Chain Puzzles

5:39 AM

@bobble thanks

@PrinceNorthLæraðr thanks but I'm (so far) having a hard time figuring out a way to make a puzzle out of them that (1) includes Pictionary, (2) has a game as an answer, and (3) will be done within a reasonable amount of time

I have a different idea that will satisfy those three criteria, but I'm afraid it won't be at all impressive

(not imaginative)

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10:07 AM

@msh210 No pressure to be 'impressive' :)

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bobble

6:08 PM

@Stiv, you should probably update the room topic to reflect that it's also used for solving Chain Puzzles

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7:48 PM

room topic changed to Chain Puzzles: Planning, discussion, and even group-solving for experimental Chain Puzzle format. Linked meta post here: puzzling.meta.stackexchange.com/q/7018 (no tags)

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Q: Chain Puzzle: Tabletop Games #02 – Pictionary

9:07 PM

This is the second Chain Puzzle in the Tabletop Games series, in which all puzzles are themed around board games, card games, tile games, and the like. The answer to this puzzle is a thematic word or phrase. The solver whose answer is awarded the green checkmark has first refusal on the opportuni...

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@msh210 Wow, you didn't think you'd get one out soon but you did it, well done :)

To kick things off for people, I reckon 6 = NEST and 8 = THAMES (map of UK, capital marked with star)

NEW CHAIN PUZZLE!!!!! WHOOP WHOOP

15 looks like a knight taking a piece in chess, so possibly KNIGHT

5 can be one of the stuff that you sit on and makes farting noise

I forgot the name, I think it starts with a p though

A whoopee cushion? (That's what we'd call it in the UK)

BUT it's a 'person, place or animal

9:13 PM

Oh, never mind. It is a whoopee cushion

And given the star is there which matches the one from 8, i think it's another map with a capital marked

bobble

Is it possible to make a bot that posts any question which has a title starting with "Chain Puzzle"?

2 looks like a birdhouse to me

Isn't 4 just a MIRROR

Why the arrow pointing to the face?

I'm guessing 3 and 7 are something like RUN and GROW

A couple more map-based observations - 12 looks like the cutout is coming from somewhere in western Africa; 13 looks like a very approximate map of Europe, circled area might be somewhere like Poland or one of the Baltic states.

9:24 PM

@Stiv thanks

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Braegh

Just saw this puzzle myself, seems there's already a good amount of progress. 17 almost has to be NYAN CAT, 10 looks like NUNCHUCKS, maybe? 9 could be a WEATHERMAN or something along those lines. 15 could also be CAPTURE or a similar word since it's an action rather than an object.

Clouds in 9 look more like cars to me.

If 16 didn't look like a sword/knife hybrid, I'd have said Excalibur

hexomino

10:15 PM

Number 5 to me looks like the shape of ICELAND. The capital REYKJAVIK is not quite in the right place but it is on the correct side, just a bit higher than expected.

10:38 PM

@hexomino If 5 is indeed ICELAND (and I can see the shape you mean) then 5-6-7 begin with I-N-G (NEST and GROW being the others) - it could very well be that the initial letters spell out the answer phrase, and here we have a word ending with ING, a common ending.

@LukasRotter I think you're spot on here - and I think I may have worked out the solution, with the majority of the clues too... How's this for a theory:

Maybe 2 is Aviary, making .arming as the first word

and last one ending with cent

The game is MORNINGTON CRESCENT: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mornington_Crescent_(game). The initial letters of the answers spell this out:
1. MICKEY (MOUSE)
2. O??
3. RUN
4. N?
5. ICELAND
6. NEST
7. GROW
8. THAMES
9. O?
10. NUNCHUCKS
11. C?
12. RWANDA
13. ESTONIA
14. SPOON
15. CAPTURE
16. EXCLAIBUR
17. NYAN CAT
18. T?

18 Tin 11 Cry

Cry - good!

yeah Mornington Crescent sounds very likely

10:50 PM

I had 'conception' in my head and I REALLY hoped that wasn't right...

2 is ORANGE JUICE maybe

Nicely found, @Stiv. Correct on most counts, including (as you must by now know) the final answer.

Your answer for 12 was not what I intended, nor yours for 18 @LukasRotter. (But 18 was meant to be hard due to ambiguity.)

Oh, and 5 was not meant to be Iceland.

(...though I see the resemblance.)

Ace :) Still some work to be done on full identification then!

I think 4 is Narcissist. Like, the famous depiction of Narcissus looking onto the surface of the water, at his reflection

Ooh!

(or probably just Narcissus)

11:00 PM

Got 5 - ISTANBUL. It's the city not the country this time and that looks a lot like the shape of Turkey on a map.

I make it that we're still missing correct answers for 9 (O), 12 (R) and 18 (T)

18 might be TISSUE BOX?

Good Night, and Good Luck

@Stiv ✔

Well, I'm off to bed.

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All I'm seeing for 12 now is REFUGEE, but not at all sure that that's right

I think enough of the puzzle has been cracked here to start writing up an almost-complete answer, and we can finalise the remaining parts when inspiration strikes. I'll start a write-up...

hexomino

11:22 PM

Number 2 looks to me like a ONE ARMED BANDIT

I like that