“We are all faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as unsolvable problems.”
― John W. Gardner, American Educator

Greetings all,
I was working really hard to try to get together a really ambitious puzzle together for this week. Riddles, logic puzzles, a very little bit of wordplay, and as intricate a nested group of puzzles as I have ever written. However, despite my best efforts, its not quite done. I figure that there is nothing for it, but to put it off for a week. But it would be wrong to go a week without a puzzle. So here is this week's World Series.

The prizes this week are:
Pandemonium (http://store.steampowered.com/app/243020/)
Terrorhedron (http://store.steampowered.com/app/299720/)
Injustice: Gods Among Us Ultimate Edition (http://store.steampowered.com/app/242700/) and
Broken Sword 5 - the Serpent's Curse (http://store.steampowered.com/app/262940/)

This week's emergency fill-in puzzle is called World Series
First Part
Second Part
Third Part
Fourth and Final Part

Enjoy.
Mikalye

8 years ago*

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Corrections/Errata

  • BelltheCat found that there was an error with the word provided to prove that you had completed part 2 (Part 4 Question 2). This has now been fixed.
  • Gluramic Acid in P4/Q8 has been corrected to Glutamic Acid
  • BelltheCat noted that Part 4/Question 8 has had an error. It has been edited to remove ambiguity. Then Narini, observed that my fix to BelltheCat's observation, was in fact wrong. It has been fixed again, correctly this time.
  • Chour noticed that Ecuador was misspelled in P2Q2. The spelling has been fixed.

Hints

For Mikalye's Second Tricksy Riddle - This is seven

Solutions

Note: Each solution is separately hidden, so you can see only the ones you want while leaving the rest obscured.

Part 1

Q1: 1, 4, 9, 16, 25, 36, 49,64, 81 (Perfect Squares)
Q2: alpha, beta, gamma, delta, epsilon, zeta, eta (Greek alphabet)
Q3: B, C, D, F, G, H, J, K, L, M, N, P (Consonants in the English language)
Q4: Aries, Taurus, Gemini, Cancer, Leo, Virgo, Libra, Scorpio (Signs of the Western zodiac)
Q5: 145, 230, 315, 400, 445, 530, 615, 700 (Times in 45 minute intervals)
Q6: Mercury, Mars, Venus, Earth, Neptune, Uranus, Saturn (The planets in size order)
Q7: 1, 4, 1, 5, 9, 2, 6, 5, 3 (The digits of pi after the decimal point)
Q8: Mexico City, Munich, Montreal, Moscow, Los Angeles, Seoul, Barcelona (Host Cities of the Summer Olympic Games)
Q9: R, O, Y, G, B, I, V (Colours of the Rainbow)
Q10: Delaware, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Georgia, Connecticut, Massachusetts, Maryland, South Carolina (US States in the order that they joined the union)

Part 2

Q1: Das, Dan, Pra, Vix, Com, Cup, Don, Bli (From the poem "The Night Before Christmas" "Come Dasher, come Dancer, come Prancer and Vixen. On Comet, on Cupid, on Donder and Blitzen" (which are Santa's reindeer)
Q2: Columbia, Ecuador, Peru, Chile, Argentina, Uruguay, Brazil (The coastline of South America)
Q3: 50, 33, 25, 20, 16, 14, 12, 11, 10 (First two digits after the decimal point when each number is written as a fraction (actually the multiplicative inverse), Hence 2 becomes ½ or .50, 3 becomes 1/3 or .33 and so on)
Q4: A, T, G, C, L, V, L, S (Signs of the Zodiac. This is the same question as Part 1, Q4, and I was wondering if anyone would notice)
Q5: H, H, L, B, B, C, N, O, F, N (First letters of the chemical elements)
Q6: 1, 15, 1510, 151050, 151050100, 151050100500, 1510501005001000 (numbers for which there are discrete Roman letter numerals, concatenated)
Q7: Z, O, T, T, F, F, S, S, E, N, T, E (Zero, One, Two, Three, etc.)
Q8: 52, 63, 94, 46, 18, 001 (The perfect squares with their digits reversed (see Part 1, Q1))
Q9: Y2, G3, B4, B5, P6, B7 (The colours and values of the balls in snooker)
Q10: Sudan, South Sudan, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi, Tanzania, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Zambia, Zimbabwe (The path south along 30degrees longitude)

