The Pen Is Mightier

Owner:

Nick

Solution:

CONNERY

Partial Answers

INDEX WRONG ANSWERS BY NUM HUNDREDS: Keep Going

GC Notes:

GC to update day-of-game.

Presentation:

5 teams participate in this puzzle at a time. They begin by choosing one representative to play in a game of Jeopardy. Those representatives come up to a series of Jeopardy podiums that have a stack of questions on them, 18 per podium. Across the 5 sets of 18, there are three complete sets of the 30 questions involved in the game, so no individual player has all of the questions, but all of the questions are present across the five players.

The game of Jeopardy is played normally, except that if time expires without a player getting the right question, the game continues without the host revealing the proper question.

Once the game is finished, teams are sent off with the home version of the game they just played. It contains a board and a series of question tiles.

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Walkthrough:

The board and question tiles that they receive match the game they've already played live - the only difference is that the question tiles are numbered and there is a bold letter in each of the tiles.

The first step is to notice the bold letters, pull them out, and then order them by the numbers on each tile. This spells out the message "INDEX WRONG ANSWERS BY NUM HUNDREDS".

Next, teams need to match up the questions with the associated answers. If teams have taken notes about correct questions during the game, this gives them a head start on this process, but it's not strictly required. The intention is that teams will leave the live game with most, but not all of these already done, so the process should be mostly straightforward. See below for the correct matches.

Based on the previous message, teams should now notice that some of the answers are not actually precisely correct answers to the questions posed. In practice, most teams will have already noticed and been annoyed by this. Here is the full list of the matched clues, with the wrong ones in bold.

Once teams figure out which answers are wrong, they follow the instructions in the original message - index into the answers (as is usual in Jeopardy, the notion of "answer" can be confusing for players. This properly means the answer, as written on the board, not the question, even though the players in Jeopardy "answer" with questions) by the number of hundreds in the clue's value on the left of the board. For example, for question/answer 2 above, since it's a $200 question, you take the 2nd letter of the answer for a "C". Ready the 7 of these letters in normal reading order on the board, you get the answer, CONNERY.

Hinting:

Common places where teams struggle / suggestions for hinting them through it.

Data:

Here is a list of why the various answers are wrong, and what the correct answers are.