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Letters In Boxes #15
We're jumping the gun a bit with our celebrations, but next week is the autumnal equinox. It's one of two days out of the year where the sun is directly above the equator, and (in theory, but not exactly) gives an equal amount of daylight and darkness. In this week's Letters In Boxes challenge, we take that half-and-half attitude to heart. In all of this week's puzzles, you've got to make look at both sides of the picture to find the winning answers.
Just as in weeks past, the first puzzle is pictured below. Click on it to bring it up in a new window and start solving. When you've got an answer, change the filename of the image (in this case, "15weeksto2012" (give or take a few days)) to your answer, making sure you stay in the same directory and keep the same extension. If you're right, you'll flash forward to the next puzzle. If you're wrong, you might get lost on the dark side of the moon, but you can always back up and try again.
This batch of puzzles contains four puzzles to solve. On the fourth puzzle, you'll find the email address for sending your final answer. We'll hand out a prize to the first correct entry we receive, plus one additional randomly-selected correct entry. Please include your Casual Gameplay account display name with your entry. You must be at least 13 years of age to enter. Only one submission per participant, please. Offer void where prohibited. Your deadline for submitting your answers is Monday, September 19th at 11:59 PM (GMT-5:00). Can you keep both sides balanced to win the prize? Good luck!
Update: Congratulations to the following winners! :D
Both winners were given a choice of prizes. Congratulations and thanks for playing with us! Look for another Letters in Boxes again soon!
- Mattbert ...First!
- spaceloaf
Walkthrough Guide
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Did everything balance out for you? Here are the answers:
Puzzle 1
Puzzle 1 Answer
For the first puzzle, the way to achieve balance was to project the mirror image of the right side onto the left side to spell FIND NEXT PUZZLE WITH BANJOES. (If you want to get really picky, you could project the mirror image of the left side onto the right side, and you'd get the same thing, but backwards.)
Puzzle 2
Puzzle 2 Answer
The twenty letters on the left side of the grid, when rearranged, spell out the three words on the right side of the grid, with five leftover letters. Those leftover letters can be rearranged to spell SAUNA.
Puzzle 3
Puzzle 3 Answer
Since the letters of MAYOR on the left don't have much to do with the Q on the right, you needed to find a different way of balancing both sides. If you add up the alphanumeric values of the letters in MAYOR (13+1+25+15+18), you get 72. The goal of the puzzle was to find another word (or words) starting with Q that also has a sum of 72.
Q has a value of 17, which takes the total of the rest of the letters down to 55. The next letter must be a U (since we're not going to pull anything too tricky like QANAT or QOPHS), which has a value of 21, which brings the total down to 34. From here, you need to use a bit of trial-and-error, but you could narrow down your choices easily by considering that the third letter has to be a vowel. By plugging in A, E, I, and O (1, 5, 9, and 15, respectively), then trying pairs of letters that total the remaining value, you would find that only QUITE and QUIET are valid words. They are both answers to this puzzle. Surprise!
Puzzle 4
Puzzle 4 Answer
If you went to quite.gif, you found a completely different set of clues than if you went to quiet.gif. However, both clues lead to the same answer, and can be used to check each other. The string of letters to fill in the boxes was CONGASTOPAZ, (CON, GAS, TOPAZ for QUITE, CONGA, STOP, AZ for QUIET). If you take the letters in the numbered boxes in order, you will spell out your final answer, OCTAGONS.
Winners will be announced soon!
Posted by: Steve
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September 20, 2011 12:07 AM