In Space, No One Can Hear You Sing
by Rich Bragg, Jesse Morris, Philip Dasler
Answer: LOWER THE VEIL
- Singers from each team are asked to choose from a list of songs and then asked to sing a 1-2 minute clip of that song via karaoke. When they start to sing, their face changes to an animal or character using the magic of augmented reality. At the end of each performance, two judge scores are given. Neither the mask overlay nor the scores can be seen by the performer, they can only be seen by the rest of the team watching via a live YouTube feed.
- The key insight here is that the animal masks in the puzzle correspond to the animal masks and costumes from the first season of the TV show "The Masked Singer", and every song on the list is a song that was performed in that season of the show.
- The next insight is that the animals that show up as AR masks DO NOT correspond to the animals of the celebrities that performed those same songs in the show. Instead, a given AR mask always sings the songs of exactly one of the show's other celebrities (and always gets the same judge scores, regardless of song), so it is possible to make a chain of masks from AR mask to celebrity singer that forms one continuous loop.
- Finally, index using the two judge scores into the celebrity names corresponding to each mask to get two letters for each. Read the letters pairs in the order of the chain created from the previous step, starting with the Hippo and ending with the Peacock, which can be inferred based on making a coherent message, but also mentioned on the live show by the show's host.
- The resulting message is BALDWIN SIANO ROCK BAND, which is a clue to the final answer of LOWER THE VEIL.
Details
All Songs
| Song | Mask (Puzzle) | Mask (Show) |
|---|---|---|
| "(You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman" by Aretha Franklin | Hippo | Bee |
| "A Little Party Never Killed Nobody (All We Got)" by Fergie | Bee | Lion |
| "All of Me" by John Legend | Deer | Peacock |
| "American Woman" by Lenny Kravitz | Alien | Monster |
| "Bad Romance" by Lady Gaga | Unicorn | Raven |
| "Brave" by Sara Bareilles | Unicorn | Raven |
| "California Dreamin'" by Sia | Bee | Lion |
| "Can't Feel My Face" by The Weeknd | Deer | Peacock |
| "Chandelier" by Sia | Hippo | Bee |
| "Counting Stars" by OneRepublic | Deer | Peacock |
| "Diamond Heart" by Lady Gaga | Bee | Lion |
| "Don't Stop Me Now" by Queen | Alien | Monster |
| "Don't You Worry 'Bout a Thing" by Stevie Wonder | Bee | Lion |
| "Ex's & Oh's" by Elle King | Lion | Alien |
| "Feel It Still” by Portugal. The Man | Lion | Alien |
| "Feeling Good" by Nina Simone | Bee | Lion |
| "Fight Song" by Rachel Platten | Rabbit | Unicorn |
| "Get Your Shine On" by Florida Georgia Line | Raven | Deer |
| "Happy" by Pharrell Williams | Lion | Alien |
| "I Can't Make You Love Me" by Bonnie Raitt | Hippo | Bee |
| "I Don't Want to Be" by Gavin Degraw | Alien | Monster |
| "I Love It" by Icona Pop ft. Charli XCX | Rabbit | Unicorn |
| "I Love Rock 'n' Roll" by Joan Jett & the Blackhearts | Alien | Monster |
| "Isn't She Lovely" by Stevie Wonder | Monster | Rabbit |
| "Let's Go" by Calvin Harris ft. Ne-Yo | Deer | Peacock |
| "Livin' la Vida Loca" by Ricky Martin | Monster | Rabbit |
| "Locked Out of Heaven" by Bruno Mars | Hippo | Bee |
| "Lovefool" by The Cardigans | Lion | Alien |
| "My Girl" by The Temptations | Monster | Rabbit |
| "My Prerogative" by Bobby Brown | Peacock | Hippo |
| "Oops!... I Did It Again" by Britney Spears | Rabbit | Unicorn |
| "Poison" by Bell Biv DeVoe | Monster | Rabbit |
| "Rainbow” by Kesha | Unicorn | Raven |
| "Shake a Tail Feather" by The Five Du-Tones | Deer | Peacock |
| "Stay With Me" by Sam Smith | Alien | Monster |
| "The Greatest Show" by Hugh Jackman | Deer | Peacock |
| "This Is How We Do It" by Montell Jordan | Alien | Monster |
| "Thunder" by Imagine Dragons | Raven | Deer |
| "Wake Me Up" by Avicii ft. Aloe Blacc | Monster | Rabbit |
| "What's Love Got to Do with It" by Tina Turner | Hippo | Bee |
| "Wrecking Ball" by Miley Cyrus | Hippo | Bee |
Output Stream
| Mask (Puzzle) | Celebrity | Judge #1 Score | Judge #2 Score | Index into Celebrity | Sings Songs by Mask (Show) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hippo | Antonio Brown | 8 | 1 | BA | Bee |
| Bee | Gladys Knight | 2 | 4 | LD | Lion |
| Lion | Rumer Willis | 6 | 7 | WI | Alien |
| Alien | La Toya Jackson | 13 | 11 | NS | Monster |
| Monster | T-Pain | 4 | 3 | IA | Rabbit |
| Rabbit | Joey Fatone | 9 | 2 | NO | Unicorn |
| Unicorn | Tori Spelling | 3 | 2 | RO | Raven |
| Raven | Ricki Lake | 3 | 4 | CK | Deer |
| Deer | Terry Bradshaw | 6 | 8 | BA | Peacock |
| Peacock | Donny Osmond | 4 | 1 | ND | Hippo |
Acknowledgments
Special thanks to Debbie Goldstein for creating the final versions of all the karaoke clips, and to Kiki Bragg for sing-testing numerous early versions of this puzzle.