Teams were given a set of jigsaw puzzle pieces. These pieces can be assembled into fifteen separate images.
Each is part of a still from an episode of Sesame Street’s “Monsterpiece Theater.”
The images can be ordered by the number of unmatched pegs left sticking out around their edges.
Indexing into the titles of the original works by the number of pieces in the associated puzzle gives the answer LOCH NESS MONSTER.
Assembled image | Unmatched pegs | Monsterpiece Theater title | Original Title | Pieces | Letter |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Monsters with Dirty Faces | Angels with Dirty Faces | 5 | L | |
2 | Inside/Outside Story | West Side Story | 11 | O | |
3 | Cyranose de Bergerac | Cyrano de Bergerac | 16 | C | |
4 | Little Red Riding Cookie | Little Red Riding Hood | 16 | H | |
5 | ABCD Blue | NYPD Blue | 1 | N | |
6 | 39 Stairs | The 39 Steps | 8 | E | |
7 | Conservations with My Father | Conversations with My Father | 7 | S | |
8 | Me, Claudius | I, Claudius | 9 | S | |
9 | Monsters of Venice | The Merchant of Venice | 4 | M | |
10 | Waiting for Elmo | Waiting for Godot | 12 | O | |
11 | Anyone’s Nose | Anything Goes | 7 | N | |
12 | The Old Man and the C | The Old Man and the Sea | 16 | S | |
13 | Little House on Prairie | Little House on the Prairie | 14 | T | |
14 | Chariots of Fur | Chariots of Fire | 14 | E | |
15 | The Taming of the Shoe | The Taming of the Shrew | 17 | R |