隐藏的警告
The Hidden Warning
题目详情
谜题森林的仙女们为你留下了一个关于你道路上即将出现的障碍的警告，但她们的传达方式似乎相当晦涩。你应该准备些什么？
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动物的早期阶段
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植物的早期阶段
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令人毛骨悚然
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可能激怒人群的受人唾骂的图像？
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在扫雷中，它意味着你被包围了
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香料冲泡的饮料
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CNN的主持人（Tapper）
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铁或青铜
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铁但不是青铜
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《安迪·格里菲斯秀》中的男孩
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信号
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一旦被逮捕的嫌疑人
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“__ got mail”（__收到邮件）
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在双陆棋中，再次加倍赌注
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第一只被克隆的哺乳动物
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外部的：前缀
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深思熟虑地
[这个谜题的答案有11个字母长]
The faeries of Puzzle Forest have left a warning for you about an upcoming obstacle on your path, but their choice of delivery seems rather opaque. What should you prepare for?
- Early stage of an animal
- Early stage of a plant
- Creepy
- Reviled image that might fire up a crowd?
- In minesweeper, it means you’re surrounded
- Spiced brew
- Tapper on CNN
- Iron or Bronze
- Iron but not bronze
- Boy on “The Andy Griffith Show”
- Signal
- Suspect, once apprehended
- “__ got mail”
- Raise the stakes yet again, in backgammon
- First mammal to be cloned
- Outer: prefix
- With consideration
[The answer to this puzzle is 11 letters long]
解析
在三月份，我们采用了更加开放的寻宝式挑战。解谜者获得了一系列填字游戏线索和一些提示性文字，暗示其中隐藏着一条信息。
许多线索的答案听起来像是字母表中的字母组合，事实上，细心的解谜者会注意到这些字母恰好是按字母顺序排列的！这个额外的约束解决了任何剩余的歧义，找到了以下答案列表：
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动物的早期阶段 (Early stage of an animal) - BABY (B)
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植物的早期阶段 (Early stage of a plant) - SEED (C)
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令人毛骨悚然 (Creepy) - EERIE (E)
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可能激怒人群的受人唾骂的图像？ (Reviled image that might fire up a crowd?) - EFFIGY (F, G)
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在扫雷中，它意味着你被包围了 (In minesweeper, it means you’re surrounded) - EIGHT (8/H)
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香料冲泡的饮料 (Spiced brew) - CHAI (I)
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CNN的主持人 (Tapper on CNN) - JAKE (J)
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铁或青铜 (Iron or Bronze) - AGE (时代)
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铁但不是青铜 (Iron but not bronze) - ELEMENT (元素)
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《安迪·格里菲斯秀》中的男孩 (Boy on “The Andy Griffith Show”) - OPIE (O, P)
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信号 (Signal) - CUE (Q)
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一旦被逮捕的嫌疑人 (Suspect, once apprehended) - ARRESTEE (R, S, T)
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“__ got mail” - YOUVE (U, V)
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在双陆棋中，再次加倍赌注 (Raise the stakes yet again, in backgammon) - REDOUBLE (W)
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第一只被克隆的哺乳动物 (First mammal to be cloned) - EWE (U)
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外部的：前缀 (Outer: prefix) - EXO (X)
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深思熟虑地 (With consideration) - WISELY (Y, Z)
在这里，几个解谜者停了下来，决定 11 个字母长的答案“THE ALPHABET”（字母表）是正确的。可悲的是，这个洋葱还有另一层！有了这份听起来很像字母表的答案列表，解谜者可以关注那些只出现在我们的答案列表中的额外发音。这些是
BABY SEED EERIE EFFIGY EIGHT CHAI JAKE AGE ELEMENT OPIE CUE ARRESTEE YOUVE REDOUBLE EWE EXO WISELY
如果解谜者连续读出这些额外的发音，他们会听到 BRIDGE TROLL（桥梁巨魔），这是一个 11 个字母长的答案，可能是在充满神秘仙女的谜题森林中发现的障碍。
恭喜本月成功完全解密谜题森林仙女提供的隐藏警告的解谜者！
Original Explanation
For March, we went with a more open-ended puzzle hunt style challenge. Solvers were given a list of crossword clues and some flavor text suggesting there was a hidden message within.
Many of the clues admitted answers that sounded like groups of letters of the alphabet, and in fact observant solvers could notice that these letters helpfully came in alphabetic order! This extra constraint resolved any remaining ambiguities to find the following list of answers:
- Early stage of an animal - BABY
- Early stage of a plant - SEED
- Creepy - EERIE
- Reviled image that might fire up a crowd? - EFFIGY
- In minesweeper, it means you’re surrounded - EIGHT
- Spiced brew - CHAI
- Tapper on CNN - JAKE
- Iron or Bronze - AGE
- Iron but not bronze - ELEMENT
- Boy on “The Andy Griffith Show” - OPIE
- Signal - CUE
- Suspect, once apprehended - ARRESTEE
- “__ got mail” - YOUVE
- Raise the stakes yet again, in backgammon - REDOUBLE
- First mammal to be cloned - EWE
- Outer: prefix - EXO
- With consideration - WISELY
Here several solvers stopped, deciding the 11 letter long answer “THE ALPHABET” was correct. Sadly there was another layer to this onion! Armed with a list of answers that sound a lot like the alphabet, solvers could focus on the extra sounds that only occurred in our answer list. These were
BABY SEED EERIE EFFIGY EIGHT CHAI JAKE AGE ELEMENT OPIE CUE ARRESTEE YOUVE REDOUBLE EWE EXO WISELY
If a solver sounded out these extra sounds consecutively, they heard BRIDGE TROLL, an 11 letter answer that could be an obstacle discovered in a Puzzle Forest full of cryptic faeries.
Congrats to this month’s solvers that were able to fully decrypt the hidden warning offered by the faeries of Puzzle Forest!