Eat Desserts on Main

by Catherine Wu, Kevin Sun, and Patrick Xia

Answer:
DESSERTS

This puzzle consists of a grid of poorly-drawn images and some prices. The title of the puzzle suggests that we should look for desserts on Main St., of which there are a couple locations. Looking in each of the dessert stores, the layout and color scheme of the puzzle matches the menu screen from Toscanini's (Tosci's), which is the store we are interested in. As Toscanini's changes flavors often, we should visit the physical location to get the most up-to-date flavor list.

Each cell in the table presented in the puzzle can be matched up against the ice cream flavor in "Today's Flavors". However, for most cells, the image drawn has no relation to the flavor. Looking at the cells whose image description is found in the flavor name, we get the following for both Saturday, Jan 14th and Sunday, Jan 15th:

B3 ($1)
Peppermint Stick ($6)
Chocolate Chip ($12)Passionfruit Caramel ($7)Belgian Chocolate ($4)Cookie Dough ($7)
Lemon Sage ($2)Salty Caramel ($1)Grapefruit Sorbet ($11)
Peanut Butter Cup ($2)Burnt Caramel ($3)Green Tea ($6)

Indexing the prices into the names of the flavors yields BRING DESSERT. After submitting this into the answer form, we are told to share some dessert (or "dessert") with the hunt staff. After doing so, we are shown the phrase: The answer is just DESSERTS.

Authors' Notes

This puzzle was written during hunt, and only planned to cover the Saturday and Sunday menus. It is possible (but difficult) to solve this without physically going to Tosci by inferring that their online flavors page is grouped into two sections, each corresponding to one of the halves of the flavor display board. Filling the flavors in column-by-column is sufficient to solve the puzzle.