Channel Surfing (MIT Mystery Hunt 2020)
| Channel Surfing | |
|---|---|
| MIT Mystery Hunt 2020 | |
| Yesterdayland | |
| Author(s) | Yar Woo and Jan Chong |
| Answer | Click to revealVACUUM TUBE |
| Statistics | |
| No. solves | 24 |
| No. total guesses | 79 |
| Links | |
| Puzzle | Link |
| Solution | Link |
Channel Surfing is a media puzzle from the Yesterdayland round of the 2020 MIT Mystery Hunt.
Puzzle Elements[edit | edit source]
Image Heavy - The puzzle consists of a number of images on TV screens, grouped into ten "channels".
Identification (TV Shows) - The images are all still frames from specific episodes of TV shows; the episode title is required.
Indexing - Above each TV is a number of asterisks, with one highlighted in green; the number of asterisks always matches the number of words in the episode title. Extract that word.
Clue-Centric - The words extracted from each set of images now constitute a crossword clue with a given enumeration.
Knowledge Required (TV Shows) - While none of the answer phrases exist as actual episodes of the TV shows in question, each one is a reference to a particular TV show's episode naming convention.
Indexing - This time, index into the show's name using the channel number. This produces the answer.
