2.02 Core Dump 2
Contents
- 1 Order
- 2 Status
- 3 Location Status
- 4 GC Point of Contact
- 5 Location Notes
- 6 Type
- 7 Plot Setup
- 8 Props
- 9 Plot Point to Convey
- 10 Short Description
- 11 Detailed Description
- 12 Puzzle Answer
- 13 Puzzle Solution
- 14 Budget
- 15 Credits
- 16 Manager
- 17 Hints
- 18 Response to Correct Answer
- 19 To Do
- 20 Other Notes
Order
2.02
Status
::MOCKUP::
Location Status
Reserved
GC Point of Contact
Erik & Melissa
Location Notes
Prof. Chronus's laboratory
Type
Mandatory Puzzle
Plot Setup
Prof. Chronus is bouncing around the timeline and needs help to return. Machine is malfunctioning. Doctor When suggests reading the core dump (as in Part 1).
Props
Plot Point to Convey
The problem with the machine is that the "quantum chronomentometer" is all screwed up. Luckily Doctor When is an expert in such matters--he did his dissertation on the topic. Moreover, he's not surprised that Prof. Chronus screwed it up; she never was any good at memtometry, going all the way back to high school.
Short Description
Teams receive the "core dump" from the time machine, and try to figure out why it's broken.
Detailed Description
In contrast to Act I's Core Dump puzzle, a set of apple cores are presented as a pun on the phrase "core dump". The solution to puzzle points toward the quantum chronomentometer as the problem.
Players arrange a jigsaw puzzle of apple core shapes, guided by some ASCII-art printouts, to reveal a plain-text message.
Puzzle Answer
GREAT SCOTT BAD QUANTUM CHRONOMENTOMETER
Puzzle Solution
Group the puzzle pieces by color. They anagram to the following words, each with one letter missing:
- Red: HE(A)RT MONITOR
- Orange: BAS(S)OON
- Yellow: (S)QUID
- Green: ROCKING HORS(E)
- Teal: (M)UTANT
- Blue: HONEYCOM(B)
- Indigo: BATT(L)E AXE
- Purple: COMMENC(E)MENT
There is an ASCII image for each word, to help solve the anagrams.
The missing letters, in rainbow order, spell "ASSEMBLE"
Orient the pieces so the letters are all facing the normal way, then connect them such that the lines drawn on each tile flow from the first letter to the last. Diagonals are allowed, and may cross each other, Boggle-style (in a nice parallelism with the sister puzzle from Act I).
Assemble the colored multi-tile shapes into a regular rectangle. Ignore the border letters; the remaining ones spell the final message:
GREAT SCOTT BAD QUANTUM CHRONOMENTOMETER
Budget
Credits
Manager
David Greenspan
Hints
Response to Correct Answer
?
To Do
- Print ASCII art
- Laser cut new tiles
