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SPEAKER 1: OK, our
seventh puzzle this year

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was Game Room, involving
some pictures of a game room.

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For this one we had about 1,000 correct
submissions and 550 good guesses,

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but again, incorrect.

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So let's have our friends at Meta walk
us through the solution to Game Room.

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CAMERON BATES: Great.

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So Game Room was a puzzle
authored by myself and Steven.

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It was a way to introduce
multiple puzzles into one.

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And so the flavor text readouts tells us
that there are three different puzzles

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hidden inside this game room.

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We're first given this picture of the
room with a couple of close up images

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as well.

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And you've got various things
strewn throughout the room.

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You got Battleship, Connect Four,
a map, some books, some blocks,

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and a word search.

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So there are three mini puzzles in here.

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The first of the three was
using the flags and blocks.

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So puzzlers were given a numbered
list of flags on the world map.

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And there were blocks strewn throughout
the room that had numbers on them.

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Each of these flags consist
of exactly two colors.

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So for example, Israel, the flag
colors are dark blue and white.

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Japan is a red and white
flag, and so on and so forth.

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Those colors lined up
with the different blocks.

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So each block consisted
also of exactly two colors.

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And each block had a number on it.

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All you had to do was to take the
n-th letter from the country based

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on the block number.

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So for example, in the
case of Israel, you

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take the second letter,
which would be S.

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For Japan, you take the third letter
is P. And you put them in the order

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as they were provided on the map.

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This gives us our first word to the
final answer, which is spirited.

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The second mini puzzle was meant
to be the most straightforward.

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You have a word search
which consists of a six

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by seven grid, which is the same
size as a Connect Four grid.

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If you overlay the two
against each other,

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there is a winning row
on the Connect Four grid.

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And that overlaps with the letters
away from that word search.

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That's the second answer
to our puzzle here is away.

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So we now have spirited away.

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Oh, sorry.

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The third one may have
been slightly controversial

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for our international folks.

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I know that "Harry
Potter" internationally

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is "The Philosopher's Stone"
and not the "Sorcerer's Stone,"

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but I did not realize that until we were
at the tail end of writing this puzzle.

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And we could not do anything
to get it to [INAUDIBLE]..

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I apologize for that.

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But we had Harry Potter books strewn
throughout the room with missing words.

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And we also had this Battleship board.

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What you have to do was take the missing
words from the Harry Potter books.

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So we had "Deathly Hallows," "The
Half-Blood Prince," "Sorcerer's Stone,"

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the child, and the last
one was the goblet fire,

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but it should be "The Goblet of Fire."

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Each of those missing
words very conveniently

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has the same length as
these battleship blocks.

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So now you had to take those words
and place them into the Battleships.

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And then you see which areas are
being bombed in the battleships.

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And I've got it overlaid
here on the slide.

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You can see if you spell out from
top to bottom, left to right,

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you get D-I-R-E-C-T-O-R, director.

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So now we've got the
third puzzle solved.

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You're looking for the
Spirited Away director.

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And that's Hayao Miyazaki.

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So Miyazaki was the
answer to this puzzle.

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