2011 Mystery Hunt

[novice]

[Suspence]

Correct. That was super fast!

Next:
Patter Recognition - http://www.mit.edu/~puzzle/11/puzzles/world1/pattern_recognition/
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[SuperSlug]

[gftt]

Let's see how many of these we can ID without googling...

states are easy

celebs:
Elvis Janis
Left-eye ??
Sinatra ??

G Hawn Steven Tyler
J Voight Enrique Iglesias
Janet Leigh? Martin Sheen [note: all 6 of these have famous offspring]

George Takei Corey ___?
P Swayze ?
Farley DiCaprio

words: the right group all have silent g's

presidents:
AJohnson? ??
Polk Van Buren
JQAdams WHHarrison

Truman Nixon
Arthur Teddy R
LBJ Bush41

Washington Jackson
Clinton Madison?
Jefferson? Wilson

flags
? ?
Germany Colombia?
Indonesia? France [note: all rectangles]

Pakistan Japan
South Korea ?
? ?

Thailand Algeria
the "dawn of a new era" flag from last Hunt ?
Cuba? ?

youtube videos don't need id'ing

someone else will have to do the video game things. I only know Tyson and the duck from Duck Hunt. (The purple dragon is from Warcraft, I think.)

[jadesmar]

Freddie mercury is right of Left-Eye.
I believe it's Julio Eglasias

[gftt]

[Suspence]

CELEBS:

[gftt*]

STATES:
group 1: east of Mississippi River, red states
group 2: west of Mississippi River, landlocked
group 3: coastal

CELEBS:
group 1: dead musicians
group 2: alive, with famous kids
group 3: actors

WORDS:
group 1: in the Declaration of Independence
group 2: one syllable
group 3: multi-syllable, silent g

PRESIDENTS:
group 1: pre Civil War
group 2: VPs
group 3: served two terms

FLAGS:
group 1: flag composed all of rectangles
group 2: even # of colors
group 3: odd # of colors

VIDEOS:
group 1:
group 2:
group 3:

VIDEO GAMES:
group 1:
group 2:
group 3:

[Suspence]

Picking up where I left off:

VIDEO GAMES:
Bottom row:
Swooping Snitchbug - Pikmin
Eggplant Wizard - Kid Icarus
Sentinel - Halo
Bitey Bat - Castle Crashers
Killer Ape - Golden Sun
Aggar - Altered Beast (last column)

Given the setup of the images, I wonder if we'll somehow be building braille letters.
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[gftt*]

Would that make group 1 in the video games all Nintendo?

[SuperSlug]

[Suspence]

Correct.

Next:
Another Small Collection of Immense Integers -
http://www.mit.edu/~puzzle/11/puzzles/world1/another_small_collection_of_immense_integers/
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[Suspence]

I'll point of the obvious, the title suggests ASCII.

Each number has an even number of digits.
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[jadesmar]

Maybe this:

5460 = 65 * 84 = AT
5694 = 73 * 78 = IN

So, that's the small ones.

3390066960 = FORTY
2716716990 = YEARS
142488921960 = METEOR / REMOTE
34441680 = SALT
1051397257358448 = NOVEMBER
2921407440 = FIRST

[novice]

[SuperSlug]

[novice]

FORTY
YEARS
METEOR
SALT / LAST
1051397257358448
2921407440
AT
2162928096
294043460256
344760
294043460256
38544100
13344757458552
49419000
IN
POSIX
TIME

[SuperSlug]

[jadesmar]

1051397257358448 = NOVEMBER
2921407440 = FIRST
2162928096 = EIGHT

[SuperSlug]

FORTY
YEARS
METEOR
SALT / LAST
NOVEMBER
FIRST
AT
EIGHT
TWENTY
AND
TWENTY
FOUR
SECONDS
ZULU
IN
POSIX
TIME
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[jadesmar]

[SuperSlug]

[jadesmar]

[jadesmar]

Which is 26295624000 if GMT.

[SuperSlug]

26295624 = ECHO

(They didn't give us milliseconds, so I didn't use them for the timestamp)
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[SuperSlug]

Call in ECHO

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Meta Mario World 1-2

PETUNIA -> VERNON DURSLEY
IRIS ->BARRY ALLEN
ROSE -> JACK DAWSON
ANEMONE ->DOMINIC SOREL
NARCISSUS -> ECHO
H
A

Call in PIRANHA

PARASOL and PIRANHA, both 7 letter words that start with P, anyone have another for the answer for world 1-3?
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[jadesmar]

[Suspence]

We'll at least try to get the solution to each one, but we could wait on that one and backsolve.

Speaking of backsolving, it seems likely that the next two answers will be the love interests of women named after flowers that start with H and A.
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[Suspence]

Both ECHO and PIRANHA are correct. I was able to confirm PIRANHA without seeing the next two solutions.

