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|round = Storybook Forest |
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|author = Mark Gottlieb |
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|answer = NEW YEARS DAY |
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|solves = 91 |
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|guesses = 199 |
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|link = https://puzzles.mit.edu/2020/puzzle/pied_piper/ |
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|solution_link = https://puzzles.mit.edu/2020/puzzle/pied_piper/solution/ |
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==Solve Path== |
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[INSERT SOLVE PATH] |
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[INSERT PICTURE] |
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==Puzzle Elements== |
==Puzzle Elements== |
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[[Audio]] - Besides the grid of letters with no apparent meaning, the main body of the puzzle is a set of 33 audio clips. |
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{{spoiler|label=Spoiler-y Elements}} |
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[[Identification]] ([[Pop Music]]) - The song used in each audio clip can be identified. |
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[[Cryptogram]] (Word to Letter) - The song titles can be shown to share exactly twenty-six unique words between them, meaning each can be assigned a (completely arbitrary) letter. |
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[[Word Search]] ([[Gimmicks|Gimmicked]]) - This gives the letter grid meaning—treating the letters as equivalent to those words, we can find the titles of all thirty-three songs in the grid. Of course, figuring out which letter is which is itself a part of the puzzle, but the easiest in-road to decryption is "Please, Please, Please, Let Me Get What I Want". |
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[[Chekhov's Letters]] - The classic word search extraction of taking the unused letters is in play here—except here you take the words from the cryptogram. This forms... |
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[[Final Clue Phrase]] - HURTS ALL I WANT FOR CHRISTMAS IS WHAT, where the WHAT can be filled in with the answer to this puzzle. |
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Latest revision as of 04:41, 13 September 2022
Pied Piper | |
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MIT Mystery Hunt 2020 | |
Storybook Forest | |
Author(s) | Mark Gottlieb |
Answer | Click to revealNEW YEARS DAY |
Statistics | |
No. solves | 91 |
No. total guesses | 199 |
Links | |
Puzzle | Link |
Solution | Link |
Pied Piper is an audio puzzle from the Storybook Forest round of the 2020 MIT Mystery Hunt.
Puzzle Elements[edit | edit source]
Audio - Besides the grid of letters with no apparent meaning, the main body of the puzzle is a set of 33 audio clips.
Identification (Pop Music) - The song used in each audio clip can be identified.
Cryptogram (Word to Letter) - The song titles can be shown to share exactly twenty-six unique words between them, meaning each can be assigned a (completely arbitrary) letter.
Word Search (Gimmicked) - This gives the letter grid meaning—treating the letters as equivalent to those words, we can find the titles of all thirty-three songs in the grid. Of course, figuring out which letter is which is itself a part of the puzzle, but the easiest in-road to decryption is "Please, Please, Please, Let Me Get What I Want".
Chekhov's Letters - The classic word search extraction of taking the unused letters is in play here—except here you take the words from the cryptogram. This forms...
Final Clue Phrase - HURTS ALL I WANT FOR CHRISTMAS IS WHAT, where the WHAT can be filled in with the answer to this puzzle.