+The Addams Family
+Wednesday, Gomez, Morticia, Pugsley, Thing, Lurch
+* = Lurch
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+"Steve" (the default player skin), Skeleton, Enderman, Zombie, Creeper, Slime, Spider
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+The Wizard of Oz
+Scarecrow, Tin Man, Toto, Dorothy Gale, Cowardly Lion
+* = Scarecrow
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+Taking the first letters of the starred chracters' names gives the answer RAMBLES. + +









+The Beatles (in the Sgt. Pepper's album cover outfits)
+John Lennon, Ringo Starr, Paul McCartney, George Harrison
+* = Ringo
+
+My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic
+Twilight Sparkle, Fluttershy, Applejack, Rainbow Dash, Rarity, Pinkie Pie
+* = Applejack
+
+Pokemon (TV)
+Jessie, James, Meowth, Brock, Ash, Misty, Pikachu
+* = Misty
+
+Justice League (TV)
+Martian Man Hunter, Green Lantern, Wonder Woman, Superman, Batman, Flash, Hawkgirl
+* = Batman
+
+The Addams Family
+Wednesday, Gomez, Morticia, Pugsley, Thing, Lurch
+* = Lurch
+
+Minecraft
+"Steve" (the default player skin), Skeleton, Enderman, Zombie, Creeper, Slime, Spider
+* = Enderman
+
+The Wizard of Oz
+Scarecrow, Tin Man, Toto, Dorothy Gale, Cowardly Lion
+* = Scarecrow
+
+Taking the first letters of the starred chracters' names gives the answer RAMBLES. + +

Answer: CLEANED
+Each column of images goes with a well-known phrase which includes a number. Take the difference between the number given and the number in the common phrase, and index into the alphabet to read off the answer CLEANED.
+ + + +| Given images | Common phrase | Difference | Letter |
| 3 flags | 6 flags | 3 | C |
| 38 shades of grey | 50 shades of grey | 12 | L |
| 2 dwarves | 7 dwarves | 5 | E |
| 9 things I hate about you | 10 things I hate about you | 1 | A |
| 7 guns | 21 guns | 14 | N |
| 5 little Indians | 10 little Indians | 5 | E |
| 8 angry men | 12 angry men | 4 | D |

Answer: CLEANED
+Each column of images goes with a well-known phrase which includes a number. Take the difference between the number given and the number in the common phrase, and index into the alphabet to read off the answer CLEANED.
+ + + +| Given images | Common phrase | Difference | Letter |
| 3 flags | 6 flags | 3 | C |
| 38 shades of grey | 50 shades of grey | 12 | L |
| 2 dwarves | 7 dwarves | 5 | E |
| 9 things I hate about you | 10 things I hate about you | 1 | A |
| 7 guns | 21 guns | 14 | N |
| 5 little Indians | 10 little Indians | 5 | E |
| 8 angry men | 12 angry men | 4 | D |

The clues can each be solved with two-word phrases, with one letter changed between each pair. These pairs can be assembled into a word chain that branches once:
+ +
+Took one turn at darts -- THREW THREE
+Tossed an ill-tempered woman - THREW SHREW
+Scatter a mole-like mammal - STREW SHREW
+Disseminate plague - STREW STREP
+Soak throat bacteria - STEEP STREP
+Cliffside nap - STEEP SLEEP
+Alarm clock chime - SLEEP BLEEP
+Censorship going too far, perhaps - BLEEP BLEED
+Transfusion result - BLEED BLEND
+
+(branch 1)
+Barbie/Ken offspring, genetically - BLOND BLEND
+Jeff Healey, e.g. - BLIND BLOND
+
+(branch 2)
+Flavorless signature coffee - BLAND BLEND
+Milquetoast shutout - BLAND BLANK
+
The unused ends of the chain are THREE, BLIND, and BLANK, thus the answer is MICE.
+ + +
The clues can each be solved with two-word phrases, with one letter changed between each pair. These pairs can be assembled into a word chain that branches once:
+ +
+Took one turn at darts -- THREW THREE
+Tossed an ill-tempered woman - THREW SHREW
+Scatter a mole-like mammal - STREW SHREW
+Disseminate plague - STREW STREP
+Soak throat bacteria - STEEP STREP
+Cliffside nap - STEEP SLEEP
+Alarm clock chime - SLEEP BLEEP
+Censorship going too far, perhaps - BLEEP BLEED
+Transfusion result - BLEED BLEND
+
+(branch 1)
+Barbie/Ken offspring, genetically - BLOND BLEND
+Jeff Healey, e.g. - BLIND BLOND
+
+(branch 2)
+Flavorless signature coffee - BLAND BLEND
+Milquetoast shutout - BLAND BLANK
+
The unused ends of the chain are THREE, BLIND, and BLANK, thus the answer is MICE.
+ + +

