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MIT Mystery Hunt - Pregame Puzzle Trail
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xmythx
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 		MIT Mystery Hunt - Pregame Puzzle Trail
Current!
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http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y33/xmyth/bell4.jpg


I was looking for quality puzzle trails and Sin Vraal suggested this: http://rose.mattcain.com/main.html

I couldn't find any other threads on it, so here it is. I'm going in order of the rooms, 1-7, and am having issues on #1, The Belltower, already. It's very challenging, and I'm looking for extra brain power. I am idling in #vanishing on chatsolutions.

Below I'll post spoilers of what I've done so far:

Puzzle Structure
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It looks like a combination of scrabble and crossword puzzles. This is pretty accurate. The first clue is "Death Alternative". Your starting letters transcribe to LIBERTY. You play LIBERTY, which is all 7 of your letters, and then you draw new 7 letters, AAINSRV.


#1
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LIBERTY


#2
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SAVE, with SAV coming off the E in LIBERTY.


#3
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LIBERTINE, replacing the Y in LIBERTY with INE. At this poin you notice in the description that the monk is making UP WORDS. UPWORDS is a scrabble game whereby you can place letters on top of others to make new words


#4
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SASH, adding ASH on to the end of the S from SAVE.


#5
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REHIRING. This one was a pain in the ass, Using the H from SASH and the I from LIBERTINE, spell REHIRING.


#6
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RAVE / RASH. This one was a breath of fresh air after the last. Replace the S in SASH and SAVE.


#7
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EAST / EAVE / RETRING. Replace the S in SAVE with E and the H in SASH with T.


#8
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This one was a mega pain in the ass. LEAS / AS. Use the A in EAST for LEAS.


#9
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PEAL, using the L in LEAS.


#10
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Clever. PEA, using the P from PEAL.


#11
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RAJA, using the R in RETIRING.


#12
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JINGLE, using the J in RAJA.


#13
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SILVER, using the I in LIBERTINE.


#14
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FAST / FARE, replacing the E and V in EAVE with F and R.


#15
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GONG, using the G in RETIRING.


#16
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I can't solve this one. I've tried and tried. What I HAVE done is used regressional analysis to determine what letters are used. 3 of IWNG. I did this by solving ahead.


#17
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JUNGLE, replacing the I in JINGLE with U.


#18
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WAGING, attaching WA to GONG and replacing the O with I.

And this is where i'm stuck.


PostPosted: Wed Jan 17, 2007 9:33 pm
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 		Link not working

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xmythx
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Hmm... the link is working for me when i click it.

You have to click the Rose and then the underlined link.

http://rose.mattcain.com/belltower.html

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xmythx
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 		FINALLY GOT IT! At least #16, that is.

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More backwards thinking. #19 is FIRED and IS, replacing the A in FARE with I and adding a D. #20 seems liked WIG. It had to be. The letters used and available deemed it so. If that was the case, and only one letter was used, the only place it could go was with WAGING. That being said, I speculated R - - G was the answer to 16. With what was available to me, I guessed RING. #21 then becomes RIOT and WIT. Phew.


#16
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RING, with the R in SILVER


#19
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FIRED and IS, replacing the A in FARE with I.


#20
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WIG, placing an I between W and T.


#21
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RIOT and WIT, replacing the N in RING with O and the G in WIG with T.


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xmythx
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 		#22
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Another bitch. LEIS, replacing A in LEAS, AIRED, replacing F in FIRED, DADAIST, using A in PEA.


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xmythx
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 		#23!
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WIRED, replace the A with W. PEN, replace the A in PEA with N. UNTWIST, spell across using DADAIST.


The Answer

Have no idea, but leaning towards taking each layer of the puzzle and finding some kind of word.

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Noyb
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Confessional
The theory behind the confessional page seems straightforward.

You're given a list of names, each missing letters. Below are lists of objects and places.

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The objects are murder weapons, and the places are crime scenes, so names are murderers. A couple of obvious connections from pop culture jumped out at me. Blaster is associated with cantina; Han Solo shot Greedo in a cantina in Star Wars, therefore the last name is Han Solo. Snakes are found on a plane, as per a recent movie; the villian was Eddie Kim, the second name.


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xmythx
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 		finally another brain! Smile

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xmythx
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 		This is what I have for CHAPEL:

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TOADY GEFILTE
SPOOK LIONESH
TERSE SCALENE
FEMUR ERMINES
ORATE
VESPA YESHIVA
ROUSE EXAMINE
PAUSE UKULELE
OKAPI EASTERN
MERMAID
SIEVE CARTOON
PAPAL IMPASSE
DERNIER
SETTLER
WRONG CORRECT
ANAGRAM
AMBROSE
ALIBI MAILMAN
IHEAR VANUATU
TUTSI OUTPACE
APHID EPHRAIM
CLOONEY
ANGST NEGLECT
IDAHO ATACAMA
APPLE ORTHANC


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jwhook
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 		Confessional Solve
Noyb is right that list to be filled in is fictional murders. The words at the bottom are murder weapons and location. The question marks are letters that reveal the answer that should be submitted.

Here's the final result.

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The letters spell out Mike Allred Superhero. And the answer is: Madman.


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jwhook
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 		Infirmary progress.
Gotten through most of this room, but can't identify the last cartoon. So far...

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First name of person in image is also the name of hurricane of 2005. Tried various ways of putting in hurricane, hurricanes, etc. but no luck in getting final answer. Also tried answering with a masculine hurricane name not shown by a picture, but that doesn't work either.


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 		Nice, I was actually working on that one too.

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The trick is you have to know what Category hurricanes they were:

Stan (Cat. 1) - First Letter = S
Wilma (Cat. 5) - Fifth Letter = A
Vince (Cat. 1) - First Letter = V
Katrina (Cat. 5) - Fifth Letter = I
Ophelia (Cat. 1) - First Letter = O
Maria (Cat. 3) - Third Letter = R
Last guy??

The only male hurricane name that made sense there was Stan again, and the answer was SAVIORS.


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jwhook
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 		Numbers in parentheses.
Thanks, freshness. Cool

I'm new to these types of puzzles. It appears that the use of numbers in parentheses after the clue to pick individual letters is fairly common. Does that mean that in the Inquisitor's Cell it's likely that an entry like this (1,2,4) means the first, second and fourth letter? Or is that some other typical pattern?

And in the Inquisitor's cell, it looks like:

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we're supposed to put the people inside the grid based on their religion, although what purpose that serves is unclear.


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 		It's really hard to say whether there is a "typical" methodology for the puzzles, in general. The difficulty level seems to have quite a wide range.
Belltower has taken quite a bit of effort to get to it's current state while Infirmary proved very simple once the solve method was determined.

On Inquisitor's Cell, there are no clean divisions or factors in play:
9 cells/religions
10 jailed celebrities
26 numbers
_________________
I'm telling you now, so you can't say, "Oh, I didn't know...Nobody told me!"


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 		ahhhh The Name of the Rose!

just watched this movie a couple months ago...sean connery and christian slater....very entertaining...I suggest watching it if these puzzles are based on it.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0091605/

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