I've tried all over, but nothing made sense. I wonder if I ought to reverse the jelly baby, er, polarity of the neutron flow.

Who is the guy mentioned? I googled it and got a video of a really cute dog!

Game designer Simple Andy...JIG has reviewed several of his games

Don't get your words crossed.

In my analysis, there's only one pattern that gives two common, English words. In fact, there's only one pattern that gives two words at all.

Is it perhaps tackled similarly to #1 ?

1/0, on/off, true/false

The re-arrangement of rows and columns was easy enough, but beyond that ...

That 3x5 grid at the bottom? You don't need to fill that with letters. What else could you use that thing for?

If you aren't getting anything from your decoder, try looking at it in a different way. Kinda like that optical illusion, with the vase and the faces? (If not, google it. :)

Those numbers aren't just labels. What else could they be used for?

That 3x5 grid at the bottom? You don't need to fill that with letters. What else could you use that thing for?

If you aren't getting anything from your decoder, try looking at it in a different way. Kinda like that optical illusion, with the vase and the faces? (If not, google it. :)

Those numbers aren't just labels. What else could they be used for?

I noticed that there are 15 spots in the grid and 15 words in the sentence. Is that at all important? Also, as far as optical illusions go, I got nada. It looks like a little dog with no legs and big tail!

Make sure your secret decoder ring is properly fenestrated.

Try to do what the beginning of the message says and see where you hit.

It helped when I copied it into gimp and moved the thing around.

The possible combinations are making me cross-eyed, although I think I've been able to rule out a small handful of possibilities.

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Some initial combinations don't work. Those are a little easier to rule out.

there are 24 possible combinations.
For further instructions, see #3.

Black is white. White is black.

You can make two versions of the viewfinder. Only one works!

Follow the instructions.

Black is white - no rotation necessary!

This warped puzzle might make you woof like a dog. Can you untangle this skein?

Keep an eye on which letters would appear in the answer if a square was placed in a given position and use process of elimination to figure out where each one should go. Order is important!

If you're going to actually cut up a piece of paper, you should go ahead and work in numerical order. But if you're going to do it by just writing each letter down, you'd best work in reverse.

You're not really weaving anything this time, but the result is similar.

Yes. Only the last seven letters are important, though.

Place the strips down, in the spaces indicated, in the order indicated. You can do this in a paint program.

...there are essentially 12,288 possible combinations, although the actual number is a tad less due to some letter duplication. That said, finding a solution doesn't have to be as daunting as that number would suggest. You certainly don't have to examine every single one of those combinations.

If you've gotten to #4, the methods you've had to use so far should indicate to you what you need to do to solve this one:

Simple suggestion: You don't have to solve both parts of the puzzle. Solve one part and see if the configuration you've used gives you an answer on the second part.

More complicated suggestion: Figure out what possible combinations there are and work through them systematically. When you choose a box to go in position #1, you know what the first letter of the across word has to be, and can narrow down the other letters.

Example: Suppose you put the "PATTONOSWALT" box in position #1; You know the first letter is going to have to be a P, but you also know that the last letter has to be an L or a T. If you assume it is a T, then the middle letter has to be either a T or an O. So you can ask yourself, "Is there a word that takes the form of "P??T??T" or "P??O??T"?

On top of that, since you've nailed down where two of the boxes go, you're left with fewer options for the remaining letters. The second letter can be A, R, or E, and the third letter can be T, S, or R. You don't have to check all nine combinations of those letters, because if the second letter is an R, the third letter can't be an S.

Supposing any of that made sense, your path of action is to choose a combination of boxes in positions 1 and 4, and see what possibilities exist for all the letters in between, which will be not quite so many as you think. If your possible combinations don't make a word, choose a different pair of boxes to start with and repeat the process.

made two templates from the lower grid: one with the white squares cut out, the other with the black squares cut out.

was a 6 letter word, with the letters in order.

Simply cut out the strips - vertical strips 1, 3, 5, and 6, horizontal strips 2, 4, and 7 - and place them on the grid, where indicated, in the order indicated. Vertical strip 1 goes down on the left first, followed by horizontal strip 2 across the top, and so forth...

I think we were supposed to put the boxes in the same order they appeared (bottom left goes in the bottom left area, etc...).

That way for the first and last letters there is only one possibility, and for the rest of the letters there are 2 possibilities and once you write it down you immediately see the answer.

There's no need to rotate

It's faster than trying all 24 possiblities by hand

weave the strips somehow, even though at least one previous hint said no weaving was involved.

Brute-force trial and error isn't difficult, just tedious and occasionally time-consuming.

fits together in 576 possible combinations (24 different positions of 1-4, and 24 different z-order placements top-to-bottom.) Of those, only 401 are unique. I coded up a small program to solve it by brute force, and also cut out the paper pieces to see the solution.