One of the Puzzles of All Time
Upon reading through the reviews, we determine that the puzzle is themed around the movie Morbius. Each review contains a clue that can be solved to a word. Moreover, the reviews contained words edited to contain the string “morb”, such as “morbvie” and “morbillion”. For each review, we count the number of “morb”s:
| Word | Critic review | Number of “Morb”s |
|---|---|---|
| EVEN | I appreciated when the main character resolved the argument about the parity of a zero with his signature move. | 0 |
| DANTU | It was interesting that the writers chose the largest district by area in Zhenjiang as a location for the main character's morbing. | 1 |
| ALAN | Morbius really excelled when the main character morbed over the man who invented the Turing machine. | 2 |
| RED BEAM | My favorite moment was when the protagonist morbed using a helium-neon laser. | 1 |
| DALI | The film was true art, and it showed when the main character used his special attack against a surrealist artist. | 0 |
| ZEELAND | The most memorbable part of Morbius was when Morbius morbed over the least populated province of the Netherlands. | 4 |
| GLOBE | The plot of Morbius was amazing; I couldn't believe that Morbius morbed over the entire planet! | 3 |
| ARLO | This film made many references to current culture, like when Morbius morbed with the blue puppet Youtuber. | 2 |
| Word | Audience review | Number of “Morb”s |
| BOARD MEMBER | It was meta when Morbius became part of the executive committee for his own morbvie. | 2 |
| ABNORMAL | I found it unconventional that I enjoyed Morbius, even though I don't like superhero films. | 1 |
| NOVEMBER | I liked the morbvie, but I wish it could have been released in my favorite month. | 1 |
| DUMBARTON | I watched the film while crossing a Bay Area bridge, which really made me relate to the main character, Morbius. | 1 |
| MARLBORO | Morbius was well worth the price of admission. I would stop buying cigarettes in exchange for Morbius tickets any day. | 2 |
| LOMBARDI | As the truest height of cinema, Morbius deserves a trophy. | 1 |
| BLOOMBERG | When the former NYC mayor said that he liked Morbius and that it had sold a morbillion tickets, I had to watch it for myself. The morbvie really made me feel like I was Morbius. | 4 |
| BRONZE MEDAL | What is there to say about Morbius that hasn't already been said? Morbius had the morbiest plot of all time. I can't help but award third place to Morbius as the morbvie of the year. | 5 |
We notice that some of the words can be related by “morb”ing them; taking the critic review word, adding the letters MORB, then anagramming. The answers to the critic reviews are alphabetized, so we use the audience reviews as an order. To extract, we add together the “morb”s and index into the “morb”ed word.
| Audience review | Critic review | Number of morbs in audience review | Number of morbs in critic review | Audience word | Critic word | Extract Letter |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| It was meta when Morbius became part of the executive committee for his own morbvie. | My favorite moment was when the protagonist morbed using a helium-neon laser. | 2 | 1 | BOARD MEMBER | RED BEAM | A |
| I found it unconventional that I enjoyed Morbius, even though I don't like superhero films. | Morbius really excelled when the main character morbed over the man who invented the Turing machine. | 1 | 2 | ABNORMAL | ALAN | N |
| I liked the morbvie, but I wish it could have been released in my favorite month. | I appreciated when the main character resolved the argument about the parity of a zero with his signature move. | 1 | 0 | NOVEMBER | EVEN | N |
| I watched the film while crossing a Bay Area bridge, which really made me relate to the main character, Morbius. | It was interesting that the writers chose the largest district by area in Zhenjiang as a location for the main character's morbing. | 1 | 1 | DUMBARTON | DANTU | U |
| Morbius was well worth the price of admission. I would stop buying cigarettes in exchange for Morbius tickets any day. | This film made many references to current culture, like when Morbius morbed with the blue puppet Youtuber. | 2 | 2 | MARLBORO | ARLO | L |
| As the truest height of cinema, Morbius deserves a trophy. | The film was true art, and it showed when the main character used his special attack against a surrealist artist. | 1 | 0 | LOMBARDI | DALI | L |
| When the former NYC mayor said that he liked Morbius and that it had sold a morbillion tickets, I had to watch it for myself. The morbvie really made me feel like I was Morbius. | The plot of Morbius was amazing; I couldn't believe that Morbius morbed over the entire planet! | 4 | 3 | BLOOMBERG | GLOBE | E |
| What is there to say about Morbius that hasn't already been said? Morbius had the morbiest plot of all time. I can't help but award third place to Morbius as the morbvie of the year. | The most memorbable part of Morbius was when Morbius morbed over the least populated province of the Netherlands. | 5 | 4 | BRONZE MEDAL | ZEELAND | D |
We get the word “annulled”. Morbing this word once more gives the answer NORMAL BUNDLE.