Dog
by Yar Woo, Alison Howard
Answers: CAPLETS, FIRE, ULINE
This puzzle has three answers. It's roughly themed around the 2019 Westminster Dog Show.
Best In Breed
Take each purple-ribbon number and index into the name of the dog that won Best In Breed for that breed in the 2019 Westminster Dog Show.
Breed | Winner | Index | Letter |
---|---|---|---|
German Shepherd | MARQUIS' HERMES V KENLYN | 5 | U |
Portuguese Water Dog | CHIEN D'EAU FEEL THE BURN DE REMIS | 3 | I |
Italian Greyhound | MARCHWIND SWEET VICTORY | 5 | H |
Chinese Crested | KAYLEN'S GENERAL KAI PANDA | 4 | L |
Irish Setter | MILITZA'S MY CHERIE AMOUR | 13 | E |
English Cocker Spaniel | FOXWOODS IVYWOOD FUSION | 9 | I |
Norwegian Elkhound | TIOKA'S AMERICAN RIDE | 14 | N |
Irish Wolfhound | DUN MYRICA NEVER SAY NEVER OF EAGLE | 8 | C |
Japanese Chin | COBEAUCHE WHEN YOU WISH UPON A STAR | 2 | O |
English Springer Spaniel | LEGACY OAK EMPEROR | 11 | M |
French Bulldog | LE PETIT PRINCE DE LA BETE | 3 | P |
Black Russian Terrier | MEDVEZHYA STAYA ZHIVAYA LEGENDA | 9 | A |
Cardigan Welsh Corgi | KINGSBURY CLAYMORE LUCKY VENTURE | 3 | N |
Icelandic Sheepdog | TRI-STAR HROI HOTTUR ROY | 20 | Y |
The end message is UIHLEIN COMPANY, which is the shipping supply company ULINE.
Dog Languages
Each of the pictured dogs' breeds contains a language and a word that can be translated into that language. Do the appropriate translations and index using the number in the speech bubble.
Language | Word to Translate | Translation | Index | Letter |
---|---|---|---|---|
German | shepherd | SCHAFER | 1 | S |
Portuguese | water | AGUA | 4 | A |
Italian | grey | GRIGIO | 3 | I |
Chinese | crested | FENG TOU | 3 | N |
Irish | setter | SOCRAITHEOIR | 7 | T |
English | cocker | COCKER | 5 | E |
Norwegian | elk | ELG | 2 | L |
Irish | wolf | MACTIRE | 1 | M |
Japanese | chin | AGO | 3 | O |
English | springer | SPRINGER | 1 | S |
French | bull | TAUREAU | 1 | T |
Russian | black | CHERNYY | 2 | H |
Welsh | cardigan | ABERTEIFI | 7 | I |
Icelandic | sheep | SAOUFE | 1 | S |
The end message is SAINT ELMOS THIS, which solves to FIRE.
Agility Course
All of the images at the bottom are labeled gates from the 2019 Agility Course, which all have a number of them. The highlighted placards on the bottom disambiguate between gates with multiple placards as well as disambiguating which direction the dog is jumping from. Blurry screenshots from agility videos in order:
3=C
1=A
16=P
12=L
5=E
20=T
19=S
Taken together, these spell CAPLETS.