1.11.03 Particle Zoo

Order

1.07.05

Status

::PROTO::

Location Status

Done Deal

GC Point of Contact

Allen

Location Notes

Smith Clock Co.

Type

Optional Puzzle

Plot Setup

When Doctor When had his "incident" at the Big Bang, he somehow ignited a proliferation of new elementary particles, and the lab assistants are worried that the time machine isn't tuned correctly to account for these - they need the players' help to figure out the theoretical approach that will help them "manage" these new particles.

Props

Paper printouts of the particles, plus a one-page intro.

Plot Point to Convey

The players have found out the theoretical approach to managing the particles, thus allowing the lab assistants to correctly adjust the time machine.

Short Description

Players need to classify a large number of "particles" (similar images).

Detailed Description

Players receive a printout with 23 columns of images, and need to classify those images into sets. Having done so, they figure out letters for each set, which they then must figure out how to order correctly in order to read the final message.

How To Give To Teams

Handed out by lab assistant at Smith Clock Repair.

Puzzle Answer

CHRONOZOIC SPACETIME FIELD THEORY

Puzzle Solution

1) Players receive pages with columns of images. These images belong to 30 "groups", such as peace signs, balls, and moons.

2) Players must figure out what the groups are, and the order of the groups. The order is consistent in every column, but each column only contains images from some of the groups.

3) The order of the columns is as follows. (Exact names don't matter.)

Lamp

Star

Peace sign

Triangle

Christmas ornament

Dial or gauge

No smoking sign

Hole

Globe or Earth

Asterisk

Ball

Exclamation point

Trivial Pursuit piece

Red circle

Black & yellow travel sign

Face

Ancient coin

Screw

Keyhole

Clock

Handicapped emblem

Dog

Bolt

Moon

Arrow

Green circle

Pizza logo

Sun

Shower holes (may be mistaken for phone speaker holes or something similar)

Blue & white food/drink sign

4) Next, write down the column numbers that each symbol group appears in. For instance, the lamp appears in columns 3, 5, 15, 15, 20, and 25. (This includes appearing twice in column 15.)

5) Column numbers become letters (1=A, 2=B, etc.) For instance, the letters for the lamp group are C, E, O, O, T, Y.

6) Each group's letters anagram to the name of an animal (e.g., the lamp group anagrams to COYOTE). The animals are:

Lamp - COYOTE

Star - HORNET

Peace sign - RABBIT

Triangle - OCELOT

Christmas ornament - NUTRIA

Dial or gauge - OSPREY

No smoking sign - ZEBRAS

Hole - ORIOLE

Globe or Earth - IGUANA

Asterisk - COUGAR

Ball - SQUIDS

Exclamation point - PIGEON

Trivial Pursuit piece - ALPACA

Red circle - CAIMAN

Black & yellow travel sign - EAGLES

Face - TURTLE

Ancient coin - IMPALA

Screw - MAGPIE

Keyhole - ERMINE

Clock - FERRET

Handicapped emblem - INSECT

Dog - EGRETS

Bolt - LIZARD

Moon - DUGONG

Arrow - TOUCAN

Green circle - HERONS

Pizza logo - EARWIG

Sun - OYSTER

Shower holes - RODENT

Blue & white sign - YORKIE

7) The first letters of each animal, in order, give CHRONOZOIC SPACETIME FIELD THEORY, the answer.

Manager

David Greenspan

Response to Correct Answer

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To Do

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