Funfetti

Owner:

Patrick

Solution:

SHREDDER

Partial Answers

REMOVE THE STRIPS WITH LETTER F – Keep going

BLACK LIGHT THE OTHER STRIP– Keep going

NINJA TURTLES VILLAIN - Who is that?

GC Notes:

GC to update day-of-game.

Presentation:

Teams get a bunch of "shredded" strips of paper.

Walkthrough:

The first step is to jigsaw the paper strips together. They'll make three documents with a bunch of words redacted:

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The redactions are always long and short black bars, and there are several of them on most lines. This should suggest Morse: getting one letter from each line, and paragraph breaks as word breaks, yields REMOVE THE STRIPS WITH LETTER F.

Only five strips don't have any F's on them. Pulling those out (in the same order as above), they say BLACK LIGHT THE OTHER STRIP:

the 0th r strip

Going over the entire documents with a blacklight they received earlier, several letters are highlighted in UV ink:

ry esu ts ene for

Reading them in order on the three documents, they read NINJA TURTLES VILLAIN, who is SHREDDER.

Hinting:

There are a lot of common words and phrases in the documents that they can use to reconstruct them.

One of the letters from the final answer phrase is on the non-F strips. (the "s" in "strip") Tell them to check those strips if they're confused.

Data:

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