It’s All In The Hands – Orange

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Click image to enlarge	Hint: There is an old shadow puppet book that can be found online.
	Answer: Goat, grandpa, turtle, rabbit.

Solution:

Take a look at http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/12962

S.E.T Corp – Black

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Click image to enlarge	Hint 1: The company names holds a clue.
	Hint 2: This is a game of SET. Research the rules.
	Hint 3: If the object of the game is to make sets, how could a node be problematic?
	Hint 4: What node is not a member of any set?
	Answer: H

Solution:

This is a game of SET (http://www.setgame.com/set/index.html). Each node has a type of server, a type of router, a type of switch, and a type of network. There are three variations of each type (for a picture, click HERE). The connections between nodes are irrelevant. Here is a list of sets. As you can see, H is the only node that is not a member of a set, hence it is the problem node. AFC BJE KLI GIC DLG

Back To Basics – Yellow

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Click image to enlarge	Hint 1: Any research into basic codes should find these. You can also look at children’s code books.
	Hint 2: Morse code, semaphore, braille, maritime signal flags, American sign language.
	Hint 3: Each question is a one letter answer. The answers in order is the final answer.
	Answer: Genus

Solution:

Morse code – “Blank whiz” – Gee whiz! – G Semaphore – “5th letter” – E Braille – ” othing” – N Signal flags – “Female sheep – ewe – U American Sign Language – After R – S

iMaze – Green

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Click image to enlarge	Hint 1: You’ll need to make two loops.
	Answer: 10

Solution:

The path is illustrated HERE

The Factory – Red

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Click image to enlarge	Hint: All rotations are 45 degrees in one direction
	Answer: St, Ps1, R45C, Ps2, R45C, ST, R45C, Pc2

Solution:

Not much to say here. This puzzles was based off an old Apple II education program called “The Factory”.

Unfinished Symphony – Purple

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Click image to enlarge	Hint 1: Notice how there are nine lines and three measures to each line.
	Hint 2: Notice how there are three beats to each measure. Nine lines and nine beats per line. What does this look like?
	Hint 3: It is a sudoku.
	Hint 4: Each beat of notes is a digit, but it’s not the tone of the notes that is the mapping. What else can you use?
	Hint 5: The pattern of each beat determines the digit.
	Answer: A-3, B-6, C-1, D-5, E-2, F-4

Solution:

This is a musical representation of a sudoku. There are nine lines and nine beats per line. The pattern of notes in each beat determines the digit. The mapping is: 1 – 1/2 2 – 1/4, 1/4 3 – 1/2, 1/8, 1/8 4 – 1/8, 1/8, 1/4 5 – 1/8, 1/8, 1/8, 1/8 6 – 1/8, 1/8, 1/8, 1/16, 1/16 7 – 1/8, 1/16, 1/16, 1/8, 1/8 8 – 1/16, 1/16, 1/8, 1/8, 1/16, 1/16 9 – 1/16, 1/16, 1/16, 1/16, 1/16, 1/16, 1/16, 1/16The sudoku itself is: 2 4 7 | 3 6 1 | 8 9 5 3 8 5 | 7 4 9 | 1 6 2 6 9 1 | 5 8 2 | 3 7 4 ——————— 4 7 3 | 8 9 5 | 6 2 1 9 6 2 | 1 7 3 | 5 4 8 5 1 8 | 4 2 6 | 7 3 9 ——————— 1 3 6 | 9 5 4 | 2 8 7 8 5 9 | 2 3 7 | 4 1 6 7 2 4 | 6 1 8 | 9 5 3

The Ultimate Silver – Silver

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Note: The text of original card on We Love Puzzles was a bit confusing. I didn’t want people to just web search for the final answer, but I did expect them to web search to find out what the image on the card and the phrase came from. So, I’ve reworked the text here to help eliminate that.

Click image to enlarge	Hint 1: Duh, there are not a hundred questions on this card, so where are they?
	Hint 2: Web search for the last sentence.
	Hint 3: Go to the Qwyzzle 100. What is the last answer?
	Answer: 42

Solution:

Searching for “Click on the bowler hat” leads you to the Qwyzzle 100, which has the image as the main page. Complete these 100 puzzles for the final answer. This is the true way to solve it, which is why it is the ultimate silver. However, you could always search for the final answer directly, which really makes this a much easier card. If you need hints on the Qwyzzle 100, you can search thorough forums, which is a pain. To combat this, I write an FAQ when I went through it. It is ROT-47 encoded like this blog to avoid giving you too much info. You can grab it HERE.

Domino Code 2 – Purple

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Click image to enlarge	Hint 1: Like many other puzzles, each domino maps to a letter.
	Hint 2: Well, a letter or number.
	Hint 3: With letter and numbers, that makes 36 combinations. Domino tops and bottoms go from zero to six. Hmm……
	Hint 4: Make a grid with row and columns labeled zero to six. Fit the alphabet and single digits into this. The top domino number is the row number, the bottom domino number is the column number.
	Hint 5: Row and column zero have nothing in them. A is 1,1, B is 1,2, etc…
	Hint 6: Dominos with a zero in them are spaces.
	Answer: 1492

Solution:

The top domino number refers to a row number and the bottom domino number refers to a column number in the following grid: 1 2 3 4 5 6 1 a g m s y 4 2 b h n t z 5 3 c i o u 0 6 4 d i p y 1 7 5 e k q w 2 8 6 f l r x 3 9 Any domino with a zero number is a space. This forms the question “What is 836 plus 656?”, which is 1492.

Mountains And Valleys – Blue

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Click image to enlarge	Hint 1: The Japanese says “What am I?”. The background it paper.
	Hint 2: What Japanese art involves making mountains and valleys with paper?
	Hint 3: This is an origami fold pattern.
	Hint 4: You can try to fold from this diagram, or research basic origami.
	Answer: Waterbomb

Solution:

Dashes are valley folds, dash-dot lines are mountain folds. You can imagine the basic form from this diagram, but you could also fold it too. Of course, it is difficult to fold without knowing the order, but this is simple enough that you could probably do it. Otherwise, with an idea of the final form, you should be able to figure it out by looking through basic origami literature.

The Gadget – Silver

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Highlight the dark boxes to reveal the hidden text.Note: The version on We Love Puzzles has an error. The first line of the card is incorrect. This is a fixed version.

Click image to enlarge	Hint 1: Research the title. The words are related to this.
	Hint 2: These are the names of nuclear tests at the Nevada Test Site.
	Hint 3: Find out where each test was on a map. Now why the groups?
	Hint 4: Connect tests in each group with a line.
	Hint 5: This should spell “BIKINI”.
	Hint 6: Ok, now give we’ve been using military test names so far…
	Answer: Castle-Bravo

Solution:

These are the names of nuclear tests conducted at the Nevada Test Site. You can use Google Earth of World Wind to see the results, but you need to know what crater goes with each test. There is a Google Earth file with all of this information. Use that to locate each test and draw a line between ones in a group. This should spell out the letters B-I-K-I-N-I. What nuclear related event occurred at Bikini? The first real H-bomb test? Given we’ve been using test names, what was the name? Castle-Bravo.Images: Image 1 Image 2