This was my favorite of all the ShmooCon IX puzzles. It reminds me of the logic grid puzzles I used to do in elementary school. Bobby has brown hair. The person who likes green has blue eyes, etc.
The numbers next to each row and column indicate the size …
Hop from square to square in the direction of the arrow. Can jump as many squares as you like, but MUST land on an arrow of the opposite color.
The object is to get to the exit, spelling out the answer as you go.
There aren't really any good …
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Using the tiles below, build the words indicated by the hints above. Use each tile only once,
Then copy the letters in circles to the circles below.
Last, decode the final answer …
Dor dt lsr ydnarkl wdoljbflcdok ld er krro bl b KsmddWdo: b hbk fdqrjra [yrbt eydqrj].
No instructions given for this one, but it clearly looks like an encoded message. Assuming that there's a one-to-one mapping between letters, it's a pretty safe assumption that the letter 'b' represents either an …
Continue readingThe letters in the shaded squares will spell out the answer.
This pattern looks pretty familiar. It's a 9x9 grid subdivided into 9 3x3 grids. Some of the grid spaces are filled in, but most are blank. We're provided with the following 9 letters.
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ShmooCon IX was last weekend. David Schuetz (@DarthNull) created some puzzle challenges in the Shmoocon Event Program. Check back for puzzle writeups in the near future.
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