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I am sensible to the allure of bad choices and advertisements, but I laid out a good system to handle it. My extraordinary drug supplier did not hesitate to have a difference of opinion with the store owner who was also a scientist. For distraction, I had animals: four hamsters and a mare to ride. Now, my primary source of calm is the library with its chair, table, and dresser. It is the main location for conversation and where we devise hypotheses. It is a great tradition of ideas debated while eating raisins as a snack until we reach a central conclusion.
+ + +
+Each answer has exactly one repeated letter. These letters can be used to spell TIC TAC TOE.
+If you write each answer in a 3x3 box, the doubled letters almost form a winning tic-tac-toe combo. +
+For instance, in BAPTISTRY: +
+
+BAP +TIS +TRY ++
+... the two Ts and the B form a three-in-a-row. +
+And in CITY GATES: +
+
+CIT +YGA +TES ++
+...the two Ts and the G form a winning diagonal. +
+In each answer, the letter with the "winning move" occupies a different square. Order them by which square is used to complete the row: +
+
+BEL +UGA +PAL ++
+In a show of cetacean unity, the playful dolphins have recruited a friendly BELUGA PAL to help guide your sub! + +

+Each answer has exactly one repeated letter. These letters can be used to spell TIC TAC TOE.
+If you write each answer in a 3x3 box, the doubled letters almost form a winning tic-tac-toe combo. +
+For instance, in BAPTISTRY: +
+
+BAP +TIS +TRY ++
+... the two Ts and the B form a three-in-a-row. +
+And in CITY GATES: +
+
+CIT +YGA +TES ++
+...the two Ts and the G form a winning diagonal. +
+In each answer, the letter with the "winning move" occupies a different square. Order them by which square is used to complete the row: +
+
+BEL +UGA +PAL ++
+In a show of cetacean unity, the playful dolphins have recruited a friendly BELUGA PAL to help guide your sub! + +

Here is a collection of items that would get more than 150 points (not counting bonus points):
+ +
Here is a collection of items that would get more than 150 points (not counting bonus points):
+ +
Answer: THE SPIRITS WITHIN
+The final jigsaw puzzle looks like this:
+
Reading the letters along the ripple lines top to bottom gives names of fabrics with letters missing.
+ +FEL*
+DAMASK
+REP K*AKI
+JERS*Y COOLMAX CAMBRIC
+DUCK GABARDINE VELOUR
+LACE CHEESECLOTH *PANDEX
+CHIFFON RI*STOP BURLAP MUSL*N
+O*GANDY S*LK LYCRA COT*ON NYLON SERGE
+VELVETEEN SEER*UCKER CORDUROY
+SACKCLOTH *OOL LINEN RAYON DOBBY G*NGHAM
+*AFFETA CAS*MERE GAUZE
+TWEED MOLESK*N
+FLANNEL JUTE
+CA*VAS
+FLEECE
Reading the missing letters (again along the ripples) gives the answer, THE SPIRITS WITHIN.
+ +The puzzle was inspired by this real quilt designed and made by Evelyn Judson.
+

Answer: THE SPIRITS WITHIN
+The final jigsaw puzzle looks like this:
+
Reading the letters along the ripple lines top to bottom gives names of fabrics with letters missing.
+ +FEL*
+DAMASK
+REP K*AKI
+JERS*Y COOLMAX CAMBRIC
+DUCK GABARDINE VELOUR
+LACE CHEESECLOTH *PANDEX
+CHIFFON RI*STOP BURLAP MUSL*N
+O*GANDY S*LK LYCRA COT*ON NYLON SERGE
+VELVETEEN SEER*UCKER CORDUROY
+SACKCLOTH *OOL LINEN RAYON DOBBY G*NGHAM
+*AFFETA CAS*MERE GAUZE
+TWEED MOLESK*N
+FLANNEL JUTE
+CA*VAS
+FLEECE
Reading the missing letters (again along the ripples) gives the answer, THE SPIRITS WITHIN.
+ +The puzzle was inspired by this real quilt designed and made by Evelyn Judson.
+