Next up:
Two Heads are Better than One - http://www.mit.edu/~puzzle/11/puzzles/world1/two_heads_are_better_than_one/
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[Suspence]

19 sets of 2 rules each. It appears the sets are in alphabetical order, so we're not just constructing a logic puzzle with the first in each set and another with the second.

It could be that one is true is one is false in each set?
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[gftt*]

No, since there is one pair that is identical. My guess is that there are two logic puzzles. Each pair of statements contributes one statement to one puzzle and one to another. At the end we will have two sets of severed heads for two words.

[gftt]

Nice work on the other puzzles, btw.

[gftt]

In puzzle two the piranha plant cannot be executed at 9pm. So we can sort these statements as being in puzzle 2 and puzzle 1, respectively.

The Piranha Plant was executed exactly 2 hours after the Blooper Nanny, and exactly 2 hours before the Beach Koopa. / The Piranha Plant was executed last.

We can also sort these as puzzle 1 and puzzle 2 respectively:
Alice was a Dark Goomba and Bob was a Koopa Paratroopa. / The three Koopas were adjacent in execution.

So puzzle one:
**Eve was executed after the Dancing Spear Guy, and before the Blooper Nanny
**Carol was an Electrogoomba and Gloria was a Micro-Goomba
**Irene was executed before 4pm.
** Bob was not executed at 2pm nor 6pm.
** Alice and Dave were the Piranha Plant and the Dark Goomba, in some order.
** The Piranha Plant was executed last.
** Alice was a Dark Goomba and Bob was a Koopa Paratroopa.
ideduction: Dave = Piranha Plant = executed at 9

Puzzle two:
** Carol was a Blooper Nanny, Frank was a Gargantua Koopa Troopa, and Henry was a Beach Koopa.
** Eve was executed at 1pm.
** The creature executed at 9pm was not Alice, Bob, Dave, nor Irene.
** Bob was not executed at 2pm nor 6pm.
** Alice and Dave were the Piranha Plant and the Micro-Goomba, in some order.
** The Piranha Plant was executed exactly 2 hours after the Blooper Nanny, and exactly 2 hours before the Beach Koopa.
** The three Koopas were adjacent in execution.

[gftt]

In puzzle two, the Koopas can be executed only at 4 or later. So

The Beach Koopa was executed sometime after the Gargantua Koopa Troopa. / The Gargantua Koopa Troopa was executed at 3pm.

can be sorted as puzzle 2 then puzzle 1. In particular, in puzzle two we must have an execution order of
...BlooperN - ?? - PiranhaP - GargantuaK - BeachK - KParatroopa...


But then in puzzle two, the first clue in this pair does not fit:
Alice was executed immediately after Bob, and immediately before Dave. / Neither Gloria nor the creature executed at 1pm had their head fully severed.

So puzzle one:
**Eve was executed after the Dancing Spear Guy, and before the Blooper Nanny
**Carol was an Electrogoomba and Gloria was a Micro-Goomba
**Irene was executed before 4pm.
** Bob was not executed at 2pm nor 6pm.
** Alice and Dave were the Piranha Plant and the Dark Goomba, in some order.
** The Piranha Plant was executed last.
** Alice was a Dark Goomba and Bob was a Koopa Paratroopa.
deduction: Dave = Piranha Plant = executed at 9
** The Gargantua Koopa Troopa was executed at 3pm.
** Alice was executed immediately after Bob, and immediately before Dave.
7pm: Bob; 8pm Alice/DarkG; 9pm Dave/PP


Puzzle two:
** Carol was a Blooper Nanny, Frank was a Gargantua Koopa Troopa, and Henry was a Beach Koopa.
** Eve was executed at 1pm.
** The creature executed at 9pm was not Alice, Bob, Dave, nor Irene.
** Bob was not executed at 2pm nor 6pm.
** Alice and Dave were the Piranha Plant and the Micro-Goomba, in some order.
** The Piranha Plant was executed exactly 2 hours after the Blooper Nanny, and exactly 2 hours before the Beach Koopa.
** The three Koopas were adjacent in execution.
** The Beach Koopa was executed sometime after the Gargantua Koopa Troopa.
** Neither Gloria nor the creature executed at 1pm had their head fully severed.
...BlooperN/Carol - ?? - PiranhaP - GargantuaK/Frank - BeachK/Henry - KParatroopa...

[gftt]

Both Frank and Irene were neither the Gargantua Koopa Troopa nor executed at 2pm. / The creatures executed at 6pm and 7pm both had their heads fully severed.

belong to puzzle 1 and 2, respectively. Deduction in puzzle 1: Irene is executed before 4 but not at 2, or at 3 since the Gargantua is executed then. So Irene dies first.

