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SPEAKER 1: OK, so our next puzzle
in the packet this year was one

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called Roleplay.

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And in this puzzle, we received,
again, about 1,500 submissions.

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For this one, about 1,100
of you were correct.

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And 360 of you submitted
incorrect solutions.

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So let's hear from our friends at
Meta, which solution was correct.

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SPEAKER 2: So this puzzle
is called Roleplay.

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And roleplay is a puzzle about Benedict
Cumberbatch and his various roles

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and funny pronunciations of his name.

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And each of the images
that you were confronted

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with in this puzzle was a Benedict
Cumberbatch role, so a thing

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that he acted in, and a clue phrase
that referred to some of the rules of,

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if you read this funny blog
post where a linguist explains

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funny ways to pronounce
Benedict Cumberbatch's name

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or mispronounce his name,
if you take each of these

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and you solve for a random
word that is associated with it

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and you take his roles, you
get this neat little pattern.

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So if we look at Cumberbatch's
role in each of these movies,

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you'll get Smaug, Julian
Assange, Alan Turing.

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And you'll also get a word that's
being clued from the clue phrase.

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So for example, bendy stick
cup insert is a straw.

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So taking each of these
informations and combining them,

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you'll see that each
of the words we include

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and the Cumberbatch roles, at least
the last names of those roles,

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are the same length.

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And because they're the same
length, you might consider

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putting them on top of each other.

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And when you do that, you'll
see that each of the words

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have a single letter that
is connected between them.

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So for example, smog and straw share
the letter "s" at the same location.

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And if you do this
for each of the words,

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you'll get one letter
from each of the pairs.

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And in total, that gives
you the word Serrano, which

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is the answer to this puzzle, Roleplay.

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