+The titles provide the ordering mechanism; each one sounds a lot like one of the first 7 books from the original Goosebumps series. From each answer, extract the one syllable containing an "er" sound. This gives the solution phrase -- after it's been transformed as though by the "Ermahgerd!" meme. +
+
| Welcome to Dead Waters | SUMMER |
| Stay Out of the Trench | KERFUFFLE |
| Shark Blood | WINNER |
| Say Cheese and Dive! | CURL UP |
| The Curse of the Atlantean's Tomb | BIG SUR |
| Let's Get Submersible! | SMS POMMERN |
| Night of the Living Kraken | STIR FRY |
+MER KER NER CURL SUR MERN STIR +
The un-ermahgerd'ed phrase is the answer:
MECHANICAL SEA MONSTER
+
+

+The titles provide the ordering mechanism; each one sounds a lot like one of the first 7 books from the original Goosebumps series. From each answer, extract the one syllable containing an "er" sound. This gives the solution phrase -- after it's been transformed as though by the "Ermahgerd!" meme. +
+
| Welcome to Dead Waters | SUMMER |
| Stay Out of the Trench | KERFUFFLE |
| Shark Blood | WINNER |
| Say Cheese and Dive! | CURL UP |
| The Curse of the Atlantean's Tomb | BIG SUR |
| Let's Get Submersible! | SMS POMMERN |
| Night of the Living Kraken | STIR FRY |
+MER KER NER CURL SUR MERN STIR +
The un-ermahgerd'ed phrase is the answer:
MECHANICAL SEA MONSTER
+
+

+The titles provide the ordering mechanism; each one sounds a lot like one of the first 7 books from the original Goosebumps series. From each answer, extract the one syllable containing an "er" sound. This gives the solution phrase -- after it's been transformed as though by the "Ermahgerd!" meme. +
+
| Welcome to Dead Waters | SUMMER |
| Stay Out of the Trench | KERFUFFLE |
| Shark Blood | WINNER |
| Say Cheese and Dive! | CURL UP |
| The Curse of the Atlantean's Tomb | BIG SUR |
| Let's Get Submersible! | SMS POMMERN |
| Night of the Living Kraken | STIR FRY |
+MER KER NER CURL SUR MERN STIR +
The un-ermahgerd'ed phrase is the answer:
MECHANICAL SEA MONSTER
+
+

Rising from the crow sea it shines upon the treasured chicken
+From the crow sea it sweeps across the northern capital past the business mound
+It is the celebration sun projecting onto the crane wall
+Between the treasured chicken and the business mound
+Setting in the west peacefully is the morality sun
+It is the totem of the Han centered in the southern capital
+Where repeated celebration flows through the nine rivers
+The southern sun accompanies the measuring sun
+Leaving the expensive sun alone in the southern flatness
+ + +
Answer: IMMORTAL IRON KEEL
++In the shell are seven partial hangman games. For each game, one of the puzzle answers is the "letters guessed so far". Not only that, the hangman answer is a "dead" version of that same puzzle answer. +
+
| Puzzle answer | Hangman answer | # of wrong guesses |
| STAR | BLACK HOLE | 3 |
| HOLSTEIN | BURGER | 7 |
| HERO | MARTYR | 3 |
| GOPHER | ROADKILL | 4 |
| PINE | STUMP | 3 |
| GAME | VENISON | 3 |
| HUMAN | ZOMBIE | 4 |
+Reading the numbered blanks in order, the meta answer is IMMORTAL IRON KEEL. + +