So puzzle one:
**Eve was executed after the Dancing Spear Guy, and before the Blooper Nanny
**Carol was an Electrogoomba and Gloria was a Micro-Goomba
**Irene was executed before 4pm.
** Bob was not executed at 2pm nor 6pm.
** Alice and Dave were the Piranha Plant and the Dark Goomba, in some order.
** The Piranha Plant was executed last.
** Alice was a Dark Goomba and Bob was a Koopa Paratroopa.
** Alice was executed immediately after Bob, and immediately before Dave.
** The Gargantua Koopa Troopa was executed at 3pm.
** Both Frank and Irene were neither the Gargantua Koopa Troopa nor executed at 2pm.

1pm Irene 7pm: Bob; 8pm Alice/DarkG; 9pm Dave/PP


Puzzle two:
** Carol was a Blooper Nanny, Frank was a Gargantua Koopa Troopa, and Henry was a Beach Koopa.
** Eve was executed at 1pm.
** The creature executed at 9pm was not Alice, Bob, Dave, nor Irene.
** Bob was not executed at 2pm nor 6pm.
** Alice and Dave were the Piranha Plant and the Micro-Goomba, in some order.
** The Piranha Plant was executed exactly 2 hours after the Blooper Nanny, and exactly 2 hours before the Beach Koopa.
** The three Koopas were adjacent in execution.
** The Beach Koopa was executed sometime after the Gargantua Koopa Troopa.
** Neither Gloria nor the creature executed at 1pm had their head fully severed.
** The creatures executed at 6pm and 7pm both had their heads fully severed.
1pm Eve......later, BlooperN/Carol - ?? - PiranhaP - GargantuaK/Frank - BeachK/Henry - KParatroopa...

[gftt]

The Koopa Paratroopa was executed exactly 4 hours after the Gargantua Koopa Troopa. / The three creatures that were neither Koopas nor Goombas were adjacent in execution.

The first statement is not puzzle 2. So the order in puzzle 2 goes

1pm Eve......later, BlooperN/Carol - DancingSpearG - PiranhaP - GargantuaK/Frank - BeachK/Henry - KParatroopa...

and in puzzle 1 we have
1pm Irene 3pm Gargantua 7pm: Bob/KPara; 8pm Alice/DarkG; 9pm Dave/PP

Since in puzzle 1 we know that Carol is an Electrogoomba, not GargantuaKoopa, we can sort these too:
Carol, Eve, the Koopa Paratroopa, and the Piranha Plant all had their heads fully severed. / Carol was executed at 3pm.


So puzzle one:
**Eve was executed after the Dancing Spear Guy, and before the Blooper Nanny
**Carol was an Electrogoomba and Gloria was a Micro-Goomba
**Irene was executed before 4pm.
** Bob was not executed at 2pm nor 6pm.
** Alice and Dave were the Piranha Plant and the Dark Goomba, in some order.
** The Piranha Plant was executed last.
** Alice was a Dark Goomba and Bob was a Koopa Paratroopa.
** Alice was executed immediately after Bob, and immediately before Dave.
** The Gargantua Koopa Troopa was executed at 3pm.
** Both Frank and Irene were neither the Gargantua Koopa Troopa nor executed at 2pm.
** Carol, Eve, the Koopa Paratroopa, and the Piranha Plant all had their heads fully severed.
**The Koopa Paratroopa was executed exactly 4 hours after the Gargantua Koopa Troopa.
** All Goombas had their heads fully severed.
** Bob was executed after 6pm.
** The creatures executed at 1pm and 4pm had their heads fully severed.
** The Electrogoomba was executed before the Micro-Goomba, and after at least one creature whose head was not fully severed.
**Henry, who was executed after 2pm, did not have his head fully severed.
**Exactly one creature's head was not fully severed after 5pm.
** Exactly one creature's head was not fully severed before 5pm.
1pm SpearGuy/Irene SEVERED
2pm BeachK/Eve SEVERED
3pm GargantuaK/Henry not severed
4pm ElectroG/Carol SEVERED
5pm MicroG/Gloria SEVERED
6pm: BNanny/Frank not severed
7pm: Bob/KP SEVERED
8pm Alice/DarkG SEVERED
9pm Dave/PP SEVERED


