Solution to Who's That Pokémon?
![]() | In the original Pokémon games, when you first meet Bill, he has accidentally fused himself with a Pokémon while experimenting with his new teleportation system. Pokémon are often a mash-up of two real-world things, and this puzzle plays with the idea that the teleportation system might be used to unfuse Pokémon into their constituent parts. |
The image at the end of the puzzle is the classic “Who’s That Pokémon?” silhouette identification game, with silhouettes in alphabetical order. This serves as a word-bank for identifying the rest of the images.
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Every time we click on the “Who’s That Pokémon?” button, we get a random image containing an overlapping silhouette of two objects whose portmanteau spells out one of the Pokémon’s names.
![]() | GIRAFFE + ARGENTINA = GIRATINA |
![]() | MACARON + ARTICHOKE = MACHOKE |
![]() | MARVIN + BEANIE = MAREANIE |
![]() | INFINITY + DEEDEE = INDEEDEE |
![]() | SNES + EASEL = SNEASEL |
![]() | SALAD + FRIZZLE = SALAZZLE |
![]() | SMOOTHIE + KETCHUM = SMOOCHUM |
![]() | BREAD + LOOM = BRELOOM |
![]() | DRACULA + MARTINI = DRATINI |
![]() | MAGNETO + MITE = MAGNEMITE |
![]() | FLAMINGO + PINEAPPLE = FLAPPLE |
![]() | FLOAT + PRETZEL = FLOATZEL |
![]() | CASHEW + RACCOON = CASCOON |
![]() | LANCE + SATURN = LANTURN |
![]() | PANDA + SAUSAGE = PANSAGE |
![]() | BARBIE + STAGECOACH = BARBOACH |
![]() | BINOCULARS + TENTACLE = BINACLE |
![]() | ARMOIRE + WALDO = ARMALDO |
![]() | LUCY + WARIO = LUCARIO |
![]() | SWORDFISH + ACROBAT = SWOOBAT |
Two Pokémon from the word-bank are missing: Natu and Empoleon. Fuse them to get the answer NAPOLEON, the “foreign” thing that’s jamming the machine.