Lassos Solution

Teams solve the crossword clues on the pieces. Each piece contains four crossword clues.

Teams notice each answer appears twice, on different pieces. They use this information to pair up the edges.

As teams form a larger square, they realize that some of the pieces are labeled as "Top", "Corner", "Edge" or "Bottom". They use this to assemble the full 5x5 grid.

Teams use a button to flip the grid over to its reverse side, revealing a Truchet pattern

Teams realize the Truchet pattern contains a message:

Teams submit UNSOLVABLE and get a Keep Going message that nudges them to figure out what all the answers have in common.

Teams realize all the answers are knots, and go searching for an unsolvable knot…

Solution

GORDIAN or GORDIANKNOT

Partial Answers

KNOT or KNOTS => Yes, all of the answers to the clues are types of knots. Now can you use that knowledge with the word you saw on the back side to obtain a final answer?
UNSOLVABLE or UNSOLVEABLE => Keep going. Did you notice that the answers have something in common - they are all types of a particular thing?
UNSOLVABLEKNOT or UNSOLVEABLEKNOT => Keep going - you're almost there!

Hinting

• If the team can't figure out what everything on the front has in common, ask them to focus on the strangest items in the grid. What do Matthew Walker and a pretzel have in common?

  (These are the two items that use 'knot' as a part of the clue and are intended as keys.)