Answer: IMMORTAL IRON KEEL
++In the shell are seven partial hangman games. For each game, one of the puzzle answers is the "letters guessed so far". Not only that, the hangman answer is a "dead" version of that same puzzle answer. +
+
| Puzzle answer | Hangman answer | # of wrong guesses |
| STAR | BLACK HOLE | 3 |
| HOLSTEIN | BURGER | 7 |
| HERO | MARTYR | 3 |
| GOPHER | ROADKILL | 4 |
| PINE | STUMP | 3 |
| GAME | VENISON | 3 |
| HUMAN | ZOMBIE | 4 |
+Reading the numbered blanks in order, the meta answer is IMMORTAL IRON KEEL. + +

The solver sees two grid which look like nonograms, also known as Griddlers or Paint by Numbers. However, the second grid is clearly too sparse to be solvable. Furthermore, the sum of the row numbers in the top grid does not match the sum of the column numbers.
+ +In fact, both are part of the same grid, where each cell can be white, red, or black. Furthermore, the difference between the sum of the column numbers and the sum of the row numbers in the top grid is exactly the number of red cells; from this, the solver can guess that red cells are counted as part of the row numbers but not the column numbers. Here is the finished picture:
+ +
The grid displays a picture of Ariel from The Little Mermaid. The red cells form braille; the braille reads 3 DAY PROBLEM 4 ESSES. (The ⠼ in Braille is used to cue a number.) In the context of The Little Mermaid, this clues the answer VOICELESSNESS.
+ + +
The solver sees two grid which look like nonograms, also known as Griddlers or Paint by Numbers. However, the second grid is clearly too sparse to be solvable. Furthermore, the sum of the row numbers in the top grid does not match the sum of the column numbers.
+ +In fact, both are part of the same grid, where each cell can be white, red, or black. Furthermore, the difference between the sum of the column numbers and the sum of the row numbers in the top grid is exactly the number of red cells; from this, the solver can guess that red cells are counted as part of the row numbers but not the column numbers. Here is the finished picture:
+ +
The grid displays a picture of Ariel from The Little Mermaid. The red cells form braille; the braille reads 3 DAY PROBLEM 4 ESSES. (The ⠼ in Braille is used to cue a number.) In the context of The Little Mermaid, this clues the answer VOICELESSNESS.
+ + +
As suggested by the title of the puzzle and the sound file, the recording is of a new “Goldberg variation” each of whose eight phrases combines the corresponding phrase of one of Bach’s 30 variations (in the right hand = high range) with a popular tune (in the left hand = low range), slightly modified to make the harmony and transitions smoother. See the score here. For example, the beginning combines the start of the 3rd variation with “Happy Birthday To You”, and the end combines the end of the 11th variation with “Love Me Tender”. The eight letters of the answer PRACTICE are obtained by extracting from each tune’s name the nth letter where n is the number of the variation played with it:
+ +3 / haPpy birthday to you
+8 / london bRidge is falling down
+23 / my bonnie lies over the oceAn
+13 / three blind miCe
+5 / deck The halls
+30 / what shall we do with the drunken saIlor [that's a capital I]
+2 / sCarborough fair
+11 / love me tendEr

As suggested by the title of the puzzle and the sound file, the recording is of a new “Goldberg variation” each of whose eight phrases combines the corresponding phrase of one of Bach’s 30 variations (in the right hand = high range) with a popular tune (in the left hand = low range), slightly modified to make the harmony and transitions smoother. See the score here. For example, the beginning combines the start of the 3rd variation with “Happy Birthday To You”, and the end combines the end of the 11th variation with “Love Me Tender”. The eight letters of the answer PRACTICE are obtained by extracting from each tune’s name the nth letter where n is the number of the variation played with it:
+ +3 / haPpy birthday to you
+8 / london bRidge is falling down
+23 / my bonnie lies over the oceAn
+13 / three blind miCe
+5 / deck The halls
+30 / what shall we do with the drunken saIlor [that's a capital I]
+2 / sCarborough fair
+11 / love me tendEr

Answer: FAERIE CORNUCOPIA
++The puzzle answers are all words that can have a food taken out to leave a word leftover: +
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+Reading only the circles that are in the same food group as the subtracted out food for that answer, from left to right, the meta answer is FAERIE CORNUCOPIA. + +

Answer: FAERIE CORNUCOPIA
++The puzzle answers are all words that can have a food taken out to leave a word leftover: +
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+Reading only the circles that are in the same food group as the subtracted out food for that answer, from left to right, the meta answer is FAERIE CORNUCOPIA. + +


