#hint hotline

[welcomeinitiate]

The Hint Hotline is open!

Please send a message with the puzzle you’re requesting a hint on, everything you’ve tried, as well as a link to a google sheets with any puzzle notes if you have one.

For now, limit the request to one puzzle. The hints will refresh tomorrow, we just want to make sure we answer everyone’s requests in a timely fashion.

We also want to confirm—you will never need to guess on an ordering. Either clues / answers are in the order they need to be in OR you have the information you need to sort them. If you need to sort anything, the data will be in alphabetical order. As an example, round 1 puzzle titles are alphabetized, so you’ll need to sort the answers for the meta in some way based on information from the puzzles.

Finally, if you joined the Puzzled Pint stream, make sure to redeem your free answer!

And now, here’s a hint on Recipe Substitution to get you started:

The first transformation “yellow” undergoes is to two letters. The second transformation is to three letters. The next two transformations will be six and five letters, respectively. You can check each transformation with the answer checker.

[halfbakedhotchkiss]

can we take a moment to acknowledge how shitty the hint hotline hints were?? like if you pressed "Finding the Key" the hint would literally just be "look around for a key". okay!! thanks!! never thought of that!!!

[writeranon]

it's either state the obvious or give you the entire solution to the problem. there's no in between with hint hotline.