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Solution to The Ministry

The Ministry

Answer: A VORACIOUS BOOKWYRM RAN AMOK
by Kevin Wald

This meta puzzle uses all 25 feeder puzzle answers in addition to the 5 Minister meta answers.

The flavor text mentions a mural outside of Hayden. This mural is the mural of engineers describing an elephant, and is pictured below.

This allows you to sort the five libraries from left to right based on the locations of the Ministers.

Each of these answers can be interpreted as a condition that the answers may or may not have.

Using these categories, you can keep track of which ones work for each answer, giving you a five-digit binary number for each answer. Use these binary values, in the order the answers are listed at the bottom of the Ministry round page, to spell out A VORACIOUS BOOKWYRM RAN AMOK.

AnswerOrderBugSpaceEvenROYGBIV>11Letter
FOOLHARDINESS100001A
BEEBLEBROX210110V
ONE-TRICK PONY301111O
BEECHWOOD410010R
CARILLONNEURS500001A
BROKENHEARTED600011C
PARALLEL LINES701001I
RIP VAN WINKLE801111O
QUANTIZATION910101U
VALLICELLIANA1010011S
BACON1100010B
BEDTIME STORIES1201111O
GOLDEN BAMBOO1301111O
ONE IN A MILLION1401011K
REPROACHLESSNESS1510111W
MAMMOTH HOT SPRINGS1611001Y
RECORDANT1710010R
JAVELIN THROW1801101M
YARDSTICK1910010R
AUTOBIOGRAPHY2000001A
OAK GROVE2101110N
FILMOGRAPHIES2200001A
MARTIN LUTHER KING JR2301101M
GOSPEL OF ST LUKE2401111O
GET BOGGED DOWN WITH2501011K