Puzzles for Adults and Children
This puzzle consists of seven very simple mazes, each with a single yellow line through it. Solving the mazes and paying special attention to where the path intersects with that line gives the following:
The flavor text of the the puzzle references both Samuel and telegraph, suggesting that Morse code is necessary to get the answer. Reading the path/yellow line overlaps as dots and dashes gives . ... -.-. .- .--. . ... which translates to ESCAPES, the answer to the puzzle.
Each of the words can be preceded by either TRUE or FALSE to make a common phrase. (In certain cases, the reverse can also be a phrase, but it is always quite rare.):
Converting these True/False answers to binary (TRUE=1, FALSE=0) gives 01000111 01110010 01101001 01110100. The flavor text clues ASCII which can turn eight-bit binary numbers into characters. Translating these four numbers gives Grit. The answer is GRIT.
The puzzle Missing Vowels has been out for a week now. If you are stuck on solving it, check out the hint below.
Once you’ve finished that, check out this week’s new puzzle, What a Card.
Once you have replaced the vowels, you can index into the reconstituted words and phrases to get an answer phrase with one word replaced.
The hint for last week’s Missing Vowels puzzle is now available, as are the solutions to both Binary Logic and The Long and Short of It.
The new puzzle for this week is What a Card. Can you find what is written in the cards?
Please enter your answer below, leaving out all punctuation.
This is the hint for The Long and Short of it, originally posted just last week. In an effort to get back on schedule, you have one more week to solve it using the hint below.
Samuel and his telegraph will help you interpret where your path through the maze intersects the yellow line.
The website is starting to get back to normal. The entire archive is still missing, but I will be working on re-uploading that as we go along. The hints for the last two puzzles and the solution to the September-October metapuzzle have now been uploaded. Congratulations to everybody who solved it!
The new puzzle for this week is Missing Vowels, inspired by the least-imitated round from the game show Only Connect.
Please enter your answer below, leaving out all punctuation.
This metapuzzle consists of the following image, along with the answers to the feeder puzzles: MOZART SYMPHONY, YOU ARE HERE, FIFTH GEN CONSOLE, CANDY BAR, OBERON, TRIDENT, THERMOMETER, and CARNIVOROUS PLANT.
This image suggests the planets of our solar system, moving outward. Each answer corresponds to one of the planets:
Indexing into each answer by the number written on the planet spells out the solution, MOONSHOT (or MOON SHOT), referring to an ambitious, groundbreaking effort, such as the 1969 moon landing.
This is the hint for Binary Logic, originally posted two weeks ago. With all the technical difficulties, you now have one more week to solve it, using the following hint:
Each item in the list can be preceded by either TRUE (1) or FALSE (0). Once you have done that, you can convert each column into an ASCII letter.
The website suffered a fatal WordPress error on Friday, 8 November. I have been working to get it back up, but it seems impossible.
I am currently rebuilding the website from the old files. This has been a very slow process. I apologize for the inconvenience.
The puzzle from 3 November is here. You have an extra week to solve it before the hint will be posted.
The new puzzle for this week is The Long and Short of It, which you may answer below: