October 2022 - Special Characters

Tap on any hint box to view it.

Location

  1. You are looking for two speical characters
  2. The first character is SPACE
  3. The second character is EQUAL SIGN
  4. Once you have the letters extracted of each you must "shuffle" them - i.e. alternate letters from each character
  5. SPECIAL

Special Connections

  1. Create famous pairs
  2. For example Fish and Chips
  3. Sort the list alphabetically
  4. Start at the 0,0 coordinate.
  5. Read the letters from top to bottom that the shape crosses through
  6. AMPERSAND

The Path to Spirit Enlightment

  1. The words go through a transformation like this: LOVE -> GLOVE
  2. Take note of the letter added and its position
  3. Apply the same transformation to get the final answer
  4. BACKSLASH

Tic-Tac-Toe

  1. The first box looks like this:

    X X X

    O X X

    O X O
  2. The encoding is hinted with "it was a mess"
  3. It is pig pen
  4. Only use the X's for the solution. Ignore the "O"
  5. POUND SIGN

The Ballad of Flow and Ebb!

  1. Use the missing words from the ballad in assembling the trapezoids. Each missing word will be found once
  2. Once you assemble the trapezoids, the hint "round the rim" is a clue to the next step
  3. Around the edge completed the poem. It starts with "THE PACE YOU SET.."
  4. ASS TO RISK

Meta

  1. How can you translate a special character to a letter?
  2. For Special Connections, Take the 4th letter of AMPERSAND which is E. E = &
  3. Based on what you know can you determine the rest of the letters?
  4. _ = O, $ = F,! = A,% = T
  5. + = L , / = H, < = P, > = C, ? = G, ^ = N | = Y, ~ = W
  6. OF ALL THE SPECIAL CHARACTERS, THIS SIGN IS REALLY WHERE IT'S AT
  7. AT SIGN (@)

Bonus

  1. The search words are found in the shape they are.
  2. Read the unused letters
  3. Look for a special character in the leaderboard based on the message you got
  4. UNDERSCORE