Part 3

Q1: 8, 12, 14, 18, 20, 24, 30, 32, 38, 42, 44 (integers that immediately follow prime numbers)
Q2: A, H, I, M, O, T, U, V, W (Letters with vertical symmetry when written in upper case)
Q3: F1, B16, JP2, JP1, P6, J23, P12, P11, B15, SP10, L13, P9, G16, P8 (The popes in reverse chronological order; with letters standing in for names, so JP2 is John Paul II)
Q4: 3, 3, 5, 4, 4, 3, 5, 5, 4, 3, 6, 6, 8, 8 (The number of letters in the English words for the counting numbers, starting with ONE (3), TWO (3), THREE (5), etc.)
Q5: W, A, J, M, M, A, J, J, V, H, T, P, T (First letters of the surnames of the American presidents)
Q6: A, E, H, I, K, L, M, N, O, P, U (The letters in the Hawaiian alphabet)
Q7: F, S, T, F, F, S, S, E (“First, Second, Third, Fourth,etc.”)
Q8: E, T, I, A, N, M, S, U ,R, W, D, K, G, O, H, V (letters sorted by their international Morse code representations)
Q9: 2, 10, 18, 36, 54, 86 (The atomic numbers of the noble gasses in chemistry)
Q10: 16, 8, 11, 14, 9, 12, 5, 20, 1, 18 (The numbers around a standard dartboard moving counterclockwise)

Part 4

Q1: Cabbage (From Solving Part 1)
Q2: Violet (From Solving Part 2)
Q3: Wingnut (From Solving Part 3)
Q4: h, b, t, y, h, b, t, y, h, b, d (First letters of the words in "Happy Birthday to you")
Q5: Men, Millionaire, Locker, Speech, Artist, Argo, Slave (The last word in the title of consecutive Best Picture Oscar winners)
Q6: J, J, A, S, O, N, D (First letters of the months of the year)
Q7: 101, 112, 131, 415, 161, 718, 192, 021 (The commas break this up oddly, but its 10, 11, 12, 13, etc.)
Q8: Alanine, Cysteine, Aspartic Acic, Glutamic Acid, Phenylalanine, Glycine, Histidine, Isoleucine, Lysine (Yes, simple alphabetical order of the codons Ala/A, (There is no B), Cys/C, Asp/D, Glu/E, Phe/F, Gly/G, His/H, Ile/I, (There is no J), Lys/K)
Q9: Connery, Lazenby, Connery, Moore, Dalton, Brosnan, Craig (Actors who have portrayed James Bond)
Q10: Rooster, Dog, Pig, Rat, Ox, Tiger, Rabbit, Dragon, Snake (Animals of the Chinese Zodiac)

8 years ago*
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This is my eighteenth (or possibly nineteenth) puzzle of 2016 after:
17th Seeing Things from Every Angler
16th Shaggy Dogs
15th Just Follow Directions
14th A Short Excerpt from a Longer Work
13th Listen Up
12th Analogy Chains
11th Phoney Numbers
10th Mommy, Where do I come from?
9th Let me make myself perfectly clear
8th Simple addition
7th A list of words
6th As Easy as ABC
5th Movie Stargazing
4th Queens Play
3rd Keep Your Distance
2nd Hunting Lie and Hoe
1st Mixed Bag - [Not linked and now closed as I will reuse part of this in a later puzzle]
0th History of Computer Role-Playing Games

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"Word from Completing Part 2"
Is this missing or have I overlooked something?

Also, for Part 4, Q8 "Alanine, Cysteine, Aspartic Acic, Gluramic Acid, Glycine"
Should it be [something else - removed to avoid confusion]?

8 years ago*
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The word for completing part 2 was damaged. I am not sure how. Very strange, but it is back now.

I will edit 4/8 to fix the question and remove the ambiguity.

8 years ago*
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Thank you, bump for solved now!

8 years ago
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Enjoying this one, but Q7 Part One....so yeah, stuck, stuck solid :)

8 years ago
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Hmmm.... You probably have seen this sequence before. It sounds like you should relax. Put your feet up. Grab a piece of pie and think.

