July 2025 - 15th Anniversary

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LOCATION: Title Track

  1. Can you figure out which summary goes with which title?
  2. “15: A Space Odyssey (10)” is a take-off of 2001: A Space Odyssey and it matches up with “Classic sci-fi movie in which Emperor Tiberius…”
  3. What do you think “index” refers to?
  4. What do you get when you index 10 into "Classic sci-fi movie in which Emperor Tiberius…"?
  5. Indexing by the matched numbers into each synopsis gives (in title order) IIGVNEHTFEBOE
  6. Can you think of a different way to sort these letters?
  7. Try sorting by increasing proper number – the number that actually belongs in each title.
  8. THE BIG ONE FIVE

Sliding Tiles

  1. There are 26 clues. The first word is ANT and the last word is ZONES. Does that give you any ideas about the remaining words?
  2. The first three answers are ANT BROWNIE CASES
  3. What do you notice about the “middle of each of these answers”?
  4. The middle letter of each is a compass direction: N, W, S for example for the first three words.
  5. The compass direction is not to be applied to any given tile. What is it to be applied to?
  6. The next eleven answers are: DWI END FEW GNU HEM / INCONSISTENCIES / JEWEL KIWI’S LEWIS / MARINATED NEW ONE
  7. The next twelve answers are: PHARMACEUTICALS / QUEST ROSIN SEWER / TYRANNOSAURUSES / USE VOWEL WRINKLE / XENON YAWNS ZONES
  8. Move the tiles so that the hole moves in these 26 sequential compass directions. How does the message read when you are finished?
  9. FOUR BY FOUR LESS ONE

Revolutions

  1. In what way are the three answers to each zoomed-in clue set "equal" to each other?
  2. The first zoomed in word set is HOOP HOP and POOH. What do you notice about them?
  3. HOOP HOP and POOH are all made from the same three letters: O, H and P.
  4. There are six clue sets in the top (zoomed-in) part of the puzzle and there are six window frames.
  5. The “O” is like a free space (in the sun symbol at the top of the window) but where do you see the other two letters: H & P?
  6. Given the word “night” and the 3x2 grids in each window frame, what code do you think might be used in this puzzle?
  7. If you circle the H and the P in the middle, right-hand window frame, what braille symbol does it portray?
  8. The middle right-hand frame corresponds with the braille symbol for “E.” Can you figure out what letters the other five window frames correspond with?
  9. The six letters for the window frames are in order (left to right, top to bottom): N P S E R I
  10. How might this larger 3x2 letter array now relate to the zoomed-out clues?
  11. First zoomed out answer for “Latte or Cortada ingredient” is ESPRESSO. What braille letter would that correspond with?
  12. Circling the E, S, P and R in the zoomed-out 3x2 array gives the braille symbol for T
  13. The answers to the zoomed out clues are in alphabetical order and can only contain O plus letters that appear in the zoomed out grid
  14. The next three answers and their corresponding braille symbol are: IRON = U, NEON = E, NERO = O
  15. TRIPS AROUND THE SUN

Unleash Your Solving Potential

  1. Look at the second bar. Do you see any patterns to the numbers: 1, 3, 5, 7, 9…?
  2. The second bar shows a series of odd numbers. Now can you find a review on the second page that might match up with this bar?
  3. The sixth review (“I couldn’t get over how odd it tasted.” Jade C.) corresponds with this bar containing odd numbers. How many more reviews can you match up with bars?
  4. One of the bars has to do with multiplying by 2. Can you figure out which bar it is? And which review?
  5. Another bar has to do (almost) with perfect square numbers: 1, 4, 9, 16… Can you figure out which bar it is? And which review?
  6. For the second bar, the reviewer was Jade C. and a star icon appears on one of the missing data squares. What number should be on that square?
  7. You should get 11 for the missing odd number beneath the star icon. Now why do you think you were told that Dr. Puzz seems a little “shifty?”
  8. What letter do you think you should shift and by what amount?
  9. For the second bar, shift Jade C by 11 to get the letter that goes where the star icons are in the solution – in the 18th and 20th spaces.
    • #1 (one less than perfect squares) Shift Yusef J by 8 to get R for the square icon = 10th and 17th letters.
    • #2 (odd numbers) Shift Jade C by 11 to get N for the star icon = 18th and 20th letters.
    • #3 (one less than powers of two) Shift James B by 3 to get E for the diamond icon = 3rd and 21st letters.
    • #4 (Roman numerals – kind of) Shift Hana W by 10 to get G for the corner icon = 11th letter
    • #5 (numbers containing the letter T) Shift Ayesha V by 12 to get H for the pacman icon = 2nd letter.
  11. THE BEST BAR GAME BAR NONE

