Fountain Dew Solution

• Teams should read the starting clue above, this clues 5-bit binary encoding for letters.

• There is a control panel near the entry path that is just off the walkway (the small gray thing just below fountain #3).

• Teams should notice the grid of fountains and the colors behind each row; there are 6 fountains which are each a 5x6 grid (5 wide, 6 tall).

• Each fountain cell can have water on, or no water. This is the 1 and 0 in the 5 bit binary encoding. For each row that is colored, observe the 5 fountains in that row. When decoded, it will give you a letter from A to Z.

• Each color (red, orange, yellow, green, blue, and purple) will decode to a single 6 letter word. You read a single color across all fountains. In the example above, the first 3 red letters are "INS", this is the first part of the word "INSERT".

• Each cell in a row will be the same color and can be a rotating series of colors. Whenever there are multiple colors, each word has the same letter in that position.

• The each of the fountains will always highlight the same red pattern regardless of the letter it is displaying.

• The team should enter a variety of phrases into the override box in read the letter for each color out of each fountain. These are the words for each color

  • Red: INSERT
  • Orange: ANSWER
  • Yellow: WEALTH
  • Green: INSIDE
  • Blue: CORNER
  • Purple: HEDGES

• The clue should be read as "INSERT ANSWER WEALTH INSIDE CORNER HEDGES" which is a clue to go to the corner hedge in the North-East corner of the outdoors area.

  

  

• You should enter the answer "WEALTH" onto the lockbox

• This tells you to enter the final answer "JOSHUA"

• Entering "JOSHUA" into the override panel will trigger the "winning sequence

  

  

Solution

JOSHUA