Once you have discovered an upgrade that will help this tower, call it in.
+
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+ by Corey Plover
+Answer: Click here to reveal
+The provided Google Cardboard scenes are not quite identical and each has a set of extra dogs relative to the other scenes. +
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+Tracing the line of sight of each of these extra dogs spells out strings which collectively form WWW.AHC.COM/MIT. This URL is unambiguously determined by the punctuation included by the extra dogs (full stops being formed by a dog looking down at the ground).
+ +Visiting www.ahc.com/mit + reveals a splash screen from AHC (one of our sponsors) explaining that the answer to this puzzle is RED CENT. AHC (and specifically their Head of Motion Graphic, Luc Clayton) provided all of the exquisite round artwork and animations for this year's Hunt.
+
+
+ by Corey Plover
+Answer: Click here to reveal
+The provided Google Cardboard scenes are not quite identical and each has a set of extra dogs relative to the other scenes. +
+ + + +
+
+Tracing the line of sight of each of these extra dogs spells out strings which collectively form WWW.AHC.COM/MIT. This URL is unambiguously determined by the punctuation included by the extra dogs (full stops being formed by a dog looking down at the ground).
+ +Visiting www.ahc.com/mit + reveals a splash screen from AHC (one of our sponsors) explaining that the answer to this puzzle is RED CENT. AHC (and specifically their Head of Motion Graphic, Luc Clayton) provided all of the exquisite round artwork and animations for this year's Hunt.
+
+
+ by Corey Plover
+Answer: Click here to reveal
+The provided Google Cardboard scenes are not quite identical and each has a set of extra dogs relative to the other scenes. +
+ + + +
+
+Tracing the line of sight of each of these extra dogs spells out strings which collectively form WWW.AHC.COM/MIT. This URL is unambiguously determined by the punctuation included by the extra dogs (full stops being formed by a dog looking down at the ground).
+ +Visiting www.ahc.com/mit + reveals a splash screen from AHC (one of our sponsors) explaining that the answer to this puzzle is RED CENT. AHC (and specifically their Head of Motion Graphic, Luc Clayton) provided all of the exquisite round artwork and animations for this year's Hunt.
+
+
+ Or to put it another way, you're my X factor.
+ +| *kiss* *kiss* | *kiss* | |
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+ Or to put it another way, you're my X factor.
+ +| *kiss* *kiss* | *kiss* | |
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+ by Craig Kasper
+Answer: Click here to reveal
++ The answers to the obstacle training meta can be laid end to + end in lowercase such that the ladders and ramps match the + ascenders and descenders, like this: +
+
+ 
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+ isthmusofsuezoldmaidsothnielmilkdrytenpmakdzharpbfree
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+ As the flavortext suggests, increment the letters following an + ascender and decrement the letters following a descender. + Those letters will spell out INTENTIONLESS FLEABAGS. +
+
+
+ by Craig Kasper
+Answer: Click here to reveal
++ The answers to the obstacle training meta can be laid end to + end in lowercase such that the ladders and ramps match the + ascenders and descenders, like this: +
+
+ 
+
+ isthmusofsuezoldmaidsothnielmilkdrytenpmakdzharpbfree
+
+
+ As the flavortext suggests, increment the letters following an + ascender and decrement the letters following a descender. + Those letters will spell out INTENTIONLESS FLEABAGS. +
+
+
+ by Craig Kasper
+Answer: Click here to reveal
++ The answers to the obstacle training meta can be laid end to + end in lowercase such that the ladders and ramps match the + ascenders and descenders, like this: +
