October 2021 - Condiments

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Location: A Pint of Condements

  1. The twenty items listed can be split up into ten pairs.
  2. Pair up each food item with a condiment that commonly goes with it.
  3. Draw a path in the maze connecting each pair of items.
  4. You will want to read left-to-right, top-to-bottom.
  5. DRESSING UP

Ketchup

  1. You can combine “CATCH” from the left and “UP” from the right to get something which sounds like “KETCHUP”. Can you find any other examples of this?
  2. Each crossword clue has an answer which can be phonetically made from one piece on the left and one piece on the right. For example, BAKE-OFF (the answer to the first clue) is BAY + COUGH.
  3. You should get two letters for each crossword clue -- one from the left, one from the right.
  4. Read the left and right letters separately.
  5. MISTER SPROUT

Mustard

  1. You will get two letters per suspect; one from their activities before the murder, and one from their activities after the murder.
  2. Can you think of any code which might help you map pairs of locations in Mr. Boddy’s mansion to letters? Take a close look at the flavortext and your code sheet!
  3. You will need to use Semaphore to get a letter from each pair of locations.
  4. SMOKED RADIOS

Mayonnaise

  1. Start by answering some of the crossword clues. Can you notice any interesting property shared by their answers? This might help you answer some of the harder clues.
  2. Take a look at three letter substrings of the answers. Do any seem relevant to the puzzle’s theming?
  3. Each answer contains a three letter month abbreviation (e.g. MAYONNAISE contains MAY).
  4. Arrange the answers in order of their months.
  5. The numbers in the calendars are indices (i.e. a 3 means “take the 3rd letter”).
  6. MISSION TASKS

Guacamole

  1. Can you build any interesting 3D shapes out of the five pieces you’ve folded?
  2. Assemble the four right-angled tetrahedra and the regular tetrahedron into a cube.
  3. Follow the instructions in the puzzle to label 12 points with letters. (Some of these points may overlap).
  4. Label the 8 vertices of the exterior cube and the 4 vertices of the interior cube with letters by adding the numbers on the incident edges and converting the resulting sum to a letter.
  5. Follow the two paths starting at the triangle and square to read off the answers.
  6. COLD VULTURES

Meta: Putting It Together

  1. For each pair of answers, put the first answer on the top bun of a burger, and the second answer on the bottom bun of the same burger. Can you think of a thematic word to put in between these two answer words?
  2. SMOKED and RADIOS go with the rightmost burger. You will want to insert a 3-letter word between them.
  3. The word that goes between SMOKED and RADIOS is HAM: SMOKED HAM and HAM RADIOS both being common phrases (in America, at least).
  4. Find a word which makes two common two-word phrases with both the first and second answer in each answer pair that is also a type of burger.
  5. RELISH US

Bonus: Salt and Pepper

  1. Start with the 3s. What color must each 3 be and what color must its neighbors be?
  2. SHAKE