Alien Training Meta Solution
How It Works
First, teams will notice that the doctors' names have the letters (in order) of one of the puzzle answers, though they are not matched up correctly. Matching the names up correctly gives:
- CONTORT - COLE ANTON GROTT
- COORDINATE - COOPER DINO LAPARTE
- EIDETIC - ERIC DALE DELTIC
- OGLE - ROSS GLEN LEE
- TRANSPOSE - PETER HANS PISCOSE
The letters in the answers can be removed to leave the teams with 7 remaining letters:
- CONTORT - LEANGOT
- COORDINATE - PEOLPAR
- EIDETIC - RCALDEL
- OGLE - RSSNLEE
- TRANSPOSE - PEEHISC
Since the flavortext suggests that the interns are looking for six-letter words, we may deduce that these seven letters will produce one six-letter word and a leftover letter. The clues that the interns have gathered hint towards what those six letter words should be:
CONTORT - In this section, you may have created one of these with your limbs.
- Goes with Gross Motor Control, contorting your body into various shapes to fit through cardboard.
- LEANGOT = TANGLE + O
COORDINATE - Pressing buttons would do this to the arm in this section.
- Goes with Fine Motor Control, controlling a moving arm by pressing buttons.
- PEOLPAR = PROPEL + A
EIDETIC - You had to do this during this section.
- Goes with Memory, needed to memorize colors/pictures
- RCALDEL = RECALL + D
OGLE - If you had trouble with this section, you may need these.
- Goes with Vision, bunch of eye tests
- RSSNLEE = LENSES + R
TRANSPOSE - After this section, the alien might have gained this capability.
- Goes with Language, mapped alien words to English
- PEEHISC = SPEECH + I
Sorting the six-letter words alphabetically and taking the leftover letters gives:
- LENSES + R
- PROPEL + A
- RECALL + D
- SPEECH + I
- TANGLE + O
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Solution
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