+
+ 
+
+ isthmusofsuezoldmaidsothnielmilkdrytenpmakdzharpbfree
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+ As the flavortext suggests, increment the letters following an + ascender and decrement the letters following a descender. + Those letters will spell out INTENTIONLESS FLEABAGS. +
+
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+ by Mike Sylvia
+Answer: Click here to reveal
++ The answers: +
+ Each answer in this round is four letters long and + monovocalic, with two consonants and one repeated vowel. Each + of the five main vowels is used once in this way; assembling + the consonant pairs in AEIOU order (as listed above) gives + GFPRFBRDRS. +
++ Insert new repeated vowels to make two new + monovocalic words that serve as the answer to this meta: + GOOFPROOF BREEDERS. +
+
+
+ by Mike Sylvia
+Answer: Click here to reveal
++ The answers: +
+ Each answer in this round is four letters long and + monovocalic, with two consonants and one repeated vowel. Each + of the five main vowels is used once in this way; assembling + the consonant pairs in AEIOU order (as listed above) gives + GFPRFBRDRS. +
++ Insert new repeated vowels to make two new + monovocalic words that serve as the answer to this meta: + GOOFPROOF BREEDERS. +
+
+
+ by Mike Sylvia
+Answer: Click here to reveal
++ The answers: +
+ Each answer in this round is four letters long and + monovocalic, with two consonants and one repeated vowel. Each + of the five main vowels is used once in this way; assembling + the consonant pairs in AEIOU order (as listed above) gives + GFPRFBRDRS. +
++ Insert new repeated vowels to make two new + monovocalic words that serve as the answer to this meta: + GOOFPROOF BREEDERS. +
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+ As Princess Buttercup can attest, if you need to cross a fire swamp, the best way to do it is together.
+by Craig Kasper and Corey Plover
+Answer: Click here to reveal
+In this Rows Garden puzzle, the so-called "rows" clues refer to the SW-to-NE slants of the grid. The A "row" holds the answer RHO and all the red bloom clues are 7 letters long and entered into the grid in the shape of a rho (ρ).
+ +The completed Rows Garden puzzle is shown below:
+ +
The initials of the regular white and yellow rose clues spells ANSWER'S NOT HERE and ELSEWHERES respectively, indicating that these blooms are not the source of the answer.
+ +The letters extending out of each red rho bloom, in grid order, spell LOUIS DE BOURBON and the initials of the rho clues themselves spell USE HIS WAR ALIAS. This leads to the answer of LE GRAND CONDÉ or LE GRAND CONDE.
+ + +by Craig Kasper and Corey Plover
+Answer: Click here to reveal
+In this Rows Garden puzzle, the so-called "rows" clues refer to the SW-to-NE slants of the grid. The A "row" holds the answer RHO and all the red bloom clues are 7 letters long and entered into the grid in the shape of a rho (ρ).
+ +The completed Rows Garden puzzle is shown below:
+ +
The initials of the regular white and yellow rose clues spells ANSWER'S NOT HERE and ELSEWHERES respectively, indicating that these blooms are not the source of the answer.
+ +The letters extending out of each red rho bloom, in grid order, spell LOUIS DE BOURBON and the initials of the rho clues themselves spell USE HIS WAR ALIAS. This leads to the answer of LE GRAND CONDÉ or LE GRAND CONDE.
+ + +by Craig Kasper and Corey Plover
+Answer: Click here to reveal
+In this Rows Garden puzzle, the so-called "rows" clues refer to the SW-to-NE slants of the grid. The A "row" holds the answer RHO and all the red bloom clues are 7 letters long and entered into the grid in the shape of a rho (ρ).
+ +The completed Rows Garden puzzle is shown below:
+ +
