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Call in meta and supermeta answers

The Pac-Man round narrowly lost on the last ballot when we were selecting gameworlds for the Mystery Hunt. It was proposed to take place in a small Pac-Man maze with 32 dots and four power pellets. Each dot would be a short puzzle—about a quarter the length and difficulty of the typical Mystery Hunt puzzle. You can mouse over the dots to see the titles and answers of those puzzles.

The power pellets are not puzzles; however, when you reach a power pellet it unlocks four standard-length puzzles—one for each ghost. Since there are four power pellets, each ghost has a total of four puzzles. You can click on the ghosts to see the answers to these puzzles.

There are five metapuzzles in the round (not counting the supermeta): one for each ghost, and one representing the bonus "fruit" symbols, which are depicted in the middle of the grid (and do not have full-length puzzles of their own).