Solution to Next House
Answers in this round:
BUDAPEST ENTROPY DEFY ANGLE BRACKETS FAX CHASKA
We are additionally given a playlist as part of the shell. Given the name of the dorm, it seems natural to consider the next song in each album, as follows:
| Song in playlist | Album | Next song |
|---|---|---|
| Couch Potato | Poodle Hat | Hardware Store |
| Over the Moon | Rent | La Vie Bohème |
| Television Rules the Nation | Human After All | Technologic |
| That's Not Her Style | Storm Front | We Didn't Start the Fire |
| The Bells of Rhymney | Mr. Tambourine Man | All I Really Want to Do |
| Unchained | American II: Unchained | I've Been Everywhere |
These next songs are all list songs, a fairly common song format where a significant part of the lyrics consists of a long list of items. Each of the answers appears in one of these lists. We can sort the answers by their first letters, as they range from A-F. Reusing the name of the dorm, we can then take the next item in the list:
| Answer | Song | Next item |
|---|---|---|
ANGLE BRACKETS | Hardware Store | DURACELLS |
BUDAPEST | We Didn't Start the Fire | ALABAMA |
CHASKA | I've Been Everywhere | NEBRASKA |
DEFY | All I Really Want to Do | CRUCIFY |
ENTROPY | La Vie Bohème | EMPATHY |
FAX | Technologic | RENAME IT |
Looking at the first letters of the next items, we get DANCER, but this is not the answer. Instead, there is another prominent ordered list (sometimes sung to a song) containing the word DANCER - Santa's reindeer. The next item in this list, PRANCER, is the answer.