H O W L - Puzzled Pint

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H O W L

The fun of Puzzled Pint can be found in a bar, All around the world, near and far,

The holiday doors can provide you the clues, Of where to meet the game control crew,

The door you seek is not on the end,(so not Thanksgiving or St Patricks) The numbers upon it do not sum to ten,(so not Valentine’s or Easter)

With digits adorned, two of them prime (none are prime on Christmas), It's where you go for a frightfully good time (hinting Halloween)!

You open the door and stop and stare, and listen to the wind flowing through your hair,

You climb through the door and hear a scary sound, It's the sound of a moonlit creature echoing all around... 1, 5, 6, 3 are indexing Halloween Town to make HOWL

(which is the final answer)


D E M O

Halloween Town is getting ready to take over Christmas. The presents must be packed into the sleigh ready for Jack Skellington

to be Santa! The numbers indicate how many squares in each row contain a toy. Notice each present type takes up a different

amount of space and must be at least one space away (in all directions) from others! Once the sleigh is all packed up, Jack

exclaimed “Anchors away!” Sally said “What an odd thing to say, but you must have said that for a reason, hey?”

X Y R H I O A T R H

M M U C Q W R K X M

A Q D I D T U I W P

S I Y R A Z A Y M T

J Y G B P U Y R N M

K L H E J R D T C M

I O D Y W C S U T P

T Y E E D F J M K U

T E O R J N E M A S

U E M A P R L T A E

5 0 4 3 0 3 1 1 4 3

2

3

5

1

0

2

3

0

2

5

The train takes 4

spaces, dolls 3, boats

2 and balls 1. Place

all of the toys in the

grid using the

numbers as a guide,

none of them

touching.

The flavour hints at

anchors away, all of

the cells containing

the anchor of the

boat spells out the

answer: DEMO


Z E R O

Halloween Town is taking over Christmas Town’s holiday, and their mechanical countdown

clock is being readjusted for the countdown to Christmas instead! Help the mayor switch on the

clock by coding in the remaining 0’s and 1’s. There cannot be more than two of the same

horizontally or vertically adjacent to each other (more than two diagonally adjacent is

accepted). Study the clock from top to bottom... what is everyone waiting for?

0 1 1 0 1 0 0 1 1 0 1

1 0 0 1 0 1 1 0 0 1 0

0 1 1 0 0 1 1 0 0 1 0

1 0 0 1 1 0 0 1 1 0 1

0 1 1 0 1 0 1 1 0 0 1

1 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 1 1 0

0 1 0 1 1 0 1 1 0 0 1

1 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 1 1

0 1 1 0 1 1 0 1 1 0 0

0 0 1 1 0 1 0 0 1 1 0


SOLUTION

Use the provided numbers as a start to fill in the rest of the gird, ensuring that there are no

more than two 0’s and two 1’s orthogonally (at right angles to, so horizontal or vertical - there

can be more than 2 diagonally) next to eachother.

Then use the shaded squares to decifer the binery message reading each line separately

downwards, reading each column from left to right.

01111= O

01110 = N

00101 = E

01101= M

01001= I

01110 = N

10101 = U

10011 = S

01111= O

01110 = N

00101 = E

PARTIAL ANSWER: ONE MINUS ONE

1-1 = 0

ANSWER IS ZERO


Human’s have 206 of these Structure of hexagonal cells

of wax, made by bees

Lollies, candy, sweets and

chocolates collectively

Able to be relied upon as

honest and truthful

A game or activity for 3

people

Wood floating in or washed

up in a body of water

Decorative or practical

objects made by hand

HONEYCOMB BONES

CONFECTIONERY

CRAFTWORK

THREESOME

TRUSTWORTHY

DRIFTWOOD

“Oh, the sound of rollin' dice to me is music in the air 'cause I'm a gamblin' Boogie man although I don't

play fair!”. Oogie Boogie keeps on rolling dice, until he gets results he likes. Jack and Sally must thwart

his plan, using clues left from the Boogie man. If only they could see, how simple it would be, to send

Oogie Boogie down below, under the lair he calls home, to fiery pits of lava, an end to Oogie’s laughter.

RY YCOMB CRAF

RTHY H OD S SOME

TRUS RK DRIF

B CONFECTI

M E L T

The Dice in each

section spell out

MELT in braille.

Convert dice into braille to get:


D E A D

The evil Dr. Finkelstein has cut up Sally's square patchwork quilt into pieces! Sally is held

together with magic, so help her sew the quilt back together which is known to have 87

stitches in every row in all directions. You may be happy to know what Sally’s sewn secret is!

SOLUTION:

This is a magic square puzzle.

Cut out each of the patches and use

the starter segments to place the

patches into the correct place so that

each row (horizontally, vertically and

diagonally) adds up to the same

number (87).

