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Letters In Boxes #17
Letters In Boxes, Letters In Boxes! Time to get your Letters In Boxes! Time to get your crayons and your pencils! Or your printer and your markers. Or open up your preferred image editing software, if you choose. However you go about doing it, this week's Letters In Boxes challenge is waiting to be solved.
Below you'll find the first puzzle in this series. Click on it to open the image in a new window. Once you think you've figured out an answer, move your attention to your browser's address bar. Change the filename (in this case, "seventeenagain") to your answer, making sure to keep the same file extension and staying in the same directory. If you're right, hey hey hey, you're onto the next puzzle! If you're wrong, you can always try to spy another solution.
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 10th at 11:59 PM (GMT-5:00). 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!
- thomstel ...First!
- Outside Lime
Walkthrough Guide
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We can't tell you why there's air, but here are this week's answers: (Can you tell we're running out of Bill Cosby puns?)
Puzzle 1
Puzzle 1 Answer
The first puzzle is solved by connecting adjacent letters to spell out a phrase. Starting from the second row on the right side, the phrase UNLOCK ANOTHER RIDDLE WITH BOUGHT can be found snaking through the grid. The numbers are red herrings, which can be deleted.
Puzzle 2
Puzzle 2 Answer
The clue, "Divide by 4," suggests that the grid needs to be divided into four identical pieces. The highlighted letters, SEND, will all end up in separate pieces. Starting in the corners and moving counter-clockwise around the edges and inward, the words MILKSHAKE, ELEPHANTS, RADIATION, and FISHHOOKS can be found. Of these four words, FISHHOOKS (which describes the shape of the words) is the answer to this puzzle.
Puzzle 3
Puzzle 3 Answer
To solve this puzzle, you need to complete the eight-letter words by filling in the four-letter chunks on the right side of the grid. The clue, "X Marks the Spot," refers to the letters that form an X-shape in the completed grid. Rather than reading in straight diagonals, the text is split as > and <. The text reads ANSWER IS TAILORED.
Puzzle 4
Puzzle 4 Answer
Each of the answers in this awkward crossword is a seven-letter word in a U-shape, with letters that overlap later clues. For example, the NES of CANINES (clue 1) overlaps with the SEN of SENATOR (clue 3). When all of the clues are filled in, the final answer, AWESOME, appears across the second row of the puzzle.
Winners will be announced soon!
Posted by: Steve
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October 11, 2011 11:41 AM