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[Solution] Betrayal!

Each of the given fictional characters famously betrays one or more other characters The names of these characters fit in the given blanks. The betrayer/betrayed pairs are:

  • Stinky Pete – WOODY (Toy Story 2)
  • Iago – OTHELLO – (Othello)
  • Peter Pettigrew – JAMES & LILY POTTER (Harry Potter)
  • Brutus – JULIUS CAESAR (Julius Caesar)
  • Lando Calrissian – HAN SOLO (Star Wars)
  • Hans – ANNA (Frozen)
  • Ernesto – HÉCTOR (Coco)

A few of the characters betray larger groups, but the principal target of their betrayal is the one given. The boxed letters from the answers spell out DELILAH. In the Bible, in the book of Judges, Delilah betrays SAMSON to the Philistines.

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[Puzzle] Hippopotomonstrosesquipedaliophobia – 3 February 2025

The solution to Betrayal! has now been posted. As well, the hint is up for last week’s puzzle, Short-Changed.

The new puzzle for this week is Hippopotomonstrosesquipedaliophobia. Don’t let that frighten you though!

Reminder that Grant Fikes is halfway-through his ninth season of Kevin’s Puzzles at Home. These puzzles run to the easier side, and for every solve, he donates to a food bank. There are five puzzles up so far – go check them out!

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    [Solution] Evolutionary Theory

    This word search contains the names of thirty Pokémon from the first generation of games. The completed grid looks like this:

    The leftover letters spell out the phrase FULLY-EVOLVED FORM OF MISSING THREE-STAGE EVOLUTION IN GEN ONE. In the first generation of Pokémon games, there are sixteen three-stage evolutionary lines, ranging from Bulbasaur-Ivysaur-Venusaur to Dratini-Dragonair-Dragonite. Each of the names hidden in the puzzle comes from one of these lines, and in fact, the thirty Pokémon consist of two Pokémon from each of fifteen of the sixteen evolutionary lines.

    The one missing line which does not appear in the word search is Weedle-Kakuna-Beedrill. The fully-evolved Pokémon in this set is BEEDRILL.

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    [Hint] Betrayal!

    The puzzle Betrayal! has been out for a week now. If you’re struggling, check out the hint below.

    Once you’ve finished that, check out this week’s new puzzle, Short-Changed. It’s like looking in a mirror.

    Once you find the characters who were betrayed, repeat the process one more time. This puzzle includes three characters from animated Disney movies, and two from Shakespeare plays.

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    [Puzzle] Short-Changed – 27 January 2025

    The solution to Evolutionary Theory has now been posted. As well, the hint is up for last week’s puzzle, Betrayal!

    Short-Changed is the new puzzle for this week. Are you tired of answers which just go on and on? Then this puzzle is for you!

    Reminder that Grant Fikes is running his ninth season of Kevin’s Puzzles at Home. These puzzles run to the easier side, and for every solve, he donates to a food bank. There are four puzzles up so far – go check them out!

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      [Solution] Funny Pages

      This puzzle consists of five lines of characters from comic strips which must be identified. Many can be identified through a reverse image search, while others require searching for descriptions or text in the picture. The characters and the strips they come from are:

      • Wanda (Baby Blues)
      • Elizabeth (For Better or For Worse)
      • Bucky (Get Fuzzy)
      • Calvin (Calvin and Hobbes)
      • Opal (Pickles)

      • Monty (Monty)
      • Ignatz Mouse (Krazy Kat)
      • Cathy (Cathy)
      • Asterix (Asterix)
      • Nate (Big Nate)

      • Snoopy (Peanuts)
      • Wiley (B.C.)
      • Eek (Eek & Meek)
      • Roger (FoxTrot)
      • Marcy (Jump Start)

      • Irma (Nancy)
      • Nancy (Luann)
      • Uriah Pert (Gasoline Alley)
      • Sergeant Snorkel (Beetle Bailey)
      • Attila (Mother Goose and Grimm)

      • Nermal (Garfield)
      • Snert (Hagar the Horrible)
      • Wally (Dilbert)
      • Earl (MUTTS)
      • Rat (Pearls Before Swine)

      The first letters of these characters taken in order spell out the phrase WEBCOMIC ANSWER MINUS ANSWER. This references the webcomic Garfield Minus Garfield. The answer is GARFIELD.

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      [Hint] Evolutionary Theory

      The puzzle Evolutionary Theory has been out for a week now. If you’re struggling, check out the hint below.

      Once you’ve finished that, check out this week’s new puzzle, Betrayal!.

      After you find all thirty hidden pokémon, read the leftover letters for the next step. The pokémon used in this puzzle are all from the first generation of games. Besides that, what else do they have in common evolutionarily?

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      [Puzzle] Betrayal! – 20 January 2025

      The solution to Funny Pages has now been posted. As well, the hint is up for last week’s puzzle, Evolutionary Theory.

      The new puzzle for this week is Betrayal! This puzzle should not prove too difficult. Perhaps a nice break for anybody who participated in the MIT Mystery Hunt this weekend.

      Reminder that Grant Fikes is running his ninth season of Kevin’s Puzzles at Home. These puzzles run to the easier side, and for every solve, he donates to a food bank. There are three puzzles up so far – go check them out!

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        [Solution] The Missing Piece

        This metapuzzle requires the answers from the previous two months. They are GRIT, ESCAPES, BUY, DEUCE, COVERT, FIST, HOSE, and INFECTION. The metapuzzle provides eight clues, which do not define these eight words. The breakthrough comes in realizing that the clues all describe the puzzle answers with an additional letter added – the “missing piece” of the puzzle title. The clues and their corresponding answers are:

        • Change – CO[N]VERT
        • Figure out – DE[D]UCE
        • Former prisoners – ESCAP[E]ES
        • Home – HO[U]SE
        • Modulation – INF[L]ECTION
        • Original – FI[R]ST
        • Support – BU[O]Y
        • Swindle – GRI[F]T

        These extra letters don’t spell anything in the order given, but that order is merely alphabetical by clue. Solvers will notice that the answers begin with the letters from B through I. Putting the answers in alphabetical order gives the following:

        • BU[O]Y
        • CO[N]VERT
        • DE[D]UCE
        • ESCAP[E]ES
        • FI[R]ST
        • GRI[F]T
        • HO[U]SE
        • INF[L]ECTION

        In this order, the added letters spell out ONDERFUL. The lack of a word starting with A suggests adding a letter to the front of this to form the answer WONDERFUL, as in “You did a wonderful job in solving this puzzle!”