Appliance Sale
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This is a word search combined with some use of the environment. You get a grid of letters which has some president names in it. Happily, you have a list of the presidents from the <a href="/index.php/Executive_Tangrams" title="Executive Tangrams">Executive Tangrams</a> puzzle. You cross out all the presidents' names. ("All big names slashed!")
Then, ideally, you start wondering why all this extra stuff is drawn around the grid, and you notice that the art bears a vague resemblance to the building directly across the street from where you got the puzzle:
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Look at the letters that you haven't crossed off whose positions correspond to air conditioners in the building windows: WWHHIIRRLLPPOOOOLL. Take 50% off to get WHIRLPOOL.
- the puzzle sheet
- the hint sheet
- a bigger version of the building photo (taken by Corey Anderson)
- the completed grid with the "remaining air conditioners" marked
- the playtest version. Here the connection to the building was even more vague. During the playtest, by the time we got to this puzzle we'd already decided to make the building more explicit, so we just pointed the building out to the playtesters while they were working on this puzzle.
Arrival times
- 7:22 Coed Astronomy
- 7:38 Blood & Bones
- 7:38 Continental Breakfast
- 7:39 Talkin' 'Eds
- 7:50 Consumer Recreation Services
- 7:59 Desert Taxi
- 8:01 Sleep Train
- 8:03 Judean People's Front
- 8:09 Team Snout
- 8:09 The Matheletes
- 8:10 Here Be Dragons
- 8:11 Unibangers
- 8:18 We're Doomed
- 8:19 The Platonic Solids
- 8:21 Tag and Release
- 8:24 Kittens Kittens Kittens
- 8:25 Everybody Loves Nutella
- 8:30 Twainsters
- 8:31 Golden Golems
- 8:33 Longshots
- 8:34 Folsom Furlough
- 8:39 Disorganized Crime
- 8:49 The Stonecutters
- 8:57 The SCSIs
- 9:05 Arthur! Arthur!
- 9:10 I can't read this
- 9:27 Crazy Cat Lady & the Puzzle Heads
