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Latest revision as of 22:19, 1 November 2022
Espresso Stand | |
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MIT Mystery Hunt 2020 | |
Wizard's Hollow | |
Author(s) | Corin Anderson and Melinda T. Owens (with thanks to Larassa Howard at the Southcenter Barnes & Noble Starbucks) |
Answer | Click to revealHANGOVER REMEDY |
Statistics | |
No. solves | 41 |
No. total guesses | 49 |
Links | |
Puzzle | Link |
Solution | Link |
Espresso Stand is a wordplay puzzle from the Wizard's Hollow round of the 2020 MIT Mystery Hunt.
Puzzle Elements[edit | edit source]
Flavortext - The names look right but the drink shorthand looks off. What does this barista need?
One-File Wonder - Besides the flavortext, the only other object in this puzzle is a picture of a Starbucks order featuring seven drinks.
Identification (Food & Drink) - Indeed, the first step is determining what drinks were ordered; these can be inferred from the labels or directly looked up on the menu.
Error Correction - In doing so, however, one should quickly realize that the labels are wrong—they each refer to a different drink in the order!
Reordering - These references form a cycle, creating an ordering.
Mangled Clues - The "drink shorthand" doesn't seem all that indicative of actual shorthand—many words drop the usually-kept first letter. Instead, they're generated in a manner reflective of mangled clues: a function is applied to every word in the name. Applying this function to the name on the correct drink yields a bigram; ordering all seven using the cycle yields the answer.