Puzzle two:
** Carol was a Blooper Nanny, Frank was a Gargantua Koopa Troopa, and Henry was a Beach Koopa.
** Eve was executed at 1pm.
** The creature executed at 9pm was not Alice, Bob, Dave, nor Irene.
** Bob was not executed at 2pm nor 6pm.
** Alice and Dave were the Piranha Plant and the Micro-Goomba, in some order.
** The Piranha Plant was executed exactly 2 hours after the Blooper Nanny, and exactly 2 hours before the Beach Koopa.
** The three Koopas were adjacent in execution.
** The Beach Koopa was executed sometime after the Gargantua Koopa Troopa.
** Neither Gloria nor the creature executed at 1pm had their head fully severed.
** The creatures executed at 6pm and 7pm both had their heads fully severed.
** The three creatures that were neither Koopas nor Goombas were adjacent in execution.
** Carol was executed at 3pm.
** No Goomba had its head fully severed.
** Bob was neither a Koopa nor a Goomba.
** The creature executed at 3pm had its head fully severed.
** The Koopa Paratroopa's head was fully severed.
** The Electrogoomba was not executed at 1pm.
**There are exactly three pairs of creatures X and Y such that Y's first name is immediately after X's in alphabetical order, and Y's execution time was (not necessarily immediately) before X's.
Bob's and Dave's heads were both fully severed. /
1pm DarkG/Eve not severed
2pm MicroG/Alice not severed
3pm BlooperN/Carol SEVERED
4pm SpearGuy/Bob SEVERED
5pm PiranhaP/Dave SEVERED
6pm GargantuaK/Frank SEVERED
7pm BeachK/Henry SEVERED
8pm KParatroopa/Irene SEVERED
9pm ElectroG/Gloria not severed

[gftt]

Severed heads:
puzzle 1: ABCDEGI
puzzle 2: BCDFHI

Not sure I get it.
Unsevered heads:
puzzle 1: FH
puzzle 2: AEG

Let's try:
Puzzle 1:
A = DarkGoomba 8pm -> M
B = KoopaParatroopa 7pm -> A
C = ElectroGoomba 4pm -> C
D = PiranhaPlant 9pm -> L
E = BeachKoopa 2pm -> E
G = MicroGoomba 5pm -> O
I = DancingSpearGuy 1pm -> D

Puzzle 2:
B = DancingSpearGuy 4pm -> C
C = BlooperNanny 3pm -> O
D = PiranhaPlant 5pm -> N
F = GargantuaKoopa 6pm -> N
H = BeachKoopa 7pm -> O
I = KoopaParatroopa 8pm -> R

Ah. Call in CONNOR MACLEOD (beheadings! I get it!)

[jadesmar]

[gftt]

for the next one, I've got
Baltimore (I love this city, and I'm going to show everyone what I can do! (6 / 5,8)
Dublin (This city is more interesting than anything you could find in drama or literature! (5 / 6,3)
Atlantic City (We can run away from all of our troubles here! (6 / 6,6)
London: This city is one of a kind! (7 / 7,4)
Memphis: This city is a part of me. (2 / 4,7)
Natick, MA: I just want to take one last drive around this old neighborhood before I die. (6 / 7,4)
Manchester: I like to imagine myself as a famous film director. (2 / 6,6,8)
Padua : I'm here to find a rich woman! (4 / 4,6)
Paris: I guess the dress I got from here might not be so unique after all. (2 / 8,10)
Siracusa: I can't wait to get back home here! (3 / 10)
Brooklyn: My buddies and I agree—this is a heck of a city! (1 / 4)
Cuttyhunk, MA: My boyfriend dragged me here for an incredibly boring vacation. (5 / 6,7)
Denver: I'm so impressed by all the high-class people here! (1 / 5,5)
Venice: I love flirting with the frilly, silly ladies here! (7 / 8)
Vatican: My boyfriend told his wife I was calling him from here. (4 / 5)
Barcelona: One time my boyfriend talked me into missing a flight here—big mistake. (1 / 5)
Jerusalem: People here don't understand the truth about power. (3 / 5)
Ho Chi Minh City (We were here near the end of the war, and my buddy really needed to get laid. (3 / 4) -> Miss Saigon?)
Toledo: I don't think those guys were real pastry chefs, but they were great backup dancers! (1 / 5)
Santa Fe: I think this city might be a nice place to open up a small business. (9 / 3,7)
Bangkok: I didn't find the red-light district here very interesting. (3 / 7,7)
Kansas City: This city has reached the ultimate level of technological and cultural sophistication! (1 / 4,6)
Amarillo, TX: I thought when I left this city that anything was possible. (1 / 4,8)
Marietta, GA: This is the town where that poor girl grew up. (9 / 4,6)
Boca Raton, FL: I found some great real-estate investment opportunities here; let's get in on the ground floor! (1 / 6,6)
Hannibal, MO (The best baseball player in the history of the team came from here! (8 / 6,6) -> refers to Joe Hardy from Damn Yankees)
Buenos Aires: Arriving here, I'm ready to make it big! (1 / 3,6)
Chicago: This city is the pride and joy of the whole state! (1 / 5,7)

I suspect this might include plays, not just musicals (the Italian cities are reminiscent of Shakespeare - Taming of Shrew is set in Padua, Comedy of Errors has characters from Siracusa) but don't know what to extract.