Resolutions

Each singer is speaking to a specific real person; index into each of their names by the Roman numeral formed by the active pixels on that song's display. (Facility R) Each breakfast item includes an unexpected ingredient; read down the diagonal of these items. (Moscow) Find the fictional Scrabble words played by these fictional characters and take the letters from the blank tiles. (Set 1) Each storefront links to a chemistry problem; solve them, interpret their numerical answers as atomic numbers, and convert those numbers to periodic table symbols for a clue to the answer. (Yukon) Arrange the three-letter groups to form the names of monsters, each missing a letter; the missing letters spell a clue to the answer. (Phase 1) Solve the word equations to identify groups, take the indicated Nth members of those groups, and read the first letters of those items. (Green) Each image is two superimposed pieces of artwork from campus plus an added object; take the differences in their building numbers, use them as indexes into the added objects, and read those letters backwards. (Dossier 6) Ignore any ordering mechanism and use the extraction mechanism. (2005)

These are all anagrams of synonyms of names of the Seven Dwarves, each with an extra letter; when grouped, these extra letters spell the appropriate Dwarves’ names, each with an extra letter; these extra letters spell the answer. (Round 1) Use the numerical shape of each fictional map to index into the last name of the associated author. (Set 2) The answers to the clues in the first group are spoonerisms of the answers to the clues in the second group; pair them up, order the first group by their unique first letters, read the corresponding first letters of the second group, and follow those directions to bring something to Hunt HQ for the answer. (Red) Determine where on campus each of these well-known pieces of art was simulated, then index into the artists' names by building number. (Facility R) Break the "yells" into bigrams, turn the first letters into numbers, play them as Go moves (get it? Go Go Power Rangers?), and read the letter shapes on the boards. (NeoTokyo) Find the fictional Scrabble words played by these fictional characters and take the letters from the blank tiles. (Set 1) In the the movies these screenshots were taken from, the Wilhelm Scream occurred either right before or right after the pictured moments; correspondingly, take the first or last letter of each movie title. (Vatican) Ignore any ordering mechanism and use the extraction mechanism. (2003)

Solve the Pigpen cipher word search, decode the unused Pigpen symbols individually to get an instruction about how to orient the grid, then decode the shapes formed by those unused symbols. (Orange) Solve the cryptic clues and complete the acrostic, solve the extra cryptic clue spelled by the first letters of the clue answers, and use both that clue’s answer plus the message in the grid to find one last (standard) clue hidden within the grid. (Facility R) The alliterative letters in each line of the Beowulf pastiche spell numbers in Old English; taking the alliterative letters of those lines of Beowulf spells an instruction descibing which word in Beowulf is the answer. (Dossier 3) Each storefront links to a chemistry problem; solve them, interpret their numerical answers as atomic numbers, and convert those numbers to periodic table symbols for a clue to the answer. (Yukon) Pair up the words clued by the pictures so they differ only by an X and a Y; interpret the associated plots as X and Y coordinates of an Etch-a-Sketch cursor over time; draw instructions to go to HQ; while there, use the E-meter and take the numbers given in response to guessed words as the number of letters those words have in common with the answer word. (Phase 4) Call a Hunt HQ member’s mom. (Set 3) Every definition includes the sound of a number; use these as indexes into the definitions, which suggests that they all define winning words from the National Spelling Bee; take the first letters of those words for a clue to one more winning word from the National Spelling Bee. (NeoTokyo) Ignore any ordering mechanism and use the extraction mechanism. (2006)

Group the images in the grid to form military alphabet words, reassign those letters back to the grid, find all the military alphabet words in the grid, and read the remaining letters. (Page 7) Complete the crossword phonetically in all six languages, translate the Furbish words indicated by the brown clues into English, use them to solve the acrostic, and come to HQ to listen to what the stuffed animal says when hugged. (Law and Government) Each breakfast item includes an unexpected ingredient; read down the diagonal of these items. (Moscow) Fill in the grid, see which squares are used only once, take the message spelled by those letters, and train the answer. (Section 7) Complete the diagramless rebus crossword (treating IMP as a single character), then use the black squares as live cells in Conway's Game of Life; when a stable series of two oscillating states is reached, the positions of the live cells correspond to the letters of the answer word. (Advanced World Domination) Each singer is speaking to a specific real person; index into each of their names by the Roman numeral formed by the active pixels on that song's display. (Facility R) All of these accomplishments were grounds for Ig Nobel prizes; sort by prize type and index into the last names of the winners. (Cambridge) Ignore any ordering mechanism and use the extraction mechanism. (2002)

These are all works that were nominated for Hugo Awards, but didn't win; take the first letters of the works that did win, and then train the answer. (Section 6) Identify the fonts, find the Italian words among the Latin "Lorem ipsum" text, translate them, follow these instructions by using the font names as Vigenere cipher keys, and read the decrypted first letters of each line. (Timbuktu) The words in each group all use the same hand position in American Sign Language; these correspond to letters that spell the answer. (Kuala Lumpur) All of these accomplishments were grounds for Ig Nobel prizes; sort by prize type and index into the last names of the winners. (Cambridge) Figure out which letters would fall between each pair of corresponding letters in the two strings. (Boston) Call your friends across the country and have them collect the indicated words from the described locations to spell a phrase yielding the answer. (Page 3) Answer the questions, find the four-letter answers backwards in the centers of the six-letter ones, and chain the terminal letters of the six-letter answers to spell the answer. (Round 5) Ignore any ordering mechanism and use the extraction mechanism. (2004)

These are all works that were nominated for Hugo Awards, but didn't win; take the first letters of the works that did win, and then train the answer. (Section 6) Figure out which letters would fall between each pair of corresponding letters in the two strings. (Boston) These pictures were taken while standing in front of various vending machines on campus; there is a piece of paper with a letter on it on top of each one, and they spell a message describing what to bring to Hunt HQ in exchange for the answer. (Epcot Center) Fit the names of all the English monarchs but one into the grid; the missing one is the answer. (Getting Rich Quick) Arrange the three-letter groups to form the names of monsters, each missing a letter; the missing letters spell a clue to the answer. (Phase 1) Fill in the grid, see which squares are used only once, take the message spelled by those letters, and train the answer. (Section 7) Solve the Pigpen cipher word search, decode the unused Pigpen symbols individually to get an instruction about how to orient the grid, then decode the shapes formed by those unused symbols. (Orange) Ignore any ordering mechanism and use the extraction mechanism. (2002)

Group the images in the grid to form military alphabet words, reassign those letters back to the grid, find all the military alphabet words in the grid, and read the remaining letters. (Page 7) Determine where on campus each of these well-known pieces of art was simulated, then index into the artists' names by building number. (Facility R) Follow the trail of trees, indexing into names as appropriate, and then use that message to index into the plaque at the end of the trail. (Round 2) Use the information in the cockpit pictures to determine the city in which the plane crashed. (Writing) Interlock the answers in each set of clues into pangrammatic grids, determine which TV sets they fit into, and take the highlighted letters. (Performing Arts) Get a paper at Sidney's Grille showing the T's in various restaurant names along Main Street and Massachussetts Avenue, correlate each one with the map and the handout to get four digits of pi, and interpret those digits as phone code. (Law and Government) This ballroom dance is really a substitution cipher in which each move represents a letter. (Facility R) Ignore any ordering mechanism and use the extraction mechanism. (2002)

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