#huntinality

[oneefin]

finished huntinality 3! whew what a great time

our super small super casual team "huh?" consists of me, @nivrad00, and @lunacyecho. we had fun!

i'll do a writeup of at least one puzzle from it sometime - there were many great moments in there for me. for now here's a screenshot of our spreadsheet's landing page (contains hunt spoilers)

[renewherself]

Huntinality III: Hunts Upon a Time

Link's Final Stand

- Identified the sell prices as indicators of word length for the rebus solutions (rupee number divided by 100) and attack power as the numbers for indexing - Identified rebuses for CAPRICE, DISCOVERED, EARNEST, GENERATING, TENANTS, and THINKING - Identified mechanic where the solutions to the rebuses were the ways to defeat the various Ganondorf forms (as their sort-of opposites)

Into the Woods [Meta]

- Identified "SEE THE KING" as a possible candidate for an unsolved feeder puzzle and caught an oversight where "SELL THE COW" had two possible slots where it could fit and had been inserted into the wrong one

Missing Members

- Identified the extraction method: use ROYGBIV ordering for the colors associated with each substring and read the first letters of the substrings

Around the World

- Identified 8/12 of the video games - Identified 30/45 of the locations, characters, items, and objectives clued - Figured out the ordering method for extraction: order by video game release year - Figured out the question being asked, clued by the extracted phrase GIANT SPARROW, was WHAT REMAINS OF EDITH FINCH, and the answer and final puzzle answer was FINCH

Weaving

- Figured out the clues "Process which breaks on reordering" and "In rock is ore" were a pair and had to be interwoven together to produce the cryptic crossword clue "PROCESS IN WHICH ROCK BREAKS IS ON ORE REORDERING" and the answer "EROSION"

Creatures [Meta]

- Figured out that each letter of the alphabet only appeared once in the first halves of the clues, as indicated by the flavor text, which was an altered version of "The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog" - Figured out that the answers to the clues needed to be paired with the feeders to produce the name of a specific animal species, e.g. + (Animal/coloration descriptor) ZEBRA + FINCH + (Autonomous prefecture) CHUXIONG + FIRE-BELLIED NEWT - Figured out the answer to the clue "Headgear descriptor" was CASQUED to pair with the feeder OROPENDOLA

What's Next?

- Solo-solved, including figuring out that the solutions to the rebuses all appeared in the lyrics to the Billy Joel song "We Didn't Start the Fire" and indexing into the item that occurs next in the list in the song

Are You The One?

- Figured out the clues indicated wordplay that revealed which letters each person wanted to see in their perfect match's name, including: + Match who appreciates a good kayak or racecar and loves their mom is AVA + Someone who can drive them around is GIOVANNI + Partner who follows a straight edge lifestyle is HEATH + Match who will sit down and rest after adding a man to their life is OTTO + Partner who knows all the right angles for pictures is ELLIE

How Many Reps?

- For the Chinese Zodiac subpuzzle, figured out that the clues "VASTLY POWERFUL," "VEER ONTO A TANGENT," and "DON'T RUSH" belonged to this category with the respective answers of "STRONG AS AN OX," "DOWN A RABBIT HOLE," and "HOLD YOUR HORSES" - Also figured out the extraction method for this subpuzzle: indexing the place of each animal in the Chinese Zodiac into each associated clue phrase to get WALRUSSIA

Candies and Stories

- Identified the altered fairy tale titles "THE FOG AND THE SPARROW," "THE RUBBER BRIDEGROOM," and "THE WOLF AND THE KITS"

Keep Out

- Determinedly (teammates spectated me continuing to solve this puzzle even after the last meta had been solved) solo-solved (except for places where my math was corrected by teammates because sleep deprivation caused me to forget everything I knew about PEMDAS), including: + Creating a comprehensive map of the text adventure game in Google Sheets + Identifying the chemical compounds used as ingredients + Figuring out the two ingredients needed for each colored cauldron had to be related to a real life compound that causes fire to change to that color...and then proceeding to brute force the ingredients because I was very tired and thought that would be easier than just looking up the compounds in question + Figuring out the signs being described in the text adventure game were GHS hazard pictograms based on the text in the first room that says, "DANGER: Gruesome Horrific Science inside." + Figuring out each set of secret rooms represented the NFPA fire diamond for the chemical compounds used to unlock the rooms

[oneefin]

huntinality 3 is on my todo list but due to time constraints i'm not doing it live this time around. so i'll be posting about it much later

instead i'll probably be talking about confounding calendar, which starts today