October 2023 - Nobel Prizes

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Location - Stockholm

  1. Each text bubble is the clue to a country name.
  2. You may have noticed that the countries are in alphabetical order which should help you get any you're missing.
  3. Use the arrival board to determine the order everyone arrives.
  4. Once you've got everyone listed in order of arrival all that's left to be done is extract the answer which is 6 letters long. If only there was some clue as which letter you needed from each person's name. Maybe the order is more important than you first thought.
  5. ALFRED

The Nobel Peace Prize

  1. You're looking for examples of the listed things in the word search. There will be two of each.
  2. Have you noticed that the pairs of words are always the same length and always line up with each other?
  3. What could the bolded flavour text indicate?
  4. Take the middle letter of each word of the pair and highlight the letter that is equidistant between them. What do the highlighted letters spell out?
  5. ARMISTICE DAY

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry

  1. Start by marking all the elements in the "one-off" list on the Periodic Table. There are 15 correct elements to discover and 15 one-off elements to guide you. Each correct element has a one-off partner which it is exactly one space (horizontally or vertically) away from. However, they can be adjacent to other one-off elements too.
  2. Next try shading every row and column with 0 elements in them. Once you do this you'll spot that there is only one option remaining for certain elements.
  3. Once you've got the 15 correct elements try writing them next to their partner in the one-off list. That should spell out the solution.
  4. INFINITE LIFE GENESIS SECRETS

The Nobel Prize in Medicine

  1. Did you notice that the number of base pairs in each section of DNA exactly matches the number of letters in the answer?
  2. Try reviewing your primary school colour wheel: red + blue = purple, blue + yellow = green, yellow + red = orange.
  3. There are two other important parameters: whether the base dot has a dot, plus or minus next to it, and which side it is on. What might those mean?
  4. Dot means take the end letter as is, plus means shift it up by one, and minus means shift it down by one. The side it appears on tells you which end you need to take from. Don't forget that the DNA twists swapping which side is which!
  5. KOMODO DRAGON

The Nobel Prize in Literature

  1. To get started, note the title of the novel: Not Anticlockwise To Omaha. Your code sheet will be needed for this puzzle.
  2. Read all of the words from the NATO phonetic alphabet, which spell out an instruction. Follow each instruction until you reach the answer.
  3. The first instruction is CONVERT LINES TO MORSE. So read the full stops (dots) and dashes/hyphens (dashes) to treat each line of text as a letter of Morse Code.
  4. The second instruction is SECOND WORD IN EVERY QUOTE.
  5. The third instruction is READ EVERY TENTH WORD. So circle the 10th, 20th, 30th, 40th, etc. words in the text and read the result.
  6. The fourth instruction is SHIFT LAST LETTERS UP TWO. This means a Caesar shift of the last letters of each line. So the R becomes T, F becomes H, etc.
  7. The final instruction is THIRD LETTER OF THIRD WORD. The third letters of the third words on each line spell out ANSWER IS DOUBLE NEGATIVE.
  8. DOUBLE NEGATIVE

Meta - The Nobel Prize in Physics

  1. First task is to name each of the 10 planets with one of the 10 words from the previous answers. The only info that you need for this are the length and number of M-O-Ns. (Oops did I just misspell moon?)
  2. Next, which sector is each planet in on ceremony day? Remember to go counter-clockwise!
  3. Start by working out how many days it takes each planet to travel one sector (i.e. 1/8th of an orbit), then work out how many sectors it will travel in 360 days. Calculators permitted.
  4. Now all that's left is to extract the answer. One letter per planet.
  5. GOLD MEDALS

Bonus - Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel

  1. Each clue corresponds to an answer below, although something is a little off. Feel free to use Google for any you don't know!
  2. All the answers have been inflated. Can you do something similar to the letters on the right hand side?
  3. "Make a new plan, Stan" refers to the Paul Simon song 50 Ways to Leave Your Lover. This has been inflated by 22 to get 72 Ways to Leave Your Lover. If you similarly "inflate" the letter W by 22 then you get (wrapping around the alphabet, S.
  4. Remember the Trickle Up Economics?
  5. ANTI-INFLAMMATORIES