An All-American Puzzle Hunt
Travelling Abroad
The puzzle was a runaround around a building, involving 8 sets of instructions.
In each of the first 7 sets, the sentences’ first letters spelled a country code. The instructions required
us to record three colors, from which, using the flag of the country as a code, we get a 3-digit ternary number.
Since 27≈26, we extract a letter from the set by converting the ternary into a letter. This gives DOCKS TO
.
The last instruction involves going somewhere really far away and recording the province. This gives NUNAVUT
.
So the answer is DOCKS TO NUNAVUT
.
Notes:
This was one of the fastest puzzles I wrote. Unfortunately, it had an ambiguity in it, and of course, because of its nature, it can’t be preserved.