This is a quiz in the language of the Realm of Unspeakable Chaos, which was used in four previous Mystery Hunt puzzles:
- The Realm of Unspeakable Chaos (solution)
- The Road Signs of Unspeakable Chaos (solution)
- Son of the Realm of Unspeakable Chaos (solution)
- Grandson of the Realm of Unspeakable Chaos (solution)
What was known of the language prior to the current puzzle is compiled in the Dictionary and Grammar linked to on the puzzle page.
Each section of the quiz consists of a fill-in-the-blank question, three circles (blue, purple, and red) containing squares into which the answer may be written, and an instruction saying which circle to put the answer into. The quiz includes the following new vocabulary, which must be deduced:
Part of speech | Word | Translation (exact wording may vary) |
---|---|---|
Nouns | fufa | pen |
gamo | answer | |
kasu | question | |
lapa | self | |
mosa | life | |
rozu | text | |
zoma | flag | |
Adjective | komaz_ | last |
Verbs | gefoman | sing |
goku | use | |
pugal | erase | |
to | write one's answer in a circle of that color (used in compounds) | |
tokal | write | |
zefolu | write one's answer in a purple circle |
and reads as follows:
Part of Quiz | Quiz Text | Translation | Answer | Translation | Circle | Letters and Indices | |||||||||
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Intro | Ugoky zi molden fufa at, omy na ganmi zo moldan. (Ugokyr zi drel fufa at wy bleg fufa at.) Apugerl zi ganmi zo. (Imy pugal zi gamo ot, bry omylip paidagogos zo fi?) | You will use a green pen, so your answers are green. (You will not use a black pen or a blue pen.) You will not erase your answers. (If you erase an answer, how will your teacher see it?) | |||||||||||||
Question 1 | KASU-ARKHETYPON: Tylorp di kasu-komaza-mosa-kosmos-panta-Douglas-Adams, ky na gamo fo "ram-ram-ram-ram-ram-_". | EXAMPLE QUESTION: I do not know Douglas Adams's ultimate question of life, the universe, and everything, but its answer is "8 + 8 + 8 + 8 + 8 + _". | AM (supplied in blue circle) | 2 | A | M | |||||||||
Instruction 1 | (Oti-blag.) | (Write your answer in the circle that is blue.) | blue | 43 | 15 | ||||||||||
Question 2 | Nickelodeonre (lony rusema programma fa), _ Dora; trido onyma-programma fa fi. | On Nickelodeon (before her program died), Dora _; her program's name said it. | FIGOLEDA | explored | F | xi I | G | O | ii L | E | D | A | |||
Instruction 2 | (Oti-wudo-kibisis-Dora.) | (Write your answer in the circle that is Dora's knapsack's color.) | purple | 37 | 3 | 35 | 45 | 7 | 26 | 18 | 22 | ||||
Question 3 | Imy tokarl zi rozu ut, wy pugal zi rozu zu, na papyros zo _ papyros ot (wudore). | If you do not write a text, or you erase your text, your paper is a _ paper (colorwise). | NASTI | white | N | iii A | S | T | I | ||||||
Instruction 3 | (Oti-wudo-prasu-zoma-Pentekontapolis.) | (Write your answer in the circle that is the US flag's stripe-color.) | red | 20 | 9 | 42 | 2 | 30 | |||||||
Question 4 | Plaguz "zefolu di" "tokal di gamo do omy wum (moldin) gamo do _ fogu ut". | "I [zefolu]" means "I write my answer so my (green) answer wears a _ ring". | PODOLYG (BLYG and SULDY are too short) | purple | i P | O | D | O | L | Y | iv G | ||||
Instruction 4 | (Uzefoly.) | ([Imperative of zefolu].) | purple | 23 | 11 | 8 | 38 | 17 | 34 | 25 | |||||
