#metapuzzle

[oneefin]

learned about this cute set of puzzles written by projectyl called owl things considered today. it's quite nice and beginner friendly - maybe a tiny bit harder than a puzzled pint, but still very approachable. it's comprised entirely of metapuzzles, so it makes good practice for a type of puzzle that's usually really difficult

link goes to the copyable google sheet if you want to try it!

[ravenpuzzles]

METApuzzle: D&D

[Link to Hunt Masterpost]

Five adventurers bravely set forth to defeat a dragon!

Turn 1: The Artificer summons his steel companion with 8 HP.

Turn 2: The Cleric casts detect evil with a +3 modifier, and rolls an 5.

Turn 3: Seeing the enemy draw near, the Bard unleashes vicious mockery, dealing 7 damage.

Turn 4: The Barbarian activates her rage, and deals 9 damage, with a +2 modifier.

Turn 5: The Rogue dashes forward and deals a sneak attack, rolling 9 on the extra dice.

Turn 6: The Artificer fires a steam-powered cannon blast for 4 damage.

Turn 7: The Cleric viciously casts “Toll the Dead”, which only deals 3 damage.

Turn 8: The Bard’s cunning vocabulary is used once more, as they force the enemy to re-roll to a 7.

Turn 9: The Barbarian’s reckless animal fighting style deals 10 damage, but punishes her with a -1 modifier to her defense.

Turn 10: The Rogue pursues the last strike with an intelligent maneuver, finishing off 11 crossbow damage plus his +4 modifier.

(5, 1, 4)

[Check your answer HERE!]

[ravenpuzzles]

HUNT Masterpost: Bored of Games...

Stuck at your parent's house in the rain and looking for something to do, you find a closet full of board games and decide to pull a few out...

This was a puzzle set I wrote for a public event a couple months ago, that has been tweaked and edited slightly to post publicly here! No prizes, no competition, just good clean puzzling fun. Difficulty is Intermediate, for sure. Some puzzles do have an important visual (image-based) element or two, but they should be colorblind-friendly (please message me if they aren't.)

Mysterium -- [Here!]

Scrabble -- [Here!]

Ticket to Ride -- [Here!]

Trivial Pursuit -- [Here!]

Werewolf -- [Here!]

META: Dungeons & Dragons -- [Here!]

HINTS & Solutions -- [Here!]

[flatluigi]

december metapuzzle thoughts

so, what next? metapuzzles are always a bit of an odd duck, especially when you’ve got an unclued one like the one we’ve got right now. we know that the four answers are definitely part of it, so let’s look at those, first:

SCHMEAR

ORLANDO

OAKLAND

INFLICT

it’s a bit hard to notice in this variable-width font, but each of these are seven letter words - something that seems to support that you’re going to use the words themselves. My gut tells me that “MALL” might be the answer, as it’s vaguely thematic to the month and it’s the four middle letters of each word in order, plus it fits the rigors of decent puzzle construction in that it’s not solvable with only three of the four answers. It’s a bit simple, though, and could be trash data being noisy and making an incorrect answer appear out of nowhere.

The next step would be to look at the puzzles themselves and see if there are any connecting threads, unused information, or odd details that could be used in a metapuzzle (and this is how a lot of metapuzzles in bigger events like the MIT Mystery Hunt tend to work), but casting an eye on the previous puzzles leads me to think that this is not the case for this puzzle -- there’s no unused data (and it’s poor design to reuse the same data for multiple disparate steps to a puzzle) and the text on each puzzle specifically spells out that “the four answers form a metapuzzle.” Unless I’m completely wrong with my previous guess of MALL, it’s not worth yet to look elsewhere with that in mind.

[carvedhq]

In May 2009, J.J. Abrams guest edited the Meta Puzzle edition of Wired. Abrams was about to release his take on a beloved sci-fi franchise. So, this seemed like a highly logical way to pass the time.

Sound familiar?

In honor of Abrams and his upcoming take on another beloved sci-fi franchise, we at Carved want to share with you our own meta-puzzle this Cyber Monday.

Throughout Cyber Monday we'll release six puzzles via email and our website. The first person to correctly complete these puzzles will take home a one-of-a-kind Carved prize pack.  Visit us at www.carved.com for more information. 

[meta-net]

A puzzle of puzzlers puzzling. 

[wackywikipedia]

A metapuzzle is a puzzle that unites several puzzles that feed into it. For example, five puzzles that had the answers BLACK, HAMMER, FROST, KNIFE, and UNION would lead to the metapuzzle answer JACK, which combines with all of those words to make new words and phrases. A "meta-meta" unites several metapuzzles. So if that metapuzzle answer JACK was alongside three metapuzzles with the answers TEN, QUEEN, and ACE, the meta-meta answer would be KING, the remaining card in an ace high straight.

On the Wikipedia page for Metapuzzle.

[shanespuzzles]

Metapuzzle

The metapuzzle is the true test of your puzzling power. This is where we find out who comes in first, who's second, and who's dead last.

This puzzle consists of the answers to the other 11 puzzles.

(Check answer by Tumblr or email. I don't check this Tumblr account very often, so you're much better off checking by email.)

Winners:

1. Marshall Mullins & Jamar Gaddis

2. Sumaiya

3. Zatch

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