The initials of the regular white and yellow rose clues spells ANSWER'S NOT HERE and ELSEWHERES respectively, indicating that these blooms are not the source of the answer.
+ +The letters extending out of each red rho bloom, in grid order, spell LOUIS DE BOURBON and the initials of the rho clues themselves spell USE HIS WAR ALIAS. This leads to the answer of LE GRAND CONDÉ or LE GRAND CONDE.
+ + +by Mark Halpin
+Answer: Click here to reveal
+Identify each artwork by the breast detail shown. Index into the (English) name of the artwork by the sum of the numbers to the top and left. Where two breasts are used in a single image, double the letter.
+ +Artworks used:
+ +Girl on [A] Blue Pillow - Modiglianiby Mark Halpin
+Answer: Click here to reveal
+Identify each artwork by the breast detail shown. Index into the (English) name of the artwork by the sum of the numbers to the top and left. Where two breasts are used in a single image, double the letter.
+ +Artworks used:
+ +Girl on [A] Blue Pillow - Modiglianiby Mark Halpin
+Answer: Click here to reveal
+Identify each artwork by the breast detail shown. Index into the (English) name of the artwork by the sum of the numbers to the top and left. Where two breasts are used in a single image, double the letter.
+ +Artworks used:
+ +Girl on [A] Blue Pillow - Modigliani
+
+
+ by Craig Kasper
+Answer: Click here to reveal
+The five puzzles with letters provided are End View puzzles (also known as Easy as ABC puzzles in some places). Their solutions are given below. Each puzzle contains precisely one of the letters B, L, A, C, or K. Any square in that puzzle which contains that letter is to be painted black.
+ +Painting the squares black in the empty grid which are in the same positions as the black-painted squares in the five puzzles leaves a relatively small number of un-painted squares. Exactly one of the five puzzles has a letter in the square in that position. Transferring those letters into the unpainted squares in the empty grid and reading top-to-bottom and left-to-right reveals the answer: NOSEEUM.
+ +
+
+
+ by Craig Kasper
+Answer: Click here to reveal
+The five puzzles with letters provided are End View puzzles (also known as Easy as ABC puzzles in some places). Their solutions are given below. Each puzzle contains precisely one of the letters B, L, A, C, or K. Any square in that puzzle which contains that letter is to be painted black.
+ +Painting the squares black in the empty grid which are in the same positions as the black-painted squares in the five puzzles leaves a relatively small number of un-painted squares. Exactly one of the five puzzles has a letter in the square in that position. Transferring those letters into the unpainted squares in the empty grid and reading top-to-bottom and left-to-right reveals the answer: NOSEEUM.
+ +
+
+
+ by Craig Kasper
+Answer: Click here to reveal
+The five puzzles with letters provided are End View puzzles (also known as Easy as ABC puzzles in some places). Their solutions are given below. Each puzzle contains precisely one of the letters B, L, A, C, or K. Any square in that puzzle which contains that letter is to be painted black.
+ +Painting the squares black in the empty grid which are in the same positions as the black-painted squares in the five puzzles leaves a relatively small number of un-painted squares. Exactly one of the five puzzles has a letter in the square in that position. Transferring those letters into the unpainted squares in the empty grid and reading top-to-bottom and left-to-right reveals the answer: NOSEEUM.
+ +This is the craziest golf course you've ever seen! Back and forth across the entire kingdom multiple times, and there are no distance markers on the holes. If you owned this golf course, you'd be willing to take anything in exchange for it.
+