Party Time

  1. Since each streamer is 15 tiles long, and since each streamer has a number in the middle, it must have seven tiles on one side of the number and seven tiles on the other.
  2. What do you notice about the color (gray or white) of the number tile and the colors of the possible end tiles that must be seven tiles away?
  3. If the number is on a gray tile, then the ends of that streamer must both be on white tiles, and vise-versa.
  4. Streamer #1 must have its one and only bend below the “1,” and that bend must go to the right. Which is the only letter that this streamer can end on?
  5. The other end of streamer #1 must be seven tiles directly above it.
  6. Streamer #1 must connect C & H
  7. Streamer #12 will need to have a bend at almost every opportunity. There are only two possible end tiles for streamer #12. Can you figure out which ones they are?
  8. Streamer #12 will zigzag back and forth all the way up to S, and all the way down to N
  9. Streamer #6 now only has two possible end tiles. Can you figure out which ones they are?
  10. Streamer #6 must connect to R on one side and L on the other.
  11. Streamer #2 has can either have ends at E above, to the left and A down and to the right OR up and over to N right beside it and straight down to E. Given the position of #11, which of these must be the correct ends for #2?
  12. Streamer #2 must connect E & A.
  13. Streamer #10 can only end on one letter to its left. Which letter is that?
  14. Streamer #10 has two possible endpoints to its right, but only one that won’t block in the other.
  15. Streamer #10 must connect O & G.
  16. Steamer #4 now has only two possible endpoints. Can you figure out how they are connected?
  17. Streamer #4 must connect E & E
  18. Steamer #11 has only two possible endpoints. Can you figure out how they are connected?
  19. Streamer #11 must connect N & U
  20. Steamer #8 now has only two possible endpoints. Can you figure out how they are connected?
  21. Streamer #8 must connect T & B
  22. Streamers #9 next, then #3, then #7.
  23. The streamer connections are N-11-U, T-8-B, E-9-I, R-6-L, A-2-E, V-3-L, A-7-L, S-12-N, C-1-H, E-4-E, B-5-A, 0-10-G.
  24. What would be a logical order to put these pairs in for the vertical solution grid?
  25. Which letter in each pair should be written in the first (left-most) space?
  26. CELEBRATIONS HAVE ALL BEGUN

META: A Toast

  1. What does the “I” in “PCI” stand for?
  2. Why do you think “15” is repeated four times?
  3. Indexing 15 into each of the four puzzle solutions gives: O S B V
  4. What comes to mind with “combination” “lock”?
  5. Combination locks usually have something round that you can rotate to the left and right. Do you have in your possession something like that?
  6. What happens when you place the cut out circle shape directly on the center circle?
  7. What is the first character in the lock combination?
  8. Try rotating the circle so the “O” in “COLD BREWZ” lines up with the black triangle. What do you think the two arrows indicate?
  9. Can you navigate through this portion of the circular maze so you enter at the enter arrow and exit at the exit arrow?
  10. SO LETS RAISE A PINT
  11. What is the next letter in the lock combination?
  12. SO LETS RAISE A PINT EVERYONE TO FIFTEEN YEARS OF PUZZLING FUN! (perhaps the longest meta solution in Puzzled Pint history!)

BONUS: 15 Candles

  1. Can you tell from the dislikes and likes what all the likes have in common on the first cake? What does the word “Gemini” bring to mind?
  2. Gemini = twin, and all the likes have in common that they come in twos. Can you find all the candles on this first cake that come in twos?
  3. Look at the other team names and likes and dislikes. Notice any other relationships?
  4. Recall that some of the candles are trick candles and cannot be blown out. What will that look like after an attempt at blowing them out?
  5. What code is associated with “off and on”?
  6. Do you think a lit candle would be a “1” or a “0”?
  7. Notice the decoration/piping on the sides of the cake – it seems to separate the 15 candles on each cake into groups of how many?
  8. If read left to right, the first cake, for example, would have candles in order. Out-lit-out-lit-out lit-out-lit-out-lit lit-out-out-lit-lit. What would this spell out in binary?
  9. JUS
  10. JUST ICING ON THE CAKE