ShmooCon IX Puzzle 6

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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.

Directions

The numbers next to each row and column indicate the size …

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ShmooCon IX Puzzle 5

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Directions

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.

ShmooCon IX Puzzle 5

There aren't really any good …

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ShmooCon IX Puzzle 4

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        Collected Deckard ( )[ ][ ][ ]
           EX-TERM-IN-ATE [ ][ ]( )( )[ ][ ]
            Ripley's Ship [ ][ ][ ]( )[ ][ ][ ][ ]
Became self-aware in 1997 [ ][ ]( )[ ][ ]( )
            Directed 2001 [ ][ ][ ]( )( )[ ][ ]
        Brown's Capacitor [ ][ ]( )[ ]
     Father of the clones ( )[ ][ ][ ][ ][ ][ ][ ][ ]

Directions

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 …

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ShmooCon IX Puzzle 3

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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 …

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ShmooCon IX Puzzle 2

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The letters in the shaded squares will spell out the answer.

ShmooCon IX Puzzle 2 with original letters

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.

B A S P O I …
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ShmooCon IX Puzzles

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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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