Simmons Hall
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start | Start by looking for patterns in the answers that feed into this meta-puzzle. You may notice some similarities in the letters used. |
answers | All of the answers employ a specific set of letters. Furthermore, the lengths of the answers are the same, and there is something special about the center letters. |
theme | Simmons Hall is sometimes colloquially called "The Sponge". This is related to our "carpet" problem. |
carpet, sponge | The carpet in question is Sierpinski's carpet. Can you determine a way to generate Sierpinski's carpet using the image provided and the 9-letter feeder answers? |
expand, iterate | Each of the feeder answers starts with a unique letter. This means that you can replace a letter with its corresponding feeder answer to expand the grid to the next iteration of Sierpinski's carpet. |
center | I's and O's look a lot like 1s and 0s, don't they? Moreover, the first iteration happens to contain exactly 8 small black squares. |
bits, binary, ascii | Reading the first iteration's black squares in row major order and interpreting I as 1 and O as 0, we get 01000001. Compare this result to the character listed for 1.1. |
extraction | By treating I as 1 and O as 0, we can see that the first iteration, when read in row major order, results in the ASCII code for A. A similar pattern follows for later iterations. Your task is to find the characters corresponding to the given sequence at the bottom. |
The carpets in Simmons are a bit wet... What can you use to dry them?
S | T | S |
E | L | |
S | L | A |
1.1: A
2.1: Y
2.2: T
2.3: A
2.4: -
2.5: )
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