Stumpophobia
"the fear of
running for office"
or "the fear of not being able to solve a Mystery Hunt puzzle"
This puzzle will take
you to some noted offices on campus. Call us and we will give you the
first office to go to. (In order to ease congestion on the path, we may
use staggered start times. First call, first served!) Using its building
and room number, the text appearing on the office door, and instruction
#1 below, determine the next office to go to. Using the new office building,
room, and door, follow instruction #2 to get the next office. Repeat until
all instructions are complete. The instructions use letters on the doors
as numbers; use the standard alphanumeric code (A=1, B=2, etc.). Two consecutive
instructions actually use a letter as a letter. Each instruction has two
parts. The first part gives you the new building. The second gives you
the new room.
To get the answer
for the trail, you must extract one letter from each door. The letters
in order of when you visit their doors spell the answer. The key letters
are described following the instructions; however, they are not given
in order of the doors. You'll have to use logic, the doors' characteristics,
and your knowledge of English to determine which clues go with which doors.
(If a clue for a key letter describes multiple letters, those will all
be the same. For example, a clue referring to this paragraph might be
"First letter of first word or last letter of second word".
The answer would be T.)
Instructions
- Add eleventh letter
of sixth line to building; add third letter of seventh word to room.
- Divide building
by seventh letter of fourth line (rounding down); add to room the square
of the difference between the first letter of the fourth line and first
letter of the first line.
- Add first letter
of surname to building; subtract from room the square of the sum of
the first letters of the first and third lines.
- Add first letter
of left half's third word to building; subtract product of number formed
from last two digits on the door times third letter of left half's third
word from room.
- Divide building
by first letter of last word then multiply by fourth letter of that
word; add to room the product of third and last letters of sixth word.
- Add tenth letter
to building, then precede sum with twelfth letter; multiply room by
eleventh letter, then add three-digit number formed by repeating fourth
letter from end.
- After dropping
sixth letter from building, subtract twelfth letter; next room is fifth
letter times sum of second and last letters of last word.
- Multiply building
by ninth letter, then subtract fourteenth letter; add product of first
two letters of second line to room
- Subtract third
letter from building; subtract from the room the product of fourth letter
from end of second line and third letter from end of third line
- Divide building
by sixth letter; add product of fifth letter and sum of first and last
letters of last line to room.
- Add eighth letter
to building; subtract product of second word's fourth letter and third
line's fourth letter from room.
- Subtract last letter
of first surname from building; add product of fourth letter of third
line and fourth letter of fourth line to room.
- Obviously you can't
go any farther up the line than this room.
Key Letters
- Fifth letter
from end of both spelled-out words on first line
- Fifth letter
of both first word and eighth word
- First letter
of words on second, third, and seventh lines
- If you spell
out the first abbreviation, it's the first letter not in the abbreviation
- Letter appearing
once in second word on first line, once in first word of second line
and nowhere else
- Letter following
two pairs of doubled letters
- Letter in the
same position as the V, but on the other line
- Only doubled
letter
- Only first initial
- Second letter
on one line, third letter on another line, or fourth letter on the
remaining line
- Second lowercase
letter
- Sixth letter
of third word on first line
- Third letter
from the end
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