8 years ago
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thanks. Do you post the answers once the puzzle is done?

8 years ago
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Almost always, and I will on this one. Think about what my previous hint is saying. It Sounds Like something to consider.

8 years ago
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Just a question on the example of Part 1. You do realize different cultures form different letters differently, right? So for me, the order of the example: "M, N, B, D, P, T" doesn't quite work. I use the the lips to form B and P, so they would both be furthest out. And then we have missing letters, such as V and Z that are both quite far out, and could easily be place within the order mentioned.

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An excellent point. Tough there is nothing as tricky as that example in the actual puzzle, but I may make some changes to the text to make this clearer.

8 years ago
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145, 230, 315, 400, 445, 530... should be 145, 230, 315, 400, 485, 570.. isn't it?

8 years ago
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Nope.

8 years ago
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Hmm, the shift from 400 to 445 seems to be out of place here (taking into account the answer).

Edit. Ok, looking at the hint it's all right :) Heh.

8 years ago*
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Bump. Only P4Q8 left.
The obvious answer doesn't seem to work. :c

8 years ago
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I'm stuck on the same. Not sure if there's a typo. o.O

8 years ago
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I will check, and possibly alter P4/Q8 if needed.

Edit: I have altered it. And there was a typo, but not in the answers. Glutamic Acid (Glu/E) was mis-written Gluramic Acid

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I was able to solve it after the latest change, but isn't the currently accepted solution still skipping over a term in the sequence?

8 years ago
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No, there is no B.

8 years ago
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No, I mean it skips K.

8 years ago
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{Expletive Deleted}. You are correct. This was correct until I added Histidine to fix the ambiguity that BelltheCat noted, so my attempt to make it clearer broke the puzzle. Sigh. Fixed again.

8 years ago
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The puzzle was still solve-able with that small mistake, but judging by the leaderboard, it was somewhat of a bottleneck. Thanks again for putting all of this together, and for being so active in this thread.

8 years ago
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Solved! Thank you.

8 years ago
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I'm, stuck on P3Q5. I don't know what can it be

8 years ago
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I did give a fairly strong hint on this one below.

8 years ago
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Sequence bump!

View attached image.
8 years ago
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Solved! the one with the roman numbers took me soooo long

8 years ago
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I'm confused on P2Q10. It's the only one I have left to solve. Duh!

I love these! Some of them had me chuckling :-) Thanks for this!

8 years ago*
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1 solved ^^
Others are still in progress

8 years ago
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stuck on P3Q5,too bad I'm not an American... ;_;

8 years ago
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Hint on P3Q5: As the aliens are so likely to say, "Take me to your leader"

8 years ago
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Thanks for the generous hint !! :D

8 years ago
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You are very welcome.

8 years ago
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Stuck on P3Q3 and P3Q8 on my first run..
Will come back later after clearing my head.. >.>

Anyway yet another interesting puzzle from you.. :D

8 years ago
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Bump 4 solved

8 years ago
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I solved everything except P3Q3, and I understand at least one other person is having trouble with that question, too. May we have a hint please?

8 years ago
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Hint on P3Q3: These are Roman Numerals. Literally, they are in Rome

8 years ago
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Got it, thanks!

8 years ago
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Bump for solved
Thank you :D

8 years ago
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In P2Q2 'Columbia, Equador' shouldn't be 'Colombia, Ecuador'? :)

8 years ago
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Of course. I will add this to the errata above and I will correct the puzzle.

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Bump! Thanks for the puzzles :)

8 years ago
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Thanks a lot for the puzzles. Stuck on P3Q8 though.

8 years ago
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Hint on P3Q8: The hint is right. It is some form of code. But what code could it be?

8 years ago
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Got them all, thanks a lot!

8 years ago
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And bumpy for complete.

8 years ago
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Bump for fully solved and thanks for another week of fun! I am now officially a master sequencer and will patitiently wait for my certificate to arrive in the mail. :)

8 years ago
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But as we discovered in my Shaggy Dogs puzzle, the Czech is in the male.

8 years ago
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phew, finally. I've become a master sequencer =D

8 years ago
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Bump for solved!!

8 years ago
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Roughly 24 hours to go.

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