Question 1

Hint 1

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The note from the Editor looks like a good place to START.

Question 2

Hint 2

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The words that fit in the blanks based on the context seem to have a couple things in common.

Question 3

Hint 3

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Each word is 4 letters. Each word has “is” in the middle.

Question 4

Hint 4

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The spacing in the word “FISH” in the title looks a little off.

Question 5

Hint 5

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Fish = F is H (and vice versa, so H also equals F).

Question 6

Hint 6

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R IS E (rise)
D IS C (disc)
K IS S (kiss)
F IS H (fish)
G IS T (gist)

Question 7

Hint 7

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Use these substitutions to decode the gibberish text.

Question 8

Hint 8

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Crlrgr hiekg gwo heom wfolr, bads gferr heom falh, hiekg houe heom quaegre nogrk.
 
Delete first two from whole, back three from half, first four from quarter notes.

Question 9

Hint 9

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Utilize these guidelines with Caroling Guidelines section.

Question 10

Hint 10

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Get rid of the first two letters from each word under whole notes. 
 
Get rid of the last three letters from each word under half notes.
 
Get rid of the first four letters from each word under quarter notes.

Question 11

Hint 11

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Find a friend and sing both music lines at the same time. 
 
Or I guess just connect the top letters to the bottom letters to form words.

Question 12

Hint 12

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STRING SIX MIDDLES OF EVENTS THAT REPLACE LIME CHERRY CARROT LEMON MILK COFFEE

Question 13

Hint 13

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First we’ll need to know how to replace one food with another. The article can help with this.

Question 14

Hint 14

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Mr. Hincks says the best way to replace foods you’re running low on when cooking is to find a food that’s the same color.

Question 15

Hint 15

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Now head to the Winter Hinckslympics section to and take a look at the event champs.

Question 16

Hint 16

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B. Lou Berry sounds like a familiar food, but not one that matches a color on the list.

Question 17

Hint 17

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LIME = green = Brock Leigh (broccoli)
CHERRY = red = Tommy Tow (tomato)
CARROT = orange = Ken Tullope (cantaloupe)
LEMON = yellow = Ben Nanner (banana)
MILK = white = Cole A. Flowers
COFFEE = brown = Chuck Ullot (chocolate)

Question 18

Hint 18

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String together the middle words from the events titles of these food names in that same order.

Question 19

Hint 19

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Brock Lee = Add
Tommy Tow = Aisle
Ken Tullope = Then
Ben Nanner = Covert
Cole A. Flower = To
Chuck Ullot = HMMSS

Question 20

Hint 20

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Add the aisle number to each row of seconds.
 
3,600 seconds
671 seconds
3,660 seconds
660 seconds
3661 seconds
11 seconds
611 seconds

Question 21

Hint 21

Accepted Answer

Convert this new list of seconds to HMMSS
 
(hour: minute minute : second second)

Question 22

Hint 22

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1:00:00
0:11:11
1:01:00
0:11:00
1:01:01
00:00:11
00:10:11

Question 23

Hint 23

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These numbers look similar to another section in the paper. But first we’ll need to finish filling it out.

Question 24

Hint 24

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16, 8, 4, 2, 1 notate the value of that slot. 1 or 0 represents if that slot is “on” and adds that value, or “off” and does not include that value. 
 
The first one with a blank to fill in is 9. So far the value equals 8. We’ll need to put a 1 in the 1 slot in order to add that value and create 9. 
 
Full chart in next hint.

Question 25

Hint 25

Accepted Answer

1(A) 00001
 
2(B) 00010
 
3(C) 00011
 
4(D) 00100
 
5(E) 00101
 
6(F)  00110
 
7(G) 00111
 
8(H) 01000
 
9(I) 01001
 
10(J) 01010
 
11(K) 01011
 
12(L) 01100
 
13(M) 01101
 
14(N) 01110
 
15(O) 01111
 
16(P) 10000
 
17(Q) 10001
 
18(R) 10010
 
19(S) 10011
 
20(T) 10100
 
21(U) 10101
 
22(V) 10110
 
23(W) 10111
 
24(X) 11000
 
25(Y) 11001
 
26(Z) 11010

Question 26

Solution

Accepted Answer

Use the filled in chart to match HMMSS to binary. 
 
10000 = P
01111 = O
10100 = T
01100 = L
10101 = U
00011 = C
01011 = K
 
POTLUCK! What a great idea!

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