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==Puzzle Elements== |
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[[Famous People]] - Naval captains, from taking the red letters and ordering them using the Arabic numerals. |
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[[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... |
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[[Famous Vehicles]] - Boats, from the respective naval captain. |
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[[Famous People]] - ...famous naval captains (all fictional)! Of course, being captains means solvers can also identify their... |
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[[Famous Vehicles]] - ...boats (except in one case where it's a u-boat)! Notably, each one is the same length (8 letters). |
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[[Marked Spaces]] - Occurs twice in this puzzle. The first uses the Arabic numerals and produces the names of naval captains. The second uses the Roman numerals and produces the answer. |
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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. |
[[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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Revision as of 23:04, 29 March 2022
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.