Question 5 | Tokela Madonna py Mirwais Ahmadzaï "Tylorp _ Di"; gefomena Madonna fi "Mosa-Pentekontapolis"re. (Nar gamo zo "dulo".) | Madonna and Mirwais Ahmadzaï wrote "_ Doesn't Know Me"; Madonna sang it on "American Life". (Your answer is not "body".) | STIR | (not) anybody [used with negative verbs] | S | T | ix I | R | |||||||
Instruction 5 | (Oti-wudo-Madonna-Børns.) | (Write your answer in the circle that is Børns's Madonna's color.) | blue | 5 | 49 | 13 | 44 | ||||||||
Question 6 | "_"re, na Dullo-ge Trekkie at, py na fi zopa-wudo, py na komazi logos fo (lony rusam fi) "pazo[sto]"; nea komazi papyros fo ainigma-Agra-Mysterion-MIT at. | In "_", Mr. Boddy is a Trekkie, and he is colorblind, and his last word (before he dies) is "shi[rt]"; its last page was an MIT Mystery Hunt puzzle. | TULOLA-GOBU (the puzzle is the 2008 puzzle above, which claimed to be the last page of a story with that title) | blood-enthusiast | T | v U | L | x O | L | A | G | O | viii B | U | |
Instruction 6 | (Oti-"wudo-pozosto"-rhesis-komaza-Dullo-ge.) | (Write your answer in Mr. Boddy's last speech's "shirt color".) | red | 12 | 48 | 33 | 16 | 27 | 19 | 39 | 1 | 32 | 24 | ||
Question 7 | Tokela Alex Haley "Rozu-Mosa-Lapa-Malcolm-_" (ky nera "Alex Haley" onyma-fufa at). | Alex Haley wrote "The Autobiography of Malcolm _" (but "Alex Haley" wasn't a pen name). | ZUDU | X | vi Z | U | D | U | |||||||
Instruction 7 | (Oti-wudo-zoma-Andrew-Hagios.) | (Write your answer in the circle that is Saint Andrew's flag's color.) | blue | 29 | 6 | 46 | 40 |
The letters that go into the boxes with Roman numerals (which are placed the same in each circle for a given question) spell out (in order by numeral):
i | ii | iii | iv | v | vi | vii | viii | ix | x | xi |
P | L | A | G | U | Z | B | I | O | I |
Note that the numeral vii is unused, forming a space between two words; replacing each question mark in the question with one word, we get:
PLAGUZ "BIOI" "_".
meaning
"BIOI" means "_".
BIOI is Greek for "lives"; the answer is thus the native Chaotic word for "lives," which would be MONSE (plural of MOSA).
All the letters in boxes, ordered by Arabic numeral (which are placed differently in the circles for a given question) spell out:
1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 |
O | T | I | S | U | L | D | A | O | T | I | M | O | L | D | A | N |
21 | 22 | 23 | 24 | 25 | 26 | 27 | 28 | 29 | 30 | 31 | 32 | 33 | 34 | 35 | 36 | 37 | 38 | 39 | 40 |
A | P | U | G | E | L | Z | I | B | L | Y | G | F | O | G | U |
41 | 42 | 43 | 44 | 45 | 46 | 47 | 48 | 49 |
S | A | R | O | D | U | T |
Again, some numerals are unused, forming spaces between words; replacing each question mark in the instruction with one word, we get:
OTI-SULDA; OTI-MOLDAN; APUGEL ZI BLYG FOGU-SAROD UT.
meaning
Write your answer in the circle that is red; write your answer in the circle that is green; you will erase a blue quarter-circle.
Step by step, this produces the results shown here:
Specifically:
- The word MONSE in green is written in the red circle.
- The word MONSE in green is written in the only green circle present — the O from the MONSE written in 1.
- One quarter of the blue circle is removed, leaving an incomplete circle.
Then reading the innermost symbols across (taking the incomplete blue circle as C and the complete purple circle as O) gives the answer: COMMON SENSE.