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==Puzzle Elements==
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{{#spoiler:show=Puzzle Elements|[[Asked and Answered]] - The puzzle asks for "someone else who really loves the water"—this query is answered with a noted marine biologist and environmentalist.▼
[[Hint In Flavourtext]] - The flavourtext mentions both "versatile crewmembers", hinting at the shared characteristics, and emphasizes the presence of both "captains" and "their ships", further cluing the connection between famous captains and their respective boats.▼
[[Shared Characteristics]] -
[[Marked Letters]] - For each person, one or two letters are colored red. When combined with the numbers that are next to each of them when placed properly, solvers can reorder these marked letters to form...
[[Famous People]] - ...famous naval captains (all fictional)! Of course, being captains means solvers can also identify their...
▲[[Hint In Flavourtext]] - The flavourtext mentions both "versatile crewmembers", hinting at the shared characteristics, and emphasizes the presence of both "captains" and "their ships", further cluing the connection between famous captains and their respective boats.
[[Famous Vehicles]] - ...boats (except in one case where it's a u-boat)! Notably, each one is the same length (8 letters).
[[Letter Placement]] - Each moat piece has a slot underneath the boat for a single letter. Assembling the moats allows for the placement of an eight-letter word—the name of a boat, to be exact.▼
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[[Semaphore]] - The "moats" are each composed of eight pieces, each one corresponding to a cardinal or ordinal direction. Unlike puzzles that extract directions and translate them into letters using semaphore, this puzzle requires solvers to use the captains' hands to spell the semaphore for SIGNAL (as written on the towers). Doing so will single out two letters of the famous boats per moat, which can then be reordered based on the roman numerals next to each of the captains' arms to get the final answer.
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▲[[Shared Characteristics]] - A key part of this puzzle is finding two occupations that can be described by the same sentence, often with creative interpretation of the words.
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Moat-er Boats | |
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MIT Mystery Hunt 2020 | |
The Grand Castle | |
Statistics | |
No. solves | 105 |
No. total guesses | 189 |
Links | |
Puzzle | Link |
Solution | Link |
Moat-er Boats is a word and lateral-thinking puzzle from the Grand Castle round of the 2020 MIT Mystery Hunt. It revolves around creating chains of types of people (crew members) by linking them together using shared characteristics (boats), ultimately building circular "moats" around central towers.
Solve Path
Final Answer: Click to revealRACHEL CARSON.