Decode the Pigpen face, partial

answer: NOT ALIVE

ANSWER: DEAD


,

After Jack had been shot down as the Santa Claus imposter, he returned to his home of Halloween Town and

took a stroll with Sally and his dog to his favorite place, the spiral hill. Make the hill complete again by filling in

vertically downwards and horizontally from left to right. Jack and Sally glanced at each other and thought

about which holiday door they would like to open next!

D M

M O N S T E R U N D E R T H E B E D O O G I E B O O G I E

O C L N T T

S O I

T R N

E J E W E L M R S C L A U S F G

R A A I C M

U C B L A C K C A T L N L A

N K A L K T O W N B A N D D R B Y E W E

E C R I L N A

R Y E G S S W D

T C L O C K W A T I L

H L I N E T Y

E O T T I H N S P C A N A I

T S M A L L W I T C H C T G

A L E H

I A A T

R U C H R I S T M A S

S K E L E T A L R E I N D E E R S A H

W A A D

Y E

F

V A M P I R E F

J C R A Z E R O T H E D O G

C A G

K S R S

S P I R A L H I L L B

K G O E R

E O C Q E

L R K U A

L I T

I W O L F M A N H

N D

G U N D E R S E A G A L

T M

O O

VALENTINES W I N G E D D E M O N

IGOR (4) JACK (4) LOCK (4) JEWEL (5) SALLY (5) SHOCK (5) BARREL (6) CYCLOPS (7) VAMPIRE (7) WOLFMAN (7) BIG WITCH (8) BLACK CAT (8) MRS CLAUS (8) TOWN BAND (8) CHRISTMAS (9) _ _ _ _ ING MAN (10)

SANTA CLAUS (10) SMALL WITCH (10) SPIRAL HILL (10) _ _ _ _ THE DOG (10) FROGS BREATH (11) OOGIE BOOGIE (11) UNDERSEA GAL (11) WINGED DEMON (11) HARLEQUIN _ _ _ _N (14) JACK SKELLINGTON (15) _ _ _ _LY NIGHTSHADE (16) DOCTOR FINKELSTEIN (17) SKELETAL REINDEERS (17) MONSTER UNDER THE BED (18) MONSTER UNDER THE STAIRS (21) CLOWN WITH A TEAR AWAY FACE (22)

Puzzled Pint - Meta-Meta 2018 - Analogies - Solution

A# A B# B

A#+

B# C# C D

D#=(A# +

B# - C#)

Index D#

into D

6 Roll is to 5 d20 Die As 11 5 Binge is to Netflix 6 I

10 [Pigpen] is to 3 Stargate As 13 12 [PigPen] is to The Ori 1 T

2 Broom is to 11 Sweeping As 13 12 Wand is to Witching 1 W

11 Web is to 10 Surf As 21 14 Wall Street is to Speculate Wildly 7 A

12 ! is to 8 Punctuation As 20 8 And is to Conjunctions 12 S

3 Inning is to 2 Baseball As 5 3 Turn is to Game 2 A

5 Act Crazy is to 9 Have a few… As 14 4 Do your own… is to Skin your own… 10 W

4 nomekeP is to 7 Pokemon As 11 8 tceffE oN is to No Effect 3 E

1 Bewilder is to 6 Mazes As 7 2 Deceive is to Illusions 5 S

7 Koko is to 4 Gorilla As 11 4 Star Chamber is to Kangaroo Court 7 O

8 Somalian is to 1 Mona Lisa As 9 6 Lifetimes is to Time Flies 3 M

9 Xmas Tree is to 12 Jack-o-Lantern As 21 17 Easter is to Valentine's 4 E

Make as many (IS TO +) matches as possible (on both sides).

Sides can be linked (As =) by BOTH Analogy AND by theme (see table below)

Add up left-side of page numbers (IS TO +) to get a sum for the LEFT side of the Equals.

You want the same sum on the right of the equals, so subtract to get the missing __ .

Finally, index these __ . into the meta answers to get the meta-meta answer.

SOLUTION: IT WAS AWESOME

Set Link Analogy

D&D is featured in Stranger Things Action : Thing Acted Upon

It's explicitly a Stargate PigPen : English

Brooms are also used by witches in H.P. Tool : Activity

The WWW is associated with Bitcoin Place : Action

Both are English symbols Member : Writing-based Set

Baseball is the quintessential U.S. Game Temporal Part : Whole

The idiom is about Kangaroos Definition : Animal Idiom

It's Ash, Pikachu, and a Pokemon hat! Reverse thing : Thing

A maze is a labyrinth Malicious Intent : Mechanism to Achieve It

A gorilla is an animal in a zoo Specific Instance : Category

Mona Lisa was painted by DaVinci Word : Two-Word Anagram

Monsters are featured in the movie Peer : Peer (Holiday Objects / Holidays)

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