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Letters In Boxes #16
No one ever said school would be easy. Running from one end of the building to another for your next class, stopping to grab a book along the way, dodging the bullies in the hallway... Oh, and the classes are pretty hard too! Math, science, geography, language... And the older you get, the more they frown on you using fingerpaints in art class! School ain't no cakewalk.
For this Letters In Boxes challenge, you've got to go back to school, do a bit of research, and fix one student's silly slip-ups. (The name is a coincidence, I swear.) Click on the image below to open up your first puzzle. When you think you've found an answer, change the filename in the address bar (in this case, "classofsixteen") to your answer, making sure you stay in the same directory and keep the same file extension. If you're right, you'll graduate to the next puzzle! If you're wrong, check your work 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, October 3rd at 11:59 PM (GMT-5:00). Can you fix the mistakes and graduate with honors? (Really, any help you could give would be greatly appreciated!) 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!
- Ajslama ...First!
- dsrtrosy1
Walkthrough Guide
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Report card time! How did you fare?
Puzzle 1
For the first puzzle, you had to look up the correct formulas for each compound. The written answers either contain an extra atom of one element in the compound, or are missing one. For example, the formula for Silver(II) fluoride is AgF2 (I can't do subscripts in the comments, so play along), but the written formula is only AgF. The missing atom is Fluorine, and the first letter of the answer is F. The missing atoms are F, Li, N, C, and H, which combine to spell FLINCH.
Puzzle 2
The second puzzle looks like a normal (well, somewhat normal) essay, but contains some unusual words. The words Charlie, Hotel, Alpha, Romeo, and Mike are all words in the NATO phonetic alphabet (Alpha, Bravo, Charlie, Delta, etc.). These letters spell out the second answer, CHARM.
Puzzle 3
The key to solving the third puzzle was to calculate the correct values for each problem, then subtract from the given (incorrect) answer to find a number ranging from 1-26. These letters, when put to the standard A=1, B=2 pattern, spell out the answer, DIPLOMAT. For example, the first problem, 78x3, actually equals 234, but when subtracted from the incorrect answer of 238 gives you 4, which is equal to the letter D.
Puzzle 4
The last puzzle required you to first research the correct answers to the problems (DCACD). The key to solving this puzzle was to note the direction from the incorrect answer to the correct answer. For example, for the first problem, the movement from the wrong answer (A) to the correct answer (D) is a down-right movement. Once you have the five movements figured out (down-right, up-right, up, up-right, down), the key was to refer to the unused grid of letters from the first puzzle. There was only one starting position possible to move around the grid without moving off, and that was the letter F. (The fact that the paper was marked with an F was a complete coincidence, I only wish I could claim that that was a hint!) By following the movements, you spell out the final answer, FUMING.
Also, there were two answers whch led to an Easter egg image.
In the third puzzle, the bottom row of factors contained numbers from 1-26. If you convert these numbers in that same old alphanumeric way, you could spell out COSTUMED.
In the fourth puzzle, WINNIPEG was the A answer to every question.
Winners will be announced soon!
Posted by: Steve
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October 4, 2011 12:11 AM