Puzzles for Adults and Children
This is an 8×8 sudoku variant. Each row, column, and region must contain the letters D, E, H, I, L, N, O, and W. The logic doesn’t require any multi-step leaps, and the completed grid looks like this:
The letters on the main (top-left to bottom-right) diagonal spell out the answer NEW DELHI.
Each of these clues gives an answer which contains a number:
Translating these numbers to letters (A=1, B=2, etc.) gives the answer FORMULA ONE.
Each of the grids contains five sets of lines which do not appear in the other. These are highlighted here:
The differences spell out the answer, FIRST WORLD, as in “First World Problems”.
The answer to each of the clues is a model of car with length equal to the number in parentheses:
(Honda) ACCORD
(Chevrolet) NOVA
(Kia) SOUL
(Jeep) WRANGLER
(Ford) ESCORT
(Isuzu) RODEO
(Amc) EAGLE
(Mitsubishi) LANCER
(Ford) EXPLORER
(Chevrolet) CAVALIER
(Ford) TAURUS
(Jeep) RENEGADE
(Chevrolet) IMPALA
(Dodge) CHARGER
(Jeep) CHEROKEE
(Toyota) AVALON
(Ford) RANGER
The first letters of the car models spell out ANSWER ELECTRIC CAR. The answer is ELECTRIC CAR.
This is a word search containing the names of 29 different cat breeds. The full list is:
ABYSSINIAN
BAMBINO
BENGAL
BIRMAN
BURMESE
EGYPTIAN MAU
GERMAN REX
KANAANI
KORAT
MINSKIN
MINUET
MUNCHKIN
OCICAT
PERSIAN
RAGAMUFFIN
RAGDOLL
RUSSIAN WHITE
SAVANNAH
SCOTTISH FOLD
SIAMESE
SIBERIAN
SOKOKE
SPHINX
SUPHALAK
THAI LILAC
TOYGER
TURKISH ANGORA
TURKISH VAN
YORK CHOCOLATE
The completed grid looks like this:
The unused letters in the puzzle, read from top to bottom, spell out TODAY’S ANSWER: BRITISH BLUE. The answer is BRITISH BLUE.
This metapuzzle uses the answers from the previous eight puzzles: DITTO, PANAMA, PADLOCKS, REPROGRAM, PIPE WRENCH, TURBOCHARGE, CLIMBING FRAMES, and TRISKAIDEKAPHOBIA. Solvers will notice that each of the answers is the same length as one of the groups of boxes in the grid. Making sure to follow the direction of the traffic arrows, the answers may be entered as so:
The puzzle states that it only takes three steps for the chicken to cross the road. This suggests placing letters into the remaining yellow cells to make three-letter words. Many of these cells have a few options, but only one set of words creates an answer:
The middle letters spell out the answer ROADS SCHOLAR, a play on Rhodes Scholar, and the answer to the riddle posed in the flavor text.
Each of the clues leads to a five-letter answer. These answers are:
Each of these answers fit into the grid with its five letters in the five cells surrounding its clue letter or number:
There is a bit of ambiguity around the outside, which is not necessary to resolve in order to solve the puzzle. However, it can also be resolved by discovering that the outer letters, read top-to-bottom and left-to-right, spell out the clue phrase USE UNNUMBERED MIDDLES. This tells us to read the eight lettered (unnumbered) middle squares of the words, which spell out (again in top-to-bottom, left-to-right order, which is also in alphabetical order) the answer PADLOCKS.
Each of the squares must be rotated until all the tubes form a single connected network with no tubes ending randomly at the end of a cell. The completed map looks like this:
The pipes within the white region look like the letters PIPE WRENCH, the answer to this puzzle.
Each of these creatures is a blend of two different pokémon: CETITAN and FALINKS, CONKELDURR and HOUNDSTONE, HITMONLEE and METAGROSS, HOOTHOOT and PARASECT, and MUDKIP and PIDGEY. After identifying the pokémon, the key to solving this puzzle is noticing that each pair of pokémon have names that are the same length.
Each pair of pokémon also share exactly one letter which is in the same position for both (i.e., both CETITAN and FALINKS have an I in the fourth position). The pairs of pokémon are also all different lengths, one set each for lengths from six up to ten letters. Ordering the matching letters by length of the pokémon names give the answer DITTO.
Solvers are given relatively simple clues for lists of words, given in alphabetical order by answer. The complete word list is:
These answers fit into the grid exactly one way:
As directed by the flavor text, the letters on the two main diagonals, read top to bottom, spell out the answer CLIMBING FRAMES.