SPEAKER 1: OK, our seventh puzzle this year
was Game Room, involving some pictures of a game room.
For this one we had about 1,000 correct submissions and 550 good guesses,
but again, incorrect.
So let's have our friends at Meta walk us through the solution to Game Room.
CAMERON BATES: Great.
So Game Room was a puzzle authored by myself and Steven.
It was a way to introduce multiple puzzles into one.
And so the flavor text readouts tells us that there are three different puzzles
hidden inside this game room.
We're first given this picture of the room with a couple of close up images
as well.
And you've got various things strewn throughout the room.
You got Battleship, Connect Four, a map, some books, some blocks,
and a word search.
So there are three mini puzzles in here.
The first of the three was using the flags and blocks.
So puzzlers were given a numbered list of flags on the world map.
And there were blocks strewn throughout the room that had numbers on them.
Each of these flags consist of exactly two colors.
So for example, Israel, the flag colors are dark blue and white.
Japan is a red and white flag, and so on and so forth.
Those colors lined up with the different blocks.
So each block consisted also of exactly two colors.
And each block had a number on it.
All you had to do was to take the n-th letter from the country based
on the block number.
So for example, in the case of Israel, you
take the second letter, which would be S.
For Japan, you take the third letter is P. And you put them in the order
as they were provided on the map.
This gives us our first word to the final answer, which is spirited.
The second mini puzzle was meant to be the most straightforward.
You have a word search which consists of a six
by seven grid, which is the same size as a Connect Four grid.
If you overlay the two against each other,
there is a winning row on the Connect Four grid.
And that overlaps with the letters away from that word search.
That's the second answer to our puzzle here is away.
So we now have spirited away.
Oh, sorry.
The third one may have been slightly controversial
for our international folks.
I know that "Harry Potter" internationally
is "The Philosopher's Stone" and not the "Sorcerer's Stone,"
but I did not realize that until we were at the tail end of writing this puzzle.
And we could not do anything to get it to [INAUDIBLE]..
I apologize for that.
But we had Harry Potter books strewn throughout the room with missing words.
And we also had this Battleship board.
What you have to do was take the missing words from the Harry Potter books.
So we had "Deathly Hallows," "The Half-Blood Prince," "Sorcerer's Stone,"
the child, and the last one was the goblet fire,
but it should be "The Goblet of Fire."
Each of those missing words very conveniently
has the same length as these battleship blocks.
So now you had to take those words and place them into the Battleships.
And then you see which areas are being bombed in the battleships.
And I've got it overlaid here on the slide.
You can see if you spell out from top to bottom, left to right,
you get D-I-R-E-C-T-O-R, director.
So now we've got the third puzzle solved.
You're looking for the Spirited Away director.
And that's Hayao Miyazaki.
So Miyazaki was the answer to this puzzle.