September 2026 - Orchestra

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Location - TOUR BUS

  1. "Log cabin" and "animal cracker" are both two-word phrases formed from sequential road signs
  2. What's a word that comes after "cabin" to mean claustrophobia / restlessness?
  3. Can you place other words in the sequence to form more well-known two word phrases?
  4. Look at the highlighted letters in each word, and read downwards
  5. FLAT TYRE

BRASS

  1. All of the clues have 6-letter answers
  2. Can you spell each the answers using the letters in the trumpet somehow?
  3. Each word can be spelt using a vowel, plus either the top or bottom letter at each junction
  4. The path used for each word can be turned into binary
  5. PIPE DREAMS

PERCUSSION

  1. Start by trying to identify the name of the stork based on clues about the birds' actions
  2. Various birds talk to or about Skylar, and therefore cannot be called Skylar
  3. Track the path of the glockenspiel to the end to identify which bird is called Elio
  4. Chicken is Skylar, Flamingo is Daisy, Dollarbird is Elio, Stork is Ignatius
  5. Once all the birds are identified, follow the steps to see which bird ends up with each instrument
  6. Make notes exactly as the conductor does for each bird to spell the answer out
  7. FIDDLESTICKS

WOODWINDS

  1. Can you spot a common feature across all of the answers to the "intended note full of breath"?
  2. All of the intended notes contain the word AIR
  3. The intended notes are CAIRO, FLAIR, STAIRS, CAIRN, REPAIR, AIRING, PAIRED, HAIRY, CHAIRS, AIRMAN, FAIRY
  4. Can you somehow pair each sour note with one intended note?
  5. Each sour note out of the flute has the word AIR in the intended note replaced with a different 3-letter word
  6. The pairings are CAIRO-CHICO, FLAIR-FLOWN, STAIRS-STATES, CAIRN-CLOWN, REPAIR-REPEAT, AIRING-HOPING, PAIRED-PRIMED, HAIRY-HONEY, CHAIRS-CHEATS, AIRMAN-ICEMAN, FAIRY-FERRY
  7. Looking at the three letter "errors", you need to identify which letter of the error is the one to focus on
  8. Use the position of the error at the start, middle or the end of the word to pick the corresponding letter position within each error
  9. C(AIR)O-C(HIC)O has the error in the middle of the word, so extract the middle letter in HIC -> I. FL(AIR)-FL(OWN) has the error at the end of the word, so extract the end letter in OWN -> N. etc.
  10. INTO THIN AIR

STRINGS

  1. Start by blocking out the lines labelled "0", as no string can travel down these
  2. Both the lines with "6" are only missing a single string segment across the whole line
  3. Due to the nature of the tuning pegs, strings cannot make two left turns in a row or two right turns in a row.
  4. Focus on completing the path of the solid string first
  5. Read the letters in the cells with tuning pegs from top to bottom
  6. A BIT STRUNG OUT

Meta: PERFORMANCE

  1. There are 4 musical staffs and 4 feeder answers, so try to match each answer to a staff
  2. The third staff down has a repeated note in the 3rd and 4th position, like just one of the feeder answers
  3. Each different note corresponds to a letter in the alphabet
  4. Read the letters of the notes only on the main staff (in the 5 lines)
  5. SOUND BITE

Bonus: REVIEWS

  1. Each of the given words appears in the grid
  2. Look in the grid around the words you've found, do you spot anything?
  3. MESSY on the right hand side overwrites the A of the word MAJESTIC
  4. Find all the words that have been drowned out by the given ones.
  5. Read the letters that have been overwritten in the wordsearch, in order of the clues at the bottom.
  6. BACH LASH