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Latest revision as of 04:38, 13 September 2022
Storybook Pals | |
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MIT Mystery Hunt 2020 | |
Storybook Forest | |
Author(s) | Mark Gottlieb |
Answer | Click to revealFURRY TAILS |
Statistics | |
No. solves | 64 |
No. total guesses | 174 |
Links | |
Puzzle | Link |
Solution | Link |
Storybook Pals was the metapuzzle of the Storybook Forest round of the 2020 MIT Mystery Hunt.
Answer List[edit | edit source]
- The Dollhouse Tour --> ANSWERHALFSECTION
- Goldilocks --> ANSWERALLFORONE
- Hackin' The Beanstalk --> ANSWERSOURCEFILES
- Pied Piper --> ANSWERNEWYEARSDAY
- Rumpelstiltskin's Cottage --> ANSWERESOTERICA
- The Storykeeper Bookshop --> ANSWERSORRYIMLATE
- Toddler Tilt --> ANSWERALEUROMANCY
- Tunnel of Love --> ANSWERORCHESTRA
Puzzle Elements[edit | edit source]
Metapuzzle (Pure Meta) - The puzzle provides only a title and flavortext.
Flavortext - The children are quite cross at the shoddy condition of the Storybook Forest’s animatronics. What would improve them?
Just Like the Others - All feeders to this puzzle have either 9 or 11 letters.
Hint in Flavortext - The children are quite cross at the shoddy condition of the Storybook Forest’s animatronics. What would improve them?
Crossword (Criss Cross) - The feeders can be assembled such that they interlock in a crosshatch grid:
HALFSECTION L S R ALEUROMANCY F T H SOURCEFILES R R S SORRYIMLATE N C R NEWYEARSDAY
Positional Extraction - The grid is two entries short of a cross-hatch grid. Where the two entries would go is written the answer to this metapuzzle.
Asked and Answered - The answer to this metapuzzle answers a question about how Storybook Forest can improve its animatronics.