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CARTER: OK, the final
puzzle in this year's packet

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was called A Haunting Conclusion.

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And it was what we call a metapuzzle.

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You had to take some
answers from prior puzzles

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to help you solve this puzzle here.

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Now, for this one, we had a little
over a thousand submissions.

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612 of those were
correct, and 513 were not.

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So let's hear about the correct solution
to our puzzle, A Haunting Conclusion.

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JAMES: So in A Haunting Conclusion, as
Carter mentioned, this was a metapuzzle.

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So in order to solve it, we advise
that you at least have six to eight

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of the feeder puzzle answers.

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And congratulations to those of you
who've gotten this far in the hunt.

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And what you'll see if you
start looking at this puzzle

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is that you're presented
with a floor plan

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with a house with eight labeled rooms.

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And a lot of the puzzles that we've been
solving have been kind of room-themed,

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and you can kind of read
through each of these.

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And we've listed for each puzzle
what the corresponding answer is

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to the puzzles in each of these rooms.

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But the puzzle answers
don't necessarily fit

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the number of blanks that are
listed in each of the rooms.

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So we're going to need to put something
there in order to make this work.

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It's not guaranteed that you can
just take each of the puzzle answers

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and fill them into the blanks
and arrive at an answer.

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So one thing to notice
about each of these words

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is that there is a ghost in
front of each of the rooms.

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And there's a blank that occur right
after the picture of the ghost.

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So it turns out that each of these
answers, these puzzle answers,

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are in a category that could be put into
a two-word phrase with the word ghost.

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So for example, Titanic
is a type of ghost ship.

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And open shortest path first
is a type of ghost protocol.

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George Orwell was a ghost writer.

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He was also a regular writer, but he
was also famous as a ghost writer.

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Odyssey is a type of story--

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Oh, I'm sorry George Orwell
was not a ghost writer.

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George Orwell was just a writer, my bad.

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But Odyssey was a type of
story, Orion was a hunter,

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Serrano was a pepper, et cetera.

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And because of that, you can
match each of the puzzle answers

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with one of the rooms.

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Once you do that, you
just take the words that

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are associated with the ghost words.

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So for example, for Maycomb,
you take the word "town."

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And for "snowpiercer,"
you take the word "train."

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And you put them into the blanks.

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Once you do that, you can then
take each of the indices that

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are listed below each of
the brackets, and you'll

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end up with a phrase here,
which is split the rent.

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So it turns out that the ghosts
want us to split the rent with them

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because of escalating house prices.

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But that is the answer
to A Haunting Conclusion.

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