Potions
Owner
Wisp
Presentation
Teams are given an info sheet and a bunch of labeled test tubes.
Walkthrough
Teams are instructed that they need to create 4 potion recipes, numbers 1, 2, 4, and 12. They have 8 ingredients to create the potion recipes with:
- Armadillo Bile
- Bulbadox Juice
- Cactus Water
- Dragon Blood Serum
- Essence of Comfrey
- Foumart Pheromone
- Giant Tears
- Hamamelis Nectar
They are also given a set of hints about which ingredients are used in which potions. These hints alone aren't enough to fully solve the logic grid, so teams will need to gather the missing info by mixing the ingredients themselves.
Completed logic grid:
| A | B | C | D | E | F | G | H | 12 | 1 | 2 | 4 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| A | - | o | o | X | X | |||||||
| B | - | o | X | X | ||||||||
| C | o | - | o | o | X | o | X | |||||
| D | - | X | X | |||||||||
| E | o | o | X | - | o | X | ||||||
| F | X | o | o | - | X | |||||||
| G | X | o | - | X | ||||||||
| H | X | o | - | X | ||||||||
| 12 | X | X | ||||||||||
| 1 | X | X | ||||||||||
| 2 | X | X | ||||||||||
| 4 | X | X |
o - a reaction occurs
X - the reaction which fulfills the puzzle
The correct recipes are:
Recipe 1 - Dragon Blood Serum + Essence of Comfrey
- Precipitates into a white solid
Recipe 2 - Cactus Water + Giants Tears
- Purple liquid turns green/yellow
Recipe 4 - Armadillo Bile + Foumart Pheromone
- Clear liquid quickly turns purple/brown after a small delay (~30s)
Recipe 12 - Bulbadox Juice + Hamamelis Nectar
- Creates rapidly expanding foam
To extract the final answer teams need to index into each ingredient by the number of its recipe and alphabetize by the name of the ingredient. This should result in ACADEMIC
Hinting
| A | B | C | D | E | F | G | H | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| A | Turns red/pink (slowly) | Probably precipitates? (haven't tested) | Turns dark purple/brown rapidly | |||||
| B | bubbles | Foams rapidly | ||||||
| C | Turns red/pink (slowly) | Darker, black precipitate from clear liquid | Turns pinker (very slowly) | Turns yellow/green | Turns pinker (very slowly) | |||
| D | Precipitates a white solid | |||||||
| E | Probably precipitates? (haven't tested) | Darker, black precipitate from clear liquid | Precipitates a white solid | Precipitates a brown solid | ||||
| F | Turns dark purple/brown rapidly | Bubbles | Turns pinker (very slowly) | |||||
| G | Turns yellow/green | Precipitates a brown solid | ||||||
| H | Foams rapidly | Turns pinker (very slowly) |