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+ It was 50 years ago, and the details of that horror have thankfully + faded from my memory, but there are records, printed copies of that + program from so long ago and historical artifacts associated with + it. The one thing I do remember is that I was so rattled, I made a + single mistake in every line.
+When you receive this puzzle, contact HQ to receive the + historical + artifacts associated with this puzzle. (Teams received three cards like the ones shown at the link)
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+ "Let me tell you something about full moons: kids don't care about full moons." -Endymion
+Sweet perjury of Mercury! Where did you find all of this stuff?
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+
+ by Mark Halpin
+Answer: Click here to reveal
+The card shown in this dream fragment is the Hearthstone card Ancestral Spirit captioned as "Assembled Shaman". Each of the cards used in Ysera's round have titles which similarly match in enumeration and initial letters to Hearthstone cards as displayed and ordered in game.
+The Hearthstone card that is missing from this sequence is HEX, and this is the answer for this dream fragment.
+ +by Mark Halpin
+Answer: Click here to reveal
+The card shown in this dream fragment is the Hearthstone card Ancestral Spirit captioned as "Assembled Shaman". Each of the cards used in Ysera's round have titles which similarly match in enumeration and initial letters to Hearthstone cards as displayed and ordered in game.
+The Hearthstone card that is missing from this sequence is HEX, and this is the answer for this dream fragment.
+ +by Mark Halpin
+Answer: Click here to reveal
+The card shown in this dream fragment is the Hearthstone card Ancestral Spirit captioned as "Assembled Shaman". Each of the cards used in Ysera's round have titles which similarly match in enumeration and initial letters to Hearthstone cards as displayed and ordered in game.
+The Hearthstone card that is missing from this sequence is HEX, and this is the answer for this dream fragment.
+ +by Mark Halpin
+Answer: Click here to reveal
+The image shown in this dream fragment is a Rainbow Serpent with a body consisting of three distinct sections, and each section comprising seven equally sized "scales". One scale in each section is clearly divided into two half-sized sections:
+The whitened blue and indigo scales are an allusion to the puzzle Blazing Trails (whose answer INDIGO BLUE is a mini-round whose answer is WHITENED) and which references the Rainbow Serpent in the puzzle's own clues.
+There are exactly three single words clues that are 8 letters long and contain a double letter. These map uniquely to the patterns on the snake, with the letters falling into the white spaces spelling the dream fragment answer EAT (i.e. WARINE[SS], ABE[RR]ANT, A[SS]ORTED).
+ +by Mark Halpin
+Answer: Click here to reveal
+The image shown in this dream fragment is a Rainbow Serpent with a body consisting of three distinct sections, and each section comprising seven equally sized "scales". One scale in each section is clearly divided into two half-sized sections:
+The whitened blue and indigo scales are an allusion to the puzzle Blazing Trails (whose answer INDIGO BLUE is a mini-round whose answer is WHITENED) and which references the Rainbow Serpent in the puzzle's own clues.
+There are exactly three single words clues that are 8 letters long and contain a double letter. These map uniquely to the patterns on the snake, with the letters falling into the white spaces spelling the dream fragment answer EAT (i.e. WARINE[SS], ABE[RR]ANT, A[SS]ORTED).
+ +by Mark Halpin
+Answer: Click here to reveal
+The image shown in this dream fragment is a Rainbow Serpent with a body consisting of three distinct sections, and each section comprising seven equally sized "scales". One scale in each section is clearly divided into two half-sized sections:
+The whitened blue and indigo scales are an allusion to the puzzle Blazing Trails (whose answer INDIGO BLUE is a mini-round whose answer is WHITENED) and which references the Rainbow Serpent in the puzzle's own clues.
+There are exactly three single words clues that are 8 letters long and contain a double letter. These map uniquely to the patterns on the snake, with the letters falling into the white spaces spelling the dream fragment answer EAT (i.e. WARINE[SS], ABE[RR]ANT, A[SS]ORTED).
+ +by Craig Kasper and Nick Poulos
+Answer: Click here to reveal
++ The image shown is taken from "The Gashlycrumb Tinies" by + Edward Gorey. The accompanying caption is reminiscent of that + book's style. +
++ The flavortext for the puzzle "The Eldritch, Gambrel Scavenger + Hunt" includes the following references to tragedies that befell + specific children from the book: +
+ Since the first event (E) happened twice, the answer is EEK. +
+by Craig Kasper and Nick Poulos
+Answer: Click here to reveal
++ The image shown is taken from "The Gashlycrumb Tinies" by + Edward Gorey. The accompanying caption is reminiscent of that + book's style. +
++ The flavortext for the puzzle "The Eldritch, Gambrel Scavenger + Hunt" includes the following references to tragedies that befell + specific children from the book: +
+ Since the first event (E) happened twice, the answer is EEK. +
+by Mark Halpin
+Answer: Click here to reveal
++ Each of the dream fragment puzzles from the previous rounds + gives a short word. These puzzles also have associated sets of + symbols which indicate how to divide each answer into + two pieces (except for the last one). +
++ The puzzles are presented as nested circles, which suggests splitting each fragment answer as indicated and nesting the results, ten deep. +
+RIME = R IME +OUT = OU T +SESAME = SE SAME +TACT = T ACT +HEX = H EX +EAT = E AT +SLICKS = SL ICKS +EEK = EE K +PERUSE = PER USE +SNOW = SNOW ++ +
by Mark Halpin
+Answer: Click here to reveal
++ Each of the dream fragment puzzles from the previous rounds + gives a short word. These puzzles also have associated sets of + symbols which indicate how to divide each answer into + two pieces (except for the last one). +
++ The puzzles are presented as nested circles, which suggests splitting each fragment answer as indicated and nesting the results, ten deep. +
+RIME = R IME +OUT = OU T +SESAME = SE SAME +TACT = T ACT +HEX = H EX +EAT = E AT +SLICKS = SL ICKS +EEK = EE K +PERUSE = PER USE +SNOW = SNOW ++ +