November 2020 - Scooby Doo

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Location Puzzle

  1. Filling in the clues will lead to specific letters in the pawprints.
  2. All the answers will have L or R in the pawprints.
  3. The answers are: LEASH, BALLOON, RIVER, ZEBRA, PLANET, JOKER, TREE, SILVER, FIRE, and WHEEL.
  4. At each intersection, turn Left or Right based on the letter in the next pawprint.
  5. Read the letters along the path to get the final answer.
  6. TO THE GREATEST DANE

Puzzle 1

  1. The unscrambled words are all foods.
  2. The remaining letters drop down, in their columns to spell a message.
  3. PARTIAL SOLUTION: The message is 6ELTA, 3SCAR, 1IERRA, 2ANGO, 5CHO, 4OVEMBER
  4. Figure out which letters are missing and order them by the digit replacing it.
  5. STONED

Puzzle 2

  1. This is a logic puzzle. A good place to start is the bottom middle grey circle (8).
  2. Once you have the path, note that each grey circle has two lines.
  3. "Shady signals" is a hint for how to decode.
  4. Use semaphore to decode the circles, reading left to right and top to bottom.
  5. FRIGHTCAP

Puzzle 3

  1. Once the sudoku is complete, there is a message about the next step.
  2. The top line reads "Shade in the QS".
  3. Once you have shaded in the circles with "QS" you'll need to decode the message.
  4. Use braille to decode the message.
  5. WHINER

Puzzle 4

  1. Each of the words is in one of two groups. Each group has some common letters.
  2. "Dash" and "dot" in the flavortext indicate that you should be looking for those letters.
  3. The words are DONATE, TENDON, TRIPOD, DASHED, RADISH, DANISH, STUDIO, MASHED, DOCTOR, OLDEST, HYDRAS, DOCENT, DONUTS, APHIDS, and DOTTED.
  4. Replace each of the 15 words with a dash or a dot, depending on what letters it contains.
  5. Each room will translate to a letter.
  6. For ordering: follow the path going clockwise from the room containing word D.
  7. TSUNAMI

Meta

  1. Use the previous puzzle answers to fill in the top blanks.
  2. Following the logic and using the (v)owel and (c)onsonant restrictions at the bottom, fill in the blanks below.
  3. SHIFT MINUS NINE
  4. Shift the given letters back nine spaces.
  5. THE SISTER DID IT

Bonus

  1. Notice that Scooby's answers are missing letters from the actual word(s), and they are occasionaly replaced with Rs.
  2. Write down the missing letters.
  3. The words are SHIPYARD, AGREED, GARGOYLE, YEAH, DAPHNE, ORANGUTAN, GAS STATION, ORIGINAL GANGSTA, and YEAH
  4. Read the letters top to bottom.
  5. SHAGGY DOG STORY