Tap on any hint box to view it.
Location
- The flavor text is odd... perhaps there is a hidden message?
- Look at the first word of each line to get an instruction
- Focus on the dog ratings
- Extract the Nth letter of each fifth word, where N is the corresponding number of black dogs
- the ratings by tail wag -> TAIL WAG
Dog Bones
- This is a version of a mine sweeper game
- The mines should look like a standard encoding
- Use Braille
- NEW TRICKS
Dog Walk
- First, find the one location where length-5 BOLT can be
- Second, find where WATSON must be and the column where JASMINE and JUNEBUG must be, using the numbers and Rule 3
- Third, find the columns where BUCKY and HARPER must be, then work out the exact positions of all of the dogs
- The dog order is Bolt,Watson,Harper, Bucky, Houdini,Jasmine, Junebug
- Index into the dog names based on their order in the path
- The first two letters are BA
- BARKING
Dog Smarts
- Each answer is 3 or 4 letters long
- The answers for each grid are in alphabetical order
- The center square in each grid is shared by the middle two across and the middle two down answers
- RAIN
Dog Toys
- Look at the other puzzles for some help
- Most of the breeds to be found are mentioned in other puzzles
- Read the remaining letters "LETTERS OF BALL IN EACH SQUARE'S BOTTOM HALF SHOULD BE READ AS SEMAPHORE. GET A BASEBALL. NOW GO PLAY BALL."
- Find the letters B, A, and L in the bottom letters of each square. Then connect them and read them as semaphore letters to get the final answer.
- SLEEPING
Meta
- You will get 4 common phrases about dogs
- The 4 phrases are:
CAN'T TEACH AN OLD DOG NEW TRICKS
LET SLEEPING DOGS LIE
BARKING UP THE WRONG TREE
RAINING CATS AND DOGS
- GONE TO THE DOGS
Bonus
- Every name in the list is an anagram of a famous dog's name, but with a letter missing
- Use the missing letter in name order to get answer
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Beethoven
Eddie Crane
Gromit
Marley
Old Yeller
Samantha
Sandy
Santa’s Little Helper
Scooby Doo
Slinky
Snoopy
Wishbone
Zero
- hottest season -> SUMMER