Don't Get Eaten!
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| Keywords | Content |
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| finding the sphinx | The Alchemist is a sculpture on MIT's real campus near the student center. In ⊥IW, it's transformed into a Sphinx! You can still find it right next to the Student Center. You'll need to interact with it to solve this puzzle. |
| riddles | Each of the riddle's answers is a common English word. |
| inside | The real Alchemist is made up of math symbols, but not all the symbols shown here are math symbols. What do the non-math symbols have in common? |
| symbols | There are 9 alchemical symbols shown on the interior of the Sphinx. Each symbol represents an element or compound and each can be associated with one of the answers to the riddles. |
| ordering | The nine symbols give you an ordering of the 9 riddle answers. |
| extraction, index | Each alchemical symbol is adjacent to exactly one number. (Be careful not to mix up an epsilon and a three!) You can use these numbers to index into the corresponding riddle answer. |