April 2020 - Magic

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LOCATION: OH, THE PLACES YOU’LL GO

  1. Fill in the 4-letter words in the blanks to complete the poem. What do they have in common and where do they differ?
  2. The word pairs differ in L or R for one thing or the other in 4 different letter positions.
  3. Use the Ls and Rs to draw a left/right path through the chart, first for Thing 1 and then for Thing 2. Read all 8 letters together for the answer.
  4. LITERACY

Green Eggs and Ham

  1. Find a trail from top to bottom through answers with HAM or colors.
  2. Read the starts of the off-trail answers, left-to-right, top-to-bottom to reveal where to find the letters in the answer.
  3. Abraham ends with M...
  4. MAGENTA PANCAKES

Crazy Creatures and Lands

  1. Separate the top puzzle into 6 separate things to solve or decode.
  2. Separate into a Ba:Modified, Nono, Sli and Crossword puzzles plus Semaphore and Braille encodings
  3. Each of the 6 squares decodes to a letter. Read them in the order of the name of the land.
  4. GRINCH

McBean Machines

  1. Each box is a machine with an input number and an output number. You can figure out outputs from inputs and sometimes inputs from outputs too!
  2. Start with the 19 in the bottom right and work your way back to the top input. Then use the 2 and the 13 to determine what boxes w, x, y, and z do.
  3. Once you have the numbers at the bottom, decode them into letters with A=1, B=2, etc.
  4. THINGAMAJIGS

Thing One and Thing Two

  1. NASSAU is the capital of The Bahamas. SAUNAS are hot rooms.
  2. NASSAU SAUNAS is a pair of words with the first half swapped with the second half.
  3. The final answer is another pair of 4 letter “words” with the same property, read from the gray squares in the grid from top to bottom.
  4. TAME META

Meta: Who’s Down in Whoville?

  1. What letters from the previous answers align with what symbols?
  2. Solve the cryptogram. Some punctuation may have symbols too!
  3. Questions often start with Who, What, Where, Why and end with “?”
  4. WHO’S FINISHED? YOU IS WHO

Bonus: Yertle the Turtle

  1. The “Cardboard container” and “Obese” clue answers are paired with each other.
  2. Find animal pairs with different paired starting sounds like BOX/FAT -> FOX/BAT
  3. Copy the numbered letters to the Party Location numbered spaces.
  4. SNEETCH BEACH