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'''The Aerialist''' is a |
'''The Aerialist''' is a puzzle from the {{l|Big Top Carnival}} round of the [[MIT Mystery Hunt 2020|2020 MIT Mystery Hunt]]. |
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==Solve Path== |
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==Puzzle Elements== |
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{{Element|Flavortext|''Penny Park's famed aerialist is quite an elegant and powerful woman.''}} |
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{{Element|Video|The puzzle is a single video of an acrobat in an aerial silk performance, accompanied by a mellow backing track and an occasional gong.}} |
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{{Element|Semaphore|During the gong sounds, the aerialist pauses briefly in a position with legs or arms extended. Each position can be decoded as a semaphore letter.}} |
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{{Element|Interwoven Strings|Decoding directly yields gibberish. However, one can separate the letters by how the aerialist formed them: arms or legs, and right-side-up or upside-down.}} |
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{{Element|Spatial Reasoning|Doing so yields sane-looking extracts of JUDI and BRITISH on the right-side-up letters but gibberish GXGLK and DKUVW on the upside-down letters. However, since the upside-down letters were formed... well, upside-down, rotating the semaphore letters 180˚ before decoding reveals the correct extraction of TITLE and DENCH.}} |
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{{Element|Final Clue Phrase|The four extracted words can form a cluephrase in the proper order: JUDI DENCH BRITISH TITLE. This leads to the answer.}} |
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{{Element|Asked and Answered|The flavortext mentions an "elegant and powerful woman", of which the answer is one example.}} |
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Latest revision as of 11:05, 15 March 2023
The Aerialist | |
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MIT Mystery Hunt 2020 | |
Big Top Carnival | |
Author(s) | Shelly Manber, Todd Etter, and Jesse Morris |
Answer | Click to revealDAME COMMANDER |
Statistics | |
No. solves | 30 |
No. total guesses | 84 |
Links | |
Puzzle | Link |
Solution | Link |
The Aerialist is a puzzle from the Big Top Carnival round of the 2020 MIT Mystery Hunt.
Puzzle Elements[edit | edit source]
Flavortext - Penny Park's famed aerialist is quite an elegant and powerful woman.
Video - The puzzle is a single video of an acrobat in an aerial silk performance, accompanied by a mellow backing track and an occasional gong.
Semaphore - During the gong sounds, the aerialist pauses briefly in a position with legs or arms extended. Each position can be decoded as a semaphore letter.
Interwoven Strings - Decoding directly yields gibberish. However, one can separate the letters by how the aerialist formed them: arms or legs, and right-side-up or upside-down.
Spatial Reasoning - Doing so yields sane-looking extracts of JUDI and BRITISH on the right-side-up letters but gibberish GXGLK and DKUVW on the upside-down letters. However, since the upside-down letters were formed... well, upside-down, rotating the semaphore letters 180˚ before decoding reveals the correct extraction of TITLE and DENCH.
Final Clue Phrase - The four extracted words can form a cluephrase in the proper order: JUDI DENCH BRITISH TITLE. This leads to the answer.
Asked and Answered - The flavortext mentions an "elegant and powerful woman", of which the answer is one example.